A Weekly Beauty Attack
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
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: Jimoh Buraimoh (born 1943 Nigeria)
In the early 1900s, Western artists became fascinated by African art, and the potential to use it as a springboard to abstraction. To the present day, there are many African artists who have continue ...
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Spring is Almost Here...Really
I have not shown a Childe Hassam (1859-1935 US) since around 2012, and I am such a big fan of his painting, I could not resist celebrating the coming of spring (on 20 March) with this spring green of ...
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Artist Birthday: Asger Jorn (1914-1973 Denmark)
Asger Jorn was a leading painter of the European post-war CoBrA artists group. The CoBrA artists sought to distance European abstraction from its tradition of geometric forms, introducing more express ...
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Artist's Birthday: Gabriele Münter (1877-1962 Germany)
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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February 6, 2026 is National Wear Red Day: Art by Bronzino (1503-1572 Italy)
National Wear Red Day was established in 2004 by the American Heart Association as part of their “Go Red for Women “ campaign. The campaign was aimed at calling attention to the under-diag ...
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Artist Birthday: Esteban Vicente (1903-2001 US, born Spain)
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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Yay! Winter is Here!
We already had our first and second snowfalls and they created a lovely, white landscape all over. Autumn and winter are my favorite seasons of the year, so you know I won’t be moving to Flo ...
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Artist Birthday: Neil Jenney
Painter Neil Jenney has been part of what the Whitney Museum called in 1978 New Image Painting. It is neither Pop-oriented or abstract. Jenney’s work emphasizes vigorous, exciting brush work ...
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