Author: marv
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FolkArtwork is Naked: “Standing with Deer” by Kiki Smith
FolkArtwork will be getting naked on Saturday nights only on FolkArtwork.art since Instagram isn’t as mature as my high school students.
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Art from Iran vol. xvii: Kiyavash Danesh
Kiyavash, born in Tehran in 1966, left school after nine classes due to poor academic performance exacerbated by illness.
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Daily Art: MAMIE DESCHILLIE’s “Alligator” Mud Toy
MAMIE DESCHILLIE Alligator mud toy (c. 1980s-1990s) // Unfired (sun-baked) clay, paint; 1 ½ x 2 x 5 ½ inches
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Daily Art: “Life” by LEROY ALMON
LEROY ALMON Life (date unknown) // Paint and mirror on carved wood; 24 inches x 11.5 inches
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Daily Art: JOE ORTEGA’s Bobcat or Lynx
JOE ORTEGA Bobcat or Lynx (date unknown) // Wood, paint; 5 9/16 × 3 9/16 × 7 1/2 in. (14.2 × 9 × 19 cm)
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Daily Art: NELLIE MAE ROWE’s House is “Clean Enought”
NELLIE MAE ROWE My house is Clean Enought to Be healty and it dirty Enought to Be happy (1978-1982) // Crayon and pencil on paper; 18 x 24 inches
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Daily Art: MARIANNE FONS and the “World Peace” Quilt
MARIANNE FONS World Peace Quilt (date unknown; made in Winterset, Iowa)
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Norval Morrisseau is the ‘Picasso of The North’, Learn More on DailyArtMagazine.com
Whatever you’d like to call him, Norval Morrisseau’s work transcended time and opened the door for contemporary Indigenous artists throughout Canada. Ultimately he became the grandfather of Indigenous contemporary art.
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Sarah Lee, Once Banned From Taking Art, Never Stopped Creating
Despite once being banned from art class because her work was “no good”, self-taught artist Sarah Lee never stopped creating art.
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Daily Art: Gravestone of John Adams, Carved by John New
Gravestone of John Adams, carved by John New of Massachusetts in 1754