Artist Birthday: Christian Schad
Christian Schad was of the generation of artists whose reaction against World War I engendered the Dada movement in art. Dada introduced the reinterpretation of what constituted fine art based on a re ...
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Artist Birthday: Jess (Collins)
Jess (Collins) is probably best known for his incredibly complex collages. He was a painter who initially worked as a chemist. He started doing collages in the early 1950s after seeing the works o ...
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Artist Birthday: Rirkrit Tiravanija
Since the beginning of the 2000s, contemporary art of Thai artists has taken a prominent role in world art history. Rirkrit Tiravanija is renowned for his installations and sculptures that address num ...
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Artist Birthday: Conrad Marca-Relli
Conrad Marca-Relli was part of the “first generation” of Abstract Expressionism, along with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. His artistic vision, however, was uniquely apart from eit ...
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Artist Birthday: Max Ernst
In 1925, Ernst pioneered the techniques of frottage (pencil rubbings on various textured surfaces or objects) and decalcomania (transferring paint from surface to another by pressing them together). H ...
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Black History Month: Cey Adams
Throughout the history of the United States, African American artists have been pioneers in many artistic movement. Since the Harlem Renaissance (ca. 1920s–1930s), many Black American ...
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A Collaborative Art Educator Mural
Since the beginning of the summer, the Davis Art Gallery has displayed a mural/collage created by sixteen art educators from around the United States and Canada. The mural was created during a worksho ...
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Black History Month 2023: Betye Saar
Since the 1970s, Betye Saar has been an important artist in both the Feminist Art Movement and in the ever-surging vitality and legacy of African American art. She is one of the most important assembl ...
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Gem of the Month: Udomsak Krisanamis
Whenever I uncover an artist whose work makes me stop and say “Wha--? Wow?” then you know I am going to post about that artist. This artist’s work reminds me of the union between Abs ...
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World Watercolor Month
July is World Watercolor Month. I’m always happy to celebrate a medium in which I am really not terribly good. I have a feeling it’s because I’m an impatient Virgo who can’t st ...
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