It's been awhile. I hope everyone's holidays were filled with family and fun. And now, on to a whole new year of art! My friend fro...

And finally, a modern Spanish architect… Santiago Calatrava was born in Spain in 1951 and is still alive and working. He is a sculptor, arch...

I mentioned Antoni Gaudi yesterday but I think I need to tell you more about him. He was a pretty terrific architect with a style unlike an...

You may remember the post about art nouveau . The style began in France but it spread to other places, including Spain. In the late 1800s an...

Today begins a look at Spanish architecture. I haven’t written a lot about architecture and Spain seems the perfect place to start. The Moor...

I won’t give you step by step instructions on how to make your own Art Nouveau doll house, but I will give you guidelines. First, glue shoe ...

Yesterday I posted about Art Nouveau in Paris and I mentioned Henry van de Velde who designed furniture for Siegfried Bing ’s art gallery. ...

Art Nouveau , which I posted about all last week, began in Paris thanks to art dealer, Siegfried Bing. He was born in 1838 in Germany but mo...

Art Nouveau was a popular art movement from around 1880 to 1915 which developed differently in many places around the world. For this reason...

I know I said I’d post on a topic related to yesterday’s post, the painting demonstration but I want to show you a specific picture that I c...

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, probably the most famous American architect, born in 1867. Wright wanted his buildings to rise...

De Stijl (sounds like ‘duh style’) was an artistic movement in the Netherlands from 1917 to around 1928. Artists such as Piet Mondrian, who ...