Artist Birthday: Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915 Japan)
Kiyochika Kobayashi was undoubtedly one of the late, great masters of the Ukiyo-e style in the late 1800s Japan. He brilliantly blended tradition with Western influences. ...
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Artist Birthday: Robert Arneson (1930-1992 US)
Robert Arneson was part of the West Coast version of the Pop Art scene. He was also part of the studio pottery movement, which helped raise the profile of ceramics to the level of fine art. ...
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September Contemplated with Claude Monet (1840-1926 France)
You might know I would use any excuse to show a Monet. This may be one Monet with which you are not familiar, but it is a wonderful prefiguration of his rapidly developing Impressionist style and pale ...
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Artist Birthday: Rudolf Belling (1886-1972 Germany)
Rudolf Belling is considered the outstanding example of modernism applied to classic sculpture subjects. He was influenced by Cubism, Neo-Plasticism, Constructivism, and De Stijl. ...
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Artist Birthday: Doug LaFortune (born 1953, Coast Salish First Nations, Bellingham, WA)
Like the many other indigenous cultures of the US, the Coast Salish and other Northwest Coast cultures possess a rich, multifaceted artistic culture. Northwest Coast indigenous artists such as sculpto ...
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Late Summer Color: Theodore Robinson (1852-1896 US)
This is certainly one of the most French-Impression-like Theodore Robinson paintings that I can show you. He certainly mastered Monet’s “broken color” technique. No wonder he’s ...
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Artist Birthday: Eero Saarinen (1910-1962 US, born Finland)
Having flown into Dulles Airport two times in my life, once at 9 years old, and once in my 30s, I can honestly say it is one of the most stunningly beautiful airports I’ve ever traveled through. ...
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Artist Birthday: Suh Do-Ho (born 1962 South Korea)
The outstanding history of Korean art continues to the present day with a contemporary art scene that is one of the most vital in the current art world. Suh Do-Ho is an amazing artist whose works conf ...
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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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Labors of the Month, August: Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569 Flanders)
Paintings or manuscript illustrations of the “labors of the months” is an art subject that is as old as the hills, both Western and non-Western art. These cycles were meant to remind peopl ...
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