The Realism movement in French art overturned Romanticism’s and Neoclassicism’s obsession with historical, religious, exotic, or mythological content. They instead looked to everyday life ...
Read ArticleI do not think I need to go into my sob story about how inept I am with watercolors. You know how bad I was? One of my instructors in grad school suggested I stick with oils because I was trying too h ...
Read ArticlePictorialism was a late 1800s-early 1900s style of photography which consciously imitated effects of painting. Who better to take a portrait of a Pictorialist artist than another, the “king&rdqu ...
Read ArticleJacques Soufflot was at the forefront of the Neoclassicism that swept European art and architecture at the end of the 1700s. Even though he died before the Revolution (1789), his Church of Sainte-Gene ...
Read ArticleLovis Corinth was an important transitional painter between the Romanticism and Symbolism movements of the late 1800s, and Expressionism of the early 1900s. ...
Read ArticleBeing an art historian, I have always considered that studying fashion history is a valuable body of knowledge to have because fashion reflects so often throughout history what is going on in the worl ...
Read ArticleRaymond Pettibon’s influential body of work engages a wide spectrum of American iconography. Intermixing image and text, his drawings engage the visual rhetorics of popular and commercial cultur ...
Read ArticleBecause of summer cookouts which often include hot dogs, the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council established National Hot Dog Day in 1991 to coincide with a hot dog lunch on Capitol Hill. The observa ...
Read ArticleMoshe Safdie is an extraordinarily innovative architect who is probably most widely known for his Habitat 67 that he designed for the World’s Fair in Montreal, Canada in 1967, which revolutioniz ...
Read ArticleDid you ever look at a work of art and something in the work evokes vivid feelings about an event in your own life, or just a general feeling you get when you visit a certain country or place? Well, m ...
Read ArticleIf you’ve ever thought about submitting an article but weren’t sure where to begin, this post provides a few tips to help you turn your classroom experience into a publishable article. ...
Read ArticlePioneer Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico once stated that one must look at all elements of the real world as an enigma. He made paintings of classical piazzas populated with spectral figures and shadows, ...
Read ArticleNational Fashion Day evolved in 2016, the result of an internet movement of fashion designers, influencers, and independent brands to celebrate the unique creativity of everyday fashion as a foil to t ...
Read ArticleThe deeply empathetic works of German Expressionist Käthe Kollwitz reflect not only the sensibilities of a highly sophisticated printmaking artist, but also a compassionate and caring mother deep ...
Read ArticleAfter the Arts and Crafts movement of the mid- to late-1800s, several art forms emerged with the status of fine art, because the Arts and Crafts movements stressed the artist’s touch during a pe ...
Read ArticleWhat with the warm weather we experienced recently, the steaminess put me in mind of how works of art can reflect warmth or coolness, or in terms of the latest weather: Heat. Just look at this fiery l ...
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