Art Reflection – Manet Edouard Manet (1832-1883) lived and painted in Paris. He did many portraits in Realism and later, with the encouragement and friendship of French Impressionist Berthe Morisot, began to do Impressionistic works like this one. Here we see a scene implied with inexact strokes and shapes of color. We understand the scene without details of faces or …

Art Reflection – White Charles White (1918-1979) was an African-American artist. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago. His mother took him to the Art Institute of Chicago as a child. This piece is now part of the collection at that institute. Charles White worked in the style of the Harlem Renaissance. He drew, painted and created lithographs …

Art Reflection – Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) challenged most art conventions in his long career. If he came upon a rule in art, he found a way to break and invent around it. He is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, credited with the co-founding of Cubism, constructed sculpture and collage. He worked as a …

Art Reflection – Riley Bridget Riley is a British artist born in 1931. She became a pioneer of perceptual abstract in the Op Art Movement. She precisely painted optical illusions creating a third dimension on a two dimensional canvas. Her pieces move, vibrate and sparkle in this illusion. Movement in Squares is part of her body of work from 7 years …

Art Reflection – Kern Theodor Kern (1900-1969) was born in Salzburg, Austria. He studied art in Austria, Paris, and Italy and settled in England in 1938. He painted in many styles including the abstracted style of this painting. With the Christ child as the focus of line and light amid muted colors, Kern seems to capture the energy of those …

Art Reflection – Bruegel Pieter Bruegel the Elder, father of Pieter Bruegel the Younger, also a painter, created during the Flemish Renaissance. He painted realistic scenes with large casts engaging in activities throughout the canvas. His works have a historically accurate “Where’s Waldo?” feel. In this painting Mary and Joseph can be the subjects of your search. Pieter the Elder …

Art Reflection – Klee Paul Klee (1879-1940) was a Swiss-born German artist and major contributor to the Cubism and Expressionism movements. He worked in geometric shapes of color to show us the usual in a unique way. He believed that art does not reproduce what we see but it helps us see. In this crowded composition you may see in …

Art Reflection – Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow on December 16, 1866 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on December 13, 1944. In the years between he showed us again and again what painting could express and captivate. He showed us again and again our memories, our emotions, our own creativity of interpretation and meaning. This scene is remarkable for …

Art Reflection – Baker San Francisco artist, Gilbert Baker, and others created a rainbow flag to represent the beauty and diversity of the gay community in the 1970s. It was adopted as the Pride Flag by the LGBT Movement in 1978. This flag continues as a symbol of the LGBTQ Movement around the world. In 2003, the 25th anniversary of …

Art Reflection – Rockwell This is the sketch of a well-known piece by American illustrator and painter, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978). It seems this piece and Rockwell’s relationship with it have long histories. Norman Rockwell sketched this scene in 1953 to represent the humanitarian initiatives of the United Nations at the time. He did not complete it until 1961 when it …