Portrait de Dora Maar, 1936
Picasso’s lover and muse
Portrait de Marie-Therese Walter, 1932
Mistress of Picasso
Picasso:
“I remember one […]
Ever wonder how to best show your art…those pieces you have lovingly collected over the years? Top San Francisco designer, Linda Applewhite, presents 3 terrific ideas!
Linda Applewhite’s Design Tips
Play With Color and Texture
To make artwork stand out in a room! Combine […]
30 Art Masterpieces in 60 Seconds
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The greatest portrait painter in the world?
Rembrandt Van Rijn, 1606-1669
Acclaimed master of the self-portrait, forty of which survive today.
Rembrandt’s paintings will forever change the way we experience an artist’s self-portrait. Rembrandt revealed much more than his likeness in the paintings. He painted his turbulent life for all to see. The masterly portraits painfully […]
The Father of Modern Art…Picasso? Nope.
Linda Blair, renowned San Diego Art Historian, asserts Paul Cézanne, French painter in the latter part of the 1800‘s, as the precursor of Cubism and hence, the true Father of Modern Art…not Picasso!
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Edgar Degas, one of the greatest French Impressionists of the mid-1800’s, painted more than just ballerinas. Yes, indeed.
In the winter of 1872 Degas traveled to New Orleans, the birthplace of his mother, and became enamored with horses […]
Utterly compelling! Hard to tear myself away.
Hey! Are we really talking about…the telephone?
Watch this 30 second clip of Christian Marclay’s art video and you ‘ll be hooked (pun intended)!
Leonardo da Vinci captured the moment in which Jesus makes the staggering announcement that he will be betrayed by one of His disciples. This is the last supper they will share.
He is indeed betrayed by Judas Iscariot […]
Did we just call out her name? Is she turning to us to whisper a secret? We lose ourselves in her gaze, and all of a sudden we feel a quickening of the heart…a charge of energy.
We […]
All of Vienna is throwing a birthday party! It’s the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Klimt, Austria’s most famous artist.
The walls of Vienna’s world class museums are ablaze with Klimt’s famous shimmering gold-leaf paintings. […]