Archive for the ‘XX Century Icons’ Category
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1974) was a spanish artist whose name is almost synonymous with 20th century art. No artist was ever as famous as Picasso was in his own lifetime, or has been since. The controversies over his personality, arrogance, affairs with younger women, and unwillingness to be classified ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Edward Hopper, the best-known American realist of the inter-war period, once said: 'The man's the work. Something doesn't come out of nothing.' This offers a clue to interpreting the work of an artist who was not only intensely private, but who made solitude and introspection important themes in his painting. ...
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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
Francis Bacon was born October 28, 1909, in Dublin (died April 28, 1992 in Madrid). At the age of 16, he moved to London and subsequently lived for about two years in Berlin and Paris.
Although Bacon never attended art school, he began to draw and work in watercolor. Upon his ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Frida Kahlo is one of Mexico's most famous artists and also something of a feminist icon, celebrated for her passionate indomitability in the face of life's trials. She's best known for her daring self-portraits depicting the suffering she experienced in her personal life. As a child Kahlo had polio; at ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Painter, muralist. Born on December 8, 1886, in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Diego Rivera is now thought to be one of the leading artists of the twentieth century, Rivera began drawing as a child. He studied art at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts while in his teens and then traveled ...
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