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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
