Artist Birthday: Théodore Géricault
Théodore 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
Francesco 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
Moe 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
Suzanne 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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Hispanic Heritage Month: Mayapán and Yaxchilán
Hispanic Heritage Month celebration was initially celebrated for a week starting in 1968, and was expanded to a month in 1988. The great ancient civilizations of Mexico, Mesoamerica and South America ...
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Artist Birthday: Alvin Loving, Jr
Alvin Loving, Jr, was from the generation of African American artists who succeeded the Harlem Renaissance artists of the 1920s and 1930s. His generation struggled with questions of what subject m ...
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Artist Birthday: Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Since 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 ...
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Artist Birthday: Albert Oehlen
Albert Oehlen was part of a German artistic movement Junge Wilde (Young Wild ones) in the 1980s, the rebelled against the conformity of “modernism” in such movements as Minimalism, Con ...
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Ode to Autumn Pattern: Kawanishi Hide
One of the traditions of Japanese art through the ages has been documenting the seasons and months of the year in art. My particular favorites are representations of autumn (it’s only a week awa ...
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Artist Birthday: Richard Hunt
Born in Chicago, Richard Hunt became what is considered to have been the foremost abstract African American sculptor of the 20th century. ...
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