Archive for the ‘Contemporary Icons’ Category
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Ivald Granato: The performer, the visual artist, the sculpturer, the engraver, the vanguard and multitasking artist. For many he is a resteless L'enfant terrible. At the age of 60, he has been active and engaged in the Brazilian and international art scene for the past 40 years. With an endless ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Robert Raushcenberg (1925 - 2008).
Recognised as an heir to Dada and precursor of Pop Art, he glued, assembled and happily combined all sorts of images and materials from his era, playing on their interaction in terms of shape, texture and colour. In 1958, Léo Castelli took him under his wing ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
May 17 is the last day of the solo show of Howard Hodgkin at Gagosian Gallery (April 3 - May 17, 2008). His first show of new work in London since 1999, and his first at the Britannia Street galleries.
Hodgkin's paintings are unmistakable with their assertive, compressed gestures, brush-swept, complex ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Iberê Camargo is an artist of singular strength and feeling, and one of the great names in 20th century art. Ibere created an extensive body of work which includes paintings, drawings, gouaches and prints. He was born in November 1914 in Restinga Seca, in the interior of Rio Grande do ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Howard Hodgkin was born in London in 1932 and attended Camberwell School of Art and the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham. In 1984, he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and in the following year won the Turner Prize. He has exhibited internationally for over four decades and his work ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Vik Muniz (born 1961, São Paulo, Brazil) is a visual artist living in New York City, USA and Rio de Janiero, Brasil.
Early Career
Muniz began his career as a sculptor in the late 1980s after relocating from Brazil to Chicago and later to New York. His early work grew ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
b. Brazil - Rio de Janeiro - 1937-1980.
Hélio Oiticica used to say that he was not a 'career artist', reflecting his wish not to be categorised under an established label. Oiticica's early works were influenced by the Brazilian neo-Concretists and fell within the framework of geometric abstractionism, but his particular ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
b. 1904, Rotterdam; d. 1997, East Hampton, New York
Willem de Kooning was born April 24, 1904, in Rotterdam. From 1916 to 1925, he studied at night at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, while apprenticed to a commercial-art and decorating firm and later working for an ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008), is an American artist from Port Arthur, Texas who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is perhaps most famous for his “Combines” of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Lucian Michael Freud, (born 8 December 1922) is a British painter and printmaker. Freud was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922, son of Jewish parents Ernst Ludwig Freud, an architect, and Lucie née Brasch. He is the grandson of Sigmund Freud and brother of writer and politician Clement Raphael Freud ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Jean-Michel Basquiat, American - (1960-1988), was an artist who came to personify the art scene of the 80s,with its merging of youth culture, money, hype, excess, and self-destruction.
Basquiat’s art career is known for his three broad, though overlapping styles. In the earliest period, from 1980 to late 1982, Basquiat used ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Twombly was born in Lexington, Virginia. From 1947 to 1949 he studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, and at the Art Students League in New York from 1950 to 1951. There, he met Robert Rauschenberg who encouraged him ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987), better known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as Pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter; an avant-garde ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement. He was married to noted abstract painter Lee Krasner. Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912, the youngest of five sons. His father was a farmer ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Anselm Kiefer is regarded as one of the most important and influential artists working today. Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945, Donaueschingen) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials like straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of ...
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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
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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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Prince’s work has been among the most innovative art produced in the United States during the past 30 years. His deceptively simple act in 1977 of rephotographing advertising images and presenting them as his own ushered in an entirely new, critical approach to art-making—one that questioned notions of originality and ...
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