Passion…Heartbreak…Art
Kirby Kendrick2014-09-09T02:51:44-07:00
Frida Kahlo, born in Mexico in 1907, is Mexico’s most exalted woman artist. As a teenager, she suffered […]
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09, 2014
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07, 2014
3 Terrific Tips on Showing Art in your Living Space
Kirby Kendrick2014-07-29T14:45:18-07:00Ever 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 […]
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06, 2014
Robert De Niro, Sr. – The Artist
Kirby Kendrick2014-06-30T10:32:52-07:00Did you know that Robert De Niro’s father was a brilliant artist?
At last, one of art’s unsung heroes is being honored!…and by his son, Robert De Niro, Jr.
The elder De Niro was […]
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05, 2014
Mark Rothko: Paintings of Ecstasy and Tragedy
Kirby Kendrick2014-05-05T14:04:16-07:00
“I’m not here to make ‘pretty pictures!’ I want my paintings to stop your heart, you understand that?! I am here to make you think…feel a moan of rapture…sense the divine, or damned.” — Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko felt that a […]
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02, 2014
30 Art Masterpieces in 60 Seconds
Kirby Kendrick2014-02-25T11:57:29-08:0030 Art Masterpieces in 60 Seconds
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12, 2013
World’s Largest Portrait of…
Kirby Kendrick2013-12-10T12:18:59-08:00
Johannesburg – Nelson Mandela is lilac, pulsing-pink, blue, and sandy tan. He is a collection of energy, a precise assembly of meticulously measured stripes.
This describes the gigantic portrait, 14 feet high, honoring “Tata,” or father, the term of endearment many South Africans use for […]
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10, 2013
Virginia Woolf: Who’s Afraid of Art?
Kirby Kendrick2013-10-01T13:01:51-07:00Virginia Woolf: “One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.”
Woolf […]
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08, 2013
Cubism Understood at Last!
Kirby Kendrick2013-08-21T11:49:29-07:00The 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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10, 2012
Live from Vienna
Kirby Kendrick2012-10-01T10:37:54-07:00
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. […]