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Robin Coste Lewis writes about the artistic representation of black female bodies in Western paintings, sculptures, and tools through the centuries.
The ultimate Photography Auction will see Christie's auction house present three photographic auctions on 2 April 2019 in new New York.
1800s Week! Simon Willem Maris Portrait of a Young Black Woman Netherlands (1890s) 44 x 29 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, W.E.B....
Andre Kohn was born in Stalingrad in the heart of the former Soviet Union. He spent his first 12 years in the Southern part of the country near the Caspian Sea. Growing up in the small town of Baku…
Weaving is the process of making fabrics by interlacing the threads lengthwise and widthwise commonly known as warp and weft in a regular order. The operation is performed in a machine called a loom. Two sets of yarns are interlaced, almost always at right angles to each other. One, called the warp, runs lengthwise in the loom; the other, called the filling, weft or woof, runs crosswise. The raising and lowering sequence of warp threads in various sequences give many possible weave structures.
Woman and Cats, 1962 Will Barnet
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Michael Malm
Looking at these paintings is like staring through a foggy window on a rainy day. Soft emotion in blurry form pours out of these feminine portraits by
“Pure psychic automatism.” That was Ithell Colquhoun in a nutshell, according to fellow Surrealist André Breton. The flattery is a bit of a suprise, given that Breton – one of several founders of a movement that has made little room to uplift its women – was somewhat of a vocal hater of women in the…
As Fanny Eaton is celebrated by Google for her place in art history, Stylist looks back at the woman behind the canvas.
Want to know a little more about the artist who re-imagined Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, and upset a lot of people in the process? Click to read more about the activist artist, Harmonia R…