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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Rococo Spring Fashion on Goya's Birthday
The 30th of March is the birthday of Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). Instead of presenting one of his darker subjects, I opted for a fresh spring Rococo fashion statement, from ...
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Artist Birthday: Mori Mariko (born 1967 Japan)
Mariko Mori is an internationally acclaimed artist whose practice explores universal questions at the intersection of life, death, reality, and technology. She is known for her photographs and videos ...
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Artist Birthday: Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt, along with Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) was a leading Austrian modernist at the turn of the 1900s. Although noted as a society portrait painter in an Art Nouveau/Byzantine mosaic li ...
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Artist Birthday: George Elmer Browne
George Elmer Browne was an American painter, one of the many who, in the late 1800s, studied painting in Paris at the height of the Impressionist period. His West End School of Art in Provincetown, Ma ...
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Artist Birthday: Donald Sultan
Donald Sultan is part of the late 1900s New Image art phenomenon. In a break with Minimalism, Sultan wanted his figuration to present a monumental simplicity and directness of abstract art, while main ...
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Artist Birthday: Antonio Frasconi
Antonio Frasconi is an internationally known woodcut artist. He has published hundreds of prints and illustrated many books. Although much of his work has registered political protest, his subjects ra ...
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Summer Landscape for Fall: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
A friend of mine just framed a painting that I did en plein air (out of doors) as a birthday present. It inspired me to present to you a work that you may not have seen by one of my favorite Impr ...
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Contemporary Colorist: Sheila Isham
Since most autumn foliage colors are waning, I thought I’d provide you with some eye candy of color in the form of a gorgeous painting, and an artist I just recently learned about. I’ve be ...
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