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Artist Birthday: Roberto González Goyri

Thursday, November 20, 2025 | Karl Cole

Sculptor Roberto González Goyri is one of the artists who exemplifies the electric spirit of development of modernism in Central and South American countries during the middle of the 1900s. ...

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Artist Birthday: Antonio Frasconi

Monday, April 28, 2025 | Karl Cole

Antonio Frasconi is an internationally known woodcut artist. He has published hundreds of prints and illustrated many books. Although much of his work has registered political protest, his subjects ra ...

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Women's History Month 2017: Graciela Iturbide

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 | Karl Cole

Graciela Iturbide is today’s featured artist for Women’s History Month. The work of Iturbide is a good example of how photography expanded in conception and expression after World War II ( ...

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The Artistic Legacy of Conquest, part 2

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 | Karl Cole

This week's look at Spanish Colonial art continues, inspired by the exhibit Highest Heaven, currently on view at the Worcester Art Museum. ...

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The Artistic Legacy of Conquest, part 1

Monday, March 13, 2017 | Karl Cole

The Worcester Art Museum is hosting an amazing exhibition called Highest Heaven (March 11–July 9, 2017). It is a traveling exhibit of the fabulous religious art produced in Spanish col ...

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A Consistent Concretist: Carmen Herrera

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 | Karl Cole

I recently learned about an artist who turned 100 this past may. Turning 100 is fabulous, and even more fabulous is discovering that this artist was ahead of her time stylistically in painting, but di ...

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Ode to Wood: Marisol

Monday, May 5, 2014 | Karl Cole

The Davis Art Gallery just opened a show called All About Wood. In that spirit, I’m showing you one of my favorite wood pieces. Several years ago at a Christmas party we played an art histo ...

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Mola: Kuna People Textiles

Monday, October 21, 2013 | Karl Cole

Many years ago I was fortunate enough to go to an exhibit of Kuna Mola textile art in Chicago. It blew my mind, because it is very complex. And yet, it is the common textile art form of the Kuna, ...

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Empathetic Photographer: Marcela Taboada

Monday, November 1, 2010 | Karl Cole

The creative impulse is universal; I think we can all pretty much agree on that. I think we can also all agree that photography is fine art. It’s always neat when photographers document other cr ...

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Day of the Dead Satire: Manuel Manilla

Monday, March 22, 2010 | Karl Cole

The Davis Art Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of the work of comic artists. Since the gallery is on the same floor as our offices, I get to see the artists’ works every day. Naturally ...

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Mayan Textiles

Monday, December 14, 2009 | Karl Cole

I am always fascinated when I stop to think about indigenous cultures that have flourished culturally for many, many centuries. True, we in the West consider the ancient Greek and Roman cultures as ou ...

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Puerto Rican Colonial Art: José Campeche y Jordán

Monday, September 14, 2009 | Karl Cole

In the United States we tend to think of John Singleton Copley, John Smibert, and Charles Willson Peale when the words “colonial art” come up. There is, however, another rich and fascinati ...

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Incan Painting of the Colonial Period: School of Cuzco

Monday, July 27, 2009 | Karl Cole

Last Saturday night, I started a new landscape painting by doing a sketch in linseed oil-thinned oil paint. You’ve read about my art historian geekhood on this blog, but now you’ll hear ab ...

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Earliest Poet of the Americas: Juana Inez de la Cruz

Monday, March 9, 2009 | Karl Cole

When we in the West think of people who take religious orders, we usually think of vows of poverty, self-denial, and a life devoted to prayer and contemplation. We don’t expect the religious lif ...

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Spanish Colonial Portraiture

Monday, February 2, 2009 | Karl Cole

When we think of portraiture in the “New World,” we usually tend to think of John Singleton Copley and Charles Willson Peale in the United States. However, there was a thriving artistic mi ...

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Women's History Month 2017: Graciela Iturbide

The Artistic Legacy of Conquest, part 2

The Artistic Legacy of Conquest, part 1

A Consistent Concretist: Carmen Herrera

Ode to Wood: Marisol

Mola: Kuna People Textiles

Empathetic Photographer: Marcela Taboada

Day of the Dead Satire: Manuel Manilla

Mayan Textiles

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