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07/06/2025

Wrap up the Fourth of July weekend with a story about one of the most classic "American" celebrations in history. Ready to read at 4:30 AM on Monday, July 7 at: www.thearteproject.substack.com

01/27/2025

This week Monday Morning ARTe tells the tale of an artist who founded an art movement with the idea of being a bridge between primitive art and the future. Unfortunately his own glimpse of the future put him in an insane asylum. Enjoy the story and have a great week!

01/21/2025

I've always been fascinated by Pablo Picasso's evolution as an artist. Lining up his work from Realism to Cubism is rather like watching a college student mature into wizened, mature man. He had human flaws, including envy, greed and narcissism. Yet in a Spanish form of wabi-sabi he always managed to fill the holes left by those flaws with something beautiful.

A critical pivot point in his evolution took place in the almost inaccessible smuggler's mountain paradise of Gosol in 1906, he found a statue that changed the direction of his artistic journey.

His trek through the mountains, accompanied by only his mistress, and the art he created that summer is the subject of this week's Monday Morning ARTe. Take a few minutes and start your week with something both beautiful and provocative.

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01/13/2025

Indiana Jones searches for the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail were just some figment of Steven Spielberg's fertile imagination, read this week's Monday Morning ARTe. There really was a piece of art coveted by the N***s for its link to a religious artifact with imagined healing powers. There were castles and adventurous archaeologists involved as well. Start your week with an exciting story, and a beautiful piece of art.

Did you ever wondered whether Indiana Jones’ search for the holy grail had any basis in fact?

01/06/2025

For the first Monday of 2025 we tell the story behind Titian's "poesies," a series of dramatic paintings based on Ovid's Metamorphosis. You might say these paintings paved the way for Modern Art many centuries in the future. Join Substack for free and start your year with something beautiful ... and a story. https://thearteproject.substack.com

The history of art turned when a powerful man and one with talent went through a personal metamorphosis together

12/30/2024

With the end of another year in sight we decided to tell the story of a woman whose life spanned the entire human experience. Hope. Tragedy. Soaring success.

Augusta Savage was a richly colored thread in the tapestry that was the Harlem Renaissance. Her greatest work was bulldozed at the end of the 1939 World's Fair, but it endured like a gospel song passed from one generation to another without a written score.

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12/22/2024

On this Holy Week, I still believe in the humor of it all. This weeks Monday Morning ARTe is a story about a monk blessed with artistic talent, who didn't necessarily believe EVERYTHING God said.

I sincerely hope this holiday season brings great joy to you and your family, and hope you'll take the time to sign up for a FREE subscription to Monday Morning ARTe so that you can start every week of 2025 with a beautiful piece of art ... and a story.

Happy Holidays from The ARTe Project.

Every new week should start with something beautiful. And a story. The ARTe Project brings you intriguing stories designed to add some fun to learning about art. And history. And artists. And the world. Click to read Monday Morning ARTe, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.

12/14/2024

"They lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles." So begins this week's rollicking Monday Morning ARTe story.

Among the generational wackiness of the famed Bloomsbury Group you'll find Anjelica Garnett who discovered late that her husband had also been her father's lover. And her uncle's, as well. It was just another oddity in the tangled lives of the artists, musicians, writers and intellectuals whose tidy English mansion was ground zero for the explosion of modern art at the beginning of the 20th Century. Read the whole tangled, tantalizing, bed-hopping story with a FREE subscription to Monday Morning ARTe. thearteproject.substack.com/subscribe

Art for everyone. Every Monday morning.

12/08/2024

"One evening in a Paris nightclub so urbane even the busboys were snobs, an impoverished and fatherless farm girl met the son of a Jewish tailor from Brooklyn."

These are the opening lines from this week's Monday Morning ARTe." The following story tells the tale of Max Radnitsky and Alice Prin, two impassioned lovers in Jazz-age Paris. Both became world-famous as entirely different people. Find out who with a FREE subscription to our Substack, here: thearteproject.substack.com/subscribe

Every new week should start with something beautiful. And a story. The ARTe Project brings you intriguing stories designed to add some fun to learning about art. And history. And artists. And the world. Click to read Monday Morning ARTe, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

12/01/2024

One of the most iconic paintings in American history has never been seen by American audiences. In fact, it was destroyed in World War II ... by American bombers.

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" is one of the most star-crossed paintings in history. Emanuel Luetze had to paint it three times due to natural catastrophes and an American gallerist's promotional schemes.

Yet, today, this is one of the few paintings almost every American school child can remember seeing. Read the fascinating story behind this touchstone of American history on Monday Morning ARTe: https://open.substack.com/pub/thearteproject/p/an-american-classic-inspires-revolutions?r=40nhv4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Every new week should start with something beautiful. And a story. The ARTe Project brings you intriguing stories designed to add some fun to learning about art. And history. And artists. And the world. Click to read Monday Morning ARTe, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

11/23/2024

"By December 1940, the N***s had almost driven Britain into the sea and America didn’t know if it wanted to throw her a life jacket."

These are the opening lines of Monday Morning ARTe's special Thanksgiving story built around the remarkable Norman Rockwell Painting "Freedom From Want."

Its a fascinating story combining FDR's 1940 State Of The Union address, N***s sympathizers in the halls of Congress, a war that wasn't going well and the indomitable American spirit.

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Have a Happy ARTe Thanksgiving!

An easy-to-understand overview of all the major eras of art history with entertaining stories about the artists whose works are found in local, national and international museums