Archive for November, 2007

Diego Rivera

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 ...

Herman Nitsch

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 ...

Joe Goodwin

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 ...

Harding Meyer

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

Jessica Kirkpatrick

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 ...

Our Mission

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 ...

Banksy

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, ...

Chuck Close - “Quotes”

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 ...

Ross Bleckner

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 ...

Carrie Anne Baade

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 ...