Artist Birthday: Carlo Carrà
Carlo Carrà's work reflects the use of the Impressionist palette of pure colors by the Pointillists, while his segmenting of the subject to indicate movement reflects a similar aesthetic concer ...
Read MoreCarlo Carrà's work reflects the use of the Impressionist palette of pure colors by the Pointillists, while his segmenting of the subject to indicate movement reflects a similar aesthetic concer ...
Read MoreThe Chinese had a legend of the brave carp who swam against the current on the Yellow River to mate, and few were courageous enough to swim over the Dragon Gate waterfall. Those that did turned into d ...
Read MoreAlfredo Jaar is an installation artist whose work is conceptual and documents injustice, genocide, ongoing famine, and other major afflictions to humanity in many parts of the world. ...
Read MoreAs an artist associated with the shin hanga movement, Shinsui Itō incorporated Western elements of perspective and attention to sculptural form into his work. He also observed compositional aspects of ...
Read MoreAlvar Aalto designed all of the furnishings for his buildings. Using native birch, Aalto designed a number of chairs and stools made entirely of bent plywood and laminated wood. He also invented some ...
Read MoreBarnett Newman’s earliest paintings share the organic/biomorphic abstract forms of Mark Rothko’s early works from the 1940s. By 1946, however, his forms began to be more abstract and shed ...
Read MoreClaes Oldenburg believed that art should literally be made of the ordinary world. His theory was that the reality of art would replace everyday reality. An important early work was The Street (1960). ...
Read MoreFrancis Picabia was a standout Cubist painter who avoided the common subject matter of Cubism, still life and portraits, opting for documenting personal experiences and memories. ...
Read MoreAs with portraiture in mainland Spanish colonial cultures, wealthy Puerto Ricans emulated their European counterparts in the never-ending obsession of Spanish colonials that they were “pure Span ...
Read MoreIn 1941 Mérida was invited to teach frescoes at the University of Austin in Texas. He remained there two years. Tempo in Red Major dates from that visit. It certainly reflects, in its title the ...
Read MorePierre Prins is one of the finest, if not the finest, pastel artists of any of the Impressionists, or any other artists in late 1800s France. He is sometimes called “the forgotten Impressionist& ...
Read MoreAs one of the most remarkable talents of the Dutch Golden Age of painting, Rembrandt had the distinction of becoming a fantastically successful artist. Although his contemporaries raved about him, Rem ...
Read MoreThe American Renaissance was a period when more American artists traveled to Europe in order to enrich their artistic vision. They brought back such styles as Impressionism, Dark Impressionism, B ...
Read MoreApril 11th is the birthday of one of the leading women artists of pre-Revolutionary France, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. A fantastic portraitist, she’s right up with her contemporary &Ea ...
Read MoreJohn Constable’s birthday is June 11th, and I never miss an excuse to feature a brilliant landscape painter who has inspired my own painting. But, instead of featuring The Hay Wain, which is in ...
Read MoreAntoine Vollon, known primarily for his excellent still-life paintings, had a birthday on April 23rd. In the glory days of the annual academic Salon in Paris (1760s–1890s)—when the self-ap ...
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