Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist who was born in New York City in 1923. He is best known for his paintings of comic book panels, which he enlarged and reproduced using a technique called Ben-Day dots. Lichtenstein's work was often satirical, and he used it to explore themes...
The Memphis Design Movement was a postmodern design movement that emerged in Italy in the early 1980s. The movement was founded by Ettore Sottsass, an Italian architect and designer, and a group of other designers who were dissatisfied with the prevailing trends in design at the time. The Memphis Group,...
Salvador Dali was a Spanish surrealist artist who is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. He was known for his bizarre and dreamlike paintings, which often featured melting clocks, floating elephants, and other surreal imagery. Dali was also a prolific writer and filmmaker, and he...
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid- to late-1950s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan. Pop art presented a challenge to the established values of high art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, comic books, and everyday objects. Pop art of the...
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist who is known for her use of polka dots, infinity rooms, and soft sculptures. She is one of the most famous living artists, and her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. Kusama was born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929. She...
In the spring of 2020 I lost my job. My job was complicated by an overly toxic environment. An elicit substance addicted owner who based decisions on imaginary conversations that he thought he had while blasting his brain to the stratosphere. Add in a couple christian hypocrites to round out...
Over the last few months I have been working on my website. I have had incredible assistance with this from my friend Michael Knight of After Orange Design. Michael is a coder and designer who pushes me to learn coding. I have known Michael for close to twenty years. We...
While Wikipedia says the NFT Art started in 2015, it didn't really come into prominence until 2020. Amazing Digital Artists like Beeple-Crap (aka Mike Winklemann) were really the ones responsible for the big jump in news stories later in 2020 into early 2021. Beeple released a piece that ended up...
My mom was an artist and at every opportunity she exposed us to art. We went to museums all the time. She taught art in our home during the summer. As I grew older I valued that I was shown to appreciate the creative spirit. I seek it. There was...
