Art Reflection – Stella Frank Stella (1936-2024) was an American artist of the Modern Art Movement. He gained acclaim in Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism in the 1960’s. At that time many emerging artists were painting without representation of anything they saw. Stella used geometric patterns, shapes and often symmetry to create without viewed references. Many of his pieces are quiet …

Art Reflection – Neilson Anne Neilson is a current artist in North Carolina. I became aware of her art through a gift from a friend. Anne has been painting with oils since 2003. She was in a time of creative discernment when a day of volunteering at a homeless shelter gave her inspiration, direction and the Angel Series. Anne paints …

Art Reflection – Tanner Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) is one of the leading African American artists of his generation. He was born into a large family with a mixed race mother who had escaped slavery on the Underground Railway. His father was college educated and a bishop in the AME Church. Henry studied art in Philadelphia and France. He is …

Art Reflection – Derain André Derain (1880-1954) is a less known French artist who worked in many art movements. With his innovative use of vivid unnatural colors, this artist was the co-founder of Fauvism. As you may know, this movement was named after an insult. Critics said works like this seemed to have been painted by fauves, wild beasts. Henri …

Art Reflection – Monet It can be difficult to know what a painting will mean 146 years after it is completed. As we look at this work by French Impressionist, Claude Monet, done for the Rue Saint Denis Festivities of 1878, we see a frenzy of flags unfurled in layers above a crowd of marks as people and under a heavenly …

Art Reflection – Gifford Anne Gifford is a Boulder, Colorado artist. She spent years as a lithographer doing remarkable work including the posters for the internationally known Bolder Boulder Road Race. She then switched her focus to watercolor and It’s All About Love and many other works came to be. This piece is a composition of diversities. In this view …

Art Reflection – Fielder John Fielder (1950-2023) was a landscape photographer. With the eye of an artist and the heart of a conservationist he showed us the beauty of creation and fought for its protection within land use and environmental issues. After a few early years in the business world he turned his hobby of photography into a profession and …

Art Reflection – Eliasson Olafur Eliasson, an Icelandic-Danish artist, was born in 1967. He is known throughout the art world for his explorations of light, color, geometry and ecological awareness in large-scaled sculptures and installations like the one shared here, unfortunately pictured without scale. This may be a call to more research. His unique approach has included such things as …

Art Reflection – Picasso La Colombe, The Dove of Peace, was created by Pablo Picasso (1881-1979) for the First International Peace Conference in Paris in 1949. This was a post-World War II conversation about disarmament and reconciliation. It was his first dove of peace. It was realistic while his later doves were simplified graphics and are now more recognizable. This lithograph …

Art Reflection – Amero Emilio Amero (1901-1976) was a leading figure in the Mexican Modern art movement. He was a very versatile talent as a painter in fresco and on canvas, and as a graphic designer, caricaturist, photographer, filmmaker, and printmaker. His greatest creative passion was printmaking. This lithograph is a scene from his Mexican childhood. It shows a mother …