National Food Day: Claes Oldenburg
One artist who undoubtedly symbolizes the Pop Art movement’s glorification of American culture by far the most in his subjects of everyday foods was Claes Oldenburg. His first installation/perfo ...
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Artist Birthday: Richard Hunt
Born in Chicago, Richard Hunt became what is considered to have been the foremost abstract African American sculptor of the 20th century. ...
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Artist Birthday: Jacques Lipchitz
Jacques Lipchitz was an extraordinary early modernist sculptor who worked in the Cubist idiom longer than most other artists associated with the style. Eventually his style incorporated the monume ...
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August Is National Dog Month: Kofun Period
I am not a “cat person” at all, but I absolutely love doggies of all sorts, big and small. I get my almost weekly dose of cuteness when I visit my sister-in-law and brother-in-law and get ...
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Artist Birthday: George Rickey
George Rickey evolved from a painter with a love of history, to a kinetic artist who transformed stainless steel into lyrical, mesmerizing, precisely calibrated moving sculptures. Kinetic sculpture be ...
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Artist Birthday: Richard Long
Richard Long has been a committed environmental artist since Land Art had its beginnings in the 1960s. His works are thoughtful, beautifully arranged, and elegantly simple compositions that reflect hi ...
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Artist Birthday: Marisol
Marisol Escobar was one of the few women artists’ names associated with Pop Art. While she was renowned for her sculptures of celebrities and politicians, her anonymous figure sculptures contain ...
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Lost Dog Awareness Day: Giacometti
On April 23, 2014, Lost Dogs of America created and launched the first National Lost Dog Awareness Day (NLDAD), a canine-focused day aimed to bring attention to all dogs that are lost each year, while ...
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Artist Birthday: John Chamberlain
John Chamberlain was part of the constructed steel sculpture movement that blossomed following World War II (1939–1945). Constructed sculpture had been experimental before the war, and became th ...
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Artist Birthday: Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg believed that art should literally be made of the ordinary world. His theory was that the reality of art would replace everyday reality. An important early work was The Street (1960). ...
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