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 		Artist Gregg Simpson is Driven to Abstraction
Gregg Simpson's career as a painter spans over four decades and includes work in a variety of genres including surrealism, abstraction, collage, and landscape.
Meanings in Australian Aboriginal Art
Australian Aboriginal art encompasses two major regional styles, both united by certain themes and meanings harkening back to ancient ancestral myths.
Artist Ginny H. Boyd
Ginny Boyd taught art. After a career teaching, she continues to draw what she dreams
Aboriginal Painting
Aboriginal painting, sometimes described as dot painting or desert painting, is a thriving artform rooted in thousands of years of Australia's indigenous culture.
The Glasgow School of Art Centenary
The Mackintosh Building, arguably the best working art school space ever made, is now refurbished with a Mackintosh archive, chair museum and improved shopping facilities
The Pre-Raphaelites
The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of English painters poets and critics founded in 1848. They championed for a more traditional "natural" way of painting.
Art Book Review – Mexican Muralists
Students of Mexican and Latin-American art will find beautiful reproductions and informative essays in this 1993 compendium.
Gericault & The Raft of the "Medusa"
Gericault a French Neo-Baroque painter is most known for this dramatic painting based on actual events.
A Gallery of Nazi Theft
An evil man wanted to make a dream come true, to build a temple for his own art. To do this he had to destroy the dream-world that had turned him down.
ROW: Reflections on Water Forum & Discussion
Touchstones Museum unites Robert Sanford, Julie Castonguay & Eileen Delehanty Pearkes for a Public Forum & Expert Panel on Water Issues in the Columbia Basin, BC.
Artist Henri Patrice Dillon
Active from the late 1870s until his death in 1909, Dillon depicted studio, street, café and theater scenes in the medium of which he was a master: lithography.
Elizabeth Siddal – Pre-Raphaelite Model and Muse
Though she was a poet and artist in her own right, Lizzie Siddal is best known as the idealized model of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
The Modern History of Art in Afghanistan
The past seven years have seen tremendous growth in fine art paintings being produced by Afghan master artists.
Judy Chicago and The Dinner Party
Chicago's 'The Dinner Party' is one of the most important works of art in terms of feminist art history and a controversial piece of the 20th century American Art.
Future Unveiled by French Artist Suzanne Valadon
Feminist art history reveals how avant-garde, whose objective was to challenge the academic canon, applied exclusively to male artists.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an Overview
The pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood created a stir with their paintings and influence a lot of artists with their theme and ideas, the imagery they produced became famous.
Avant-Garde – Abstraction in Constructivism
The process of abstracting of forms found its extreme in Constructivism, the avant-garde art movement of the post-revolutionary Russian and later Soviet era.
Avant-Garde – Towards Abstraction
Synthetism marks a move within avant-garde at the end of the19th century, towards art's autonomy based on purification of forms and independence of external influences.
Avant-Garde – The Beginning
Realism was the first revolutionary art movement which openly and explicitly posed a challenge to the authorities and is regarded as the first avant-garde movement.
Who Were the Indian Space Painters?
Akin to the Abstract Expressionists, the Indian Space painters were an informal group of New York artists sharing a common attraction to Native American form invention.
Great Still Life Painters in Western Art
Intimate and often pensive, a still life evokes the allure of physical objects. Many stylistic movements, from realist to abstract, have produced masterful still lifes.
Biography of the Russian Artist Ilya Repin
Repin brought the experience of the ordinary Russian into the picture. His work reflects the changing focus of culture in the years leading up to the 1917 revolution.
A Good Night Hug
Mary Cassatt was a member of the Impressionist school. Unmarried and childless, she nevertheless painted tender and beautiful images of motherhood.
The Life of Elizabeth Siddal
Lizzie Siddal was a lower-class London girl who never expected to be famous. But when she began modeling for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, her life changed forever.
The Arizona Desert and Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West offers a striking example of the architect's theory of organic architecture applied to the stark but beautiful southwest desert.
