Artist Birthday: Lovis Corinth (1858-1925 Germany)
Lovis Corinth was an important transitional painter between the Romanticism and Symbolism movements of the late 1800s, and Expressionism of the early 1900s. ...
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A Nice Frock for a hot summer day's garden party in the 1920s
Being an art historian, I have always considered that studying fashion history is a valuable body of knowledge to have because fashion reflects so often throughout history what is going on in the worl ...
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Artist Birthday: Raymond Pettibon (born 1957 US)
Raymond Pettibon’s influential body of work engages a wide spectrum of American iconography. Intermixing image and text, his drawings engage the visual rhetorics of popular and commercial cultur ...
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National Hot Dog Day: Art by Robert Abel (1937-2001 US)
Because of summer cookouts which often include hot dogs, the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council established National Hot Dog Day in 1991 to coincide with a hot dog lunch on Capitol Hill. The observa ...
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Artist Birthday: Moshe Safdie (born 1938, Israel-Canada)
Moshe Safdie is an extraordinarily innovative architect who is probably most widely known for his Habitat 67 that he designed for the World’s Fair in Montreal, Canada in 1967, which revolutioniz ...
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July Interpreted by Larry Rivers (1923-2002 US)
Did you ever look at a work of art and something in the work evokes vivid feelings about an event in your own life, or just a general feeling you get when you visit a certain country or place? Well, m ...
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Artist Birthday: Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978 Italy)
Pioneer Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico once stated that one must look at all elements of the real world as an enigma. He made paintings of classical piazzas populated with spectral figures and shadows, ...
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National Fashion Day: Art by Fernand Siméon (1884-1928 France)
National Fashion Day evolved in 2016, the result of an internet movement of fashion designers, influencers, and independent brands to celebrate the unique creativity of everyday fashion as a foil to t ...
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Artist Birthday: Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945 Germany)
The deeply empathetic works of German Expressionist Käthe Kollwitz reflect not only the sensibilities of a highly sophisticated printmaking artist, but also a compassionate and caring mother deep ...
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Artist Birthday: Gertrud Nätzler (1908-1971, US born Austria)
After the Arts and Crafts movement of the mid- to late-1800s, several art forms emerged with the status of fine art, because the Arts and Crafts movements stressed the artist’s touch during a pe ...
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