Having previously featured French artist Rosa Bonheur in my Importance of Portraits series, I felt it was high time to bring up the importance of her art in the history of women artists. She was a reb ...
Read MoreAmong the many women artists who deserve recognition in the history of art, Gertrude Greene is certainly toward the top of my list. She was a standup, persistent modernist during the difficult economi ...
Read MoreClara Peeters's work carried on the great tradition of observed realism established by the early Flemish Renaissance painters Jan van Eyck (1390–1441) and Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400– ...
Read MoreAlthough some people find their shape and the quality of their light unpleasant, and some question their environmental advantage, low-energy use lightbulbs are a necessary innovation. Their presence i ...
Read MoreThe painting style that evolved during the Southern Song Dynasty is considered by scholars to have been the classic example of Chinese monochromatic painting, particularly the "literati" sty ...
Read MoreThroughout the history of the United States, African American artists have been pioneers in many artistic movement. Since the Harlem Renaissance (ca. 1920s–1930s), many Black American ...
Read MoreLouis Phillipe (1773–1850) was king of France from 1830–1848, until he was deposed by a revolution of the working classes which rejected his conservatism. Although theoretically a constitu ...
Read MoreMills based his design on the elegant simplicity of the rectangular ancient Egyptian obelisks, with a circular base which was to be the colonnaded pavilion. Such obelisks had served similar functions, ...
Read MoreThe complex linear patterns in MacEntyre's Generative Paintings were reminiscent of the nautilus designs of Leonardo Fibonacci (1175–1250), an Italian mathematician, whose designs were based on ...
Read MoreIn Art Today in Kyoto, Awazu's composition focuses on recalling the past artistic glories of Kyoto, the former imperial capital (794–1868 CE) and an important artistic center which fostered some ...
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