Artist Birthday: Édouard Vuillard
Édouard Vuillard was a pivotal artist in the transition from representational and abstract art. He was a member of the Nabis group of painters, "nabi" a Hebrew word for prophet, i ...
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The Week of Shichi-go-san: Kitagawa Utamaro
Monday, November 10, 2025 | Karl Cole“Rites of passage” refer to cultures all over the world in which certain birthdays are celebrated as stepping stones to a new period of life. A Japanese example is Shichi-go-san. The n ...
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Artist Birthday: Otto Müller
Thursday, October 16, 2025 | Karl ColeOtto Müller was a German Expressionist artist, member of the artists’ group Die Brücke, and best known for his brilliant palette and scenes of bathers. His type of Expressionism le ...
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Artist Birthday: Jean-Antoine Watteau
Friday, October 10, 2025 | Karl ColeThe paintings of Jean-Antoine Watteau typified the rather Baroque-lite character of French art in the first fifty years of the 1700s. After the death of Louis XIV (1715), French painting trended towar ...
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Artist Birthday: Hananiah Harari
Friday, August 29, 2025 | Karl ColeHananiah Harari was both an abstract painter and a commercial artist who designed advertising campaigns and magazine covers. Never a doctrinaire abstractionist, his work went freely between geometric ...
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Artist Birthday: Kanō Motonobu
Thursday, August 28, 2025 | Karl ColeThe Kanō School artists—the favored group of painters for the nobility and shogunate—worked in a variety of genre, including traditional yamato-e that included bright patterns and gold lea ...
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Artist Birthday: Jost Amman
Friday, June 13, 2025 | Karl ColeLike the German Renaissance, the Swiss Renaissance witnessed the flourishing of all the graphic arts, which included woodcut, engraving, etching, and drawing. One of the rich characteristics of German ...
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International Families Day: Alice Mizrachi
Thursday, May 15, 2025 | Karl ColeDuring the 1980's, the United Nations began focusing attention on issues related to the family. In 1993, the General Assembly decided in a resolution that 15 May of every year should be observed as Th ...
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Artist Birthday: Ynez Johnston
Monday, May 12, 2025 | Karl ColeYnez Johnston’s unique style blends modernism and ancient art forms from her travels to Italy, Mexico, India and Nepal. Johnston also created three dimensional pieces in collaboration with her h ...
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National Pet Day: Isoda Koryūsai
Friday, April 11, 2025 | Karl ColeNational Pet Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated on April 11. It was founded 2005/2006 by animal advocate and pet and family lifestyle expert Colleen Paige. The day is dedicated to all types of pe ...
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August is National Dog Month: Maruyama Ōkyo
Monday, August 5, 2024 | Karl ColeI recently learned that August is celebrated as National Dog Month. I’m all for a month dedicated to those loyal and darling fellow sentients! A well-known doggy treat maker announced the month- ...
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Welcome to May! Charles Burchfield
Monday, May 6, 2024 | Karl ColeTo welcome the wonderful month of May, let’s look at the work of an extremely unique artist who sought not only to capture what he saw in nature, but also what he felt: Charles Burchfield. He is ...
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American Artist Supports American Art: Carroll Beckwith
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 | Karl ColeI guess it doesn’t need to be said, that, in the history of art, there are many artists who just don’t get massive exposure. Although they might often be lauded in their day, their works d ...
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Sous-Verre Painting: Gora Mbengue
Monday, March 10, 2014 | Karl ColeI once watched an artist in Switzerland do a reverse painting on glass, and the technique amazed me. As an artist, one is thinking in reverse, literally painting details and foreground first, then mid ...
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Calligraphy/Typeface as Abstraction
Monday, September 23, 2013 | Karl ColeAbstraction is defined as the reduction of form to simple (geometric, or organic) or decorative (a word I hate) shapes. I’ve blogged briefly about calligraphy in the past, but I rarely get a cha ...
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Pop Art, Again! Patrick Caulfield
Monday, August 19, 2013 | Karl ColeWhile American art was “discovering” abstraction in the years immediately following World War II (1939–1945), Britain was exploring new territory. Their experience with abstraction h ...
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