Jacques Soufflot was at the forefront of the Neoclassicism that swept European art and architecture at the end of the 1700s. Even though he died before the Revolution (1789), his Church of Sainte-Gene ...
Read ArticleLovis Corinth was an important transitional painter between the Romanticism and Symbolism movements of the late 1800s, and Expressionism of the early 1900s. ...
Read ArticleBeing an art historian, I have always considered that studying fashion history is a valuable body of knowledge to have because fashion reflects so often throughout history what is going on in the worl ...
Read ArticleRaymond Pettibon’s influential body of work engages a wide spectrum of American iconography. Intermixing image and text, his drawings engage the visual rhetorics of popular and commercial cultur ...
Read ArticleBecause of summer cookouts which often include hot dogs, the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council established National Hot Dog Day in 1991 to coincide with a hot dog lunch on Capitol Hill. The observa ...
Read ArticleMoshe Safdie is an extraordinarily innovative architect who is probably most widely known for his Habitat 67 that he designed for the World’s Fair in Montreal, Canada in 1967, which revolutioniz ...
Read ArticleDid you ever look at a work of art and something in the work evokes vivid feelings about an event in your own life, or just a general feeling you get when you visit a certain country or place? Well, m ...
Read ArticlePioneer Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico once stated that one must look at all elements of the real world as an enigma. He made paintings of classical piazzas populated with spectral figures and shadows, ...
Read ArticleNational Fashion Day evolved in 2016, the result of an internet movement of fashion designers, influencers, and independent brands to celebrate the unique creativity of everyday fashion as a foil to t ...
Read ArticleThe deeply empathetic works of German Expressionist Käthe Kollwitz reflect not only the sensibilities of a highly sophisticated printmaking artist, but also a compassionate and caring mother deep ...
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