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Artist Birthday: Jean Hélion

Monday, April 21, 2025 | Karl Cole

Jean Hélion was a member of a number of artists’ groups between World Wars I and II which advocated for total, non-objective abstraction. Ironically, after World War II he lost his tenaci ...

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Artist Birthday: Neo Rauch

Friday, April 18, 2025 | Karl Cole

Leipzig-based Neo Rauch is part of the generation of German artists who revitalized German painting starting in the late 1900s. His work is a combination of late East German Socialist Realism, opera-l ...

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Artist Birthday: Peter Doig

Thursday, April 17, 2025 | Karl Cole

Peter Doig is a Scottish painter who has lived in Canada, London, Trinidad for 20 years, and now back in London. He focuses on both landscapes and figures, melding art historical and personal referenc ...

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Artist Birthday: John Chamberlain

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | Karl Cole

John Chamberlain was part of the constructed steel sculpture movement that blossomed following World War II (1939–1945). Constructed sculpture had been experimental before the war, and became th ...

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Artist Birthday: Elizabeth Catlett

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | Karl Cole

Elizabeth Catlett’s body of work as an artist was predominantly intended to connect with and honor achievements of African Americans, particularly women. Her works about women such as this army ...

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Pointillism! Sally Hazelet Drummond

Monday, April 14, 2025 | Karl Cole

It may not be something that you have thought about art historically, but believe me, Pointillism—the brilliant Neo-Impressionist painting technique of the late 1800s—did not die with Paul ...

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National Gardening Day: Arshile Gorky

Monday, April 14, 2025 | Karl Cole

In 1986, President Reagan established National Garden Week, which was first celebrated in 1987 from 12 through 16 April. In 2002 the National Gardening Association insisted that the entire month of Ap ...

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National Pet Day: Isoda Koryūsai

Friday, April 11, 2025 | Karl Cole

National Pet Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated on April 11. It was founded 2005/2006 by animal advocate and pet and family lifestyle expert Colleen Paige. The day is dedicated to all types of pe ...

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Artist Birthday: Kenneth Noland

Thursday, April 10, 2025 | Karl Cole

Kenneth Noland was part of the Post Painterly Abstraction group of Color Field artists who sought to distance themselves from the gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. His epiphany moment came, ...

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Artist Birthday: Victor Vasarely

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | Karl Cole

The study of the optical effects possible in the manipulation of color and shape that began with the Neo-Impressionists Georges Seurat (1895–1891) and Paul Signac (1863–1935) in the late 1 ...

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