Artist Birthday: Betye Saar
The unique assemblages of Betye Saar helped elevate the medium to fine art status when she began producing them in the late 1960s. Her works explore her African American identity, her African heritage ...
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Artist Birthday: Alexander Calder
Alexander is an artist who is renowned in art history for his pioneering exploration of movement in sculpture, and abstraction. He also became renowned for making jewelry which was a combination of mo ...
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World Watercolor Month: Ann Hall
I have mentioned my trepidation about using watercolors before, and how I find it to be a very unforgiving medium. The fact that there have been and still are such brilliant watercolor artists justifi ...
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Artist Birthday: Ludwig Sander
Ludwig Sander was a member of the New York School that established the United States as a center for modernist experiment in art. He was an early practitioner of Color Field painting which he stuck wi ...
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Artist Birthday: Joshua Reynolds
Joshua Reynolds was part of the important first generation of native British artists who emerged after the Baroque period (1600–1750) that was marked by a dominance by foreign—mostly Flemi ...
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Arctic Ice Day: Frederic Church
Frederic Church, the Hudson River School painter became fascinated with the nature of the Arctic in the 1860s when there began to develop many expeditions from both European and American explorers to ...
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Artist Birthday: Michael Graves
Michael Graves was a leading proponent of revival of ornament and classical forms in architecture that was a key to the Postmodernism movement in architecture and design. Out the window was the Intern ...
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Artist Birthday: Edmonia Lewis
Edmonia Lewis was a pioneering African American and woman artist, at a time when it was difficult for either to get an arts education. Lewis skillfully learned the style that was dear to American patr ...
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Artist Birthday: Barbara Chase-Riboud
The tradition of African American women sculptors goes all the way back to the 1800s with Edmonia Lewis (1844–1907), continues through the Harlem Renaissance in the person of Augusta Savage (189 ...
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A Consummate Realist: Joseph Raffael
Photorealism was a style that evolved during the 1960s in reaction to the prevalence of total abstraction seen in Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, and Minimalism—movements that dominated tha ...
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