All posts tagged "artists"
Artist
Painting of the Week: Artemisia Gentileschi, Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria
March 24, 2019Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – c. 1656) was ‘one of the best Italian Baroque painters.’ Despite this, you...
Cinema
Representation vs Reality: Artists Portrayed in Midnight in Paris. Part I
January 3, 2019In Woody Allen’s 2011 Midnight in Paris, Owen Wilson plays a nostalgic screenwriter who somehow finds...
Middle Ages
Let It Be: The Annunciation In Medieval And Renaissance Christian Art
August 28, 2018Religious themes in art have prevailed throughout time. Whether it is Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, or Hinduism...
Sculpture
Laocoön: The Work of a Lifetime
August 27, 2018The subject The statue “Laocoon and his sons”, attributed to Greek sculptors Agesander, Athenodorus and Polydorus,...
20th century
Seven Haunting Town Paintings by Egon Schiele
July 2, 2018Austrian artist Egon Schiele is best known for his shamelessly erotic and frank representations of the human...
Painting of the Week
Painting of the Week – In the Studio by William Merritt Chase
July 1, 2018William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) was an important American artist and teacher. He also had a really...
20th century
Pictures On My Wall – The Art Of Polish Film Posters
May 29, 2018The emergence of the poster as a fresh, creative medium was a timely episode in an...
20th century
Free as a Bird – Max Ernst, Lop Lop and the Art of Chance
May 4, 2018The unconscious mind can serve as a revealing personal landscape. Feeding our dreams, shaping our personalities...
Artists' Stories
Ogunquit Artist Colony: The Painter’s Paradise
April 18, 2017The Abenaki people native to southern Maine knew of their homeland’s allure long before their European...
Women Artists
Six Female Artists of the Hudson River School
March 4, 2017The Hudson River School, a movement in American landscape painting, was America’s first independent artistic tradition. It was very...
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Painting of the Week: Salvador Dalí, Madonna of Port Lligat
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Art for Climate Change: Emily Carr, Odds and Ends
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Painting of the Week: Edvard Munch, Madonna
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Painting of the Week: Giotto, Ognissanti Madonna
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Painting of the Week: Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child with Two Angels
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