Though our time in the cities we visited on our cross-country tour was short, we managed to hit a couple of wonderful, yet very different museums along the way. In Tulsa, we spent a few hours exploring the Philbrook…
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Hello Artsies!!! After being out of the blogosphere for the past three weeks or so, I am finally back behind the computer, as it were and it feels great. I have so much to share that I hardly know…
A polarizing persona in the art world, Jackson Pollock, called “Jack the Dripper” by some, figured largely in the Abstract Expressionist movement in America. His work is such of the “love it” or “hate it” variety and it can often…
In my daily reading of Artinfo.com this morning I came across two articles, seemingly unrelated, until the Facebook comments regarding one of the articles tied them together for me. The first article, found here, poses the question, “Should Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia Remain Unfinished?” The…
Happy Monday, Artsies! Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend. This week’s Masterworks Monday artist is one of my all-time faves, American Realist painter Edward Hopper. A feeling of melancholy tends to pervade most of Hopper’s work, but maybe that is…
OK, I know it’s something of a cliche to be a woman who loves the work of Georgia O’Keeffe. But I don’t care. I have unabashedly loved her work for what seems like forever. And I’m proud to say…
I have a weakness for Abstract Expressionism. I’m not sure what it is about the paintings of that time and the artists who created them, but there is just something about these works that move me. Maybe it is…
Sorry for the late post today– we’ve had some big things happening, so I’ve been a bit preoccupied. More on that later! For this week’s Masters Monday, we’re going a little more modern– enter Pablo Picasso and cubism. Cubism is…
OK, perhaps not exactly your grandmother’s attic, but it seems that a previously unattributed, damaged work stored at Yale University is thought by many experts to be a Velazquez. A Velázquez in the Cellar?.…
I love modern & contemporary art. Artists who find a new way of translating our reality fascinate me. But the Art History geek in me also loves to look back at what was groundbreaking eons ago. We have so much to…