Like the American modernist movement Abstract Expressionism, German Expressionism was dominated by male artists with strong personalities. But there were many significant women Expressionists in Germa ...
Read ArticleRobert 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 ArticleOtto 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 ...
Read ArticleErich Heckel was a German Expressionist and a member of the important early artists’ group Die Brücke, a group that worked communally from 1905 to 1913. He is renowned for his woodcut print ...
Read ArticleUnequaled among the German Expressionists are the gritty, powerfully heart-felt drawings, lithographs and woodcuts of Käthe Kollwitz. Much of her subject matter concerned working class women, mot ...
Read ArticleOn April 23, 2014, Lost Dogs of America created and launched the first National Lost Dog Awareness Day (NLDAD), a canine-focused day aimed to bring attention to all dogs that are lost each year, while ...
Read ArticleLeipzig-based Neo Rauch is part of the generation of German artists who revitalized German painting starting in the late 1900s. His work is a combination of late East German Socialist Realism, opera-l ...
Read ArticleI cannot think of a more joyous April sendoff than art that features dancing in celebration of International Dance Day. The International Theater Institute began International Dance Day on April 29, 1 ...
Read ArticleJuly is Disability Pride Month! This annual observance is used to promote visibility and mainstream awareness of the positive pride felt by people with disabilities. To celebrate this important month ...
Read ArticleAfter the horrors experienced by Europeans in World War I (1914–1918), the brakes were more or less put on to the prevailing trend towards modernism and abstraction, although certainly many arti ...
Read ArticleI always like to introduce you to artists who, I think, have been marginalized in “official” art history surveys of western (or non-western for that matter) art. Because Paris was has been ...
Read ArticleThe first time I saw the paintings of William H. Johnson, they were works from his expressionist period, the first time he lived in Europe (1926–1929). Needless to say, it was one of those &ldqu ...
Read ArticleEvery now and then (actually on a weekly basis), I come across a “Holy Cow!” work of art in our image collection that I either never noticed before or had not seen in a really long time. U ...
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