Theodore Carter

Author

Theodore Carter is the author of several books including "Stealing The Scream" and "Frida Sex Dreams and Other Unnerving Disruptions". You can see his art out in the streets of Washington, DC, and on his website: https://theodorecarter.com.

Articles by Theodore

Women Artists

5 Frida Kahlo Self-Portraits You Need to See

Frida Kahlo’s modern persona evokes images of beautiful flowers, elaborate dresses, and the artist’s famous unibrow. However, her work is much...

Theodore Carter 3 July 2025

Pop art

Masterpiece Story: Once Upon a Time by Keith Haring

Keith Haring’s Once Upon a Time mural is a 4-walled orgiastic display of penises, eager orifices, splashing ejaculate, and extended tongues tangled...

Theodore Carter 15 June 2025

Surrealism

Queen of Chicago: American Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie

Gertrude Abercrombie’s barren landscapes, cats, female figures in long dresses, and other repeated imagery built a complex body of haunting...

Theodore Carter 5 June 2025

North American Art

Chiura Obata: Alien Enemy and Great American Painter

Chiura Obata applied Japanese training and technique to picturesque California landscapes with stunning results. Interned during World War II because...

Theodore Carter 19 May 2025

European Art

Francisco Goya in 10 Paintings

Francisco Goya’s work includes the abundant Rococo style, formal portraiture, anti-war etchings, religious paintings, and the dark and surreal.

Theodore Carter 17 April 2025

Quiz

QUIZ: How Well Do You Know Washington, DC’s Art?

Theodore Carter 12 April 2025

Realism

5 Famous Painters of American Realism

At the end of the 19th century in the United States, the romance of the Hudson River School gave way to artists determined to show the ordinary...

Theodore Carter 10 April 2025

Sport

The Violent Beauty of George Bellows’ Boxing Paintings

George Bellows’ boxing paintings capture the dynamic action of a vicious sport, its blood-thirsty fans, and the grace and beauty of its athletes. A...

Theodore Carter 21 February 2025

Painting

Masterpiece Story: Niagara by Frederic Edwin Church

At a time when American newspapers flourished and new dailies popped up like weeds, Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900) invited reporters to his...

Theodore Carter 27 January 2025