Artist Birthday: John Koch (1909-1978 US)
Since the 1500s, genre paintings – scenes of everyday life – have become a standard part of fine art’s repertoire of subject matter. Genre painting is fascinating not just because it ...
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18 June is National Go Fishing Day: Art by Eastman Johnson (1824-1906 US)
The genre paintings of Eastman Johnson reveal the prevalence of an unvarnished realism in American art in the first half of the 1800s. His work mirrors the interest of another 1800s American realist W ...
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Artist Birthday: Richard Estes (born 1932 US)
Like the American Scene works of Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Richard Estes’ Photorealistic views of American cities and towns are virtually devoid of a human presence outside of the evidence of t ...
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Artist Birthday: George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879 US)
After portraiture had dominated the subject matter of colonial, and early American painting, genre scenes, still life, and landscape subjects all asserted importance in the early 1800s.George Caleb&nb ...
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Artist Birthday: Anna Claypoole Peale (1791-1878 US)
Anna Claypoole Peale was a member of the first established “dynasty” of American painters that started with Charles Willson (1741-1827) and James (1749-1831) Peale of Philadelphia. The las ...
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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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Who Knew? Healthcare can be an Art Subject Matter II
Healthcare, medicine costs, insurance, etc. have been a hot topic for a long time, and a lot of the problems have consistently not changed for the better. Another thing about healthcare that has not c ...
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Artist Birthday: Alice Neel
Alice Neel was a great American portraitist. Her portraits were insightfully realistic, although not to the point of Photorealism, for her works tended to emphasize rich color. The most enduring aspec ...
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Artist Birthday: Catherine Murphy (born 1946 US)
Catherine Murphy follows the cherished American artistic tradition of carefully observed realism in her fabulous, Photorealist paintings. Her aesthetic also transcends countries and time periods ...
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Artist Birthday: Robert Longo
Robert Longo is a painter, filmmaker, photographer and musician. He first came to prominence in the 1980s, part of the Neo-Expressionism aesthetic with his Men in Cities series of works which cast ...
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