The Art Appreciation Blog

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – 1656) was a female Italian Baroque painter in a time when women were not accepted as artists, and most were ce...

Sandra Perlow (1940 - present) is a contemporary abstract artist, currently living in Chicago, who has been creating art for over forty-five...

Liz Kenyon is a contemporary artist, born in California. She works in soft pastels and her technique is defined by adding layer upon layer ...

Susan Sarback was born in New York. Her paintings are always about light and color, especially the quality of light. She is the founder of ...

Jia Lu (1954 – present) was born in Beijing, China. She strongly feels that beauty is the final measure of all things. True beauty born of ...

Bec Winnel is an artist and illustrator currently living in Melbourne, Victoria Australia. She works as a full-time graphic designer but, ...

Alexia Sinclair (1976 – present) was born in Newcastle. She is an award-winning Australian photographic and digital artist. Her photograph...

Mary Cassatt (1844 – 1926) was an American painter and printmaker who settled in Paris in 1874, which was the year that the first Impression...

Mari Elsa Giddings is a contemporary artist who was born in Washington, D.C. in 1959. She grew up in Maryland, New York, and then studied a...

Tamara De Lempicka (1898 - 1980) was an artist whose work was famous during the height of the Art Deco period. Her bold style mixed with ri...