Artist Birthday: Kenneth Cobonpue
Kenneth Cobonpue is a contemporary designer of furniture and other household forms who is dedicated to the use of natural and recycled materials, the natural materials often coming from his native ...
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Artist Birthday: Sato Koichi
Sato’s poster work shows just how fully Japanese graphic designers have absorbed Western modernist aesthetics and combined them with traditional Japanese sensibilities. Japanese poster art d ...
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Artist Birthday: Édouard Vuillard
Édouard Vuillard was a pivotal artist in the transition from representational and abstract art. He was a member of the Nabis group of painters, "nabi" a Hebrew word for prophet, i ...
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Artist Birthday: Anders Ruhwald
Anders Ruhwald is an artist whose works blur the line between sculpture and design. One of his key interests is in the contrasting of textures of different materials. ...
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Artist Birthday: Matsuzaki Kenichi
Kenichi Matsuzaki exemplifies the richness of the contemporary ceramic art of Japan. His rough surface stoneware works pay tribute to the centuries old traditions of Japanese ceramics, one of the ...
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Artist Birthday: Marianne Brandt
Between 1919 and 1933, Germany was the site of one of the first art schools that emphasized contemporary modernist style in fine arts being applied to industrial arts. Marianne Brandt was a pioneer in ...
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Artist Birthday: Abram Games
A conservative dating of the so-called Golden Age of posters is the 1890s up to World War I (1914–1918). However, poster art continued to develop and flourish through the 1920s into World War II ...
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Artist Birthday: Alexander Calder
Alexander is an artist who is renowned in art history for his pioneering exploration of movement in sculpture, and abstraction. He also became renowned for making jewelry which was a combination of mo ...
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World Bicycle Day: Josef Müller-Brockmann
Starting in the late 1800s, posters began to be designed by fine artists, and what ensued what has been called the Poster Renaissance. After World War II, Swiss artists developed the International Typ ...
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Artist Birthday: Chunghi Choo
Chunghi Choo works in the ages-old tradition of gold or silver overlay on copper vessels. Like other far Eastern cultures, Korea had a great reverences for all art forms, including those considered &l ...
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