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English painter John Constable captured the rhythms of rural life
3+ hour, 46+ min ago (229+ words) By Heller McAlpin, Contributor "Painting is but another word for feeling," the English landscape artist John Constable wrote to a friend in 1821. In "Constable's Year: An Artist in Changing Seasons," art historian Susan Owens delves into the painter's deep feelings…...
Connecting to the world through a Monitor lens
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (128+ words) Connecting to the world through a Monitor lens'The Christian Science Monitor Connecting to the world through a Monitor lens Sara Miller Llana/The Christian Science Monitor By Stephanie Hanes, Staff writer She traveled like the pro she is, nonchalantly moving…...
David Hockney’s world vibrates in living color
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (478+ words) July 31, 2025, 6:10 p.m. ET In Paris, two magnificent spectacles have been wowing crowds this summer: the gloriously renovated Notre Dame Cathedral, and a joyous retrospective of British artist David Hockney's work at the Louis Vuitton Foundation museum, "David Hockney 25." " Fortunately for those…...
How Eadweard Muybridge solved a riddle of movement with his cameras
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (146+ words) Muybridge," a thoughtful graphic biography of the 19th-century inventor, delves into his life and his experiments with sequential photography. How Eadweard Muybridge solved a riddle of movement with his cameras Why We Wrote This Help fund Monitor journalism for $11/ month…...
London’s brief, glorious rise in the art world
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (539+ words) March 05, 2025, 5:00 p.m. ET Art history in the post-World War II era is usually described as a period when the center of the art world moved from Europe to America as abstract expressionism took center stage in New York. In "Rogues & Scholars:…...