All over the world, cultures and countries are able to see their history in the ruins of ancient buildings and cities. That is certainly true in the US, where the ruins of ancient indigenous cultures ...
Read ArticleMany Italian American artists at the turn of the 1900s were influenced by modernist art movements in Europe and inflected nascent American modernism with them. Joseph Stella worked in Futurism, Cubism ...
Read ArticleI encourage my students to share their ideas, ask questions, and become observational learners. It is natural for them to want to learn more about who we are as people. The question becomes how much a ...
Read ArticleThrough discussions, I had students identify the “facts” they could see in Zimmerman’s paintings, then try to piece together the meaning. I shared Zimmerman’s story behind one ...
Read ArticleTeachers are all too familiar with the stress that comes with writing substitute plans. This is often more work than our daily responsibilities. We must meticulously explain our schedules, routines, a ...
Read ArticleChinese painter Pu Ru truly embodied the spirit of the tradition of the Chinese individualist, scholar/amateur painter (the so-called literati). According to National Day Calendar: October 29th is bel ...
Read ArticleBeing half Swiss I’m delighted that there’s such a thing as National Chocolate Day. It was initiated by the National Confectioners Association. Performance, installation and Conceptual art ...
Read ArticleWhat with the thousands of years of evolution of Japanese ceramic arts --- some of the oldest developments in ceramics on Earth – it is little wonder that the Japanese have introduced the honori ...
Read ArticleAutumn is all too short of a season in my mind. I could basically look at fall tree colors all year round, but, of course, that isn’t possible. It is however possible to see autumn colors year r ...
Read ArticleSarah Lucas is an English artist. She is part of the generation of the Young British Artists movement who emerged in 1988. Her works frequently employ visual puns and risqué humor by incorporat ...
Read ArticleThe origin of National Color Day is not known. Color is something that is silent but that says a lot to everyone’s eyes. As a painter, I am obsessed with color. The paintings of Thomas Mukarobgw ...
Read ArticleSince the development of photography art form in the early 1800s, the medium has been considered ideal for documenting reality. “Reality” includes wars. The earliest wars documented by pho ...
Read ArticleInternational Chef Day was established by the World Association of Chefs’ Societies in 2004 to celebrate the culinary profession and to encourage chefs to pass on their knowledge to the next gen ...
Read ArticleSince I do not stick to colors found in nature in my landscapes (non-local color in art history words), and, since looking at vibrant color in paintings is one of my addictions, you might figure that ...
Read ArticleNational Day Calendar® created National Sports Day to celebrate the fans, families, and athletes of all the sports as they spend quality time at athletic events. Native Americans had sports all th ...
Read ArticleThe abstractions of Morton Schamberg have numerous sources among the modernist movements of the first two decades of the 1900s. Among the strongest influences were Cubism and Futurism. ...
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