In 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 ArticleJohn La Farge is a fascinating and multi-faceted artist in late 1800s American art. Trained in painting, he branched out into mural painting, and particularly stained glass. In fact, La Farge received ...
Read ArticleSince the 1960s, Sylvia Plimack Mangold has developed a distinctive visual language that is grounded in figuration and transcends representation. Plimack Mangold has remained committed to an explo ...
Read ArticleArt history is full of examples of the cultural preoccupation with the use of written language within the visual arts field—from illustrated scrolls of ancient Egypt to the Pop Art obsession wit ...
Read ArticleMangold is very fond of the trees that were on her country property and they became frequent subjects of her paintings. She would definitely approve of National Love a Tree Day, which encourages every ...
Read ArticleJules Breton was a unique artist of the Realism movement in France in the mid-1800s. Having grown up with poor rural farmers in northern France, he understood their lives and labors. His paintings pre ...
Read ArticleGino 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 ...
Read ArticleCarlo Carrà's work reflects the use of the Impressionist palette of pure colors by the Pointillists, while his segmenting of the subject to indicate movement reflects a similar aesthetic concer ...
Read ArticleIn a recent conversation with another artist, the subject of immigration came up. She reminded me that the term “we are all immigrants,” when used in countries in the Western Hemisphere, i ...
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