The history of African American artists goes back to the earliest days of the US. There are numerous art forms that can trace their lineage back to the African ancestors of African Americans, who carr ...
Read MoreThe art movement called Cubism -- which incorporated the element of time -- was developed by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963) around 1908. While Picasso and Braque moved on to ...
Read MoreLike most Visionary artists, Ramírez’s works are combinations of fantasy, personal visions, and a obvious joy in either nature or our mutual humanity. In his highly detailed drawings, he ...
Read MoreAlice Neel was a great American portraitist. Her portraits were insightfully realistic, although not to the point of Photorealism, for her works tended to emphasize rich color. The most enduring aspec ...
Read MoreAfter producing paintings that were copies of postcard views, Georges Mathieu went through what he called his "limbo" period (1944-1946), a time when he developed a completely personal new p ...
Read MoreAlthough his realist paintings never approached the point of pure Impressionism, Manet’s work was a great influence on the burgeoning Impressionist artists. He definitely experimented with the e ...
Read MoreCatherine Murphy follows the cherished American artistic tradition of carefully observed realism in her fabulous, Photorealist paintings. Her aesthetic also transcends countries and time periods ...
Read MoreEsteban Vicente was part of the vibrant Abstract Expressionism scene in American art after World War II (1939-1945). His work reflects the type of biomorphic abstraction influenced by Surrealism seen ...
Read MoreBurgoyne Diller was a true pioneer in American abstraction. During the period when Abstraction Expressionism dominated American modernism, Diller quietly pursued geometric abstraction that was inf ...
Read MoreRobert Longo is a painter, filmmaker, photographer and musician. He first came to prominence in the 1980s, part of the Neo-Expressionism aesthetic with his Men in Cities series of works which cast ...
Read MoreThe work of painter Nathan Oliveira is an interesting example of how the West Coast of the US nurtured its own forms of modernist experiments, including abstract figuratioin, that were quite apart ...
Read MoreAt the same time the Hudson River School was flourishing in the Northeast US, some artists sought to add a spiritual aspect to American landscape painting by concentrating on light and atmosphere. ...
Read MoreKenneth Cobonpue is a contemporary designer of furniture and other household forms who is dedicated to the use of natural and recycled materials, the natural materials often coming from his native ...
Read MorePaula Chamlee is renowned for her series on a variety of different subjects from landscapes to factory interiors. Her series definitely rely on the repetition of simple forms that render her natur ...
Read MoreSato’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 ...
Read MoreStephen Holl is part of the generation of architects in the late 1900s who began focusing on a more humanistic approach to designing buildings for the Earth’s ever-growing major cities. He combi ...
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