Artist Birthday: Joseph DeCamp (1858-1923 US)
Joseph DeCamp was one of “The Ten”, a group ten American painters who seceded from the National Academy of Art in New York over its refusal to exhibit American Impressionists’ artwor ...
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Artist Birthday: Don Eddy (born 1944 US)
Don Eddy’s complex, fascinating Photorealist paintings and prints can truly lead to many hours of discovery on close inspection. To say his discerning eye leads to incisive realism would be an u ...
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Artist Birthday: Annibale Carracci (1560-1609 Italy)
Annibale Carracci was arguably one of the earliest Italian painters to create landscapes as stand-alone subject matter. Italian artists who painted dedicated landscapes lagged at least 100 years after ...
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National Native American Heritage Month, art by Ancestral Pueblo Culture
All over the world, cultures and countries are able to see their history in the ruins of ancient buildings and cities. That is certainly true in the US, where the ruins of ancient indigenous cultures ...
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National Italian-American Month: art by Joseph Stella (1877-1946 US, born Italy)
Many Italian American artists at the turn of the 1900s were influenced by modernist art movements in Europe and inflected nascent American modernism with them. Joseph Stella worked in Futurism, Cubism ...
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National Hermit Day: art by Pu Ru (1896-1963 China)
Chinese painter Pu Ru truly embodied the spirit of the tradition of the Chinese individualist, scholar/amateur painter (the so-called literati). According to National Day Calendar: October 29th is bel ...
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National Chocolate Day: a unique artwork by Janine Antoni (born 1964 US/Bahamas)
Being half Swiss I’m delighted that there’s such a thing as National Chocolate Day. It was initiated by the National Confectioners Association. Performance, installation and Conceptual art ...
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Artist Birthday: Shimaoka Tatsuzō (1919-2007 Japan)
What with the thousands of years of evolution of Japanese ceramic arts --- some of the oldest developments in ceramics on Earth – it is little wonder that the Japanese have introduced the honori ...
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Awesome Autumn Color by William Keith (1839-1911 US, born Scotland)
Autumn is all too short of a season in my mind. I could basically look at fall tree colors all year round, but, of course, that isn’t possible. It is however possible to see autumn colors year r ...
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Artist Birthday: Sarah Lucas(born 1962 Britain)
Sarah Lucas is an English artist. She is part of the generation of the Young British Artists movement who emerged in 1988. Her works frequently employ visual puns and risqué humor by incorporat ...
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