Jess was a truly unique and versatile artist in many art forms. He is best known for his incredibly complex collages, but that does not even scratch the surface of his amazing body of work. He was tru ...
Read ArticleThe Realism movement in French art overturned Romanticism’s and Neoclassicism’s obsession with historical, religious, exotic, or mythological content. They instead looked to everyday life ...
Read ArticlePictorialism was a late 1800s-early 1900s style of photography which consciously imitated effects of painting. Who better to take a portrait of a Pictorialist artist than another, the “king&rdqu ...
Read ArticleJacques Soufflot was at the forefront of the Neoclassicism that swept European art and architecture at the end of the 1700s. Even though he died before the Revolution (1789), his Church of Sainte-Gene ...
Read ArticleLovis Corinth was an important transitional painter between the Romanticism and Symbolism movements of the late 1800s, and Expressionism of the early 1900s. ...
Read ArticleRaymond Pettibon’s influential body of work engages a wide spectrum of American iconography. Intermixing image and text, his drawings engage the visual rhetorics of popular and commercial cultur ...
Read ArticleMoshe Safdie is an extraordinarily innovative architect who is probably most widely known for his Habitat 67 that he designed for the World’s Fair in Montreal, Canada in 1967, which revolutioniz ...
Read ArticlePioneer Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico once stated that one must look at all elements of the real world as an enigma. He made paintings of classical piazzas populated with spectral figures and shadows, ...
Read ArticleThe deeply empathetic works of German Expressionist Käthe Kollwitz reflect not only the sensibilities of a highly sophisticated printmaking artist, but also a compassionate and caring mother deep ...
Read ArticleAfter the Arts and Crafts movement of the mid- to late-1800s, several art forms emerged with the status of fine art, because the Arts and Crafts movements stressed the artist’s touch during a pe ...
Read ArticleJohn Bradley Walker Storrs is an example of an American artist who, after exposed to European modernism at the dawn of World War I, he never looked back to realism. He ultimately developed a Cubist ab ...
Read ArticleDuring the 1960s, many artists experimented with forms of art that transformed the space in which works of art are exhibited, through lighting, placement, and installation. In the 21st century, artist ...
Read ArticleScott Burton was an ingenious sculptor/furniture maker who established a unique body of work that functioned as both sculpture and furniture. Burton’s sculpture-installations often functioned as ...
Read ArticleAfter the dominance of classical revival mania in American art during the Revolution (1775-1783) and Federal periods, a softened, more dramatic realism emerged in the form of the Grand Manner Style. T ...
Read ArticleMira Schendel was a painter, sculptor and poet. Her pensive, delicate works (particularly on paper), along with those of her contemporary Brazilian artists Lygia Clark (1920-1988) and Helio Oiticica ( ...
Read ArticleFamed crime scene photographer and artist Weegee was know not only for covering gruesome crime scenes in New York, but also for his carefully orchestrated scenes that evoked discomfort or pity by the ...
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