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"Anonymous" Artists: Olga "Geneva" Reed

Monday, August 3, 2009 | Karl Cole

While visiting Cape Cod last weekend, I painted with my friend Erika and produced two little landscapes in acrylic. When I got home I thought, “Geez, where am I going to put these?” M ...

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Incan Painting of the Colonial Period: School of Cuzco

Monday, July 27, 2009 | Karl Cole

Last Saturday night, I started a new landscape painting by doing a sketch in linseed oil-thinned oil paint. You’ve read about my art historian geekhood on this blog, but now you’ll hear ab ...

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Mayan Ceramics

Monday, July 20, 2009 | Karl Cole

I find it very interesting (in my geeky, art historian way) to contrast the art of cultures from all over the non-Western world and compare them to the “epitome” of aesthetics in the West, ...

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Poetry as Visual Art: Iko no Taiga

Monday, July 13, 2009 | Karl Cole

I’ve written before in this blog about my fascination with LINE, one of the Elements of Art. I’ve pointed out that when it comes to calligraphy, line is not only defining the shapes of a w ...

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4th of July: Kyra Markham

Monday, July 6, 2009 | Karl Cole

What better way to celebrate the 4th of July (I know I’m late) than by presenting a classic work of American realism? I’ve always had a soft spot for the realism that dominated art during ...

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Modern Furniture Design: Vico Magistretti

Friday, June 26, 2009 | Karl Cole

When I was in graduate school, I was extremely fortunate to be a TA (teaching assistant) to the Furniture art historian. What a learning experience that was! As an art history major, I tended to think ...

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Native American Quillwork: Micmac Culture

Monday, June 22, 2009 | Karl Cole

When I was in grade school, one of our art projects was to collect used wooden matches and then create geometric patterns with them, gluing them side by side on cardboard. It did create an interesting ...

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Postcards and Modernization in Japan

Monday, June 15, 2009 | Karl Cole

When we in the West think of a “postcard,” we usually think of a note from Aunt Suzie on her vacation in Atlantic City or a card with a picture of a church my brother visited while going a ...

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Ancient Roman Realism

Monday, June 8, 2009 | Karl Cole

While when we think of the art of ancient Rome we tend to connect it to the influence of Greek art, there was a strong naturalistic trend in Roman art that would have appalled Greek artists. ...

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What Is Realism? Jan van Eyck and Henry O. Tanner

Monday, June 1, 2009 | Karl Cole

American art has always been characterized by a strong reverence for realism, from the early colonial portraits by artists such as John Singleton Copley, through the Hudson River School, and into the ...

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Ancient Roman Cast Glass

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 | Karl Cole

When I was in graduate school, I was privileged to be able to visit Venice and subsequently the island of Murano, famous for its glass-making. I was fascinated watching glass-blowing and instantly wan ...

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Pioneer American Modernist: Marsden Hartley

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 | Karl Cole

Every now and then my landscape painter alter-ego forces me to focus on a painter who is renowned for his or her landscapes. One of my all-time favorites in that department is Marsden Hartley. I espec ...

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Ancient Peruvian Fiber Art: Paracas Culture

Monday, May 11, 2009 | Karl Cole

Over the years, I have gone through periods of intense fascination for a variety of art forms. Have you ever found yourself thinking, “If I weren’t a painter, I’d be a glass artist&r ...

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Expressionist Architecture: Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint

Monday, May 4, 2009 | Karl Cole

Every now and then (actually on a weekly basis), I come across a “Holy Cow!” work of art in our image collection that I either never noticed before or had not seen in a really long time. U ...

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Miniature Portraits: Sarah Goodridge

Monday, April 27, 2009 | Karl Cole

Lynn Babineau is a marvelous artist who works at Davis Publications. As a painter, one of her specialties that I admire most is as a miniaturist. Before photography, miniature portraits, usually paint ...

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American Poster Design: Will Carqueville

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Karl Cole

Did you know that the second half of the 1800s saw more printed matter produced than ever before? The last two decades of the 1800s was the last era during which printed matter was almost the exclusiv ...

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"Anonymous" Artists: Olga "Geneva" Reed

Incan Painting of the Colonial Period: School of Cuzco

Mayan Ceramics

Poetry as Visual Art: Iko no Taiga

4th of July: Kyra Markham

Modern Furniture Design: Vico Magistretti

Native American Quillwork: Micmac Culture

Postcards and Modernization in Japan

Ancient Roman Realism

What Is Realism? Jan van Eyck and Henry O. Tanner

Ancient Roman Cast Glass

Pioneer American Modernist: Marsden Hartley

Ancient Peruvian Fiber Art: Paracas Culture

Expressionist Architecture: Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint

Miniature Portraits: Sarah Goodridge

American Poster Design: Will Carqueville

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