Artist Birthday: John Koch (1909-1978 US)
Since the 1500s, genre paintings – scenes of everyday life – have become a standard part of fine art’s repertoire of subject matter. Genre painting is fascinating not just because it ...
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Artist Birthday: Dwight Tryon (1849-1925 US)
The Tonalism movement in painting was a late 1800s style which approximated some of the goals of Impressionism, but was more about filmy form and atmospheric precision. Dwight Tryon’s misty land ...
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Romance Awareness Month: Art by Pieter Brueghel, the Younger (1564-1637/1638 Flanders)
Genre and landscape became stand alone subject matter in the late Renaissance (ca. 1520-1600) and blossomed fully during the Baroque period (1600-1750). Pieter Brueghel, the Younger, emulated his famo ...
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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: 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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This day in History: Premier of "The Beggar's Opera" (1728)
The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay (1685-1732) with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752). It is the only example of the once thrivin ...
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Artist Birthday: Santiago Cárdenas
The countries of Central and South America experienced a Renaissance of modernism in art, due in part to influences these artists derived from Europe and the United States, and more importantly, becau ...
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Art for National Fig Week: Luis Meléndez
November 1-7 is National Fig Week, and we celebrate with Baroque art! Just as very different painting styles co-existed in late Baroque France – the Rococo which catered to the nobility, and ...
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Artist Birthday: Otto Müller
Otto Müller was a German Expressionist artist, member of the artists’ group Die Brücke, and best known for his brilliant palette and scenes of bathers. His type of Expressionism le ...
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Canadian Modernist Paul-Émile Borduas
In the past few years, I have become very fond of Canadian modernism, particularly from the early to mid-1900s. Paul-Émile Borduas was a pivotal figure in Canadian art. He bridged modernist ten ...
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