Futurist Manifesto – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
In 1909 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published The Founding and First Manifesto of Futurism in Paris, and established an art movement that lasted from 1909 until 1944.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West
The story of Taliesin West is one of salvation, rebirth and love. Here, the aging architect regenerated his personal and professional life from the ashes of disaster.
Profile of the Victorian Artist Richard Dadd
Richard Dadd is best known for his fairy paintings, but his facinating work encompasses so much more.
Josef Lada: 20th Century Czech Artist
A biography and overview of work of Josef Lada: a painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and writer who created the most beloved illustrated characters of Czech literature.
Profile of Russian Artist Mikhail Vrubel
Vrubel is not so well known in the West, but the symbolist painter is one of Russia's great cultural icons.
Was it Murder? The Fate of Artist Tom Thomson
On July 8, 1917, Canadian artist Tom Thomson paddled away for an afternoon of fishing on Canoe Lake. A few hours later, his empty canoe showed up near the dock.
Constructivism - The Artist As Worker
In bringing art to the masses, the Russian Constructivists created a blueprint that has continued with Andy Warhol, Nike and Franz Ferdinand.
Constructivism: The End Of Painting?
For their first exhibition, the Constructivists aimed to reveal painting as a pointless and self-indulgent exercise - and created a legacy.
Constructivism - How It Began
Like many 20th century art movements, Constructivism grew out of a time of great change, and artist Aleksandr Rodchenko contributed to the revolution.
International Klein Blue
French contemporary artist Yves Klein was so obsessed with the dry ultramarine pigment that the binding agent he invented for it is now synonymous with his work.
The Color Red in Three Paintings
Red adds boldness and intrigue in "Tauromachie" by Andre Masson, "Striped Robe, Fruit, and Anemones" by Henri Matisse, and "The Lie" by Felix Vallotton.
Weeping Woman with Handkerchief by Pablo Picasso
Weeping Woman with Handkerchief by Pablo Picasso is a depiction of despair and pain. The woman represents the painful realities in the world.
Cubism: Early Twentieth-Century Art Movements
A brief history on the advent of Cubism, and how Picasso and fellow artists inspired a revolution in modern art during the course of two World Wars.
Futurism: Umberto Boccioni
Italian artist Umberto Boccioni was a key figure in European art. His work marked a dramatic departure from traditional forms.
Fauvism: Early Twentieth-Century Art Movements
A discussion of how Matisse and his contemporaries introduced modern art concepts in France, and how Fauvism evolved during its short life span between 1905 and 1907.
Martin Benka: Slovak Painter and Illustrator
Martin Benka (1888-1971) Laid the Foundations of Modernist 20th Century Slovakian Painting.
Two Critical Views of Women and Art
Two essays, one written in 1971 and the other in 1994, look at the evolving ways women create and relate to art.
Corot's Ville d'Avray on a Postcard
A masterpiece of color and detail, Camille Corot's Impressionist landscape can be appreciated fully only in real life.
Michel Foucault's Panopticism
Art historians of the Digital Age are informed by Foucault's essay on power, vision, visibility, and space.
Poe and Primitivism in Gauguin's Nevermore
While in Tahiti, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Gauguin created this sensuous portrait of a young native woman.
John William Waterhouse's Painting 'Ophelia'
Ophelia, the doomed maiden of Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, is the subject of this late Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece painted in 1889.
José Clemente Orozco
The Mexican mural movement began after a ten-year revolution to overthrow the dictator Porfirio Diaz.
A Conversation With Michael Joo
A critical study of korean American artist Michael Joo's often complex conceptual structures and the fascinating cognitive process behind the work
Review of Fugitive Pieces
Edmund Goubert, winner of the 2007 IP Art award for visual arts, gives the public a walking tour round the architectural sites that inspired his solo exhibition.
Brian Reed British Artist
Casting a critical eye over the concepts of London based artist Brian Reed , and his collaberation with Mike dawson