Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Painter, muralist. Born on December 8, 1886, in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Diego Rivera is now thought to be one of the leading artists of the twentieth century, Rivera began drawing as a child. He studied art at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts while in his teens and then traveled ...
Posted in Country - Artists, Mexico, XX Century Icons | Comments Off
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Text written by Patricia Ellis
Hermann Nitsch was born in Vienna in 1938. While studying graphic illustration, he became interested in religous art. He made copies from Rembrandt’s 100 Gulden Blatt and Christ Crucified, and from other religious themes by artists such as Tintoretto and El Greco. Other drawings Hermann Nitsch ...
Posted in Austria, Country - Artists, Spotlight | Comments Off
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Artist Statement:
While working on my MFA at the University of Illinois, I became interested in the work and ideas of C.G. Jung, especially his concept of the collective unconscious and his interest in dreams. Dreams defy physics and amplify experience with their ambiguous spaces, symbolic meanings, and sensations that seem ...
Posted in Country - Artists, Fine Artists, United States | Comments Off
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Outstading figurative/portrait contemporary artist
Biography
1964 Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil
1993 Meisterschüler
1987 - 1998 Studies at the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe / Prof. Max Kaminski and Prof Helmut Dorner
1999 Helmut-Stober-Prize
www.hardingmeyer.de
Posted in Brazil, Country - Artists, Fine Artists, Germany | Comments Off
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Artist’s Statement:
“As an artist I intend to empathize with people and the world through the visual mode. I use art as a reflective tool to understanding my self and the environment I inhabit. I feel that style and meaning is inextricable to form and composition; in that way, I ...
Posted in Country - Artists, Fine Artists, United States | Comments Off
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Our main goal is to showcase artists that made history in the 20th century, are making history now, as well as the ones we believe will make history in years to come. We welcome suggestions from artists and art lovers. All suggestions will be considered by our volunteer panel, which ...
Posted in Home | Comments Off
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Banksy is a well-known yet pseudo-anonymous English graffiti artist, possibly named Robert Banks. It is believed that Banksy is a native of Yate (near Bristol) who was born in 1974, but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and basic personal and biographical details. However, according to Tristan Manco, ...
Posted in Spotlight, UK | Comments Off
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Chuck Close
I've always thought that problem solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not work is salvation.
I am going for a ...
Posted in Quotes | Comments Off
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Ross Bleckner (born 1949) is an American Artist from New York City.
Ross Bleckner's mysteriously luminous paintings sustain a breathtaking atmosphere of their own. Since 1975 he has shown at prestigious venues internationally, including a major Guggenheim retrospective and European museum tours. He is the youngest artist ever to have a ...
Posted in Country - Artists, Spotlight, United States | Comments Off
Monday, November 26th, 2007
Carrie Anne Baade imaginative portraits and narratives are informed by religion and mythology. Gods, rulers, demons, and monsters play out the complexity of the human condition in her works that incorporate forgotten paintings to quote and interpret. She has traveled around the globe in search of inspiration; her works manifest ...
Posted in Country - Artists, Fine Artists, United States | Comments Off