Artist Birthday: Sato Koichi
Sato’s poster work shows just how fully Japanese graphic designers have absorbed Western modernist aesthetics and combined them with traditional Japanese sensibilities. Japanese poster art d ...
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Artist Birthday: Nancy Rubins
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | Karl ColeThrough sculptures assembled from discarded materials and graphite drawings that assume the appearance of liquid metal or crumpled steel, Nancy Rubins transforms quotidian objects into artworks that e ...
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Artist Birthday: Roberto González Goyri
Thursday, November 20, 2025 | Karl ColeSculptor Roberto González Goyri is one of the artists who exemplifies the electric spirit of development of modernism in Central and South American countries during the middle of the 1900s. ...
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Artist Birthday: Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart
Friday, November 7, 2025 | Karl ColeVordemberge-Gildewart was a major figure in the Concrete Art that developed in Europe in many countries as a form of pure abstraction. It encompassed many individual movements, including Construct ...
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Artist Birthday: James Siena
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 | Karl ColeJames Siena is renowned for his intricate, circuit board-like geometric abstractions. Like many contemporary abstractionists, Siena follows a highly personal process in his colorful abstractions. ...
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Artist Birthday: Larry Walker
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | Karl ColeLarry Walker was born in Georgia but raised from one year of age in Harlem, New York, in the waning days of the Harlem Renaissance. A consummate abstractionist, he also devoted his life to art edu ...
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Artist Birthday: Shirley Jaffe
Thursday, October 2, 2025 | Karl ColeShirley 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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