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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....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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:...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
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...
Made in a cabin
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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,...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
