Monet-Artist and Gardner
Welcome to Giverny! As we open the small unassuming door on the Rue Claude Monet in Giverny, we are met by a dazzling display of color....
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Denise Laurin
Jul 41 min read
What did George Washington Really Look Like?
Gilbert Stuart was trained in England and Ireland in the academic style and as exemplified in this portrait of Washington, he introduced...
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Denise Laurin
Jun 93 min read
A Mind-blowing “ISM” of 20th Century Art
Pablo Picasso, I must confess, is not at the top of my favorite artists list. Is it because I am a realist painter? Was it his portrayal...
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Denise Laurin
May 42 min read
Announcing: The Preciousness of Impermanence
Geisha I, Denise Laurin 2024. Oil, Silver Leaf, Gold Leaf on Gesso Board Works by Denise Laurin May-June 2024 Poplar Creek Library 1405...
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Denise Laurin
Mar 84 min read
Women Artists & The White City
As the planning for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 got underway, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Artistic Director of the Fair...
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Denise Laurin
Feb 262 min read
DAUMIER: A SERIOUS AND SATIRICAL RADICAL REALIST
The work of 19th century Realist Honoré Daumier has always intrigued me because his work runs the gamut from comically amusing to deadly...
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Denise Laurin
Feb 122 min read
Valentine's Day Feature: Cupid and Psyche
In Ancient Greece love was a concept pondered over by some of history’s most famous philosophers including Plato and Aristotle. Greek...
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Denise Laurin
Jan 291 min read
What's New in the Studio
Happy February to all! Here are a few things going on in my art practice this month PORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER As the holidays of 2023...
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Denise Laurin
Jan 222 min read
The Interplay of Art and Fashion
This small twelve-inch statuette discovered by Sir Arthur Evans at the Palace of Knosses, Crete in the late 19th century provides a...
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Denise Laurin
Jan 152 min read
Aaron Douglas Reflects Spirit of the Harlem Renaissance
Martin Luther King Jr. Day has inspired me to write about the Harlem Renaissance, a period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and...
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Denise Laurin
Dec 22, 20232 min read
Holiday Art History
The Nativity scene was first represented in the 4th century, carved on early Christian sarcophagi, and was later included with other...
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Denise Laurin
Nov 28, 20232 min read
The Origin of the Nativity Scene
by Denise Laurin Adoration of the Magi and the Nativity, from the Sarcophagus of Crispina. Stone sarcophagus lid. Mid-4th century. Museo...
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Denise Laurin
Oct 26, 20231 min read
Art to Make Your Spine Tingle
Lately I have been researching dark art...art that defies traditional aesthetics and instead focuses on the ugly and repugnant. It is...
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Denise Laurin
Jun 26, 20231 min read
Art in the Big Apple
Sometimes it just takes getting away from the normal routine of daily life to refocus creatively. My husband Marc and I are on an...
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Denise Laurin
Jun 15, 20232 min read
The Sparkling Seduction of Silver
From the glittering icons of the Byzantine style and the stunning folding screens of the Kano school in Japan to the work of Austrian ...
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Denise Laurin
Mar 22, 20231 min read
Happy Birthday, Yayoi Kusama!
March 22 marks the 94th birthday of Japanese-American Painter, Sculptor, Photographer, Installation, Performance, and Conceptual Artist,...
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Denise Laurin
Mar 20, 20231 min read
Welcome Spring!
This little 12" x 12" watercolor and marker painting was a commission I completed just a short time ago. Because of the beautiful...
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Denise Laurin
Mar 15, 20231 min read
Rosalba Carriera
To acknowledge Women’s History Month, I would like to spotlight the artist Rosalba Carriera, a Venetian who rose to prominence in France...
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Denise Laurin
Feb 20, 20232 min read
The Power of the Portrait
When this painting of Abraham Lincoln was first exhibited, it stunned viewers, including Mary Todd Lincoln, who allegedly fainted at its...
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Denise Laurin
Feb 13, 20232 min read
What Is Love?
People have pondered that question for millennia. In Ancient Greece, love was a concept considered by some of history’s most famous...
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