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Artist Birthday: Barnett Newman

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | Karl Cole

Newman’s earliest paintings share the organic/biomorphic abstract forms of Rothko’s early works from the 1940s. By 1946, however, his forms began to be more abstract and shed their biomorp ...

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Artist Birthday: Claes Oldenburg

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 | Karl Cole

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). It con ...

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Artist Birthday: José Campeche y Jordán

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 | Karl Cole

As 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 ...

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Puerto Rican Colonial Art: José Campeche y Jordán

Monday, September 14, 2009 | Karl Cole

In the United States we tend to think of John Singleton Copley, John Smibert, and Charles Willson Peale when the words “colonial art” come up. There is, however, another rich and fascinati ...

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