Month November 2021
Joan Miró was born on April 20, 1893, in Barcelona, Spain. He was a Catalan painter who combined Surrealist fantasy with abstract art. He worked in lithography, produced murals, sculptures and tapestries. Miró’s father worked as a goldsmith and watchmaker. Early on, Miró attended a commercial… Continue Reading →
The Lumiere brothers Auguste Marie Loise Lumiere and Louis Jean Lumiere were manufacturers of photography equipment known for creating their cinematography motion picture system. This invention leads to the first-ever showing of a motion film in all of history. Backstory … Continue Reading →
Claude Lorrain was a French painter best known for ideal landscape paintings. He was also a draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He was born in 1600 in a small village of champagne. It is said that both Claude’s parents died early on… Continue Reading →
For my the artifact assignment, I recreated Egyptian hieroglyphs carved into stone. This is not a copy of a real artefact, but my best attempt at what an authentic Egyptian artifact would look like. To make this as accurate as… Continue Reading →
How it began The history of the wood type letterpress poster began in 1828 when Darius Wells’ was the first to invent the means to produce letters out of wood. Along with this, he published the first known wood type… Continue Reading →