Category: Art

Artist Michael Cuffe releases painting that marks the significance of the Obama Presidency, his campaign, and America's quest for hope.

In the final days of Barack Obama's campaign for President, artist Michael Cuffe completed a painting that has received an overwhelming amount of attention from not only within the United States, but across the world. Obama's Hopeful Hearts Club is an inspired nod to The Beatles Sgt. Pepper album cover, updated with individuals who made the Obama campaign a success and other interesting, inquisitive modern day personalities. It has received attention from over 70 countries, the Obama campaign itself, and is currently featured on the artist's Obama art gallery website TheObamaExperiment.com.

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Michael Cuffe and Hopeful Hearts painting.

Women crucified in art, also comes to mind when this artist shares her life situation along with a popularity contest between her "Super Girl" painting and her painting of "Venus - Goddess of Love."

We question if Barbara Wurden is painting "women crucified in art" instead of "warrior angel art" with her passionately narrated canvases. She calls them "video diaries" and it's where she shares her current life situation as she summons the goddesses for assistance through this art form.

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"Venus - Goddess of Love"

National publicity expands for Austin metaphysical artist Mickie Bellah. Bellah’s oil paintings and art can be found in four recent publications.

Metaphysical artist Mickie Bellah's oil paintings are continuing to gain national recognition. First, Mystic Pop Magazine featured her art in an extensive article in the November/December issue. Then Innerchange, a magazine about mindful living, selected "Purple-2" from Bellah's new Luminescence series for the cover of its December/January issue, on newsstands and online now.

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"Purple" by Mickie Bellah

Whatever the purpose of an inscription, when writing appeared on ancient Greek pottery, it became performance art.

A "communication explosion" in the early days of the Greek alphabet brought both writing and figure scenes onto pottery in the eighth century B.C.E. Whatever the purpose of an inscription, when writing appeared on ancient Greek pottery, it became performance art.

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Alexandra Pappas, assistant professor, classics,University of Arkansas