Monthly Archives: January 2008

Thomas Hart Benton

Posted on January 31, 2008 by angelolopez

My favorite painter is Thomas Hart Benton.  He’s not the greatest technical painter, nor is he the most innovative.  But I loved his murals and easel paintings of the American Scene, and I never get tired of looking at his … Continue reading →

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Picasso and the Influence of Art

Posted on January 31, 2008 by angelolopez

“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only eyes if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or … Continue reading →

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The Founding Fathers and Their Grappling With Slavery

Posted on January 30, 2008 by angelolopez

Right now I’m reading Howard Zinn’s book A People’s History of the United States and it’s a wonderful book of the contributions and struggles that women, African Americans, Native Americans, workers’ groups and various other marginalized people have made to … Continue reading →

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Nanking Documentary

Posted on January 29, 2008 by angelolopez

Tomorrow in the Bay Area, Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman’s documentary “Nanking” will open in the Bay Area. Featured in the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, it chronicled the invasion by the Imperial Japanese Army of the city Nanking in December … Continue reading →

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Norman Rockwell and the Civil Rights Paintings

Posted on January 24, 2008 by angelolopez

Fifty years after he first started doing work for the magazine, Norman Rockwell was tired of doing the same sweet views of America for the Saturday Evening Post in the early 1960s.   The great illustrator was increasingly influenced by his … Continue reading →

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Granny D

Posted on January 24, 2008 by angelolopez

When I first started attending St. Thomas Episcopal Church, one of the first persons to befriend me was an 84 year old lady.  We found we had a great love of books and one day she handed me a book … Continue reading →

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Dr. Seuss and PM Magazine

Posted on January 22, 2008 by angelolopez

Once upon a time, a long time ago, a beloved children’s book creator named Dr. Seuss created political cartoons for a radical leftist newspaper.   Yes, the same Dr. Seuss who wrote beloved stories like The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and … Continue reading →

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Admiration for Martin Luther King Jr.

Posted on January 20, 2008 by angelolopez

I was one year old when Martin Luther King Jr. died, so I can’t really say that I knew him when.   Growing up as a Filipino American in the America of the 1970s and 1980s, though, he was still a … Continue reading →

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Ralph Fasanella- Artist of the Worker

Posted on January 19, 2008 by angelolopez

I discovered Ralph Fasanella in the pages of Smithsonian magazine sometime in the 1990s.  The article talked about a man who worked in a gas station by day, and painted wonderful works of art by night.  His paintings were colorful … Continue reading →

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