The Fine Art Collection 3.0
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Exploring the Movements
The Fine Art Journal, Vol. 3
Discover the movements and collaborations that shaped art — past, present, and future.
Fine Art Focus: Artist: Emile-Allain Séguy & the Pochoir Method
Emile-Allain Séguy, professionally known as E.A. Séguy, was a French designer during the Art Deco and Art Nouveau movements of the 1920s.
Robert & Sonia Delaunay
Robert & Sonia Delaunay Delaunay The Delaunays: Two Artists, One Theory of Color In 1910, two 25-year-old painters married in Paris. Over the next...
Modernism: A Brief History of the Future
The National Congress of Brazil in Brasília is a masterpiece of modernist architecture designed by Oscar Niemeyer and completed in 1960. Field Notes...
From Edo to Art Nouveau
The 1800s Design Revolution How Asian Art Fueled the Western Decorative Arts Boom The 19th century witnessed a spectacular revolution in how...
The Importance of Elephants
Elephants in Fine Art: Sacred, Symbolic, and the Sublime Few animals have captured the imagination of artists across cultures and centuries quite...
Fine Art Focus: John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent: The Triumph of Religion The Triumph of Religion is an ambitious mural cycle painted by renowned artist John Singer Sargent at...
Fine Art Focus: Étienne Trouvelot & the Birth of Astronomical Impressionism
Étienne Trouvelot (1827 - 1895) The French artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot is noted for two major...
The Global Bestiary
Global Bestiaries How Exotic Animals Shaped Human Art History For millennia, the appearance of exotic animals in art has chronicled the outer limits...
The History of: A New Luxury
The word “luxury” has a history as old as civilization. It has meant: debauchery, lust and lechery; refinement, restraint and divine right.
The Enduring Bauhaus: How It Shapes Our World
The Bauhaus school (1919–1933) is, arguably, the single most influential design movement of the 20th century. Its impact runs through virtually...
Fine Art Focus: Émile Prisse d’Avennes
Prisse d'Avennes was born in Avesnes-sur-Helpe, France, on 27 January 1807, to a noble family of French origin. After the early death of his father...
Fine Art Focus: Matthew Digby Wyatt
“Indian kincob pattern – woven at Ahmedabad” by Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt, featured in The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century (1851-1853).Design Origin: The pattern is based on traditional Indian textiles, specifically kincob (brocade) woven in Ahmedabad.Historical Context: It was published in a famous 19th-century collection of ornamental artwork.Artistic Style: The image showcases a intricate floral and paisley-style motif, characteristic of Middle Eastern and Indian decorative arts
The anti-Trump: The NEW DEAL & HOW THOUGHTFUL GOVERNMENT RESTORED A BATTERED NATION
It's difficult to imagine today that, at one point, the US led the world in creating societal safety nets; made signifigant investments in the arts...
The Grammar of Ornament
From the universal testimony of travelers it would appear, that there is scarcely a people, in however early stage of civilisation, with whom the...
Intricate Ragamala: “the Garland of Memories”
Ragamala (or Raagmala) refers to a traditional Indian art form of miniature paintings that visually depict musical modes (ragas) and their...
the Flora Glassware COLLECTION: Konan Tanigami (1879-1928)
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Fine Art Focus: Joan Miró
Joan Miró Ferra was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona. At the age of 14, he went to business school in Barcelona and also attended La Lonja’s...
Fine Art Focus: László Moholy-Nagy
Hungarian, 1895 - 1946 László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly...
Fine Art Focus: Jean (Hans) Arp
In 1904, after leaving the École des Arts et Métiers in Strasbourg, he went to Paris where he published his poetry for the first time. From 1905 to...
Fine Art Focus: Bauhaus: 100 years later
bauhaus A 100-year perspective The importance of the Bauhaus lies in its revolutionary approach to design, architecture, and art education that...
the EXPANDED FINE ART COLLECTION
Henri Matisse, "Nymphe et faune rouge" (Nymph and Red Faun), (1939) “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” —Andy Warhol Guernica by...
Fine Art Focus: Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (b. 1866) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of...
Fine Art FOCUS: LEONETTO CAPPIELLO: ADVERTISEMENT as FINE ART
the LEONETTO CAPPIELLO AESTHETIC He is credited to revolutionize the old thinking of poster illustration during his time. Cappiello’s concept of...
the POWER of the MANDALA
Though rooted in Buddhism, mandalas soon became present in Hinduism and other religious practices. Painters of the spiritual craft were often pious laymen, who were commissioned by a patron. They worked seated on the floor with a painting propped in their laps or in front of their crossed legs.
the ART of INDIA
the ART of INDIA The diversity of the world’s largest national population is astounding. 122 languages, including the planet’s oldest language:...
MOLAS: textile design & political identity
“Clothes aren’t going to change the world. The women who wear them are.”
– Anne Klein
Fine Art FOCUS: Artist & Author: Paul Klee
Klee has been variously associated with Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Abstraction
the GENRES of INDIAN ART
The diversity of the world's largest national population is astounding. 122 languages, including the planet's oldest language: Hindi. 12 religions....