Ansel Adams as Photography Teacher

The American artist Ansel Adams is one of the world’s best known landscape photographers. He was born in 1902 in San Franciso. He died just south of his place of birth, on the beautiful coast of Monterey, in 1984. He was the most celebrated American photographer of the twentieth century, whose photography spans over 60 […]

Museu del Prado in Madrid, Spain

Prado Museum is one of Madrid’s a most popular tourist destinations. The focus of this museum is on famous Spanish artists such as Velázquez, Goya and El Greco. However, There is lots of artwork on display by other artists. Actually, there are 7000+ paintings in this museum well-worth visiting. Much of the early collection found […]

Paradise Found: Summer in California

It opened just a few days ago and you can enjoy it till the very end: the art exhibition ‘Paradise Found: Summer in California’ will close as late as September 20, truly at the end of summer.   It is a show featuring selected paintings from Californian Impressionists (period 1890-1930). The show will be in […]

World’s Oldest Cave Painting in Spain

We, and those before us, have been making art longer than previously known. By about 15,000 years…. Recent tests made scientists conclude that the ‘Panel of Hands’ in a cave in El Castillo, Spain, is older than 40,800 years. This is more than 15,000 years older than was previously thought. With this finding, these ancient […]

Photographer Cindy Sherman, 1 more week in MOMA, NYC

American artist photographer and film director Cindy Sherman (1954, –) is currently being celebrated at home. Let me clarify this : celebrated in the lead museum of New York, the MOMA. Till mid-June. Sherman, Contemporary Master of Socially Critical Photography Cindy Sherman is recognized as one of the most important and influential contemporary artist of […]

Georgia ‘O Keeffe

  Georgia ‘O Keeffe (1887-1986)   sample work Bella Donna, 1939; oil on canvas; private collection, loan to ‘O Keeffe museum   Representing the flower ‘Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. we haven’t time – and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. if i could paint the […]

Edvard Munch : the Man behind the Scream ~ Biography

“I want to show men breath, fell, love, and suffer. I want to bring home to the spectator the sacred element in these things, so that he takes his hat off just as he would in church.” ~ Edvard Munch Early Childhood of Edvard Munch Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter and graphic artist, born […]

Angelica Kauffman ~ Historical Painter, ahead of her time

Angelica Kauffman was one of the most successful and internationally celebrated artists of the 18th century. Swiss/British, 1741-1807 Kauffman achieved extraordinary recognition for a female artist of her day, thanks to her talent and open-minded father who taught her painting… Angelica Kauffman was a child prodigy. it was her exceptional talent that encouraged her father, […]

Art 42 Basel (2011)

It’s coming up: Art Basil – time. Time to book your ticket for Switzerland, if you haven’t yet, is today.   The world league art show in Basil will start June 14, 2011, and continue till June 19. As per previous years, Art Basil has a wide range of contemporary art disciplines that it aims to […]

Salvador Dali Museum

The US art community can rejoice: a renewed Salvador Dalí museum (nicknamed, ‘the Dalí’) has just opened on its new premises: 1 Dalí Blvd, St. Petersburg, Florida, this January 11,’11 at 11:11.   The Dalí’ Museum, A New Era In line with Dali’s amazing sense of lines and space, the museum is an  amazing structure […]