Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954) American photographer. While still growing up she was drawn to the television environment of the 1960s and fascinated by disguise and make-up. She studied art at Buffalo State College (1972–6), concentrating on photography, which she maintained is the appropriate medium of expression in our media-dominated civilization. Her photographs are portraits of herself in various scenarios that parody stereotypes of woman. A panoply of characters and settings is drawn from sources of popular culture: old movies, television soaps and pulp magazines. Sherman rapidly rose to celebrity status in the international art world during the early 1980s with the presentation of a series of untitled ‘film stills’ in various group and solo exhibitions across America and Europe.
Jenny Saville JENNY SAVILLE The Mothers, 2011 Oil on canvas 106 5/16 x 86 5/8 inches (270 x 220 cm) Jenny Saville was born in Cambridge, England in 1970. In 1990, midway through her BA course at the Glasgow School of Art, Jenny Saville exhibited in Contemporary '90 at the Royal College of Art. In 1992 she completed her degree as well as showing in Edinburgh and in Critics Choice at the Cooling Gallery, London.
Jasper Johns - About the Painter In the late 1950’s, Jasper Johns emerged as force in the American art scene. His richly worked paintings of maps, flags, and targets led the artistic community away from Abstract Expressionism toward a new emphasis on the concrete. Johns laid the groundwork for both Pop Art and Minimalism. Today, as his prints and paintings set record prices at auction, the meanings of his paintings, his imagery, and his changing style continue to be subjects of controversy.
'Fountain', Marcel Duchamp Fountain is one of Duchamp’s most famous works and is widely seen as an icon of twentieth-century art. The original, which is lost, consisted of a standard urinal, usually presented on its back for exhibition purposes rather than upright, and was signed and dated ‘R. Mutt 1917’. Tate’s work is a 1964 replica and is made from glazed earthenware painted to resemble the original porcelain. The signature is reproduced in black paint. Robert Rauschenberg - About the Artist Born in Port Arthur, Texas in 1925, Robert Rauschenberg imagined himself first as a minister and later as a pharmacist. It wasn’t until 1947, while in the U.S. Marines that he discovered his aptitude for drawing and his interest in the artistic representation of everyday objects and people.
John Cage 4' 33" Digital Print is printable sheet music available anytime, anywhere. Just purchase, print and play! View your sheet music at home, school, work or anywhere you have a computer connected to the Internet. Yue Minjun - A Well-known Contemporary Chinese Artist 岳敏君 Yue Minjun (岳敏君), Born in 1962 in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province is a Cynical Realism pioneer in China. He's well-known for works featuring legions of colorful smiling figures. The figures in his paintings look alike, all ecstatic with big faces, wide open mouths, and closed eyes. His work Goldfish sold for $1,384,000 at Sotheby’s in New York on Mar. 21, 2007.”Gweong-Gweong” (轰轰) was sold on May 24, 2008 for $6,963,712, a record for the artist and also one of the highest prices ever paid..Website: www.yueminjun.com
Lucian Freud Portraits exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery Reflection (Self-portrait), 1985Private Collection, Ireland © The Lucian Freud Archive. Photo: Courtesy Lucian Freud Archive 'I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. FDCINC — The American Trip The monograph from a 1996 group show at Toronto's Power Plant gallery gathers four American artists whose work shares a kind of violent, youthful energy. Two pages from the Larry Clark section have been pasted together due to legal action taken against the publisher. Category:Books Subcategory:Monographs Themes:Art, Photography Signed:Unsigned and Unnumbered Color:Mixed Cover:Paperback Binding:glue bound Process:offset-printed Pages:64 p. ISBN:9780921047070 Dimensions:29.8 x 23 cm. Allan Kaprow Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works "The integration of all elements -- environment, constructed sections, time, space, and people -- has been my main technical problem..." Allan Kaprow was a pivotal figure in the shifting art world of the 1960s; his "happenings," a form of spontaneous, non-linear action, revolutionized the practice of performance art. While Kaprow began as a painter, by the mid 1950s his interest turned to the theoretical, based primarily on the shifting concepts of space as subjectively experienced by the viewer. Kaprow emerged from the group of artists known as the Rutgers Group, based out of Rutgers University where Kaprow taught art history and studio art. Kaprow was among the many artists and critics who focused on an intellectual and theorized view of art, rejecting the monumental nature of Abstract Expressionist works and instead focusing on the act of their production. Kaprow's happenings changed the definition of the art object.