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Art and Politics Part. 3 Art Speaks in Times of War
“I Stand With You Ukraine” by UK street artist My Dog Sighs, painted in Northcote Lane in Cardiff. | Source: boredpanda.com
Art and Politics Part. 3: Art Speaks in Times of War
From a mural in Paris of a young girl waving a Ukrainian flag while crushing war tanks beneath her feet to a 13-by-13-meter painting of a white dove holding an olive branch in Ukraine’s national colors on a building façade in Frankfurt, artists all over the globe are showing solidarity with Ukraine through powerful art.…
Food Art Obsession – A Feast for Our Eyes
Jan Davidsz. de Heem “Still life with a lobster, peaches, Wanli dishes holding an orange, grapes, melons, plums, figs, shrimp, tazza, Venetian glass, casket, and rummer of wine, all on a table” (circa 1650), oil on canvas, private collection. | Source: commons.wikimedia.org
Food Art Obsession – A Feast for Our Eyes
The almost ritualistic behavior of capturing images of photogenic food and sharing with social connections didn’t begin with the digital age. Well before the “camera eats first” phenomenon, depictions of food were the main theme for artwork. Recalling the primitive roots of food art, the subgenre is anything but bitesize, but rather, a banquet that…
Celebrating the Legacy of Black Artists in Black History Month 2022
Nicole Dixon “The Snake and the Raffia Tree” (2018), acrylic, charcoal, watercolor, gold leaf | Source: theblackwomanisgod.com
Celebrating the Legacy of Black Artists in Black History Month 2022
The Black Woman is God (TBWIG) exhibition, which showcases Black women visual artists, is back in person at the SOMArts Cultural Center. Exhibits like this one showed their flexibility last year, along with many other venues that had to respond to the disruption brought on by the global pandemic. But while it was forced into…
Hitler and the Degenerate Art
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Hitler and the Degenerate ArtArt, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. - Victor Pinchuk Perhaps not many are aware that Adolf Hitler was an artist. He started painting at a young age and created over one hundred (some estimate anywhere between 400 and 600) works of art throughout his life, including during World War I in…
The Benefits of Virtual Museums
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The Benefits of Virtual MuseumsThroughout the years, humanity has often turned to the arts in times of adversity. It seems that when the world around us crumbles and ceases to make sense, we turn inward and seek a new meaning to events and objects surrounding us. In these times of introspection, we tend to appreciate and find a deeper…
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Stories of Bathers in Art – Art and Nude Series: Part.3There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body. - Robert Henri While many associate the naked body and exposure of flesh with erotica, the depiction of nude bathers in art shows us that the naked human form can be portrayed without…
The Secrets of the Art Industry
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The Secrets of the Art IndustryThe common understanding is that museums are a place of cultural and historical importance where philanthropic ideas of curatorship, education, and conservation are preserved and encouraged for the benefits of greater public. But increasingly, museums are also being used as a tool to serve the agenda of their super-wealthy patrons, their board members. It would…
Tamara de Lempicka: Baroness with a Brush
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Tamara de Lempicka: Baroness with a BrushKnown for her many iconic and sensual portraits of liberated women of the 1920s and '30s, Polish Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka made waves of excitement during the recent Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale in London in February this year. One of her paintings, known as Portrait de Marjorie Ferry (1932), set…
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Who Was Ruth Kligman?On the night of August 11, 1956, 44-year-old Jackson Pollock drove his Oldsmobile 88 convertible while under the influence of alcohol with two passengers onboard, Edith Metzger and Ruth Kligman. “Speeding wildly” through the roads in East Hampton, New York, Pollock would lose control of his car on a curve on Fireplace Road, flipping it…