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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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Another Beauty Attack: Rogier Bissière

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 | Karl Cole

I have what I like to call episodes of “Beauty Attack” on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis when I’m struck by the awesomeness of an artist’s work that I never stopped to contem ...

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Artist Birthday: Wols (A.O.W. Schulze)

Tuesday, May 27, 2025 | Karl Cole

Wols was a major figure in the School of Paris that developed after World War I (1914–1918). He was a pioneering artist in Lyrical Abstraction, and was a major influence on the Tachisme movement ...

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European Abstract Expressionism? Jean-Paul Riopelle

Monday, May 2, 2011 | Karl Cole

What we generally read in art history texts is that during World War II (1939-1945) many European modernist artists fled to the US and ended up in New York. At the same time, many American artists wit ...

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