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Posts published in “Artist Spotlight”

Artist Spotlight: Jeffrey Smart

In this week’s Artist Spotlight, I will be covering the Australian Precisionist and contemporary realist landscape painter Jeffrey Smart, one of Australia’s most celebrated artists for his unique perspective on the industrial landscapes of the modern age.

Hiroyuki Tajima: woodblock printing in the 20th century

This week’s Artist Spotlight is about Hiroyuki Tajima, an artist who produces incredibly abstract woodblock prints using a traditional Japanese woodblock printing style known as Sosaku Hanga, which is one of the three traditional woodblock printing styles.

Beatriz Milhazes

In this issue of the Artist Spotlight, I’ll cover the popular Brazilian modern artist Beatriz Milhazes. Milhazes typically paints collages, which can be best described as ensembles of unique forms, symbols, and ideas organized to represent an overarching concept or feeling.

Umberto Boccioni

In this week’s Artist Spotlight, I will cover the influential and controversial Italian painter and sculptor Umberto Boccioni. Boccioni was best recognized for leading the Italian Futurist movement in the 20th century, which was a heavily politicized art movement known for its passionate support of industrial domination and the dismantling of social norms and culture which glorified the past.

Kay Sage

In this week’s Artist Spotlight, I’ll be covering Katherine Sage, an American surrealist artist who experienced success in the 20th century with her unique approach to surrealist paintings.

Charles Wilbert White

It is undeniable that art is one of the most influential mediums of expression. When we produce art, regardless of our skill or talent, we expose our emotions through the mediums we choose.

Johan Christian Dahl

Some of the most outstanding vistas can be found in Norway, a mountainous Scandinavian country containing massive glaciers, coastal fjords, and inland mountains.

Huang Yongyu

For this issue’s artist, I chose Huang Yongyu, a Chinese contemporary and expressionist artist who is best known for his ink paintings, caricatures, and sculptures.

Artist Spotlight: Giovanni Paolo Panini

The most difficult aspects of landscape painting to master are the use of perspective and color. It is easier to draw a landscape on a level plane because objects remain unchanged regardless of our distance from them or the angle at which we look at them.

J.C. Leyendecker

J.C. Leyendecker was an American illustrator who was most popular for his vibrant and sophisticated portrayal of late 19th and early 20th century human figures, clothing, and products.