Archive for the ‘United States’ Category
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz on September 25, 1903, in Dvinsk, Russia (now Latvia). In 1913 he left Russia and settled with the rest of his family in Portland, Oregon. Rothko attended Yale University, New Haven, on a scholarship from 1921 to 1923. That year he left Yale without ...
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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
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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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
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
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
b. 1962 in Brazil. Lives and works in New York City.
Artist Statement:
“I’ve been paiting for almost 18 years. Painting, to me, is basically an intuitive process, I always find myself guided by intuition and led by emotion. As opposed to wide and long heavy brush strokes, I used to have, I ...
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