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San Diego Museum Of Art

This Women’s History Month, discover art and artists in our collection, along with exhibitions, occasions, and resources for educators. There have been makes an attempt by artists to create art that can not be purchased by the wealthy as a status object. One of the prime original motivators of a lot of the art of the late 1960s and 1970s was to create art that would not be bought and offered. It is “essential to current one thing greater than mere objects” said the major post war German artist Joseph Beuys. This time period … Read More

Bluethumb Home of Australian Artists

Reproductive methods such as moulds made mass-production easier, and were used to bring high-quality Ancient Roman pottery and Greek Tanagra figurines to a very wide market. Cylinder seals were both artistic and practical, and very widely used by what can be loosely called the middle class in the Ancient Near East. Once coins were widely used, these also became an art form that reached the widest range of society. A visit to the San Antonio Museum of Art takes you around the world and through five thousand years of art in a complex of buildings that once housed the … Read More

Photography Art By Impartial Artists

As anti-communist sentiments grew in the later Forties, Grossman’s sympathetic images of the working class and labor unions from this collection would lead to his being blacklisted by the federal government. Emphasizing iconic images by a few of the most well-known photographers from the 20th century to the current, this exhibition presents a broad sampling from the substantial holdings of local collectors Cam and Wanda Garner. This group of images, diverse in topic, fashion, photographic medium, and chronology, presents an event to mirror on photography’s position in historical past and society, and to consider its future trajectory. Photographer Susana … Read More

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