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Monday, May 11, 2026 | Karl Cole

Beauty Attack Monday 11th of May is also the birthday of major Op Art artist Yaacov Agam (France, born 1928 Palestine [present day Israel]). Agam along with Julio le Parc (born 1928 Argentina) and Jes ...

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Artist Birthday: Yves Klein (1928-1962 France)

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 | Karl Cole

During the turbulent post-World War II (1939-1945) years, it is no surprise that art movements arose – as they did after World War I (1914-1918) – that questioned the validity of entrenche ...

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Spring Impression by a Truly Lyrical Artist

Monday, April 6, 2026 | Karl Cole

Every so often I try to explore artists whose names have never been – as the saying goes – a “household word.” That is unfortunate, because many relatively lesser well known ar ...

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Artist Birthday for 13 March: Maximilien Luce (1858-1941 France)

Friday, March 13, 2026 | Karl Cole

Maximilien Luce was an Post-Impressionist/Neo-Impressionist painter who most likely was the most dedicated to the Pointillist technique of broken color. After about 1920 he adopted a less strict Point ...

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Artist Birthday: Fernand Léger (1881-1955 France)

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

The art movement called Cubism -- which incorporated the element of time -- was developed by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963) around 1908. While Picasso and Braque moved on to ...

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Artist Birthday: Georges Mathieu (1921-2012 France)

Tuesday, January 27, 2026 | Karl Cole

After producing paintings that were copies of postcard views, Georges Mathieu went through what he called his "limbo" period (1944-1946), a time when he developed a completely personal new p ...

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Artist Birthday: Édouard Manet

Friday, January 23, 2026 | Karl Cole

Although his realist paintings never approached the point of pure Impressionism, Manet’s work was a great influence on the burgeoning Impressionist artists. He definitely experimented with the e ...

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This Day in Art History: Earliest photographic process introduced

Friday, January 9, 2026 | Karl Cole

On 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 ...

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Beauty Attack = Gorgeous Gauguin

Monday, January 5, 2026 | Karl Cole

If 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 ...

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Artist Birthday: Édouard Vuillard

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | Karl Cole

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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Artist Birthday: Jean-Antoine Watteau

Friday, October 10, 2025 | Karl Cole

The 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: Pierre Bonnard

Friday, October 3, 2025 | Karl Cole

Surely one of the greatest colorists in French painting right up there with Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Pierre Bonnard’s intimate, highly personal vision of his world is expressed with gestur ...

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Artist Birthday: Théodore Géricault

Friday, September 26, 2025 | Karl Cole

Théodore Géricault was a leading proponent of Romanticism, based on his abiding appreciation of Baroque painting. He also rejected the strict canons of Neoclassicism. ...

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Artist Birthday: Suzanne Valadon

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 | Karl Cole

Suzanne Valadon was a popular model for Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. She was inspired by their work to teach herself drawing an painting and established herself as a successful pa ...

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Artist Birthday: Jacques Lipchitz

Friday, August 22, 2025 | Karl Cole

Jacques Lipchitz was an extraordinary early modernist sculptor who worked in the Cubist idiom longer than most other artists associated with the style. Eventually his style incorporated the monume ...

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Artist Birthday: Jules Breton

Thursday, May 1, 2025 | Karl Cole

Jules Breton was a unique artist of the Realism movement in France in the mid-1800s. Having grown up with poor rural farmers in northern France, he understood their lives and labors. His paintings pre ...

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A Weekly Beauty Attack

Artist Birthday: Yves Klein (1928-1962 France)

Spring Impression by a Truly Lyrical Artist

Artist Birthday for 13 March: Maximilien Luce (1858-1941 France)

Artist Birthday: Fernand Léger (1881-1955 France)

Artist Birthday: Georges Mathieu (1921-2012 France)

Artist Birthday: Édouard Manet

This Day in Art History: Earliest photographic process introduced

Beauty Attack = Gorgeous Gauguin

Artist Birthday: Édouard Vuillard

Artist Birthday: Jean-Antoine Watteau

Artist Birthday: Pierre Bonnard

Artist Birthday: Théodore Géricault

Artist Birthday: Suzanne Valadon

Artist Birthday: Jacques Lipchitz

Artist Birthday: Jules Breton

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