Raymond 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 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 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 ...
Read ArticleI’m not sure I’d want to loll around on a beach in street clothes, but, there is definitely something very relaxing about spending a day at the beach! And there is something very soothing ...
Read ArticleJohn Bradley Walker Storrs is an example of an American artist who, after exposed to European modernism at the dawn of World War I, he never looked back to realism. He ultimately developed a Cubist ab ...
Read ArticleAfter the dominance of classical revival mania in American art during the Revolution (1775-1783) and Federal periods, a softened, more dramatic realism emerged in the form of the Grand Manner Style. T ...
Read ArticleThe genre paintings of Eastman Johnson reveal the prevalence of an unvarnished realism in American art in the first half of the 1800s. His work mirrors the interest of another 1800s American realist W ...
Read ArticleMira Schendel was a painter, sculptor and poet. Her pensive, delicate works (particularly on paper), along with those of her contemporary Brazilian artists Lygia Clark (1920-1988) and Helio Oiticica ( ...
Read ArticleThis month let’s celebrate the achievements of Nam June Paik. He was a pioneer in the use of TVs, video, digital imaging, and computer programming in works of art. He is also famously known for ...
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