Esteban Vicente was part of the vibrant Abstract Expressionism scene in American art after World War II (1939-1945). His work reflects the type of biomorphic abstraction influenced by Surrealism seen ...
Read MoreI continue to celebrate winter, my second favorite season after autumn, with yet another snow scene. Eisen Keisai is typical of the artists of the classic Ukiyo-e period (late 1700s to early 1800s), i ...
Read MoreSince at least 1983, schools, libraries, and museums have observed National Hat Day. People are invited to wear their favorite type of hat. The date also commemorates the day in 1797 when the first to ...
Read MoreWhat are the benefits of a visual arts education? This is a topic that has been debated among various K–12 stakeholders for years. This article addresses the question from various perspectives t ...
Read MoreOne of the most rewarding aspects of the project was how it mirrored the workflow of professional design studios. Students gained firsthand experience in creative communication, timeline management, a ...
Read MoreThis SchoolArts issue features a wide variety of media arts projects representing early childhood through high school. Each author brings something new to the media arts equation, offering practical c ...
Read MoreMedia arts opens the door to endless creative possibilities and offers another way to engage students in learning while building conceptual and technical skills, adaptability to new technologies, visu ...
Read MoreBurgoyne Diller was a true pioneer in American abstraction. During the period when Abstraction Expressionism dominated American modernism, Diller quietly pursued geometric abstraction that was inf ...
Read More“Winter white” can conjure up a number of associations for people: a color of clothing worn in winter, a color of house paint, etc. For art historians like me, the mind goes right to f ...
Read MoreOn 9 January, 1839, Louis Daguerre (1787-1851 France) introduced his groundbreaking daguerreotype photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences. In early 1838 he had used the process to photo ...
Read MoreGiotto is largely credited as being a leader of the early (“Proto-“) Renaissance in Italian painting. His cycle of frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, is one of the earliest commi ...
Read MoreRobert Longo is a painter, filmmaker, photographer and musician. He first came to prominence in the 1980s, part of the Neo-Expressionism aesthetic with his Men in Cities series of works which cast ...
Read MoreThere’s no shortage of gorgeous 1800s American paintings of apples at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, but this is one of my favorite to celebrate National Apple Tree Day. Nation ...
Read MoreIf you are as taken with the color of the most prominently written about Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) paintings, then you will simply drool over this early still life. The background colors are particular ...
Read MoreI cannot image a better way than saying “goodbye” to 2025 than with the uplifting, positive sentiments reserved for the pine tree in Japanese and Chinese cultures. There are very few e ...
Read MoreThe work of painter Nathan Oliveira is an interesting example of how the West Coast of the US nurtured its own forms of modernist experiments, including abstract figuratioin, that were quite apart ...
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