https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/11/harmonia-rosales-garden-of-eve/ .
Category: Artists
Sam Gilliam Dead at 88
Jason Boyd Kinsella
Picasso’s Blue Period
The strong should go ahead and take what they want: Such a quasi-Nietzschean maxim is dynamite in the head of an impressionable young person, and that is what Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) likely heard while in his late teens. Living in Barcelona, the most cosmopolitan city in Spain, the teenage student-painter hung out with a circle of avant-garde artists and writers who gathered at a local tavern, Els Quatre Gats (The Four Cats). Picasso’s biographer John Richardson argues that young Pablo absorbed Nietzschean ideas about the exalted role of the artist with consequences that would astonish the European art world. Read more here:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/picassos-blue-period/
How Septuagenarian Artist Scott Kahn Went From Living in His Cousin’s Attic to Selling Out Solo Shows in Just Three Years
Hyperallergic: A Century of the Artist’s Studio Is a Peek Into the Artist’s Mind
Hyperallergic: A Century of the Artist’s Studio Is a Peek Into the Artist’s Mind.
https://hyperallergic.com/722552/a-century-of-the-artists-studio-is-a-peek-into-the-artists-mind/
How Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” Continues to Inspire Artists
Muralist Noni Olabisi dies at 67
Muralist Noni Olabisi, whose art galvanized South Los Angeles communities, dies at 67
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-03-07/muralist-noni-olabisi-los-angeles-death
Noni Olabisi’s generosity and provocative work embodied “the power of art to transform and make real our stories,” as one collaborator remembers.