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 ...
Read ArticleI would use any excuse to show you the paintings of Augustus Vincent Tack, so I’ll go by his name. If you will pardon my pun, his paintings are very august. I have never been able to decide if I ...
Read ArticleI’m always a little sad when World Watercolor Month is over, because there are so many fantastic watercolors in the Davis collection that I want to show you! Lewis attended the Santa Fe School,& ...
Read ArticleThis beautiful piece of Cizhou ware dates from a period when tigers were not an endangered species. In 2010, the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit of 13 tiger-range countries in Russia established Interna ...
Read ArticleThe Realism movement in French art overturned Romanticism’s and Neoclassicism’s obsession with historical, religious, exotic, or mythological content. They instead looked to everyday life ...
Read ArticleI do not think I need to go into my sob story about how inept I am with watercolors. You know how bad I was? One of my instructors in grad school suggested I stick with oils because I was trying too h ...
Read ArticlePictorialism was a late 1800s-early 1900s style of photography which consciously imitated effects of painting. Who better to take a portrait of a Pictorialist artist than another, the “king&rdqu ...
Read ArticleJacques Soufflot was at the forefront of the Neoclassicism that swept European art and architecture at the end of the 1700s. Even though he died before the Revolution (1789), his Church of Sainte-Gene ...
Read ArticleLovis Corinth was an important transitional painter between the Romanticism and Symbolism movements of the late 1800s, and Expressionism of the early 1900s. ...
Read ArticleBeing an art historian, I have always considered that studying fashion history is a valuable body of knowledge to have because fashion reflects so often throughout history what is going on in the worl ...
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