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Artist Birthday: John B. Storrs (1886-1956 US)

Thursday, June 25, 2026 | Karl Cole

John Bradley Walker Storrs is an example of an American artist who, after exposed to European modernism at the dawn of World War I, he never looked back to realism. He ultimately developed a Cubist ab ...

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The Essence of Essence

Monday, August 3, 2015 | Karl Cole

I’ve been reading manifestos by several early modernist artists from Europe recently (Kandinsky, Boccioni, Doesburg), and a recurring thought comes out in all of their writings. It is the idea t ...

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