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Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823 – 1900) was an important American landscape artist of the Hudson River School. Cropsey was born on his father Jacob Rezeau Cropsey’s farm in Rossville on Staten Island, N …

Charles Willson Peale (1741 – 1827) was an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician and naturalist. He is best remembered for his portrait paintings of leading figures of the Americ …

Essentially, Zen is the study of the self. The great Master Dogen said:“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlighte …

Bonheur can be seen as a symbol of the 19th century ‚New Woman‘; at a time when women were looking at a certain amount of neglect, she demonstratively decided to wear pants, shirts, and ties. The wea …

William Merritt Chase (1849 – 1916) was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become …

Thomas Moran (1837 – 1926) from Bolton, England was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife …

In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of ‘On the Spiritual in Art’, a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For …

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858 – 1924) was an American Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolor, and monotype. He exhibited as a member of The Eight, though the delicacy of his compo …

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 – 1792) was an influential eighteenth-century English painter, specializing in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th Century. He …

The Dragon, long held as the symbol of power, nobility, success, divine protection and vigilance is unsurpassed in its imperial status in the realm of China. Regarded as the Supreme Being in the univ …