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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 ArticleNational Fashion Day evolved in 2016, the result of an internet movement of fashion designers, influencers, and independent brands to celebrate the unique creativity of everyday fashion as a foil to t ...
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 ArticleWhat with the warm weather we experienced recently, the steaminess put me in mind of how works of art can reflect warmth or coolness, or in terms of the latest weather: Heat. Just look at this fiery l ...
Read ArticleI’m not sure I’d want to loll around on a beach in street clothes, but, there is definitely something very relaxing about spending a day at the beach! And there is something very soothing ...
Read ArticleNational Coconut Day was started in 2019 by the Coconut Coalition of the Americas to publicize the many health benefits of the food, aside from as a sweet baking staple. The artists of New Guinea are ...
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 ArticleKisses for National Kissing Day in a incredibly ingenious and unique work by the fabulous Conceptual artist Janine Antoni. Antoni is known for her unusual processes, using her body as both a tool and ...
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 ArticleThe genre paintings of Eastman Johnson reveal the prevalence of an unvarnished realism in American art in the first half of the 1800s. His work mirrors the interest of another 1800s American realist W ...
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 ArticleThis month let’s celebrate the achievements of Nam June Paik. He was a pioneer in the use of TVs, video, digital imaging, and computer programming in works of art. He is also famously known for ...
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