Discussions about artists Biography

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Melancholie had a good point so I am going to do what was suggested. Instead of having a different thread every time I will just post the biographies here and update each time to discuss the new artist.

So tonight I have a very deep biography about Francis Picabia with some wonderful paintings at the bottom and from yesterday we have Marcel Duchamp. Please let me know your thoughts.

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Site updated with some more Graffiti photos. I really like the graffiti that is coming in, because it is not classed as mainstream art but some looks so good.

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The latest biography from genius cubist sculpturer Jacques Lipchitz. Please also continue to post your graffiti photos and your title for the title competition.

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I do not know how I managed to grow up without knowing some of these artists. The inspiration that touches me when I look at their paintings is overwhelming. After what I have been through in these last few months, cast away like unwanted garbage, loved one minuted hated the next, it is art like this that keep my paintbrush moving. JAP :nohope:

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Amazing that this cubist did so many things, I really enjoy his work, beautiful color usage. Check out the video at the bottom. I will be posting some more of my own paintings on the My Gallery page, I still look forward to receiving any from you.

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Lyonel Feininger’s I can only describe as outstandingly beautiful. I found this passionate essay about the artist by Kathy Zimmerer. Hope you enjoy it.

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I have posted a new biography about this neoplasticist, I really am learning all the time, I have had some great feedback. I also have a page on neoplasticism and a which do you prefer? post.

Enjoy!

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Georgia O'keeffe, remarkable woman, check out the lovely video.

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Gustav Klimt, all that gold, I love it! :bashful: I even wrote the biography in orange to go with the mood.

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Lee Krasner was known all her life as Jackson Pollock's wife, although she was a a genius artist herself. She actually spent more time promoting her husbands art than her own. What a shame.

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August Macke (January 3, 1887 – September 26, 1914) was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art which saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. Like a true artist of his time, Macke knew how to integrate into his painting the elements of the avant-garde which most interested him..... see more come back to discuss

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http://www.repro-tableaux.com/kunst/august_macke_726/leute_am_blauen_see.jpg

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Not going to write tonight because I am so tired after work, if you have any artists you would like me to write about then let me know.

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I wrote about Josef Albers, come back and discuss.

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http://www.albersfoundation.org/images/iGallery/images/i530.jpg

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After apprenticing in Paris, where she was admitted to the Surrealists’ innermost circle, Spanish-born painter Remedios Varo fled the Nazi Occupation for Mexico. There she created her own brand of Surrealism, bringing to it a passion for alchemy, mysticism and the occult....

http://www.turingmachine.org/~dmg/images/arte/remedios/remecien.jpg

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The great Mexican Muralist.

http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/o/fotos/orozco_dioses.jpg

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Hans Richter was considered one of the early Dadaists, a form of art which was marked by nonsense and travesty and it destroyed current aesthetic art standards.

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In 1954, Jasper Johns destroyed all his art. This guy actually destroyed all his art and then became known.

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/assets/img/data/2962/bild.jpg

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Out of focus in his paintings and his worldview, Gerhard Richter has never committed to one artistic style.... read more
http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/RichterG2.jpg

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Ronnie Landfield (born January 9, 1947 in The Bronx, New York) is an American abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction (related to Postminimalism, Color Field painting, and Abstract expressionism), and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the Andre Emmerich Gallery. A veteran of more than sixty solo exhibitions and nearly two hundred group exhibitions, he is best known for his abstract landscape paintings.

I didnt know too much about this artist so I had to borrow bits and pieces.
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http://www.artcritical.com/gelber/images/landfield.jpg

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I found this great article about Buddhist art, and color symbolism, read and enjoy.
Esoteric Buddhism is unique in presenting through visual images, the most abstract of concepts......

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The youngest of the first-generation abstract expressionists, Theodoros Stamos was born in New York in 1922, to Greek immigrant parents.

