Like the great Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Albrecht Dürer was a singularly “Renaissance Man.” He was not only an accomplished printmaker and painter who ...
Read ArticleIn the history of the development of the art form of photography, few individuals have contributed more innovative ideas than William Henry Fox Talbot. He perfect many of the optical and chemical aspe ...
Read ArticleThe origins of this recognition day is uncertain, but Umbrella Day has been celebrated since 2004. The origins of the contemporary, waterproof umbrella date to the 1700s in France, while umbrellas as ...
Read ArticleI 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 ArticleThere’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 ArticleI 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 ArticleKenneth Cobonpue is a contemporary designer of furniture and other household forms who is dedicated to the use of natural and recycled materials, the natural materials often coming from his native ...
Read ArticlePaula Chamlee is renowned for her series on a variety of different subjects from landscapes to factory interiors. Her series definitely rely on the repetition of simple forms that render her natur ...
Read ArticleIn 2004, the U.S. Department of Agriculture declared December as “National Pear Month.” I did not realize that pears have as much potassium as bananas. And they are certainly interesting a ...
Read ArticlePhotographer Brook Reynolds considers her photographs of aspects of Nature to be Enso photography. Enso photographs are inspired by the practice of Soto Zen Buddhism and influenced by the tra ...
Read ArticleSince the 1960s, Sylvia Plimack Mangold has developed a distinctive visual language that is grounded in figuration and transcends representation. Plimack Mangold has remained committed to an explo ...
Read ArticleAt the time Alvan Fisher began painting landscapes, the Hudson River School had not yet formed in New England. Fisher was among less than a handful of artists who were dedicated to landscape painting. ...
Read ArticleFrederic Church, the Hudson River School painter became fascinated with the nature of the Arctic in the 1860s when there began to develop many expeditions from both European and American explorers to ...
Read ArticleGustav Klimt, along with Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) was a leading Austrian modernist at the turn of the 1900s. Although noted as a society portrait painter in an Art Nouveau/Byzantine mosaic li ...
Read ArticleLike the German Renaissance, the Swiss Renaissance witnessed the flourishing of all the graphic arts, which included woodcut, engraving, etching, and drawing. One of the rich characteristics of German ...
Read ArticleRichard Long has been a committed environmental artist since Land Art had its beginnings in the 1960s. His works are thoughtful, beautifully arranged, and elegantly simple compositions that reflect hi ...
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