Artist Birthday: Christopher Wilmarth (1943-1987 US)
Christopher Wilmarth, in his tragically short life, was a Minimalist sculptor who created over 150 sculptures, most of them made of glass and steel. ...
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Artist Birthday: Violet Oakley (1874-1961 US)
Violet Oakley is one of the standout women artists of the American Renaissance. She can truly be called a “Renaissance Woman,” being accomplished in many different media, and working as a ...
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Artist Birthday: Amanda Means (born 1950 US)
Just as artists in many different media have, in the 21st century, discovered even more novel ways to use these media in personal expression, so too have photographers, who many decades ago aban ...
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June Drawing by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890 France)
As an art historian, I tend to get a little giddy about details of works of art to which most people would not pay attention. Just as I got goosebumps when I saw the chisel marks in Michelangelo's (14 ...
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Artist Birthday: Jean Follett (1917-1991 US)
Like the Abstract Expressionists, many other American artists were inspired by European modernist movements that occurred before World War II. Jean Follett was an early abstractionist who was influenc ...
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National Great Outdoors Month: Art by Cheng Tsung Feng (born 1987 Taiwan)
National Great Outdoors Month began as National Great Outdoors Week in 1998 in the US. In 2019 the US Senate created National Great Outdoors Month for June, to encourage people to enjoy the recreation ...
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Artist Birthday: Watanabe Kunio (born 1967 Japan)
Long before ceramic arts were recognized as fine art in the West, the art form was revered as a priceless national treasure in Japan. Contemporary artists like Kunio Watanabe continue to build on the ...
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Artist Birthday: Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448/1449-1494 Italy)
The Renaissance in 1400s Italy was a restatement of the styles of ancient Greece and Rome, a symptom of a more humanistic view of Christian religious figures in Renaissance painting. Many of the leadi ...
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Gem of the Month June: Art by Norman Foster (born 1935 Britain)
June 2 celebrates our Gem of the Month in London, and it also happens to be the birthday of the architect, Norman Foster. Foster’s designs greatly changed the skyline of London in the “mod ...
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National Older Americans Month: Art by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828 US)
Older Americans Month was started in 1963 by President Kennedy as “Senior Citizens Month” to celebrate the achievements of older Americans, while emphasizing healthy living and activity ch ...
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