Artist Birthday: Eduardo MacEntyre
The complex linear patterns in MacEntyre's Generative Paintings were reminiscent of the nautilus designs of Leonardo Fibonacci (1175–1250), an Italian mathematician, whose designs were based on ...
Read MoreThe complex linear patterns in MacEntyre's Generative Paintings were reminiscent of the nautilus designs of Leonardo Fibonacci (1175–1250), an Italian mathematician, whose designs were based on ...
Read MoreAlfredo Jaar is an installation artist whose work is conceptual and documents injustice, genocide, ongoing famine, and other major afflictions to humanity in many parts of the world. ...
Read MoreAs 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 ...
Read MoreIn 1941 Mérida was invited to teach frescoes at the University of Austin in Texas. He remained there two years. Tempo in Red Major dates from that visit. It certainly reflects, in its title the ...
Read MoreThanksgiving in the United States is meant to be a day when we express gratitude for our blessings. I am still grateful for the doctors and nurses who valiantly served our communities during the pande ...
Read MoreIn case you have any doubt that the heritage of ancient cultures from Central and South American has endured to the present day, all one has to do is look at the influences of ancient art on contempor ...
Read MoreIn a recent conversation with another artist, the subject of immigration came up. She reminded me that the term “we are all immigrants,” when used in countries in the Western Hemisphere, i ...
Read MoreLike graphic artists in Mexico during the mid-1900s, Antonio Frasconi was a tireless chronicler of poor and underserved people—first depicting those of Uruguay, where he was raised, and later am ...
Read MoreThe rich tradition of satiric graphic arts in Latin America reaches back to Mexico in the late 1700s. At that time, caricatures of skeletons (called calavera) were adopted by the satirical press as&nb ...
Read MoreDuring the early to mid-1900s, many Central and South American artists gradually developed schools of modernist art, moving away from the domination of Spanish styles that had endured in art academies ...
Read MoreThe textiles of ancient Peru—woven in every known technique for more than three thousand years—represent some of the highest artistic achievements of the cultures in that region. Textiles ...
Read MoreThe earliest ideas about a day to honor working Americans came about from labor unions in the 1880s. In fact, the idea of a national holiday is thought to have come from labor union officials in New Y ...
Read MoreOscar de la Renta was an internationally renowned fashion designer who established a personal aesthetic that combined European couture elegance with practical ready-to-wear forms. He is best known for ...
Read MoreThe works of Emilio Cruz form a counterpoint to the Abstract Expressionist style that dominated the art world when Cruz first went to New York. His work is important not only because it was figurative ...
Read MoreThe 2022 Hispanic Heritage Month series continues with the work of Lari Pittman. Pittman’s complex works examine fantastic, personal narratives about love, sex, death, religion, citizenship, and ...
Read MoreThis Hispanic Heritage month, I’ll be featuring artists who are pioneers in all sorts of art and who have had a major impact on Western art. For this post, let’s take a look at the wo ...
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