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Artist Birthday: Cy Twombly

Friday, April 25, 2025 | Karl Cole

Forming his aesthetic during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, Cy Twombly pioneered his own unique brand of modernism. Rather than emphasizing process, he was inspired by art history past, particu ...

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Artist Birthday: Liubov Popova

Thursday, April 24, 2025 | Karl Cole

Liubov Popova was one of the many women artists active in the avant garde art during the period of the Russian Revolution (1917). Not only did she experiment in all of the most recent modernist styles ...

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Artist Birthday: Yamaguchi Katsuhiro

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 | Karl Cole

Katsuhiro Yamaguchi was a key figure in the transition to modernism in Japanese art after World War II (1939–1945). He incorporated his view of modernist experiment almost as a science into nume ...

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Artist Birthday: Jean Hélion

Monday, April 21, 2025 | Karl Cole

Jean Hélion was a member of a number of artists’ groups between World Wars I and II which advocated for total, non-objective abstraction. Ironically, after World War II he lost his tenaci ...

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Artist Birthday: Neo Rauch

Friday, April 18, 2025 | Karl Cole

Leipzig-based Neo Rauch is part of the generation of German artists who revitalized German painting starting in the late 1900s. His work is a combination of late East German Socialist Realism, opera-l ...

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Artist Birthday: Peter Doig

Thursday, April 17, 2025 | Karl Cole

Peter Doig is a Scottish painter who has lived in Canada, London, Trinidad for 20 years, and now back in London. He focuses on both landscapes and figures, melding art historical and personal referenc ...

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Artist Birthday: John Chamberlain

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | Karl Cole

John Chamberlain was part of the constructed steel sculpture movement that blossomed following World War II (1939–1945). Constructed sculpture had been experimental before the war, and became th ...

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Artist Birthday: Elizabeth Catlett

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | Karl Cole

Elizabeth Catlett’s body of work as an artist was predominantly intended to connect with and honor achievements of African Americans, particularly women. Her works about women such as this army ...

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Artist Birthday: Kenneth Noland

Thursday, April 10, 2025 | Karl Cole

Kenneth Noland was part of the Post Painterly Abstraction group of Color Field artists who sought to distance themselves from the gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. His epiphany moment came, ...

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Artist Birthday: Victor Vasarely

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | Karl Cole

The study of the optical effects possible in the manipulation of color and shape that began with the Neo-Impressionists Georges Seurat (1895–1891) and Paul Signac (1863–1935) in the late 1 ...

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Artist Birthday: Gino Severini

Monday, April 7, 2025 | Karl Cole

Gino Severini was a Futurist painter, writer, mosaicist and set designer. Severini took the Cubism-offshoot movement of Futurism into total abstraction. He exhausted his commitment to Futurism by the ...

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Artist Birthday: William H. Jackson

Friday, April 4, 2025 | Karl Cole

Jackson took photographs of Shoshone Falls numerous times from every conceivable angle. Like the other photographers who were early chroniclers of the Western territories, Jackson's photographs emphas ...

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Artist Birthday: Max Ernst

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 | Karl Cole

In 1925, Ernst pioneered the techniques of frottage (pencil rubbings on various textured surfaces or objects) and decalcomania (transferring paint from surface to another by pressing them together). H ...

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Artist Birthday: Alfred Bricher

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 | Karl Cole

In the 1870s, Bricher concentrated almost entirely on marine views up and down the New England coastline. This view of an unnamed bay sums up the combination of influences on his landscape painting. H ...

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Artist Birthday: Nicolas Roope

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | Karl Cole

As an artist, Nicolas Roope looks beyond industry rhetoric in favor of the truths of digital media and design. He has founded numerous influential tech and design companies. Roope only approached desi ...

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Artist Birthday: Nōguchi Shōhin

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 | Karl Cole

The painting style that evolved during the Southern Song Dynasty is considered by scholars to have been the classic example of Chinese monochromatic painting, particularly the "literati" sty ...

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