The Week of Shichi-go-san: Kitagawa Utamaro
“Rites of passage” refer to cultures all over the world in which certain birthdays are celebrated as stepping stones to a new period of life. A Japanese example is Shichi-go-san. The n ...
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Artist Birthday: Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart
Vordemberge-Gildewart was a major figure in the Concrete Art that developed in Europe in many countries as a form of pure abstraction. It encompassed many individual movements, including Construct ...
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Artist Birthday: Neil Jenney
Painter Neil Jenney has been part of what the Whitney Museum called in 1978 New Image Painting. It is neither Pop-oriented or abstract. Jenney’s work emphasizes vigorous, exciting brush work ...
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Artist Birthday: Anders Ruhwald
Anders 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. ...
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Artist Birthday: Chris (DAZE) Ellis
Chris (DAZE) Ellis was part of the earliest group of American street artists to successfully transition to a career painting on canvas. He is also part of the generation of street artists who help ...
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Art for National Fig Week: Luis Meléndez
November 1-7 is National Fig Week, and we celebrate with Baroque art! Just as very different painting styles co-existed in late Baroque France – the Rococo which catered to the nobility, and ...
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Artist Birthday: Jürgen Mayer
Jürgen Mayer is part of a generation of young 21st century architect/designers who create forms that respect the surrounding environment, as well as paying tribute to the history of the locale. ...
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Artist Birthday: James Siena
James Siena is renowned for his intricate, circuit board-like geometric abstractions. Like many contemporary abstractionists, Siena follows a highly personal process in his colorful abstractions. ...
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Artist Birthday: Homer Dodge Martin
In the mid- to late-1800s, there many American artists like Homer Dodge Martin who adapted the romantic element of Hudson River School painting, with the contemporary interest in misty atmosphere ...
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A Fall Landscape: Lan Ying
This past weekend we laid to rest my dear father-in-law. He was always a big fan of the color changes to the trees in the fall in New England, which is peaking right about now. I am dedicating this we ...
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