Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Born in Bavaria in 1944, the son of a Berlin film maker and a dealer of Oriental Antiquities, Stefan Beltzig attempted at first to turn his back on theartistic milieu in which he was raised, dropped out of school and joined a circustroop as an acrobat. After leading the life ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Sam Dolman was born in Scunthorpe North Lincolnshire, where he lived until he was 18. He then moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to study Accountancy, where he spent the next four years. After graduating it soon became apparent that figures were not the life for him. Following a year in Leeds and ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Born 1954, Wroclaw, Poland. Lives and works in Wroclaw. Members of The Association of Polish Artist and Designers.1980 - 1983 University Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan1980 - 1985 University of Wroclaw1994 - 1995 Graphic Practice on Academy of Fine Arts Wroclaw.
Artist Statement:
”My mind has always perceived painting as a process in which ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Work with abandoned places and desolate spaces, Mie Olise work is primarily painting, as well as building models of wood and cardboard and sometimes sowing. Also trained as an architect she is interested in constructions, perspectives, scales. Often spaces left by human beeings.Artist Statement:“I find the uncannyness of discovering a ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Painting as View of the World Only at a first glance do the works of Kevin A. Rausch (born in Carinthia, Austria) attest to a brittle, bleak apocalyptic mood; to desolatedness, grey battlegrounds, catastrophes, isolation, and the appendant weltschmerz. Once one takes a closer look, one can discover ironical associations ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
The current project “Engage” explores each particular subject’s personality and how those attributes are expressed on both a outward physical and psychological level. Through each individual work, the viewer can become intimately aquainted with the subject not only representationally, but on an emotional, intellectual, and moral level.Anatomical incorrectness with impossible ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
b. 1923, Barcelona
Antoni Tàpies was born December 13, 1923, in Barcelona. His adolescence was disrupted by the Spanish Civil War and a serious illness that lasted two years. Tàpies began to study law in Barcelona in 1944 but decided instead within two years to devote himself exclusively to art. ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965) is an American painter who rose to popularity in the mid 1990s.
She is a contemporary artist best known for stylized and ide
alized portraits of people who are in some way close to her – whereby her relationship to her subjects can assume a variety of ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
b. February 12, 1925. Chicago, Illinois. Died October 30, 1992. Paris.
A leading figure of the second generation of Abstract Expressionists in New York City, Joan Mitchell was born in Chicago to a wealthy family. She showed early art talent and attended Smith College from 1942 to 1944 and then transferred ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
b. 1940 in Monroe, Washington, USA.
He studied at the University of Washington School of Art, Seattle (1960–2), Yale University (1962–4), and in Vienna, Austria (1964–5). A photo-realist painter of large portraits.
In 1988, in mid-career, Close was paralyzed due to a blood clot in his spinal column. He regained partial use ...
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