During the 1980's, the United Nations began focusing attention on issues related to the family. In 1993, the General Assembly decided in a resolution that 15 May of every year should be observed as Th ...
Read MoreAt a time (the 1880s) when photographic processes evolved to handwork and manipulation of prints in development in order to achieve “artistic” photographs, Peter Henry Emerson advocated fo ...
Read MoreThe Photorealism movement, which evolved during the late 1960s as a counterpoint to the pervasive Minimalism, Conceptualism, and abstraction in American art, blossomed fully during the 1970s. Into the ...
Read MoreNational Skilled Trades Day was established in 2019 by the National Day Calendar and City Machine Technologies, Inc. Skilled workers are employed in a variety of fields and positions that can be perso ...
Read MoreJules 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 ...
Read MoreAntonio 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 ...
Read MoreLiubov Popova was one of the many women artists active in the avant garde art during the period of the Russian Revolution (1917). Not only did she experiment in all of the most recent modernist styles ...
Read MoreNational 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 ...
Read MoreEstablished 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 ...
Read MoreGardens are probably not in full bloom as yet, but I cannot resist showing this idyllic garden genre scene by Pieter de Hooch. Did you ever want to crawl right into a painting to experience the atmosp ...
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