March 2026 is Women's History Month
I have always maintained that there is no period in history anywhere in the world when women artists did not play a significant role in the world’s cultures. Up until about fifty years ago, howe ...
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African American History Month: James Van Der Zee (1886-1983 US)
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. ...
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Artist Birthday: Esteban Vicente (1903-2001 US, born Spain)
Esteban Vicente was part of the vibrant Abstract Expressionism scene in American art after World War II (1939-1945). His work reflects the type of biomorphic abstraction influenced by Surrealism seen ...
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Artist Birthday: Nathan Oliveira
The work of painter Nathan Oliveira is an interesting example of how the West Coast of the US nurtured its own forms of modernist experiments, including abstract figuratioin, that were quite apart ...
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Artist Birthday: Jayson Musson
Jayson Musson is an artist and art historian whose work is informed in unique ways by media and past art movements. ...
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A Novembergruppe Artist: Otto Dix
The November Group (Novembergruppe) was a German group of radical, leftist-leaning artists, architects and designers who organized during the Weimar Republic after World War I (1914-1918). The group, ...
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Artist Birthday: William Trost Richards
There is nothing more remarkably peace-inducing than a beautiful seascape painting. William Trost Richards was renowned for his beautiful coastal seascapes of the New England coast in all sorts of ...
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Artist Birthday: Matsuzaki Kenichi
Kenichi Matsuzaki exemplifies the richness of the contemporary ceramic art of Japan. His rough surface stoneware works pay tribute to the centuries old traditions of Japanese ceramics, one of the ...
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Artist Birthday: Le Corbusier
If any one architect’s body of work sums up the development of the International Style, it would be that of Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier filled the world with elegant, geometric and organic, l ...
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Artist Birthday: Marianne Brandt
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 ...
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