Did you ever look at a work of art and something in the work evokes vivid feelings about an event in your own life, or just a general feeling you get when you visit a certain country or place? Well, m ...
Read ArticleNational Hamburger day – origin unknown – has been celebrated since 2010 as a tribute to the beginning of summer. Who better to make fine art out of a hamburger than Pop artist Claes Olden ...
Read ArticleOne artist who undoubtedly symbolizes the Pop Art movement’s glorification of American culture by far the most in his subjects of everyday foods was Claes Oldenburg. His first installation/perfo ...
Read ArticleI will wrap up Jewish American Heritage Month with a great artist who has transcended the label “Pop Art” in brilliant ways in his art. Jim Dine emerged from the generation of American Pop ...
Read ArticleMarisol Escobar was one of the few women artists’ names associated with Pop Art. While she was renowned for her sculptures of celebrities and politicians, her anonymous figure sculptures contain ...
Read ArticleClaes 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). ...
Read ArticleWe lost a truly unique artist this past December 25th. I associate Wayne Thiebaud more with New Realism of the 1960s, but he has been inexorably linked to Pop Art in many Western art history texts. Re ...
Read ArticleLet’s consider modern classicism in the United States for today’s Rethinking Classicism post. Andy Warhol created some of the most recognizable, iconic artworks of the mid-1900s Pop Art mo ...
Read ArticleThe impression a reader gets from some surveys of art history, unfortunately, is that one artistic movement ends and another picks up in a totally different direction. We know this is not true when we ...
Read ArticleThe Davis Art Gallery just opened a show called All About Wood. In that spirit, I’m showing you one of my favorite wood pieces. Several years ago at a Christmas party we played an art histo ...
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