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
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 | Karl ColeKenichi 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
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 | Karl ColePhotographer 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
Monday, October 13, 2025 | Karl ColeCharles 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
Friday, October 10, 2025 | Karl ColeThe 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
Thursday, October 9, 2025 | Karl ColeAt 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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Artist Birthday: Le Corbusier
Monday, October 6, 2025 | Karl ColeIf any one architect’s body of work sums up the development of the International Style, it would be that of Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier filled the world with elegant, geometric and organic, l ...
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Artist Birthday: Pierre Bonnard
Friday, October 3, 2025 | Karl ColeSurely one of the greatest colorists in French painting right up there with Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Pierre Bonnard’s intimate, highly personal vision of his world is expressed with gestur ...
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Artist Birthday: Shirley Jaffe
Thursday, October 2, 2025 | Karl ColeShirley Jaffe is a fascinating American abstractionist who briefly flirted with Abstract Expressionism, early on (1950s) believed it had become formulaic, and pioneered her own unique abstract vis ...
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Artist Birthday: Marianne Brandt
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 | Karl ColeBetween 1919 and 1933, Germany was the site of one of the first art schools that emphasized contemporary modernist style in fine arts being applied to industrial arts. Marianne Brandt was a pioneer in ...
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Óscar Muñoz
Monday, September 29, 2025 | Karl ColeHispanic Heritage Month celebration was initially celebrated for a week starting in 1968, and was expanded to a month in 1988. The great artistic heritage of Mexico, Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and So ...
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National Coffee Day: Elizabeth Murray
Monday, September 29, 2025 | Karl ColeCups of coffee appeared frequently in Elizabeth Murray's paintings. National Coffee Day was first celebrated in about 2005, but did not take off as a holiday until September 29, 2009. That&rs ...
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Artist Birthday: Théodore Géricault
Friday, September 26, 2025 | Karl ColeThéodore Géricault was a leading proponent of Romanticism, based on his abiding appreciation of Baroque painting. He also rejected the strict canons of Neoclassicism. ...
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Artist Birthday: Francesco Borromini
Thursday, September 25, 2025 | Karl ColeFrancesco Borromini was one of a trio of Italian architects (along with Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669) and Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)) who helped define the Italian Baroque style in architectu ...
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Artist Birthday: Moe Brooker
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 | Karl ColeMoe Brooker was one of several African American artists who championed a spiritual type of abstraction as an important contribution to contemporary African American and American art. ...
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Artist Birthday: Suzanne Valadon
Tuesday, September 23, 2025 | Karl ColeSuzanne Valadon was a popular model for Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. She was inspired by their work to teach herself drawing an painting and established herself as a successful pa ...
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