Caspar David Friedrich, like other Romantic painters, established landscape paintings as a dominant genre in Western art. Friedrich’s coming of age was during a time when materialistic society began to favor spirituality. The artist followed this shift in ideals through expressing the natural world as a divine creation, a separate entity from human civilization. As French sculptor David d’Angers said, he was a man who had discovered “the tragedy of landscape.”
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New York–based artist and landscape designer Paula Hayes (1958) just unveiled her first-ever permanent public landscape installation at the Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, New York. Designated a National Historic Landmark and first designed in 1838 by architect Alexander Jackson Davis, Lyndhurst Mansion was originally built for former New York City mayor William Paulding Jr.
Between 1897 and 1926, Claude Monet painted approximately 250 waterscapes of his favorite subject towards the end of his life: Water lilies. The latter half of these paintings in particular are lauded as stunning feats in compositional experimentation and innovation.
From coconut palm leaves folded into ceremonial forms in Bali to brown ash splints woven into baskets in Maine and wool blankets woven across the Navajo Nation, a younger generation of artists is returning to textile techniques their ancestors perfected centuries ago. Museums, galleries, and design houses are all taking notice.
In the late 17th century, the wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I purchased, in the words of Dutch Golden Age painter and biographer Arnoldus Houbraken, “a sublime work consisting of flowers, arms, eagles, crowns, decorated in foliage, of woven silk in a rustic manner, for which more than four thousand guilders were given.” That was more than double the sum of money that
Originally, the mask was adorned by members of all socioeconomic classes to conceal identity. This was necessary since most legal and moral boundaries were blurred during this period, and so were the Venetian Republic’s rules regarding upper and lower social classes intermingling. Originating in the fourteenth century, the Venetian mask was originally intended to serve as a method of inclusiveness.
From Naoshima to Chicago, Art & Object brings you eleven popular and thought-provoking public artworks around the world.
As we're now deep into the warm summer months, we're feeling the importance of the sun. Here's a brief look at the sun as a symbol throughout art history.
The Smithsonian Institution, long regarded as a trusted keeper of the nation’s shared history, has spent the summer fighting to defend its independence.
Weaving—the process of interlacing various sets of threads—is one of the oldest and most significant forms of craft in human history. Weaving techniques were already known in the Paleolithic period and employed to make baskets, ropes, and shelter out of plants and branches. The oldest textiles, also crafted with plant fibers, were found in Peru and dated to around 10,000 B.C.
