Artist Birthday: Sekino Junichirō
Sekino Junichirō was a woodblock printmaker in the sōsaku hanga movement, in which the artists draws the subject, cuts the woodblock, and prints the image themselves. These artists often incorpora ...
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Artist Birthday: Larry Walker
Larry Walker was born in Georgia but raised from one year of age in Harlem, New York, in the waning days of the Harlem Renaissance. A consummate abstractionist, he also devoted his life to art edu ...
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National Apple Day: Art by Yokoi Tomoe
There are about 7000 varieties of apple in the world. Apples have been a favorite element of still life since still life became an accepted stand-alone subject matter in Western art. The unique pr ...
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Artist Birthday: Hugh Bolton Jones
Hugh Bolton Jones was one of the many American artists whose painting was influenced by the French Realist Barbizon school in the late 1800s. He enthusiastically embraced the technique of en plein ...
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Artist Birthday: Otto Müller
Otto Müller was a German Expressionist artist, member of the artists’ group Die Brücke, and best known for his brilliant palette and scenes of bathers. His type of Expressionism le ...
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Artist Birthday: Matsuzaki Kenichi
Kenichi Matsuzaki exemplifies the richness of the contemporary ceramic art of Japan. His rough surface stoneware works pay tribute to the centuries old traditions of Japanese ceramics, one of the ...
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Artist Birthday: William Larson
Photographer William Larson was a pioneer of many unique experiments in his art form. These included printing photos on unusual materials, experimenting with photography through fax machines, and ...
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Artist Birthday: Charles Worth
Charles Frederick Worth was undoubtedly one of the most influential fashion designers in the West in the latter half of the 1800s. He is credited with making the hoop skirt (crinoline) popular, an ...
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Artist Birthday: Jean-Antoine Watteau
The paintings of Jean-Antoine Watteau typified the rather Baroque-lite character of French art in the first fifty years of the 1700s. After the death of Louis XIV (1715), French painting trended towar ...
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Artist Birthday: Frank Duveneck
At the same time Impressionism was developing in France, a parallel movement was blossoming among American ex-patriate artists in Germany and Italy. Frank Duveneck was a pioneer in this style call ...
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