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Sculpture as Jewelry: Liv Blåvarp

Monday, July 22, 2013 | Karl Cole

As you know, I consider artists in any medium to be ARTISTS, not “artisans” or “craftspeople” or “decorative artists.” When one looks at jewelry, even if it has bee ...

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Aging in Art: Robert Arneson

Monday, April 8, 2013 | Karl Cole

Did you know that April is National Older Americans Month? Robert Arneson died way too soon, and I’m not sure he’d appreciate me featuring him for this theme, but his work shows us how we ...

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Epiphany of the Week: Eva Hild

Monday, October 22, 2012 | Karl Cole

Just when I’m in danger of becoming cynical that there is very little in the art world that has not yet been done, I come upon this amazing artist: Eva Hild. This is my epiphany of the week (yes ...

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A Chicago Artist: Margaret Wharton

Monday, September 17, 2012 | Karl Cole

Art from Chicago is always dear to my heart because it is my hometown. I lived there during the very fertile artistic period of the 1970s and 1980s. There were gallery openings every Friday night on H ...

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Mask for Theater: Deme Mitsunori

Monday, January 23, 2012 | Karl Cole

There are so many aspects of Japanese culture that I find absolutely fascinating; I could keep writing this blog for years! As with many countries around the world and throughout history, art is an in ...

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New Acquisitions: Classic Minimalist Carl Andre

Tuesday, June 21, 2011 | Karl Cole

My fascination with modernism (doesn’t that term sound old-fashioned)—let me rephrase that—forward-thinking art never seems to diminish. Call me lucky (I think I am), but as we add n ...

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African American History Month 2011: Michael Richards

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 | Karl Cole

The history of African American art is rich in its “cataloging” (for lack of a better term) of the African American experience. This was the aim of the Harlem Renaissance. The depiction of ...

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Art History Déja Vu? Ancient Egypt

Monday, January 24, 2011 | Karl Cole

Do you ever stop and wonder if there really isn’t anything new in subject matter or style in art? Sometimes I stop and look at what I’m painting and think: “Why bother, landscape&rsq ...

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A Prince of a Portrait from Ancient Egypt

Monday, October 4, 2010 | Karl Cole

Of all the portraits I’ve ever come across—and believe me, I’ve been going to museums since I was a wee one—the portraiture of ancient Egypt fascinates me the most. For one thi ...

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Importance of Portraits II: Desiderio da Settignano

Tuesday, September 7, 2010 | Karl Cole

Throughout the history of art, there have been artists, who, although they did not have a long career, established themselves as a master of a genre. That is true of early Italian Renaissance master s ...

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Importance of Portraits I: David Gilmour Blythe

Monday, August 30, 2010 | Karl Cole

It seems unbelievable, but there are only five more weeks before this blog reaches 100 posts. To celebrate the milestone, the next five entries will focus on an important subject taught in art classro ...

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Canadian Sculptor Jacqueline Winsor

Monday, December 7, 2009 | Karl Cole

Among the many new museum collections we are continually adding to our digital image archive, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery of Buffalo, NY is one of my favorites. What a wonderful collection of contem ...

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Mayan Honduras: Copán Monument

Monday, November 30, 2009 | Karl Cole

We in the Western Hemisphere don’t have to look very far to find a civilization that rivals that of ancient Greece and Rome. The Maya in Central America thrived for almost 3000 years in Mexico, ...

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Bamboo Artist: Torii Ippo

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 | Karl Cole

Okay, so I’m having “holy cow” moments more often these days! I came across this fabulous sculpture while scanning new images from the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC. I never ev ...

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Ancient Roman Realism

Monday, June 8, 2009 | Karl Cole

While when we think of the art of ancient Rome we tend to connect it to the influence of Greek art, there was a strong naturalistic trend in Roman art that would have appalled Greek artists. ...

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Sophisticated Sculpture = New Guinea: Yimam People

Monday, March 30, 2009 | Karl Cole

In January, I visited the Beyeler Foundation Museum in Basel, Switzerland, and I saw dozens of these elegant, monumental Yipwon figures. When you think of sculpture known for delicate and intricate ca ...

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Sculpture as Jewelry: Liv Blåvarp

Aging in Art: Robert Arneson

Epiphany of the Week: Eva Hild

A Chicago Artist: Margaret Wharton

Mask for Theater: Deme Mitsunori

New Acquisitions: Classic Minimalist Carl Andre

African American History Month 2011: Michael Richards

Art History Déja Vu? Ancient Egypt

A Prince of a Portrait from Ancient Egypt

Importance of Portraits II: Desiderio da Settignano

Importance of Portraits I: David Gilmour Blythe

Canadian Sculptor Jacqueline Winsor

Mayan Honduras: Copán Monument

Bamboo Artist: Torii Ippo

Ancient Roman Realism

Sophisticated Sculpture = New Guinea: Yimam People

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