July is World Watercolor Month
I do not think I need to go into my sob story about how inept I am with watercolors. You know how bad I was? One of my instructors in grad school suggested I stick with oils because I was trying too h ...
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Artist Birthday: Lovis Corinth (1858-1925 Germany)
Lovis Corinth was an important transitional painter between the Romanticism and Symbolism movements of the late 1800s, and Expressionism of the early 1900s. ...
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June Drawing by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890 France)
As an art historian, I tend to get a little giddy about details of works of art to which most people would not pay attention. Just as I got goosebumps when I saw the chisel marks in Michelangelo's (14 ...
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Artist Birthday: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919 France)
Impressionism, a painting movement that arose from the earlier Realism movement, was one of the first revolutions in the history of development of painting, wherein artists did not rely solely on comm ...
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Native American Heritage Month
National Native American Heritage Month is drawing to a close. Since 1990, the US has celebrated National Native American Heritage Month in November to commemorate indigenous peoples’ s ...
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The Week of Shichi-go-san: Kitagawa Utamaro
“Rites of passage” refer to cultures all over the world in which certain birthdays are celebrated as stepping stones to a new period of life. A Japanese example is Shichi-go-san. The n ...
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World Bicycle Day: Josef Müller-Brockmann
Starting in the late 1800s, posters began to be designed by fine artists, and what ensued what has been called the Poster Renaissance. After World War II, Swiss artists developed the International Typ ...
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Artist Birthday: Jules Breton
Jules Breton was a unique artist of the Realism movement in France in the mid-1800s. Having grown up with poor rural farmers in northern France, he understood their lives and labors. His paintings pre ...
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Artist Birthday: Antonio Frasconi
Antonio Frasconi is an internationally known woodcut artist. He has published hundreds of prints and illustrated many books. Although much of his work has registered political protest, his subjects ra ...
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National Library Week: Jacob Lawrence
Established in 1958, National Library Week has been sponsored by the American Library Association. It now has international recognition. National Library Week was started to encourage the support and ...
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