March 2026 is Women's History Month
I have always maintained that there is no period in history anywhere in the world when women artists did not play a significant role in the world’s cultures. Up until about fifty years ago, howe ...
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Artist Birthday: Eleanor Antin (born 1935 US)
Eleanor Antin is a performance artist, filmmaker, conceptualist artist and college professor. Her body of work dates back to the early days of the Women’s Art Movement of the early 1970s. Her pi ...
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Artist Birthday: Elihu Vedder (1836-1923 US)
The American painter Elihu Vedder is remembered primarily for his Symbolist style of painting, which emphasized Gothic and Romantic fantasy. His early work was soundly within the mid-century Realism m ...
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Artist Birthday: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919 France)
Impressionism, a painting movement that arose from the earlier Realism movement, was one of the first revolutions in the history of development of painting, wherein artists did not rely solely on comm ...
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African American History Month: Joseph Yoakum (1890-1972 US)
Self-taught artists are often well into their middle age when they begin to take up their artistic practice. Having reached their middle years, many of them bring to their work valuable practical know ...
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Artist Birthday: Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808-1901 US)
Josiah Johnson Hawes was part of the successful photography duo of Southworth and Hawes, which had a flourishing Daguerreotype business in Boston from 1843 to about 1863. After the firm dissolved in 1 ...
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Artist's Birthday: Gabriele Münter (1877-1962 Germany)
Like the American modernist movement Abstract Expressionism, German Expressionism was dominated by male artists with strong personalities. But there were many significant women Expressionists in Germa ...
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African American History Month: James Van Der Zee (1886-1983 US)
The term “Harlem Renaissance” indicates the period between ca. 1918 and 1930 when the Harlem neighborhood of New York experienced a flourishing of African American art, music, and culture. ...
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Artist Birthday: Max Beckman (1884-1950 Germany)
Max Beckmann was a German Expressionist who, before World War I (1914-1918) painted in an academic realist style. After experiencing the horrors of that war, his paintings reflected his disgust for th ...
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Artist Birthday: Mori Mariko (born 1967 Japan)
Mariko Mori is an internationally acclaimed artist whose practice explores universal questions at the intersection of life, death, reality, and technology. She is known for her photographs and videos ...
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