Annibale Carracci was arguably one of the earliest Italian painters to create landscapes as stand-alone subject matter. Italian artists who painted dedicated landscapes lagged at least 100 years after ...
Read ArticleAll over the world, cultures and countries are able to see their history in the ruins of ancient buildings and cities. That is certainly true in the US, where the ruins of ancient indigenous cultures ...
Read ArticleMany Italian American artists at the turn of the 1900s were influenced by modernist art movements in Europe and inflected nascent American modernism with them. Joseph Stella worked in Futurism, Cubism ...
Read ArticleChinese painter Pu Ru truly embodied the spirit of the tradition of the Chinese individualist, scholar/amateur painter (the so-called literati). According to National Day Calendar: October 29th is bel ...
Read ArticleBeing half Swiss I’m delighted that there’s such a thing as National Chocolate Day. It was initiated by the National Confectioners Association. Performance, installation and Conceptual art ...
Read ArticleWhat with the thousands of years of evolution of Japanese ceramic arts --- some of the oldest developments in ceramics on Earth – it is little wonder that the Japanese have introduced the honori ...
Read ArticleAutumn is all too short of a season in my mind. I could basically look at fall tree colors all year round, but, of course, that isn’t possible. It is however possible to see autumn colors year r ...
Read ArticleSarah Lucas is an English artist. She is part of the generation of the Young British Artists movement who emerged in 1988. Her works frequently employ visual puns and risqué humor by incorporat ...
Read ArticleThe origin of National Color Day is not known. Color is something that is silent but that says a lot to everyone’s eyes. As a painter, I am obsessed with color. The paintings of Thomas Mukarobgw ...
Read ArticleSince the development of photography art form in the early 1800s, the medium has been considered ideal for documenting reality. “Reality” includes wars. The earliest wars documented by pho ...
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