This movement began in 1918 and gave way to Surrealism in the mid 1920s. It was more inspired by ideology and a defiance to the world order at that time. It was not only a visual movement but a literary … Continue reading
Homer painted his watercolors over a period of thirty years. Over a period of that time he lived to see the critics change from initial disparagement as raw and unfinished work to glorious praise as supreme achievements in American art. … Continue reading
In the early 1950s, Jackson Pollock became the “darling” of the art scene in New York with his Abstract Expressionism paintings. Some called him ‘Jack the Dripper’ because of his laying canvases on the floor and dripping paint onto them … Continue reading
Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection will conclude a national tour at he Museum of Fine Arts Houston. This is one of the world’s most spectacular private collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings—including … Continue reading
In the 1930s Thomas Hart Benton allied himself with the Regionalist movement and was very vocal in attacking the French abstract styles. Because of this, the opinion of most people think of him as a foe of the modernist painting. … Continue reading
Thomas Hart Benton’s depiction of American life were both admired and reviled. He was an artist whose images express his deepest feelings about love, family, and religion. There were those that described him as a brilliant artist, while at the … Continue reading
The young tewnty-one-year-old, Norman Percy Rockwell, art editor of a small nondescript boys’ magazine sat nervously in the office of Walter H. Dower, art editor of America’s dominant magazine at the time, The Saturday Evening Post. He’d come from New … Continue reading
I have been musing about this painting for some time (mostly in my mind…been procrastinating as far as working on it), but I decided to get started. If you’ve been following my blogs, you know I draw as realistically as … Continue reading
I was born into an artist family. My father was a respected artist, and my brother is an artist. I’ve always been sketching, had a pad and pencil within arms reach, and thought it was normal. Doesn’t everybody do that? … Continue reading
The term “Pop” first appeared in an article by the English art critic Lawrence Alloway in 1958. The collaboration of the group known as the Independent Group in London was creating the new interest in popular culture and the attempt … Continue reading
