Skip to content
Art and Design 101

Art and Design 101

Learn about Art and the Art World
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Glossary
  • FAQ
  • Contact Us

Blog

Picasso’s Guernica

September 24, 2021 admin Leave a comment

1937. Nazi Germany was in its heyday. Leaders in other countries, Benito Mussolini in Italy and Francisco Franco in Spain,…

Continue Reading →

The Art of Avoiding Taxes

September 10, 2021 admin 1 Comment

At its highest levels, the art world is international. An artist may come from country A, an artwork’s owner from…

Continue Reading →

Let’s Face It: The Art of Chuck Close

August 27, 2021 admin Leave a comment

The art world lost a significant figure last week when Chuck Close died in Oceanside, New York. The first time…

Continue Reading →

When Art Hurts

August 13, 2021 admin Leave a comment

In the last twenty-five posts, we looked at many beautiful artworks, making it easy to imagine artmaking as a rewarding…

Continue Reading →

The Art of Sports

July 30, 2021 admin 1 Comment

In the first week of the Tokyo 2020 Olympiad, there were dramatic moments on the tracks and off the mats.…

Continue Reading →

Silver and Gold

July 25, 2021 admin 1 Comment

Last week in The Original Olympians we talked about the prominence of mythology in art history. We began a look…

Continue Reading →

Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico

July 9, 2021 admin 2 Comments

O’Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917. In 1929 she returned with an artist friend; they stayed and had studios…

Continue Reading →

Who Was Georgia O’Keeffe?

July 2, 2021 admin 1 Comment

Georgia O’Keeffe was born to dairy farmers in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, in 1887. She already wanted to be an artist…

Continue Reading →

5 Great Outdoor Artworks

June 18, 2021 admin 1 Comment

What makes a great painting? Sometimes it is the technical skill of the artist (Mona Lisa), sometimes an innovative technique…

Continue Reading →

Filed under: public art

Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright?

June 11, 2021 admin Leave a comment

Today’s post moves us from visual art to design as expressed in architecture. In 1991, the American Institute of Architects…

Continue Reading →

Filed under: Frank Lloyd Wright

Post navigation

Page 2 of 4
← Previous 1 2 3 4 Next →
Follow @ArtandDesign101
Copyright © 2023 Art and Design 101