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Philip Guston, an influential American painter, was born on this day. His profound impact on the art world continues to resonate, captivating audiences with his unique vision and provocative style. Born on June 27, 1913, in Montreal, Canada, Guston’s family moved to Los Angeles when he was just six years old. It was there that […]
Manjeera March 15, ON THIS DAY Naturally many may naively and rambunctiously ask why would a black artist concern himself with the wider questions of art and humanity? …my answer is art and ideas belong to no particular people exclusively. If they did this art has failed to reach the transcendent state that artists have
Figurative Expressionism: Emilio Cruz and his explorations of humanity Read More »
Abhishek Kumar JANUARY 28, ON THIS DAY New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements… the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Jackson
Abhishek Kumar JANUARY 12, ON THIS DAY “Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in the mind… a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later. Above all things get abroad, see the sunlight and everything
DECEMBER 19, ON THIS DAY “For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colours, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I\’m looking
Nathan Oliveira\’s canvases depicted human solitude and alienation Read More »
NOVEMBER 8, ON THIS DAY Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that\’s not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight. Charles Demuth Charles Henry Buckius Demuth was an American painter who specialized in watercolors and turned to
The Life and Art of Precisionist Painter, Charles Demuth Read More »
November 4, ON THIS DAY People say I paint every leaf on the tree. I don\’t…I paint what I think is there. I mean I try to make it look as though it belonged there, but very often when people look at my landscapes and look at the painting I am doing, ‘Oh, you changed
Luigi Lucioni\’s Paintings Exhibit His Love of the Precise Line Read More »
George Clair Tooker, Jr., better known as George Tooker, an acclaimed American figurative painter, was born on this day, 5th August, 1920. He was raised in Brooklyn till the age of seven, after which he and his family moved to Bellport, Long Island. Tooker began taking painting lessons at age seven under professional artist Malcolm
JULY 12, ON THIS DAY The renowned American modern painter Andrew Wyeth was born on this day, July 12, 1917. He was a realist painter who painted the land and people around him, in the American countryside of Pennsylvania, as well as his summer home in Maine. Wyeth was born in a family of artists,
Andrew Wyeth: Painting psychological reality in pastoral America Read More »
July 4, On This Day While famous in life, American painter, art instructor, and television host was fated to become even more popular posthumously on the internet. In fact, his videos have become hugely beloved for devotees of autonomous sensory meridian response or ASMR, which is a pleasant form of paresthesia (or tingling) often brought
Bob Ross: Breathing life into the soothing joy of painting Read More »