Robin Rile

Glamour and Obsession: Warhol's Women

Glamour and Obsession: Warhol’s Women

Almost synonymous with Andy Warhol is the concept of celebrity, and even more pointedly the starlets and “it-girls” of the day who he immortalized in timeless works of art. “Glamour and Obsession: Warhol’s Women” explores Warhol’s fascination with starlets and celebrates the painted figures whose influences are just as pertinent today. Warhol’s depictions of women …

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Famous Artists Birthdays

Famous Artist Birthdays

Have you ever wanted a mini Art History lesson every day? Our Famous Artist Birthdays compilation gives you the highlights of some of the world’s most accomplished artists and explores some of their most famous works and stylistic attributes. For those of us heavily immersed in the arts, and for those of us who just seek to …

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America's Artists: The Abstract Expressionists

America’s Artists: The Abstract Expressionists

First coined by art critic Robert Coates, “Abstract Expressionism” was a 1940s post-war movement in American painting that included many of today’s most admired artists such as Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, and Willem De Kooning. A great departure from figurative works, Abstract Expressionism has roots in Surrealism, which was prevalent in Europe before …

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“Infants of the Same Species”: Washington National Cathedral and Frederick E. Hart

By Reed V. Horth, for Robin Rile Fine Art   Michelangelo was 24 years old when he completed his “Pietà” in 1499. Oh, if only I were so accomplished by the same age. Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) installed his most perfect sculpture within the Vatican walls in …

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A Lost Little Kid In Search of Meaning Dali

A Lost Little Kid in Search of Meaning

I never quite fit into my adopted home of Tampa (FL USA) when I arrived in the late 1980’s. Partly as a result of this outsider ethos, my adolescent self sought desperately to find places, people and images that could provide some sense of normalcy, no matter what that meant at the time. One of …

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Can Art Save the World Blog Warhol

Can Art Save the World?

A friend recently asked me, “Do you think Art will save the world as Dostoyevsky said?” While pondering the answer to this query, my mind flooded with visions of a Superman carrying paintbrushes, a smock and modeling clay saving us from annihilation at the hands of a villainous fiend whose plot is to turn the …

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