Healing Through Wisconsin Farmscapes - WI Artist Kari Radl Painted While Her...
From the artist’s statement: “In December of 2006, my father was diagnosed with brain cancer. This series of paintings began while we fought this enemy. After the craniotomy, while he healed, I...
View ArticleLoss of a Famous Father - Kate Rothko Prizel still mourns the loss of her...
After losing her father, the painter Mark Rothko, to suicide and her mother to cardiovascular disease shortly after, the nineteen-year-old Kate Rothko Prizel thought she and her then-six-year-old...
View ArticleArt on Death by Edvard Munch - The famous painter pondered life's end...
In addition to his most well-known image, The Scream, the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch created a great deal of art pondering life and death. Through the paintings below, he expressed his own grief...
View ArticleArtist Bruce Nauman and The End-of-Life Electric - What does it mean to...
In the late 1970s, Indiana native Bruce Nauman emerged as one of the key players in America’s contemporary art scene. Like many of his peers, Nauman’s art knew no fixed medium – he worked in print,...
View ArticleA Moment of Life and Death - Sixteenth and seventeenth century Dutch vanitas...
Life is fleeting, and death apparently eternal. Still life paintings that came out of the Netherlands in the late 1500s through the 1700s, known as vanitas, gather symbolic objects of death into a...
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Bringing 17th Century Still Life Vanitas Into the Modern World - Dirk...
You’re more likely to see still life vanitas hanging on the walls of historic art museums than in modern art galleries. This distinctive style of Dutch art, which reached peak popularity in the 16th...
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