Although the origins of this national day are obscure, National Bring Someone Flowers Day has been celebrated on 15 May to encourage the spur-of-the-moment gesture of giving flowers to someone dear. B ...
Read ArticleLike the American Scene works of Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Richard Estes’ Photorealistic views of American cities and towns are virtually devoid of a human presence outside of the evidence of t ...
Read ArticleThe paintings, sculptures and installations of Frank Stella have defied a single stylistic designation throughout his career. He among the many artists who established their mature artistic vision in ...
Read ArticleBeauty Attack Monday 11th of May is also the birthday of major Op Art artist Yaacov Agam (France, born 1928 Palestine [present day Israel]). Agam along with Julio le Parc (born 1928 Argentina) and Jes ...
Read ArticleThe Republic of Venice was established as a Duchy of the Byzantine Empire in 697, and was nominally its own country until Napoleon conquered Italy in 1797, not long after Pietro Longhi’s passing ...
Read ArticleNational Packaging Design Day was first observed in 2015. Design Packaging, a company known for crafting creative and functional packaging, established this day to honor the designers who bring produc ...
Read ArticleNational Beverage Day began around 1921 or 1922, originally known as National Carbonated Beverage Day. The day encourages people to grab their favorite drink and relax with friends. But, beverages are ...
Read ArticleThere were many Japanese-American artists who served in the US military during World War II (1939-1945) and afterwards became leaders in American modernism. Robert Kobayashi was a unique modernist who ...
Read ArticleThis month's "Gem" is also a 4 May Birthday! Whether Thomas Wilmer Dewing is labeled an Impressionist, Tonalist, or Aesthetics artist, his beautiful portraits, mostly of youngish women, ...
Read ArticleInternational Workers’ Day commemorates the 1886 Haymarket Riots in Chicago where workers were fired upon by police protesting for workers’ rights for an eight-hour work day after one prot ...
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