Articles about specific artists
Installation Art: Top 10 Artists Who Pushed the Genre to Its Limit
Installation art can best be thought of as three-dimensional works that aim to transform the…
Brushstroke: Top 10 Artists Who Have Made This Elemental Gesture Their Own
Artists have long explored the potential of the brushstroke as a vehicle to explore the medium of…
Piero Manzoni and his Merda d’artista.
An article on Piero Manzoni and his life and experiences that led him to create the prolific Merda…
Nude Photography Pioneers Whose Work was a Source of Scandal
Nude photography has been a genre of fine art photography since the mid-19th century: explore the…
Female Iconoclasts – Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington, a British-born Surrealist painter and writer, is fondly remembered in Mexico,…
Female Iconoclasts – Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka rendered the wealth, excess, and glamorous comercialism of the roaring '20s in…
John Baldessari: “I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.”
Educator and artist John Baldessari combined photography, painting, and text to become “arguably…
Sergei Eisenstein – Father of Montage
Sergei Eisenstein was a world-renowned theorist and filmmaker that is best known for his use of…
Giuseppe De Mattia at Matèria Gallery – Rome
We visit Giuseppe De Mattia's installation at Matèria in Rome, an intriguing study on commerce,…
Oskar Fischinger, Pioneer of Abstract Animation
Animator, filmmaker, and painter Oskar Fischinger created abstract musical animations decades…
Female Iconoclasts – Paula Modersohn-Becker
Paula Modersohn-Becker is best known for her portraits of women and girls that upended traditional…
Standards & Practices, Vol. 2 Kalup Linzy
The art world has been at the forefront of inclusiveness and gender politics. When will the rest of…