Archive for the ‘United States’ Category
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
Artist Statement:
“At its core, my work is about the duality of existence: positive/negative, male/female, physical/spiritual and the dynamics that occur when they converge or mix like the spirituality of sex or the effects of time on people and things. Yet it’s the unexpected that I find most compelling about painting. ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
The current project “Engage” explores each particular subject’s personality and how those attributes are expressed on both a outward physical and psychological level. Through each individual work, the viewer can become intimately aquainted with the subject not only representationally, but on an emotional, intellectual, and moral level.Anatomical incorrectness with impossible ...
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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
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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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