Folk Art

9 11, 2016

America How Great Thou ART!

2016-11-09T23:41:53-08:00

Flag, 1967 Jasper Johns, encaustic and collage on canvas (three panels) 33 1/2 x56 1/4in.Flag, 1967
Jasper Johns
The Broad Museum, Los Angeles

Jasper Johns was an acclaimed artist known for his paintings of flags, targets, and other ordinary objects in […]

America How Great Thou ART!2016-11-09T23:41:53-08:00
3 02, 2016

Ahhh-mazingg’ Art Museum

2016-02-03T09:07:04-08:00

 
AHHH-MAZINGG’!

Hottest new museum to hit USA is the Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles! The architecture alone is worth the trip…a honeycombed boxy building tilted on its side filled with natural light.

Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA September 20, 2015 Broad Museum
Los […]

Ahhh-mazingg’ Art Museum2016-02-03T09:07:04-08:00
29 09, 2014

3 Famous Outsider Artists

2014-09-29T22:30:03-07:00

Outsider Art:
Naive…visionary…never been in an art school or gallery…disturbing images…
DELIGHTFUL!
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Clementine Hunter was born in 1886, twenty years after the Civil War, when segregation and oppression of  blacks was still rampant.  Her child-like paintings of picking cotton, picking […]

3 Famous Outsider Artists2014-09-29T22:30:03-07:00
8 07, 2013

Heroes

2013-07-08T13:50:59-07:00

Heroes arise from everyday life. Supernatural and powerful forces lead the ordinary person to perform wondrous deeds, often bestowing good upon their fellow man.

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Joan of Arc’s story is one of those rare events in history […]

Heroes2013-07-08T13:50:59-07:00
4 02, 2013

3 Famous Outsider Artists

2013-02-04T17:39:20-08:00

Outsider Art:
Naive…visionary…never been in an art school or gallery…disturbing images…
DELIGHTFUL!
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First impression of Clementine Hunter’s paintings: charming, quaint, life on the plantation.
But, look deeper into these child-like paintings of picking cotton, picking pecans, washing clothes, baptisms […]

3 Famous Outsider Artists2013-02-04T17:39:20-08:00
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