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http://www.apex-internet.com/portfolio/bamatmsu/images/Stamos.gif

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Ok I didn't know too much about this British artist so except that I don't really like his art. So I had to do a bit of research and there is some that I like and some that I just don't get. So to read more go here...
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I cant believe he sold a painting for 11 million GBP, thats 22 MILLION USD

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The American painter Morris Louis (Bernstein; 1912-1962) explored new realms of pictorial space with his series the “Veils”, the “Unfurleds”, and the “Stripes”. By exploiting the anonymous “stain” method, he formed a bridge between the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s and the Minimalists of the 1960s. View the rest... http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/

http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_135008_62607_resize_morris-louis-addition-v-br-photo-1993-marcella-louis-brenner.asp?width=130&maxheight=130

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Mark Tobey was a leading painter of the Northwest School, one of the four “Northwest Mystics” described in a 1953 Life magazine article that proclaimed the “Mystic Painters of the Pacific Northwest.” http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/

http://jackwise.net/images/context_influences_mark_tobey_large.jpg

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David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), one of the great Mexican mural painters, introduced technical innovations in his murals and easel paintings.

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http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/self_portraits/img/img_siqueiros_bigmural.jpg

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Born in 1903, Louis Schanker quit school as a teenager and joined the circus, worked in the wheat fields of the Great Plains.... http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/

http://www.mercurygallery.com/LouisSchankerArt/large/chalks/264_lg.jpg

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Something a bit different. Claude Monet was born in 1840, the eldest son of a Parisian shopkeeper....http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/

http://www.gymmuenchenstein.ch/stalder/klassen/hie/music_and_art/monet/waterlielies-Dateien/image002.jpg

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Carrà was born in Quargnento, in the province of Alessandria, Italy, in 1881 to a family of artisans.... http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/

http://www.anisa.it/bollettino/bollettino-17/immagini-17/A4_pino_sul_mare.jpg

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I decided to move away from abstract art for a few days although some of this next artist's work can be classed as abstract. I thought I would write about Paul Gauguin, because I am sure he was much like me and loved women :tihi: His paintings and sculptures were good as well :tihi:

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http://communitas.princeton.edu/blogs/writingart23/images/WhereDoWeComeFrom2.jpg

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As they have a wonderful exhibition happening at Somerset House in London of Walter Sickert’s nudes then I thought it would be fitting to do a piece on Walter Sickert. His nudes are particularly fascinating and beautiful. I have always had a passion for women nudes, the female body painted is just such an amazing visualization.....
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http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/content/images/2007_4614.JPG

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Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch painter whose formal distortions and humanistic concerns made him a major pioneer of twentieth-century expressionism, an artistic movement that emphasized expression of the artist’s experience. I find his artwork fascinating and particularly mesmerizing. I was once asked to paint a reproduction and as someone who normally paint abstract expressionist, found this challenging but thoroughly enjoyable.
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Out of the tumultuous atmosphere of the 1960s came an artist who became the icon of the free spirit. Andy Warhol introduced the world, and particularly an artistically fertile America, to the idea of life as an art.

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The French painter Paul Cézanne was one of the most important figures in the development of modern painting, in particular abstract art and cubism....

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The Spanish painter Joan Miró was one of the first surrealists (artists who created art that emphasized fantastic imagery who were part of a movement called surrealism that began in the early twentieth century). Miró developed a highly personalized visual language that originated from prehistoric and natural sources.
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“René Magritte was no doubt disappointed that, aside from the small circle of his kindred spirits among the Surrealists, the world needed over a quarter of a century to discover that his work has both philosophical and poetic content which corresponds to certain social and intellectual trends, particularly of the second half of the twentieth century.

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Although noone wants to discuss I will keep posting and hopefully get some attention sooner or later. :steph: I just love the Mexican painters so much I thought it was about time I did another one. I went to an exhibition in Budapest once, opened by the Mexican Ambassador and so this artists’ work and was overwhelmed by its beauty, hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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Born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1933, He now lives and works in Aripeka, Florida, and New York City Jim Rosenquist had an itinerant childhood... Read on

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LONDON. Tate Liverpool has commissioned the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to make a....

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Mark Wallinger has been named the winner of the Turner Prize for his replica of the one-man anti-war protest in Parliament Square, State Britain.

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Even though he is not abstract I had to do Leonardo, so here goes...

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