Octavio Ocampo is a Mexican surrealist painter born on February 28, 1943 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He also has studied acting, dancing, film and theater. Since 1976, Ocampo works only in painting and sculpture and at present primarily in the metamorphic style. He superimposes and juxtaposes “realistic and figurative details within the images […]
Edvard Munch’s Psychological Themes Influenced German Expressionism
Yesterday I posted on my other website information about The Scream by Edvard Munch. If you missed it click here As I researched his painting, I learned more about Munch that I’d like to share with you. Born in 12 December 1863, he became a Norwegian painter and print-maker. He was among the expressionist artists […]
Milwaukee Art Museum “Van Gogh to Pollock: Modern Rebels”
I grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and remember this art museum where I saw every exhibit, often more than once. Tomorrow is the last day for the show called, Van Gogh to Pollock: Modern Rebels Masterworks from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery “Works by the biggest names in art from the late nineteenth century to now—including […]
Edvard Munch's "The Scream"
Edvard Munch created four versions of “The Scream” in various media, three painted and one pastel. The latter was sold at a Modern Art action on May 2, 2012 for $119,922,600, the second highest price paid for a painting at auction. “The Scream” has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the […]
Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”
Edvard Munch created four versions of “The Scream” in various media, three painted and one pastel. The latter was sold at a Modern Art action on May 2, 2012 for $119,922,600, the second highest price paid for a painting at auction. “The Scream” has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the […]
Ai Weiwei's Art at Alcatraz
My guest blogger today is Lani Longshore, a member of the California Writers Club, Tri-Valley Branch, author of Death By Chenille and Eve’s Requiem, and blogger at www.lanilongshore.wordpress.com Art at Alcatraz My children played with Legos, building forts, trucks, and hazardous swords when they thought I wasn’t looking. After Jordan Bernal, author of The Keepers […]
Ai Weiwei’s Art at Alcatraz
My guest blogger today is Lani Longshore, a member of the California Writers Club, Tri-Valley Branch, author of Death By Chenille and Eve’s Requiem, and blogger at www.lanilongshore.wordpress.com Art at Alcatraz My children played with Legos, building forts, trucks, and hazardous swords when they thought I wasn’t looking. After Jordan Bernal, author of The Keepers […]