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Colorful Art Writers: 10 of the Best Graffiti ArtistsHumans have been expressing themselves by scrawling on walls since the earliest people lived in caves. But it wasn't until the 1970s that we started taking our messages to the walls, trains and sidewalks of urban environments around the world.
Models, muses, lovers: Bringing art history to the screenLined with handsome five-storey townhouses built by refugee Huguenot weavers, the road had been closed to traffic, and three young women in bonnets and bustles were sitting sunning themselves on the kerbside, in a composition straight out of a Victorian photograph.
Art historians claim Van Gogh's ear 'cut off by Gauguin'"...119 years after his death, the tortured post-Impressionist's bloody ear is at the centre of a new controversy, after two historians suggested that the painter did not hack off his own lobe but was attacked by his friend, the French artist Paul Gauguin."
The promised landUnknown to most art historians, there exists a body of psychological scholarship that is much more potent in addressing cross-cultural tastes in landscape than hypotheses about enculturation.
Andrew Wyeth, Painter, Dies at 91 By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN Published: January 16, 2009 Andrew Wyeth, one of the most popular and also most lambasted artists in the history of American art, a reclusive linchpin in a colorful family dynasty of artists whose precise realist views of hardscrabble rural life became ic …
An Old Hoax RevisitedThings did not go as well as the painter Benjamin West hoped when he unveiled "Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes" at the Royal Academy exhibition on April 28, 1797.
Michael Baxandall, 74, Influential Art Historian, Dies Michael Baxandall, whose analysis of the social forces shaping works of art and the way they were seen helped pave the way for the influential movement known as the new art history, died on Aug. 12 in London. He was 74.
Picasso, Matisse, Richardson, and 1931-32Back in February I posted about how Picasso biographer John Richardson's perpetual near-total exclusion of all things Matisse from his Picasso books is a bit grating.
Jacob Eichholtz was born November 2, 1776, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he spent much of his life. Eichholtz began painting portraits in profile as early as 1805.
François Boucher b. 1703 Paris, d. 1770 Paris painter; designer French My calendar art for Feb. 14 is Boucher's "The Love Letter". Looking at this piece, what's the story behind this letter? The NGA site also calls this "The Billet-Doux".
Norman Rockwell and Civil RightsFifty years after he first started doing work for the magazine, Norman Rockwell was tired of doing the same sweet views of America for the Saturday Evening Post in the early 1960s.
The Spanish baroque painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was born on January 16, 1618 in Seville. Murillo spent his childhood in Fuente de Cantos, where he showed a talent for painting at an early age….
Eugène Boudin Also known as Eugene-Louis Boudin French, 1824 - 1898
Art History Today: The Shipwreck by Claude Joseph VernetClaude Joseph Vernet, The Shipwreck, 1772,
Art History Today: Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)Julia Margaret Cameron, The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty, June 1866, albumen print from collodion negative, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New Century Fund 1997.97.1
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres French, 1780 - 1867 Madame Moitessier, 1851 oil on canvas, 147 x 100 cm (57 3/4 x 39 3/8 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1946.7.18 Style: Neoclassicism Genre: Portrait
Probably English or Scandinavian 13th Century English 13th Century English Scandinavian 13th Century Scandinavian Aquamanile in the Form of a Horseman, 13th century bronze, 28.5 x 35.5 x 15.3 cm (11 3/16 x 14 x 6 in.) Widener Collection 1942.9.280 From the Medieval Meta …
Gerard ter Borch II The Suitor's Visit, c. 1658 oil on canvas, 80 x 75 cm (31 1/2 x 29 9/16); framed: 110.8 x 106 x 12.7 cm (43 5/8 x 41 3/4 x 5) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Drawn to a visceral urgeWHAT IS ART? The answer depends on who you ask. "There is really no such thing", writes E. H. Gombrich in his classic text The Story of Art, before launching into a 600-page-plus treatise on that supposedly non-existent subject.
My calendar art for January 17 is The Lighthouse at Honfluer by Georges Seurat. You can see it in person at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. My favorite painting of his is A Sunday on La Grande Jatte at the Art Institute in Chicago.
Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, served and wounded in WWI, Pippin did not pursue painting in earnest until 1930 when he painted an anti-war piece, "End of the War: Starting Home". His folk art paintings of African-American life made him famous.
I wanted to be able to publish a few images, so decided to do this as an article today rather than seed from one of the many good web sites on art and art history.
Art History Today: Arshile Gorky (1904-1948). Organization, 1933-36 Arshile Gorky (1904-1948). Organization, 1933-36. Oil on canvas 49 3/4 x 60 in. (126.4 x 152.4 cm). National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund 1979.13.3 © 2006 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Art History Today: Edward Degas: The Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen The Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen (1880-1881) is the only sculpture Degas ever exhibited in public.
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