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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Larry Poons
Color can evoke such strong feelings and memories, and allow us to engage with our senses in new ways. This painting by Larry Poons calls to mind summer delights: cotton […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Shirley Gittelsohn
Shirley Gittelsohn’s Family Portrait is featured in the current exhibition, Portraiture from the Collection of Northwest Art. The painting depicts her adult children, the family pets, her relaxed husband, herself, […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Sun Yi
This joyful, exuberant painting is an example of the rich vocabulary of auspicious symbols in Chinese art. The combination here of flowering peonies with pink crabapple and white magnolia blossoms, […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer
This still life painting by Jean-Baptiste and Antoine Monnoyer captures a richness of color, texture, shadow, and light. The blossoms and fruits evoke a bountiful energy that invites us to […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Nez Perce artist
With the school year beginning, I began to think about children and how objects such as dolls are so universal. This Nez Perce doll was surely made for children in […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Diego Rivera
It’s back-to-school time! In this lithograph of 1932, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera celebrates the importance of “education for all” as one of the guiding tenets of the Mexican Revolution. Here, […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Lewis W. Hine
I think of photographer Lewis Hine every Labor Day. He was deeply affected by the long hours and low pay he earned while working to help support his widowed mother […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Maude Kerns
Labor Day weekend often represents an end to summertime vacations, but let’s hang on to that energy just a little bit longer through our writing this week. This painting by […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Cameron Martin
The highly detailed work Selvian by Cameron Martin both excites and tricks my eye. Is this a photograph? A screenprint? A painting? Martin draws from multiple processes to create this […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Charles-François Daubigny
As we reach the end of August, with concerns of drought and fire risks continuing across the region, we also are so grateful for the bounty the Pacific Northwest summers […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Beatrice S. Levy
As cooler temperatures roll in, I am already feeling nostalgic for summer. This moody etching by Beatrice S. Levy captures some of the longing and freedom of the season. Born […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Playing Cards
The Native American art collection of the Portland Art Museum contains a number of surprising objects that have fascinating but little-known histories behind them. This set of Apache Playing Cards […]