Artist Birthday: Nathan Oliveira
The work of painter Nathan Oliveira is an interesting example of how the West Coast of the US nurtured its own forms of modernist experiments, including abstract figuratioin, that were quite apart ...
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Artist Birthday: Fitz Henry Lane
At the same time the Hudson River School was flourishing in the Northeast US, some artists sought to add a spiritual aspect to American landscape painting by concentrating on light and atmosphere. ...
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Artist Birthday: Jayson Musson
Jayson Musson is an artist and art historian whose work is informed in unique ways by media and past art movements. ...
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Artist Birthday: Kenneth Cobonpue
Kenneth Cobonpue is a contemporary designer of furniture and other household forms who is dedicated to the use of natural and recycled materials, the natural materials often coming from his native ...
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Yay! Winter is Here!
We already had our first and second snowfalls and they created a lovely, white landscape all over. Autumn and winter are my favorite seasons of the year, so you know I won’t be moving to Flo ...
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Artist Birthday: Paula Chamlee
Paula Chamlee is renowned for her series on a variety of different subjects from landscapes to factory interiors. Her series definitely rely on the repetition of simple forms that render her natur ...
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Artist Birthday: Sato Koichi
Sato’s poster work shows just how fully Japanese graphic designers have absorbed Western modernist aesthetics and combined them with traditional Japanese sensibilities. Japanese poster art d ...
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Artist Birthday: Stephen Holl
Stephen Holl is part of the generation of architects in the late 1900s who began focusing on a more humanistic approach to designing buildings for the Earth’s ever-growing major cities. He combi ...
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Gem of the Month: Ergil Vallo, Ceramic Art
A flourishing of ceramic arts is one of the historic traditions of the indigenous American cultures of the Southwest US. These cultures are collectively addressed as “Pueblo”, a refere ...
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Artist Birthday: Tim Hetherington
Tim Hetherington was a bold photojournalist who documented the war in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2008 in the Koragal Valley, where 70 per cent of American bombs were falling when he covered that ...
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