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Heat Equals Warm Colors: Art by Karel Appel (1921-2006 Netherlands)

Monday, July 6, 2026 | Karl Cole

What with the warm weather we experienced recently, the steaminess put me in mind of how works of art can reflect warmth or coolness, or in terms of the latest weather: Heat. Just look at this fiery l ...

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A Weekly Beauty Attack

Monday, May 11, 2026 | Karl Cole

Beauty Attack Monday 11th of May is also the birthday of major Op Art artist Yaacov Agam (France, born 1928 Palestine [present day Israel]). Agam along with Julio le Parc (born 1928 Argentina) and Jes ...

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Spring Impression by a Truly Lyrical Artist

Monday, April 6, 2026 | Karl Cole

Every so often I try to explore artists whose names have never been – as the saying goes – a “household word.” That is unfortunate, because many relatively lesser well known ar ...

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Artist Birthday: Jules Olitski

Friday, March 27, 2026 | Karl Cole

Jules Olitski was a Ukrainian-born American artist who was instrumental in developing the Color Field painting style. Color Field, which involved staining canvas rather than using brushes, was the ant ...

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Artist Birthday for 12 March: Anish Kapoor

Thursday, March 12, 2026 | Karl Cole

Although in the early 1980s Kapoor’s work was consciously absorbing aspects of Indian culture, in the late 1980s into the 1990s he began to formulate an abstract visual language that transcends ...

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Artist Birthday: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919 France)

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | Karl Cole

Impressionism, a painting movement that arose from the earlier Realism movement, was one of the first revolutions in the history of development of painting, wherein artists did not rely solely on comm ...

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Artist's Birthday: Gabriele Münter (1877-1962 Germany)

Thursday, February 19, 2026 | Karl Cole

Like the American modernist movement Abstract Expressionism, German Expressionism was dominated by male artists with strong personalities. But there were many significant women Expressionists in Germa ...

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Artist Birthday: Esteban Vicente (1903-2001 US, born Spain)

Wednesday, January 21, 2026 | Karl Cole

Esteban Vicente was part of the vibrant Abstract Expressionism scene in American art after World War II (1939-1945). His work reflects the type of biomorphic abstraction influenced by Surrealism seen ...

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Beauty Attack = Gorgeous Gauguin

Monday, January 5, 2026 | Karl Cole

If you are as taken with the color of the most prominently written about Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) paintings, then you will simply drool over this early still life. The background colors are particular ...

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Artist Birthday: Pierre Bonnard

Friday, October 3, 2025 | Karl Cole

Surely one of the greatest colorists in French painting right up there with Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Pierre Bonnard’s intimate, highly personal vision of his world is expressed with gestur ...

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