Happy Birthday Francis Picabia
I always like to celebrate artists who show a wide variety of stylistic exploration. Francis Picabia is certainly one of them. ...
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It's All How You See It: John Pfahl
Winter landscapes full of snow are a joy to behold. Of course, snow in the mountains is even more joyous to behold. Imagine a series of photographs that presents piles of various materials as landscap ...
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What's in a Number? Ancient Persia, Anna Claypoole Peale, McKim Mead and White
It’s 2018 now. Does the number eighteen conjure up anything for you? A lot of people make a big deal about turning age eighteen, but for me that just conjures up nightmares of bullying, a face b ...
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A Multicultural Proclaimer: Safavid Dynasty
Westerners usually think of the Archangel Gabriel in terms of Christmas cards depicting the Annunciation, when he proclaimed to Mary that she would conceive Jesus. Well, it turns out that he was a mul ...
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Op Art Unknown: Edna Andrade
I may be a broken record on the subject, but in my virtual art history wanderings, I come across so many artists who have been significant in some aspect of the history of art, and yet they are not ge ...
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Temple on Active Volcano's Slopes! Pura Besakih
I’m naturally concerned for Pura Besakih (Mother Temple). It is situated on the slopes of Mount Agung, which is currently causing havoc with its eruption in Bali. It survived a major eruption of ...
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Thriving Culture in Ancient Peru: The Nazca
It drives me absolutely nuts as an art historian the way Western art history textbooks treat Mesoamerican and South American cultures in a peripheral way, yet fawn all over ancient Greece and ancient ...
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Sister-in-Law/Beautiful Landscape: Claude Monet
My sister-in-law Stacy's birthday coming up on the fourteenth of November. She’s a beautiful person both inside and out. Since I couldn’t find any “sister-in-law” works of art ...
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Tree Memories: Rodney Taylor
Meet my new “find”: the awesome painter Rodney Taylor. As a Virgo, I do not routinely paint totally from memory. While a memory can evoke very specific imagery, it is often affected by emo ...
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A Prescription: James Lambie
It was rainy and damp in New England for quite some time in October. My prescription for the rainy blues is color (and art history, of course). ...
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