Arctic Ice Day: Frederic Church
Frederic Church, the Hudson River School painter became fascinated with the nature of the Arctic in the 1860s when there began to develop many expeditions from both European and American explorers to ...
Read MoreFrederic Church, the Hudson River School painter became fascinated with the nature of the Arctic in the 1860s when there began to develop many expeditions from both European and American explorers to ...
Read MoreWorld Watercolor Month began in 2016 as a way to honor the watercolor artists from all over the world. The art of Donald Holden is truly a fitting tribute to this artform, which in many ways can be ve ...
Read MoreThroughout the world, artists are making urban spaces, and just any drab blank building walls—interior and exterior—dynamic and full of positive energy with murals, i.e. street art. Street ...
Read MoreHaving matured as an artist shortly after the “revolution” of the Abstract Expressionism movement, Audrey Flack became one of the earliest and archetypal Photorealist painters, working fro ...
Read MoreLeon Polk Smith was an American artist of Cherokee descent who was a pioneer of modernism long before Abstract Expressionism evolved in New York. His works throughout his career emphasized a pure geom ...
Read MoreErastus Salisbury Field was an essentially self-taught painter who produced portraits, landscapes, and history subjects in his long career. He was one of the most successful of the great early America ...
Read MoreMangold is very fond of the trees that were on her country property and they became frequent subjects of her paintings. She would definitely approve of National Love a Tree Day, which encourages every ...
Read MoreDuring the 1980's, the United Nations began focusing attention on issues related to the family. In 1993, the General Assembly decided in a resolution that 15 May of every year should be observed as Th ...
Read MoreThe Photorealism movement, which evolved during the late 1960s as a counterpoint to the pervasive Minimalism, Conceptualism, and abstraction in American art, blossomed fully during the 1970s. Into the ...
Read MoreGeorge Elmer Browne was an American painter, one of the many who, in the late 1800s, studied painting in Paris at the height of the Impressionist period. His West End School of Art in Provincetown, Ma ...
Read MoreDonald Sultan is part of the late 1900s New Image art phenomenon. In a break with Minimalism, Sultan wanted his figuration to present a monumental simplicity and directness of abstract art, while main ...
Read MoreThe majority of Hamblin's known works are portraits of children. This was no doubt more attractively priced than portraits of adults, and, there was a certain formula that itinerant painters such as H ...
Read MoreWilliam Bradford was part of the first generation of a home-grown landscape painting school, which evolved out of the Hudson River School development in the Northeast. His specialty was maritime scene ...
Read MoreForming his aesthetic during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, Cy Twombly pioneered his own unique brand of modernism. Rather than emphasizing process, he was inspired by art history past, particu ...
Read MoreIn 1986, President Reagan established National Garden Week, which was first celebrated in 1987 from 12 through 16 April. In 2002 the National Gardening Association insisted that the entire month of Ap ...
Read MoreKenneth Noland was part of the Post Painterly Abstraction group of Color Field artists who sought to distance themselves from the gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. His epiphany moment came, ...
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Our new issue is out, and it's all about INNOVATION. Art teachers share new and exciting art-making experiences in and outside the art room.
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