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...
It would be easy to overlook Othon Fritz’s Fauvist painting in SFMOMA’s second floor gallery. . .
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a color must speak volumes.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a color must speak volumes.
Happy Birthday to Diego Velázquez, who was baptized this day in 1599. Velázquez is truly a painter's painter and there are so many ways in which he has inspired my own practice. Foremost, his brush work and color harmonies! The multitude of reds, pinks, oranges and...
There are some paintings in the history of art that break free, just as some human beings do, from the confines of the particular little world into which they were born. They leave home—they escape from the tradition in which they were formed, and which seem at first...
A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar stood under the open sky, after WWI, in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath these clouds, in a field of forces of destructive torrents and explosions, was the...
