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Note: I apologize for the delay of the blog; This been quite a stressful month. I hope to post bit more often now that my semester has ended to make up for my time away from the blog. ” I could do that.” “It just looks like a bunch of scribbles.” “Thats just a bunchContinue reading “How to Appreciate Art”

These days have been quite stressful recently with major changes impacts everyday life. Personally, my college moved to remote learning, and I am now home for the rest of the semester. There is some time to be sad and angry regarding the changes and unsettling news. However, we should use these changes to our advantage.Continue reading “Quarantine & Art”

One particular intersection that is interesting to me is that of politics and art. As a follow up to my blog about when art became political, I will be exploring some of the ramifications of art becoming political. I will be analyzing art especially the increasing popular genre of protest art in differing political systems.Continue reading “Art and Communism- Is it Possible? A look into Ai Wei Wei”

So, last week while I was researching for one of my blog posts I stumbled upon an article about Frida Kahlo. I’ve known about Frida since I was a little girl, and have viewed a lot of her work online. However, I didn’t know much about her history, so I thought I’d share what IContinue reading “Frida, The Unknown”

The Coconut Grove Art Festival is an annual festival started in 1963 that happens over President’s Day weekend. It attracts an estimated 120,000 visitors from around the world to view over 360 artists. I went this past weekend, and I just wanted to shares some of the artists’ work that I really enjoyed. Jesse “Jackson”Continue reading “Coconut Grove Art Festival”

We see artists in the news constantly for some big political statement they’ve decided to make with their art whether it be something obvious or more subtle. Artists are have been using more and more visual rhetoric to support their political opinions or critique other’s views, but how did we get here? How did artContinue reading “When Did Art Become Political?”

Some things in life are inevitable.  We can’t control time, so everything must age including art.  The art we see now even looks different over time.  Many famed older paintings look much different today than when the original artist played their last layer of varnish.  Here are some popular paintings next to what it originallyContinue reading “To Restore or not to Restore.”

Art Basel’s most popular exhibit this year was a banana duct-taped to a wall. Maurizio Cattelan’s piece titled Comedian was even sold for $120,000. This high price tag for such a simple yet puzzling concept seemed insane to those not familiar with Cattelan.  Cattelan is an Italian artist who seeks to push the limits of what art is.  His artwork is often satiricalContinue reading “Is the “Comedian” worth its price tag ?”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates. I started this blog last year on a different site. However, that website didContinue reading “My First Blog Post”

Hi, my name is Megan Mikuen, and I’m an 18 year college student from Florida who is interested in sharing arts experiences with the world.  I love creating and sharing art, so I wanted to start a blog to do just that.  I will be sharing some of my favorite artists, fun art history tidbits,Continue reading “Introducing…”