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 ...
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 MoreForming his aesthetic during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, Cy Twombly pioneered his own unique brand of modernism. Rather than emphasizing process, he was inspired by art history past, particu ...
Read MoreIt probably does not need saying by now, but the last week has been quite cold in New England. I thought it might be interesting to see how artists visually interpret the idea of “cold.”&n ...
Read MoreUkiyo-e was a woodblock print aesthetic that was popular from the late 1600s to the mid 1800s. The genre developed a visual vocabulary that documented the entertainments of Japanese urban centers, par ...
Read MoreI’m marking the onset of autumn with a work of art from Chinese American artist Yun-Fei Ji. His work tackles many subjects about contemporary China, as well as world-wide issues such as pollutio ...
Read MoreOnce August is here, New Englanders are fond of saying, “well, summer’s almost over.” I prefer to resist that inclination, since summer always seems so short in Massachusetts anyway. ...
Read MoreWhat better way to anticipate summer than to see sun-drenched paintings from the south of France? Whenever the subject of Pointillism comes up in art history books, there are usually only two major ar ...
Read MoreI’m fairly certain that many of us have experienced the sight of snow-laden trees in January. That is my favorite part of winter. What better image to conjure up the sensation of a cold winter d ...
Read MoreShowing this painting at the beginning of winter is wishful thinking in New England, as we are probably not going to see snow in any great amounts before the end of the year. But the beginning of wint ...
Read MoreIt may feel like winter, but technically it’s still autumn until the 21st of December. I like nothing better than celebrating autumn—my favorite season in New England—with an artist ...
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