The term “Harlem Renaissance” indicates the period between ca. 1918 and 1930 when the Harlem neighborhood of New York experienced a flourishing of African American art, music, and culture. ...
Read ArticleMax Beckmann was a German Expressionist who, before World War I (1914-1918) painted in an academic realist style. After experiencing the horrors of that war, his paintings reflected his disgust for th ...
Read ArticleMariko Mori is an internationally acclaimed artist whose practice explores universal questions at the intersection of life, death, reality, and technology. She is known for her photographs and videos ...
Read ArticleIn the history of the development of the art form of photography, few individuals have contributed more innovative ideas than William Henry Fox Talbot. He perfect many of the optical and chemical aspe ...
Read ArticleThe origins of this recognition day is uncertain, but Umbrella Day has been celebrated since 2004. The origins of the contemporary, waterproof umbrella date to the 1700s in France, while umbrellas as ...
Read ArticleThe history of African American artists goes back to the earliest days of the US. There are numerous art forms that can trace their lineage back to the African ancestors of African Americans, who carr ...
Read ArticleNational Wear Red Day was established in 2004 by the American Heart Association as part of their “Go Red for Women “ campaign. The campaign was aimed at calling attention to the under-diag ...
Read ArticleThe art movement called Cubism -- which incorporated the element of time -- was developed by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963) around 1908. While Picasso and Braque moved on to ...
Read ArticleLike Mesoamerica, the central Andes Mountains in South America – primarily Bolivia and Peru – developed complex hierarchical societies with rich and varied artistic traditions. Unlike the ...
Read ArticleHealthcare, medicine costs, insurance, etc. have been a hot topic for a long time, and a lot of the problems have consistently not changed for the better. Another thing about healthcare that has not c ...
Read ArticleLike most Visionary artists, Ramírez’s works are combinations of fantasy, personal visions, and a obvious joy in either nature or our mutual humanity. In his highly detailed drawings, he ...
Read ArticleThe Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay (1685-1732) with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752). It is the only example of the once thrivin ...
Read ArticleAlice Neel was a great American portraitist. Her portraits were insightfully realistic, although not to the point of Photorealism, for her works tended to emphasize rich color. The most enduring aspec ...
Read ArticleAfter producing paintings that were copies of postcard views, Georges Mathieu went through what he called his "limbo" period (1944-1946), a time when he developed a completely personal new p ...
Read ArticleHealthcare, medicine costs, insurance, etc. have been a hot topic for a long time, and a lot of the problems have consistently not changed for the better. Another thing about healthcare that has not c ...
Read ArticleAlthough his realist paintings never approached the point of pure Impressionism, Manet’s work was a great influence on the burgeoning Impressionist artists. He definitely experimented with the e ...
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