My celebration of Black History Month continues with three more artists who are very important in the history of art—Hale Woodruff, Norman Lewis, and Wilmer Jennings. They represent the divergen ...
Read MoreThe Chinese had a legend of the brave carp who swam against the current on the Yellow River to mate, and few were courageous enough to swim over the Dragon Gate waterfall. Those that did turned into d ...
Read MoreInfinite Cell is a combination of mirrors and a single prison cell reflected infinitely. It is an ode to two Italian artists who were imprisoned for their Communist beliefs by the Fascists before Worl ...
Read MoreThe shin hanga movement may have featured Western elements of perspective and more attention to sculptural form which Shinsui incoporated into his work, but he observed compositional aspects of tradit ...
Read MoreI’m kicking off National Black History Month with artists I find fascinating. Their styles are extraordinary, and their names are probably not on the tips of every art historian’s tongue&m ...
Read MoreAalto designed all of the furnishings for his buildings. Using native birch, Aalto designed a number of chairs and stools made entirely of bent plywood and laminated wood. He also invented some of the ...
Read MoreNewman’s earliest paintings share the organic/biomorphic abstract forms of Rothko’s early works from the 1940s. By 1946, however, his forms began to be more abstract and shed their biomorp ...
Read MoreOldenburg believed that art should literally be made of the ordinary world. His theory was that the reality of art would replace everyday reality. An important early work was The Street (1960). It con ...
Read MoreIt probably does not need saying by now, but the last week has been quite cold in New England. I thought it might be interesting to see how artists visually interpret the idea of “cold.”&n ...
Read MoreFrancis Picabia was a standout Cubist painter who avoided the common subject matter of Cubism, still life and portraits, opting for documenting personal experiences and memories. ...
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