Between 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 ...
Read ArticleHispanic 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 ...
Read ArticleCups 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 ...
Read ArticleThéodore Géricault was a leading proponent of Romanticism, based on his abiding appreciation of Baroque painting. He also rejected the strict canons of Neoclassicism. ...
Read ArticleFrancesco 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 ...
Read ArticleMoe 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. ...
Read ArticleSuzanne 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 ...
Read ArticleHispanic 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 ...
Read ArticleAlvin 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 ...
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 ...
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