Catherine Murphy follows the cherished American artistic tradition of carefully observed realism in her fabulous, Photorealist paintings. Her aesthetic also transcends countries and time periods ...
Read MoreOn 9 January, 1839, Louis Daguerre (1787-1851 France) introduced his groundbreaking daguerreotype photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences. In early 1838 he had used the process to photo ...
Read MoreNow you see it, now you don’t. Daylight Savings Time ends in about a month, and I’ll finally have a little light in the morning to see the bunnies in the yard at city hall. The paintings o ...
Read MoreArt historians consider Osias Beert possibly the first significant Baroque Flemish still life painter. The still life medium was just catching on in popularity during his period of activity, ...
Read MoreHaving matured as an artist shortly after the “revolution” of the Abstract Expressionism movement, Audrey Flack became one of the earliest and archetypal Photorealist painters, working fro ...
Read MoreI will wrap up Jewish American Heritage Month with a great artist who has transcended the label “Pop Art” in brilliant ways in his art. Jim Dine emerged from the generation of American Pop ...
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 MoreClara Peeters's work carried on the great tradition of observed realism established by the early Flemish Renaissance painters Jan van Eyck (1390–1441) and Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400– ...
Read MoreI can’t find anything about the history of International Pomegranate Month. However, I think pomegranate juice is yummy (and good for you), so let’s celebrate the month with art! ...
Read MoreI have presented quite a few posts about still-life painting over the years because (1) I like doing still life paintings myself and (2) still life is one of the first types of painting lessons many y ...
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