Artist Birthday: Shirley Jaffe
Shirley Jaffe is a fascinating American abstractionist who briefly flirted with Abstract Expressionism, early on (1950s) believed it had become formulaic, and pioneered her own unique abstract vis ...
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Artist Birthday: Moe Brooker
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 | Karl ColeMoe Brooker was one of several African American artists who championed a spiritual type of abstraction as an important contribution to contemporary African American and American art. ...
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Artist Birthday: Alvin Loving, Jr
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Karl ColeAlvin Loving, Jr, was from the generation of African American artists who succeeded the Harlem Renaissance artists of the 1920s and 1930s. His generation struggled with questions of what subject m ...
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Artist Birthday: Albert Oehlen
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Karl ColeAlbert Oehlen was part of a German artistic movement Junge Wilde (Young Wild ones) in the 1980s, the rebelled against the conformity of “modernism” in such movements as Minimalism, Con ...
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Artist Birthday: Richard Hunt
Friday, September 12, 2025 | Karl ColeBorn in Chicago, Richard Hunt became what is considered to have been the foremost abstract African American sculptor of the 20th century. ...
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Canadian Modernist Paul-Émile Borduas
Monday, September 8, 2025 | Karl ColeIn the past few years, I have become very fond of Canadian modernism, particularly from the early to mid-1900s. Paul-Émile Borduas was a pivotal figure in Canadian art. He bridged modernist ten ...
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Another Beauty Attack: Rogier Bissière
Tuesday, September 2, 2025 | Karl ColeI have what I like to call episodes of “Beauty Attack” on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis when I’m struck by the awesomeness of an artist’s work that I never stopped to contem ...
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Artist Birthday: Sarai Sherman
Tuesday, September 2, 2025 | Karl ColePainter, interior designer, and ceramic artist Sarai Sherman was a Jewish American whose paintings were a combination of reality and reminiscences, producing a unique form of abstraction. ...
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Artist Birthday: Hananiah Harari
Friday, August 29, 2025 | Karl ColeHananiah Harari was both an abstract painter and a commercial artist who designed advertising campaigns and magazine covers. Never a doctrinaire abstractionist, his work went freely between geometric ...
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Artist Birthday: Jacques Lipchitz
Friday, August 22, 2025 | Karl ColeJacques Lipchitz was an extraordinary early modernist sculptor who worked in the Cubist idiom longer than most other artists associated with the style. Eventually his style incorporated the monume ...
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Artist Birthday: Christian Schad
Thursday, August 21, 2025 | Karl ColeChristian Schad was of the generation of artists whose reaction against World War I engendered the Dada movement in art. Dada introduced the reinterpretation of what constituted fine art based on a re ...
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August Is Here: Willem de Kooning
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 | Karl ColeIn New England, it is generally said that summer is coming to an end in August. But I have a particular fondness for August because it’s when I discovered the house in Provincetown, Massachusett ...
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Artist Birthday: Marcel Duchamp
Monday, July 28, 2025 | Karl ColeMarcel Duchamp matured as an artist during one of the most exciting periods in Western art history. Paris was one of the undisputed leaders in avant-garde experiments in art which had repercussions th ...
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Artist Birthday: Ludwig Sander
Friday, July 18, 2025 | Karl ColeLudwig Sander was a member of the New York School that established the United States as a center for modernist experiment in art. He was an early practitioner of Color Field painting which he stuck wi ...
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Artist Birthday: Gustav Klimt
Monday, July 14, 2025 | Karl ColeGustav Klimt, along with Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) was a leading Austrian modernist at the turn of the 1900s. Although noted as a society portrait painter in an Art Nouveau/Byzantine mosaic li ...
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Artist Birthday: Otto Freundlich
Thursday, July 10, 2025 | Karl ColeThe works of Otto Freundlich reflect the prevalence of geometric abstraction among Western European artists in the period between World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945). His ...
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