Mills based his design on the elegant simplicity of the rectangular ancient Egyptian obelisks, with a circular base which was to be the colonnaded pavilion. Such obelisks had served similar functions, ...
Read MoreThe complex linear patterns in MacEntyre's Generative Paintings were reminiscent of the nautilus designs of Leonardo Fibonacci (1175–1250), an Italian mathematician, whose designs were based on ...
Read MoreIn Art Today in Kyoto, Awazu's composition focuses on recalling the past artistic glories of Kyoto, the former imperial capital (794–1868 CE) and an important artistic center which fostered some ...
Read MoreThe Curator’s Corner celebration of Black History Month continues with two contemporary artists whose personal visions are broadly different, but fascinating nonetheless—Laylah Ali and Bar ...
Read MoreThis large-scale painting was executed from memory while Cropsey was in London. It is sometimes considered one of the last great works of a school of painting that fell into decline after the Civil Wa ...
Read MoreMinami and her husband moved to Paris in 1953. There Minami studied in the studio of Johnny Friedlaender (1912–1992), a pioneer in printmaking, particularly aquatint etching. While in Paris, she ...
Read MoreIn this issue, we introduce various ways to address advocacy through multiple lenses. What it looks like in our art room will range on how we address topics or issues such as cultural perspectives, eq ...
Read MoreOne of my biggest pet peeves is when a student throws away a perfectly good piece of paper because it has a small rip, wrinkle, smudge, hole, or even a scribble. A few years ago, I happened across Bar ...
Read MoreI was interested in teaching my middle-school art students diversified art history lessons about the work of a woman in the arts who was important in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Elizabet ...
Read MoreStarting the course with this project ensured students’ comfort level and introduced them to the transformative power of photography. I wanted to emphasize the importance of finding joy in every ...
Read MoreThrough art, we can communicate with people from all over the world. Stories can be told, feelings expressed, and an understanding of other artists and their work can be established without learning o ...
Read MoreCarrà's work reflects the use of the Impressionist palette of pure colors by the Pointillists, while his segmenting of the subject to indicate movement reflects a similar aesthetic concern to b ...
Read MoreMy celebration of Black History Month continues with three more artists who are very important in the history of art—Hale Woodruff, Norman Lewis, and Wilmer Jennings. They represent the divergen ...
Read MoreThe Chinese had a legend of the brave carp who swam against the current on the Yellow River to mate, and few were courageous enough to swim over the Dragon Gate waterfall. Those that did turned into d ...
Read MoreInfinite Cell is a combination of mirrors and a single prison cell reflected infinitely. It is an ode to two Italian artists who were imprisoned for their Communist beliefs by the Fascists before Worl ...
Read MoreThe shin hanga movement may have featured Western elements of perspective and more attention to sculptural form which Shinsui incoporated into his work, but he observed compositional aspects of tradit ...
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