Esteban Vicente was part of the vibrant Abstract Expressionism scene in American art after World War II (1939-1945). His work reflects the type of biomorphic abstraction influenced by Surrealism seen ...
Read MoreSince at least 1983, schools, libraries, and museums have observed National Hat Day. People are invited to wear their favorite type of hat. The date also commemorates the day in 1797 when the first to ...
Read MoreBurgoyne Diller was a true pioneer in American abstraction. During the period when Abstraction Expressionism dominated American modernism, Diller quietly pursued geometric abstraction that was inf ...
Read More“Winter white” can conjure up a number of associations for people: a color of clothing worn in winter, a color of house paint, etc. For art historians like me, the mind goes right to f ...
Read MoreRobert Longo is a painter, filmmaker, photographer and musician. He first came to prominence in the 1980s, part of the Neo-Expressionism aesthetic with his Men in Cities series of works which cast ...
Read MoreThere’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 MoreIf you are as taken with the color of the most prominently written about Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) paintings, then you will simply drool over this early still life. The background colors are particular ...
Read MoreThe work of painter Nathan Oliveira is an interesting example of how the West Coast of the US nurtured its own forms of modernist experiments, including abstract figuratioin, that were quite apart ...
Read MoreAt the same time the Hudson River School was flourishing in the Northeast US, some artists sought to add a spiritual aspect to American landscape painting by concentrating on light and atmosphere. ...
Read MoreJayson Musson is an artist and art historian whose work is informed in unique ways by media and past art movements. ...
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