Archive for the ‘Artists’ Category
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Over the past 25 years Mark Bennion (b.1948 Seattle, Washington) has developed a unique painting process, which he calls fresco. Using oil, plaster and paper on a panel on canvas, his work shows a contemporary edge and a pallet of it own, yet it seems like we are looking at fragments ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
b. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1960
Established Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes has attracted international attention with her colorful compositions since the 1990s. Her art features elements of both Brazilian pop culture and modern visual languages. Overlapping floral motifs, ornamental arabesques and abstract patterns convey an excessive, sensuous energy.
COLLECTIONS:
Solomon R. ...
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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 (b. October 22, 1925 in Port Arthur, Texas) is an American artist 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 ...
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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
Born in New York City in 1948, Eric Fischl grew up in the suburbs of Long Island , his parents having moved there shortly before his second year."Safer place to raise a family", they used to say. Against a backdrop of alcoholism and a country club culture obsessed with image ...
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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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