Although in the early 1980s Kapoor’s work was consciously absorbing aspects of Indian culture, in the late 1980s into the 1990s he began to formulate an abstract visual language that transcends ...
Read ArticleAnna Claypoole Peale was a member of the first established “dynasty” of American painters that started with Charles Willson (1741-1827) and James (1749-1831) Peale of Philadelphia. The las ...
Read ArticleGiovanni Battista Tiepolo was a Venetian Rococo/Late Baroque painter who reinvigorated Venetian painting. He was most renowned in his time for his ambitious frescoes with which he decorated churches a ...
Read ArticleAsger Jorn was a leading painter of the European post-war CoBrA artists group. The CoBrA artists sought to distance European abstraction from its tradition of geometric forms, introducing more express ...
Read ArticleEleanor Antin is a performance artist, filmmaker, conceptualist artist and college professor. Her body of work dates back to the early days of the Women’s Art Movement of the early 1970s. Her pi ...
Read ArticleThe American painter Elihu Vedder is remembered primarily for his Symbolist style of painting, which emphasized Gothic and Romantic fantasy. His early work was soundly within the mid-century Realism m ...
Read ArticleImpressionism, a painting movement that arose from the earlier Realism movement, was one of the first revolutions in the history of development of painting, wherein artists did not rely solely on comm ...
Read ArticleJosiah Johnson Hawes was part of the successful photography duo of Southworth and Hawes, which had a flourishing Daguerreotype business in Boston from 1843 to about 1863. After the firm dissolved in 1 ...
Read ArticleLike the American modernist movement Abstract Expressionism, German Expressionism was dominated by male artists with strong personalities. But there were many significant women Expressionists in Germa ...
Read ArticleMax Beckmann was a German Expressionist who, before World War I (1914-1918) painted in an academic realist style. After experiencing the horrors of that war, his paintings reflected his disgust for th ...
Read ArticleMariko Mori is an internationally acclaimed artist whose practice explores universal questions at the intersection of life, death, reality, and technology. She is known for her photographs and videos ...
Read ArticleIn the history of the development of the art form of photography, few individuals have contributed more innovative ideas than William Henry Fox Talbot. He perfect many of the optical and chemical aspe ...
Read ArticleThe 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 ArticleThe 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 ArticleLike 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 ArticleAlice 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 ...
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