Reclaiming the Feminine Energy in All of Us
March 8, 2026
The feminine is a force characterized by empathy, kindness, and expressive emotion and it is for both, female and male. … More Reclaiming the Feminine Energy in All of Us
Tag: art
Concentric Circles: The Bay Area Figurative Movement Revisited
May 14, 2025
My friend Delma and I went to a talk and an exhibit at the Pamela Walsh Gallery in Palo Alto. We are familiar with the Bay Area Figurative Movement and admire the purpose of this collective born and developed from the 1950s to the 1960s in Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco. It was spearheaded by … More Concentric Circles: The Bay Area Figurative Movement Revisited
To Look Without Fear
November 8, 2023
By Lupita Franco Peimbert Renowned photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has been in San Francisco for the last couple of weeks, organizing his photos. He and a curator finished the layout throughout the 10-room galleries on the 7th floor at the San Francisco Museum of Art. He likes to be involved in his exhibits. “I have been … More To Look Without Fear
Victor Vasarely
February 5, 2023
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Entwined Creates A Magical Experience
January 11, 2023
Entwined is a simple concept: objects in the form of trees that seem to dance to the beat of color lights, designed by San Francisco artist Charles Gadeken. It is an enchanted forest, indeed. It was brought to Peacock Meadow in Golden Gate Park to illuminate the Holidays in 2020 and has returned yearly. Some … More Entwined Creates A Magical Experience
Joan Brown: Her Life Through Painting
November 21, 2022
By Lupita Franco Peimbert Joan Brown was a San Francisco-born artist whose work spans four decades. She is credited with popularizing the San Francisco Bay Area as an arts destination. Her paintings are vivid, her sculptures are creative, and her style changed as she incorporated aspects of her life, travels, and exposure to other cultures. … More Joan Brown: Her Life Through Painting
San Francisco Artists Reflect on Reopening
May 22, 2021
Home to hundreds of artists, San Francisco is reopening little by little to the relief of some and the concern of others. There seems to be both, a sense of reluctancy to let all guards off and a desire to remain protected against COVID19. Businesses and organizations still require facemasks inside their establishments and recommend … More San Francisco Artists Reflect on Reopening
SFMOMA Celebrates the Life of David Park
January 11, 2021
SFMOMA PRESENTS FREE ONLINE PROGRAM DAVID PARK: 7×7 – January 14, 2021 at 5 PM PST Wayne Thiebaud, Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant and Helen Park Bigelow Among Seven Acclaimed Speakers Who Celebrate the Late Founder of Bay Area Figurative Art in Seven-Minute Segments WHAT: The free online program David Park: 7×7 comprises 49+ minutes of art, insights and … More SFMOMA Celebrates the Life of David Park
Renoir Died On a Day Like Today
December 3, 2020
French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of impressionism. He died on December 3, 1919 in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. Among his works there is a dancing series called “Dance in Bougival,” featuring three couples in movement. Bougival was a suburb of Paris. A film about Renoir’s last years in Cagnes-sur-Mer and his last model/muse … More Renoir Died On a Day Like Today
Vincent van Gogh
August 2, 2020
“What would life be if we didn’t have the courage to accomplish anything? -Vincent van Gogh
Paul Cézanne.
December 7, 2018
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. (Wikipedia)
Born in March: Michelangelo.
March 3, 2018
By Lupita Peimbert. Born March 6, 1475, in what it was then Caprese, Republic of Florence, Michelangelo is considered one of the greatest painters of all times and a great influencer for western art. Some of the most notable works of the sculptor and artist are the David in Florence and The Last … More Born in March: Michelangelo.
Born in February: Renoir
February 25, 2018
PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR (born February 25, 1841, Limoges, France—died December 3, 1919, Cagnes) Pierre Auguste Renoir (born February 25, 1841, Limoges, France—died December 3, 1919, Cagnes) French painter originally associated with the Impressionist movement. He was one of the central figures of the impressionist movement (a French art movement of the second half of the nineteenth … More Born in February: Renoir
Born in January: John Singer Sargent.
January 13, 2018
JOHN SINGER SARGENT (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist. Sargent was born in Florence, Italy to American parents. Sargent studied in Italy and Germany, and then in … More Born in January: John Singer Sargent.
Do-ho Suh and the Red Staircase.
November 10, 2016
The space I’m interested in is not only a physical one, but an intangible, metaphorical, and psychological one. Do-ho Suh Staircase-III is one of a number of works Suh has made based on his personal memories of architectural spaces, both of his parents’ traditional Korean house in Seoul and his own Western-style apartment in New … More Do-ho Suh and the Red Staircase.
The Art of Leonid Afremov.
August 10, 2016
Flowers About Leonid Afremov Leonid Afremov was born on July 12th 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus (formerly USSR). He was raised in a traditional Jewish home; his father was a shoe designer and maker, and his mother was a metal factory worker. Leonid Afremov graduated from Vitebsk Art School in 1978. In 1990 he immigrated to Israel. Years … More The Art of Leonid Afremov.
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