When thinking about the impact Scandinavian modernism had on furniture design, it is impossible to not consider the work of Hans Wegner. He was a prolific designer of all types of chairs, many of whic ...
Read ArticleThere are many of what I consider “art heroes” among artists, and if anyone deserves such a title, it would be the late Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015, US, born Canada). She was a key player i ...
Read ArticleOn this date, the McKim Building of the Boston Public Library was opened to the public. Called by the city the “palace of the people”, the library was the first public building in the Beau ...
Read ArticleKenneth Cobonpue is a contemporary designer of furniture and other household forms who is dedicated to the use of natural and recycled materials, the natural materials often coming from his native ...
Read ArticleSculptor Roberto González Goyri is one of the artists who exemplifies the electric spirit of development of modernism in Central and South American countries during the middle of the 1900s. ...
Read ArticleÉdouard Vuillard was a pivotal artist in the transition from representational and abstract art. He was a member of the Nabis group of painters, "nabi" a Hebrew word for prophet, i ...
Read ArticleAnders Ruhwald is an artist whose works blur the line between sculpture and design. One of his key interests is in the contrasting of textures of different materials. ...
Read ArticleKenichi Matsuzaki exemplifies the richness of the contemporary ceramic art of Japan. His rough surface stoneware works pay tribute to the centuries old traditions of Japanese ceramics, one of the ...
Read ArticleNow you see it, now you don’t. Daylight Savings Time ends in about a month, and I’ll finally have a little light in the morning to see the bunnies in the yard at city hall. The paintings o ...
Read ArticleGustav Klimt, along with Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) was a leading Austrian modernist at the turn of the 1900s. Although noted as a society portrait painter in an Art Nouveau/Byzantine mosaic li ...
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