Artist Birthday: Minami Keiko
Minami and her husband moved to Paris in 1953. There Minami studied in the studio of Johnny Friedlaender (1912–1992), a pioneer in printmaking, particularly aquatint etching. While in Paris, she ...
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Artist Birthday: Carlo Carrà
Carrà's work reflects the use of the Impressionist palette of pure colors by the Pointillists, while his segmenting of the subject to indicate movement reflects a similar aesthetic concern to b ...
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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: Shimizu Seifu
The Chinese had a legend of the brave carp who swam against the current on the Yellow River to mate, and few were courageous enough to swim over the Dragon Gate waterfall. Those that did turned into d ...
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Artist Birthday: Alfredo Jaar
Infinite Cell is a combination of mirrors and a single prison cell reflected infinitely. It is an ode to two Italian artists who were imprisoned for their Communist beliefs by the Fascists before Worl ...
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Artist Birthday: Shinsui Itō
The shin hanga movement may have featured Western elements of perspective and more attention to sculptural form which Shinsui incoporated into his work, but he observed compositional aspects of tradit ...
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Black History Month: Herring, Tolliver, Middleton
I’m kicking off National Black History Month with artists I find fascinating. Their styles are extraordinary, and their names are probably not on the tips of every art historian’s tongue&m ...
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Artist Birthday: Alvar Aalto
Aalto designed all of the furnishings for his buildings. Using native birch, Aalto designed a number of chairs and stools made entirely of bent plywood and laminated wood. He also invented some of the ...
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Artist Birthday: Barnett Newman
Newman’s earliest paintings share the organic/biomorphic abstract forms of Rothko’s early works from the 1940s. By 1946, however, his forms began to be more abstract and shed their biomorp ...
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Artist Birthday: Claes Oldenburg
Oldenburg believed that art should literally be made of the ordinary world. His theory was that the reality of art would replace everyday reality. An important early work was The Street (1960). It con ...
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