artmobiaTHE AESTHETIC ARCHITECTURE OF INTERIOR DESIGNIn 1913, a book was was published by the title The House in Good Taste, authored by a prominent New York socialite named Elsie de Wolfe…Sep 2, 2022Sep 2, 2022
artmobiaTHE EVOLUTION OF THE ART MUSEUM’S ROLE IN PUBLIC CULTUREThe singular institution that is the publicly accessible art museum has been around for so long, we forget where it came from. We’re born…Sep 2, 2022Sep 2, 2022
artmobiaTHE ANCIENT FUTURE OF EUROPEAN ARTWhat we visually associate now as European art began in ancient Greece, but the roots of European art go much further back in time, as far…Jul 28, 2022Jul 28, 2022
artmobiaTHE ONE-STEP-AHEAD-NESS OF ASIAN ARTWhen the immortal Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh first arrived in Paris in 1886, his brother Theo had already been curating an art gallery…Jul 28, 2022Jul 28, 2022
artmobiaTHE REBELLIOUS DNA OF AMERICAN ARTFrom John Trumbull’s panoramic Revolutionary War battles scenes painted in vivid figurative detail in the 1700’s, through the simple…Jul 19, 2022Jul 19, 2022
artmobiaTHE INEXORABLE UTILITIES OF ABSTRACT PAINTINGSThink about a painting this way: there exists a wall, just a boring old wall. Maybe it’s shellacked cement, or wood-paneled. Regardless of…Jul 19, 2022Jul 19, 2022
artmobiaREBIRTH OF THE BARNES ART COLLECTION IN AN ARTS MECCAIn May 2012, a vast collection of impressionist, post-impressionist and modernist art masterpieces, value-estimated at $25 billion, was…Jul 19, 2022Jul 19, 2022
artmobiaART GALLERY — THE ENDURING CULTURAL RELEVANCE OF THE ART GALLERYWhen the English architect Sir John Soane designed the first purpose-built public art gallery in 1817, the Dulwich Picture Gallery in…Jun 21, 2022Jun 21, 2022
artmobiaMODERN ART — UNDERSTANDING THE MODERNISM OF MODERN ARTIn 1911, the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky produced what was considered the first abstract painting, titled Bild Mit Kries (Picture…Jun 21, 2022Jun 21, 2022
artmobiaWATERCOLOR — THE BEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF WATERCOLORWatercolor painting has been a mainstay of the visual art palette since the Paleolithic age. The nature of watercolor paint lends the…Jun 21, 2022Jun 21, 2022
