Art is at once a product of culture and a creator of it. Our attitudes toward artists and artistic creation are currently ambivalent; society at large marginalizes artists but also reveres the few creators that float the multi-billion dollar art market. Critic Suzi Gablik investigates our attitudes t

Contemplative, Sincere, Sophisticated, Witty

Collage, Deconstructive, Distorted, Sincere, Surreal, Surrealist art, Surrealist literature, Surrealist photography

Alfred Stieglitz spent his life pushing for the acknowledgement of photography as a valid art form. In 1923, when the Museum of Fine Arts hosted some of Stieglitz's photographs, it marked the first time that the American public saw photography in a major American museum. Stieglitz was born in New J

Contemplative, Ethereal, Intimate, Pictorialism, Sincere

Every now and then there comes along a person with "a sensibility higher than our own who can depict an apple to stand for both that particular apple and all apples" -- at least that's how one expert put it. The applemaster referred to was Paul Cezanne, one of the most famous of the French Impres

Distorted, Event, Figurative painting, Geometric, Perceptual, Post-impressionism, Sincere, Tranquil