Artist Birthday: Kenneth Noland
Kenneth Noland was part of the Post Painterly Abstraction group of Color Field artists who sought to distance themselves from the gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. His epiphany moment came, ...
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Artist Birthday: Victor Vasarely
The study of the optical effects possible in the manipulation of color and shape that began with the Neo-Impressionists Georges Seurat (1895–1891) and Paul Signac (1863–1935) in the late 1 ...
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National Library Week: Jacob Lawrence
Established in 1958, National Library Week has been sponsored by the American Library Association. It now has international recognition. National Library Week was started to encourage the support and ...
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National Poetry Month: Sōtatsu Tawaraya and Hon'ami Koetsu
I’ve posted previously about how poetry can be a visual art form when in the hands of a great calligrapher. I am not ashamed to repeat that assertion with this beautiful example of calligraphy c ...
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Artist Birthday: Gino Severini
Gino Severini was a Futurist painter, writer, mosaicist and set designer. Severini took the Cubism-offshoot movement of Futurism into total abstraction. He exhausted his commitment to Futurism by the ...
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Artist Birthday: William H. Jackson
Jackson took photographs of Shoshone Falls numerous times from every conceivable angle. Like the other photographers who were early chroniclers of the Western territories, Jackson's photographs emphas ...
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National Tweed Day: Otto Baumberger
This PKZ (department store) poster typifies the "object poster" genre. The object to be marketed is presented in extreme close-up, either in photo-realistic or almost abstract fashion. Text ...
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Artist Birthday: Max Ernst
In 1925, Ernst pioneered the techniques of frottage (pencil rubbings on various textured surfaces or objects) and decalcomania (transferring paint from surface to another by pressing them together). H ...
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Artist Birthday: Alfred Bricher
In the 1870s, Bricher concentrated almost entirely on marine views up and down the New England coastline. This view of an unnamed bay sums up the combination of influences on his landscape painting. H ...
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Women's History Month: Janet Sobel
It is not often that we discover an artist whose work may have had a major impact on the direction of American art. But Janet Sobel is one such artist. You think Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) was ...
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