MARCO REA - Official website. REED + RADER: Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader. Artist Heldo Thorel. Molly Crabapple Illustration — The Art of Molly Crabapple. Giovanni Boldini. Self-portrait (1892) Giovanni Boldini (1910) Giovanni Boldini (Ferrara, Italy; 31 December 1842 – Paris, France; 11 July 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter.
According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting.[1] Life and career[edit] A Boldini portrait of his former muse Marthe de Florian, a French actress, was discovered in a Paris flat in late 2010, hidden away from view on the premises that were unvisited for 70 years. Keith Haring. Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s by expressing concepts of birth, death, sexuality and war.[1] Haring's work was often heavily political and his imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of the 20th century.
Early life and education[edit] Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on May 4, 1958. He was raised in Kutztown, Pennsylvania by his mother, Joane Haring, and father, Allen Haring, an engineer and amateur cartoonist. He had three younger sisters, Kay, Karen and Kristen. Haring became interested in drawing and art at a very early age. “I’d been convinced to go [to art school] by my parents and guidance counselor. Haring quit school and moved to New York City in 1978 at age 19. Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol (/ˈwɔrhɒl/;[1] August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.
Warhol's art encompassed many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. Early life (1928–1949) In third grade, Warhol had Sydenham's chorea (also known as St. As a teenager, Warhol graduated from Schenley High School in 1945. 1950s 1960s Campbell's Soup I (1968) Jean-Michel Basquiat. Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist, musician and producer.[1] Basquiat first achieved notoriety as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti group who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City during the late 1970s where the hip hop, post-punk and street art movements had coalesced.
By the 1980s he was exhibiting his Neo-expressionist and Primitivist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. Early life[edit] André Masson. André Masson.
Automatic Drawing. (1924). Ink on paper, 91⁄4 × 81⁄8" (23.5 × 20.6 cm). Museum of Modern Art, New York. André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 – 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Arshile Gorky. Armenian-American painter Arshile Gorky (; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, Armenian: Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism.
He spent most his life as a national of the United States. Along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Gorky has been hailed as one of the most powerful American painters of the 20th century. As such, his works were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss he experienced in the Armenian Genocide. Early life[edit] Gorky was born in the village of Khorgom (today's Dilkaya), situated on the shores of Lake Van in the Ottoman Empire.[1] His date of birth is often stated as April 15, 1904; however, the year might well be 1902 or 1903.[2] In later years he was vague about his date of birth, changing it from year to year.
Franz Kline. Franz Jozef Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter mainly associated with the abstract expressionist movement centered around New York in the 1940s and 1950s.
He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and attended Girard College, an academy in Philadelphia for fatherless boys. He attended Boston University, and later taught at a number of institutions including Black Mountain College in North Carolina and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.[1] He spent summers from 1956 to 1962 painting in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and died in New York City of a rheumatic heart disease. He was married to Elizabeth Vincent Parsons, a British ballet dancer.
Mark Rothko. Mark Rothko (Latvian: Markus Rotkovičs, Russian: Марк Ро́тко; born Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич; Marcus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970) was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent.
He is generally identified as an Abstract Expressionist, although he himself rejected this label and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter. " With Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, he is one of the most famous postwar American artists. Childhood[edit] Willem de Kooning. Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
In the post-World War II era, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to as Abstract expressionism or Action painting, and was part of a group of artists that came to be known as the New York School. Other painters in this group included Jackson Pollock, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Adolph Gottlieb, Anne Ryan, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, and Clyfford Still. In September 2011 de Kooning's work was honored with a large-scale retrospective exhibition: de Kooning: A Retrospective September 18, 2011 – January 9, 2012 at MoMA in New York City.
Organized by John Elderfield it was the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full breadth and depth of de Kooning's career, containing nearly 200 works. Ruth Kligman. Ruth Kligman (January 25, 1930 – March 1, 2010) was an American abstract artist and writer.
She was notable as the muse of prominent American artists of the mid-20th century including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Lee Krasner. Lee Krasner (October 27, 1908 – June 19, 1984) was an influential American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. On October 25, 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the abstract expressionism movement.[1] Early life and education[edit] Krasner was born as Lena Krassner (outside the family she was known as Lenore Krasner) in Brooklyn, New York to Russian Jewish immigrant parents from Bessarabia.[2][3] She studied at The Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design and worked on the WPA Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1943.
Jackson Pollock. Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety, a major artist of his generation.
Regarded as reclusive, he had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy.[1] Leslie Shows - Work. Home : Eva Vermeiren. Françoise de Felice. George shaw paintings. Jenny Saville. Jenny Saville. Jenny Saville (born 1970 in Cambridge, England) is a contemporary British painter and associated with the Young British Artists. She is known for her large-scale painted depictions of naked women. Saville works and lives in Oxford, England.[1] Life and career[edit] Saville went to the Lilley and Stone School (now The Grove School Specialist Science College) in Newark, Nottinghamshire, for her secondary education, later gaining her degree at Glasgow School of Art (1988–1992), and was then awarded a six-month scholarship to the University of Cincinnati, where she states that she saw "Lots of big women.
Big white flesh in shorts and T-shirts. At the end of her postgraduate education, the leading British art collector, Charles Saatchi, purchased her senior show. Saville has dedicated her career to traditional figurative oil painting. Work[edit] Branded (1992). Cover art[edit] Exhibitions[edit] Notes and references[edit] External links[edit] Peter Blake (artist) Sir Peter Thomas Blake, KBE, RDI, RA (born 25 June 1932) is an English pop artist, best known for co-creating the sleeve design for the Beatles' album Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He lives in Chiswick, London. Blake has referred to the work of other artists many times. Another example, The First Real Target (1961) a standard archery target with the title written across the top is a play on paintings of targets by Kenneth Noland and Jasper Johns. Marc Quinn. WELCUM TO OUR WEBSHITE. Grayson Perry. Grayson Perry, CBE (born 24 March 1960) is an English artist, known mainly for his ceramic vases and cross-dressing. Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance. There is a strong autobiographical element in his work, in which images of Perry as "Claire", his female alter-ego, often appear.
He was awarded the Turner Prize in 2003. Early life[edit] Grayson Perry was born in Chelmsford. In his childhood Perry took an interest in drawing and building model aeroplanes, both of which were to become themes in his work.[3] To escape from a difficult family situation and his stepfather's violence, he retreated to his bedroom or his stepfather’s shed where he became absorbed in a fantasy life, sometimes involving a teddy bear (called Alan Measles) that had become a "surrogate father figure".[2] Cross-dressing[edit]
Gavin Turk. Welcome to Tony Bevan. Jonathan Yeo. Caitlin Karolczak - Figural Works. Chantal Joffe. Frank Auerbach. Frank Helmut Auerbach (born April 29, 1931) is a painter born in Germany. He has been a naturalised British citizen since 1947.[1] Richard Diebenkorn. Caitlin Karolczak - Paintings. GEORGE BALDESSIN. Barbara Hulanicki. Ron Arad - home. Paula Rego. Barry McGee. Murals, LACMA parking garage (now torn down) by Barry McGee (Twist). Barry McGee (born 1966 in San Francisco) is a painter and graffiti artist. Rick Amor. Rick Amor (born 3 March 1948) is an Australian artist and figurative painter. Philip burke. Isabel Rawsthorne. Sarah Lucas. Hannah Höch. Hannah Höch (German: [hœç]; November 1, 1889 – May 31, 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage.
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