Born in the 19th-century, Mt. Vernon, Illinois native Ivan Summers established himself as one of the accomplished practitioners of American Impressionism with his colorful landscapes. He studied at the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts where he was an award winning artist. His painting style is dynamic, spontaneous, yet disciplined with an eye […]
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To ‘read’ a work of art, we study WHAT is said in terms of HOW it is said. We will look at these ways of reading art with the art of book designer Ken Botnick and the collage/assemblage artist John Fraser. First, signs can be read in two ways— literally and symbolically. A sign can
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Robert Youngman’s sculpture, Cedarhurst One, was the very first outdoor sculpture to be commissioned and installed by the Mitchell Foundation. It was done to celebrate the museum’s tenth anniversary in 1983. Well before the sculpture park began formally in 1993 with the NEA’s Jane Alexander dedication. Youngman, Cedarhurst One, 1983, Goldman-Kuenz Sculpture Park, Mt. Vernon, IL Photos
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Thought experiment: Imagine if in every single movie made today, not a single white person was seen. It wouldn’t seem right. What does it mean to be left out, excluded? Those of us who live in the Midwest are not very fond of the term “flyover country”; it’s dismissive. Consider this much
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James Baldwin is having a revival of sorts, in 2020 and continuing in 2021, in the mass media as renewed attention is brought to his writings on civil rights. The Fire Next Time is again being referenced for its eloquent prose and condemnation of American racism. In Jed Jackson’s painting, titled, The Toilette of Venus, the James Baldwin image plays
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Fables, or animals with tales, are short stories that date to ancient times. The two-thousand-five-hundred-year-old animal fables of the Greek slave Aesop are still heard today. Often moralizing or satirizing, the stories are told by animals who speak. Contemporary fables include Charlotte’s Web, 1952, by E.B.White and George Orwell’s 1945 political fable Animal Farm. Fables with talking
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Tom Orr’s Vessel is a three-dimensional sculpture, but it also creates an amazing visual feature of moire patterns that echo historically the Op Art of the Sixties. Moires are the appearance of wavy lines that form when two separate sets of lines overlap. Vessel’s waves of moire, TOM ORR, Vessel, 2009, powder coated steel, Collection of Goldman-Kuenz Sculpture Park
In this seasonal homage we pay tribute to the beauty of Summer with five thematic art works visualizing the best season. Summer represents life at its fullest. Summer is the time of partnerships, robust romance, for play amongst the idylls. It is the time of summer vacations. William Glackens is one of the central members
Slavery ended for millions in the United States with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment on December 6, 1865. But celebrations began earlier with the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, which freed only the enslaved African Americans in ten of the eleven Confederate states. However, news of the Proclamation took two and a half
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