Artist Birthday: Nōguchi Shōhin
The painting style that evolved during the Southern Song Dynasty is considered by scholars to have been the classic example of Chinese monochromatic painting, particularly the "literati" sty ...
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Black History Month: Cey Adams
Throughout the history of the United States, African American artists have been pioneers in many artistic movement. Since the Harlem Renaissance (ca. 1920s–1930s), many Black American ...
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This Day in (Art) History: Abdication of King Louis-Phillipe of France
Louis Phillipe (1773–1850) was king of France from 1830–1848, until he was deposed by a revolution of the working classes which rejected his conservatism. Although theoretically a constitu ...
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This Day in (art) History: Dedication of the Washington Monument
Mills based his design on the elegant simplicity of the rectangular ancient Egyptian obelisks, with a circular base which was to be the colonnaded pavilion. Such obelisks had served similar functions, ...
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Artist Birthday: Eduardo MacEntyre
The complex linear patterns in MacEntyre's Generative Paintings were reminiscent of the nautilus designs of Leonardo Fibonacci (1175–1250), an Italian mathematician, whose designs were based on ...
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Black History Month: Ali and Chase-Riboud
The Curator’s Corner celebration of Black History Month continues with two contemporary artists whose personal visions are broadly different, but fascinating nonetheless—Laylah Ali and Bar ...
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Artist Birthday: Jasper Cropsey
This large-scale painting was executed from memory while Cropsey was in London. It is sometimes considered one of the last great works of a school of painting that fell into decline after the Civil Wa ...
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Artist Birthday: Minami Keiko
Keiko Minami was a sōsaku hanga (creative print) artist, a group of printmakers (primarily woodcut) who created the drawing, carved the woodblock, and printed the image, as opposed to the traditional ...
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Black History Month: Woodruff, Lewis, Jennings
My celebration of Black History Month continues with three more artists who are very important in the history of art—Hale Woodruff, Norman Lewis, and Wilmer Jennings. They represent the divergen ...
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Artist Birthday: Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar is an installation artist whose work is conceptual and documents injustice, genocide, ongoing famine, and other major afflictions to humanity in many parts of the world. ...
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