July 15, 2022
Best known as a member of the Italian Futurist movement, Giacomo Balla—painter, sculptor, and set designer—was born on this day (July 18) in 1871 in Turin, Italy.
Balla had little formal art training. In 1895, while still in his early 20s, the painter left Turin to live in Rome. His work was included in the 1899 Venice Biennale...
» Read more about: Birthday Observances: Giacomo Balla »July 04, 2022
It would be easy to overlook Othon Fritz's Fauvist painting in SFMOMA's second floor gallery. . .
June 27, 2022
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
-Albrecht Dürer
In 1500 Albrecht Dürer, aged 28, painted the last of his self portraits, a stunning vision of the painter as distinctly Christ-like and mimicking the Salvator Mundi gesture. The inscription to...
» Read more about: The Painted I: Albrecht Dürer’s Last Self-Portrait »June 20, 2022
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a color must speak volumes.
June 13, 2022
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a color must speak volumes.
