Color, Color, Color: Maya Tzute
I just love cultures where art forms are considered more valuable than gold (let’s tell that to Wall Street). I find it especially interesting when what is considered valuable in non-Western Eur ...
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Empathetic Photographer: Marcela Taboada
The creative impulse is universal; I think we can all pretty much agree on that. I think we can also all agree that photography is fine art. It’s always neat when photographers document other cr ...
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Day of the Dead Satire: Manuel Manilla
The Davis Art Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of the work of comic artists. Since the gallery is on the same floor as our offices, I get to see the artists’ works every day. Naturally ...
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Mayan Textiles
I am always fascinated when I stop to think about indigenous cultures that have flourished culturally for many, many centuries. True, we in the West consider the ancient Greek and Roman cultures as ou ...
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Puerto Rican Colonial Art: José Campeche y Jordán
In the United States we tend to think of John Singleton Copley, John Smibert, and Charles Willson Peale when the words “colonial art” come up. There is, however, another rich and fascinati ...
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Incan Painting of the Colonial Period: School of Cuzco
Last Saturday night, I started a new landscape painting by doing a sketch in linseed oil-thinned oil paint. You’ve read about my art historian geekhood on this blog, but now you’ll hear ab ...
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Earliest Poet of the Americas: Juana Inez de la Cruz
When we in the West think of people who take religious orders, we usually think of vows of poverty, self-denial, and a life devoted to prayer and contemplation. We don’t expect the religious lif ...
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Spanish Colonial Portraiture
When we think of portraiture in the “New World,” we usually tend to think of John Singleton Copley and Charles Willson Peale in the United States. However, there was a thriving artistic mi ...
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