MONDAY MUSE

The world’s largest painting is 17,000 square feet, Sacha Jafri’s, “The Journey of Humanity” (2020), an abstraction featuring drips, whorls, and splatters of various hues. It is certified by the Guinness…

“Fountain” is a readymade sculpture by Marcel Duchamp in 1917. Readymades, as he called them, disrupted centuries of thinking about the artist as a creator. Duchamp argued that “an ordinary object…

At the end of the eighteenth century in North America, it was still considered proper for even ladies in prosperous households to be industrious, for many believed that idle hands…

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), the granddaughter of the successful painter, Jean-Honore Fragonarde, studied at the Louvre, and beginning in 1860, became a precursor of the Impressionists. Her work appeared at the Salon…

One of the most important American artists of the twentieth century, Georgia O’Keeffe, (1887-1986) born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, was the heart of Alfred Steiglitz’s circle in New York by…

In the early 1960’s, Yoko Ono (1933-) was a young New York City artist who lived in a cheap loft on Chambers Street. She gained notoriety for her artworks like…

Graphic design and illustration sometimes receive a disservice within artistic circles—–”it’s not fine art,” critics proclaim, as once was said about Norman Rockwell. Rockwell worked for Saturday Evening Post from…

Paul Delaroche (1795-1856), specialized in historical subjects and was one of the most popular French painters of the early 1800’s. One of his most famous depictions is of Lady Jane Grey,…

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. today, we are sharing a small collection of MLK art. “The time is always right to do what is right.” Check out more…

Profoundly deaf, and unable to speak, Hendrick Averkamp was known as the “mute of Kampen.” He specialized in finely detailed winter scenes, filled with movement and sprinkled with a lot of…