Chuck Close
Chuck Close said when a problem seems overwhelming, you should break it down into smaller pieces. To tackle the photorealistic faces, Chuck Close would use a grid. He broke the image down into section...
22 Jan 20238min
Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold is a contemporary American artist. She studied art education and started as a painter, but she is best known for her story quilts. She has written and illustrated seventeen children's b...
21 Jan 20239min
Burton Morris
Burton Morris is a contemporary Pop Art painter whose work was featured in the sitcom Friends. His work got a starring role after a camera operator on the show wore a Burton Morris t-shirt on set. Dav...
20 Jan 20239min
Vincent van Gogh | The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh saw little commercial success during his lifetime, but he loved art and he worked to forge relationships with other artists he could learn from. The Starry Night came about late in hi...
19 Jan 20238min
Alphonse Mucha
In December 1894, Alphonse Mucha just happened to be in the print shop checking some proofs for a friend, when in walked an actress, Sarah Bernhardt in need of posters for her upcoming play. All of th...
18 Jan 20238min
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp liked to portray himself as a rebel and an outsider courting controversy. While he was bold and pushing boundaries, he also came from a family of artists and he served as an advisor to ...
17 Jan 202311min
Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck was a remarkable painter. He worked in oils during the Renaissance, and created stunning photorealistic portraits centuries before photography was developmed. In the Arnolfini portrait, h...
16 Jan 20238min
Louis Sullivan
In 1896, Louis Sullivan wrote about skyscrapers and architectural design in “The Tall Building Artistically Considered” This was the origin of the famous phrase, “form follows function.” What Sullivan...
15 Jan 20238min
