The Republic of Venice was established as a Duchy of the Byzantine Empire in 697, and was nominally its own country until Napoleon conquered Italy in 1797, not long after Pietro Longhi’s passing ...
Read ArticleNational Packaging Design Day was first observed in 2015. Design Packaging, a company known for crafting creative and functional packaging, established this day to honor the designers who bring produc ...
Read ArticleNational Beverage Day began around 1921 or 1922, originally known as National Carbonated Beverage Day. The day encourages people to grab their favorite drink and relax with friends. But, beverages are ...
Read ArticleThe key to a successful collaboration is synergy, high engagement, common ground, accountability, and of course, patience. Extending the opportunity to engage and include others in what it means to cr ...
Read ArticleMy fifth graders leave their positive mark on the school by creating a legacy mural at the end of each school year. I choose a theme, and each student creates an artwork—digitally or on paper&md ...
Read ArticleWe witness daily how the arts strengthen academic achievement, build confidence, and nurture social awareness and emotional well-being. Yet despite decades of research, arts education is still treated ...
Read ArticleThere were many Japanese-American artists who served in the US military during World War II (1939-1945) and afterwards became leaders in American modernism. Robert Kobayashi was a unique modernist who ...
Read ArticleThis month's "Gem" is also a 4 May Birthday! Whether Thomas Wilmer Dewing is labeled an Impressionist, Tonalist, or Aesthetics artist, his beautiful portraits, mostly of youngish women, ...
Read ArticleInternational Workers’ Day commemorates the 1886 Haymarket Riots in Chicago where workers were fired upon by police protesting for workers’ rights for an eight-hour work day after one prot ...
Read ArticleWhere the Shift Begins There’s a moment that happens in a lot of art rooms. You show an image, explain a concept, maybe demonstrate a technique, and then pause. Some students jump in. Others ...
Read ArticleOne of the most interesting developments in American art history was the evolution of an American “school” of landscape painting, as Americans grew to cherish their new country with wildly ...
Read ArticleJonas Lie was a prominent poster artist during the American Poster “Renaissance” in the early 1900s. He is best known for his patriotic paintings of the American effort in World Wars I (19 ...
Read ArticleDuring the turbulent post-World War II (1939-1945) years, it is no surprise that art movements arose – as they did after World War I (1914-1918) – that questioned the validity of entrenche ...
Read ArticleWhen visiting a museum collection, I have always marveled at objects meant for medical, military or some other non-aesthetic purpose are, just the same, beautifully decorated. This happened recently w ...
Read ArticleAbstract Expressionism, which developed in the 1940s primarily in New York, was the first original American modernism art movement. Willem de Kooning was one of the leading artists of this group, also ...
Read ArticleKeiko Mori is a National Living Cultural Treasure in Japan. Her ceramics celebrate the centuries old traditions in ceramic arts. Although ceramic picnic baskets do not strictly speaking exist in the W ...
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