Jean Michel Basquiat and Raw Symbolism

Basquiat didn’t paint for quiet rooms or polite conversation. His work hits like a siren, a ...

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Jackson Pollock and the Energy of Drips

Paint hits canvas; history flinches. A tall, awkward man stalks around a horizontal surface, ...

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Monet didn’t paint water. The man painted time pretending to be water. Stand in front of one of ...

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A blank page scares people. A tiny sketchbook page, though, feels like a small, almost harmless ...

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Art history loves revolutions with clear starting guns, but this one arrived as a quiet scandal ...

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The term “Renaissance person” gets thrown around at meetings and dinner tables like a ...

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Color intimidates beginners more than any blank canvas ever did. The problem usually isn’t ...

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Art history loves neat success stories. Vincent van Gogh ruins that pattern. His career burned ...

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Most people stand in front of a glamorous old building or a swirling iron gate and just think, ...

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Art historians love to pretend this period arrived by committee memo. It didn’t. It exploded. ...

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