Autumn is Certainly Here
Raise your hand if autumn is your favorite season. My hand is raised. There are so many different interpretations of this season in art history. Rather than show trees changing color, I’m showin ...
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Artist Birthday: Jonas Lie (1880-1940 US, born Norway)
Jonas Lie was a prominent poster artist during the American Poster “Renaissance” in the early 1900s. He is best known for his patriotic paintings of the American effort in World Wars I (19 ...
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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: Alvin Loving, Jr
Alvin Loving, Jr, was from the generation of African American artists who succeeded the Harlem Renaissance artists of the 1920s and 1930s. His generation struggled with questions of what subject m ...
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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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National Skilled Trades Day: Jacob Lawrence
National Skilled Trades Day was established in 2019 by the National Day Calendar and City Machine Technologies, Inc. Skilled workers are employed in a variety of fields and positions that can be perso ...
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National Tweed Day: Otto Baumberger
This PKZ (department store) poster typifies the "object poster" genre. The object to be marketed is presented in extreme close-up, either in photo-realistic or almost abstract fashion. Text ...
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Compassion in Art: Honoré Daumier and John Biggers
A couple of mornings ago, a homeless person was in the parking lot of our building yelling his lungs out to get attention at 6:45 am. I feel bad for these folks who have nowhere to land during the day ...
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Vacation: Leisure Time in Art
Since vacation is on everyone’s mind now that summer is in full swing, let’s just look at works of art that spout vacation, special day off, or festival. And, yes, this can be an art histo ...
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National Jewish American Heritage Month: Helen Frankenthaler
As an art historian who grew up in the age of blossoming feminist art movements, one of my major disappointments has always been the significant women artists of previous movements who were not given ...
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