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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.
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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
Nathan Oliveira (born December 19, 1928) is an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California. He is a celebrated and long-standing member of the art community in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a painter who has lived in that area all his life, and is recently ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Born June 1955 in Orléans. Brisson is one of Europe’s most talented young contemporary artists. With simplified figures and extensive texturing, Brisson’s works have been compared to cave drawings. Their timeless appearances represent a kind of archeological dig for the artist: he cuts, scratches and pierces the multi-layered surfaces of ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Manuel Neri was born in 1930 in Sanger, California. Neri attended San Francisco City College from 1949-50 with the idea of becoming an electrical engineer. A single class in ceramics turned him to art and a move to California College of Arts and Crafts and subsequent studies at California School ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank) the American artist, was born Jane Babette Schenthal on July 25, 1918, in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in Baltimore on May 31, 1986. She is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist. A pupil of Hans Hofmann, she can in much ...
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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
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 ...
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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, ...
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