VISUAL ARTS
Degas, (Hilaire-Germain-) Edgar (b. July 19, 1834, Paris, Fr.--d. Sept. 27, 1917, Paris) French artist, acknowledged as the master of drawing the human figure in motion. Degas worked in many mediums, preferring pastel to all others. He is perhaps best known for his paintings, drawings, and bronzes of ballerinas and of race horses.
This room, which was once divided into five smaller rooms, contains mostly paintings by Botticelli, including the world famous "Allegory of Spring" and "Birth of Venus", which has become, in a way, a symbol both of the gallery and of Renaissance Florentine art. There are also three works by Ghirlandaio, a painter interestingly influenced by Flemish style, and the magnificent "Portinari Triptych", by Hugo Van der Goes, a well-respected northern European artist who was sensitive to Italian style.
The sculptor Henry Spencer Moore (1898-1986) was born in Castleford, Yorkshire, the son of a coalminer. After serving in the Great War he studied at Leeds School of Art and later at the Royal College of Art in London. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s he carved in stone and wood, often influenced by 'primitive' sculpture, for example the art of ancient Mexico. His drawings of shelterers in the London Underground during the Second World War brought his work to a wider public. After the war he worked principally in bronze, allowing a huge increase in scale. Many of his monumental bronzes are exhibited throughout the world and he became the most internationally famous of British artists. In 1940 Moore moved to Perry Green in rural Hertfordshire, 30 miles north of London, where he lived and worked until his death in 1986.
French painter, one of the central figures of Neoclassicism. He had his first training with Boucher, a distant relative, but Boucher realized that their temperaments were opposed and sent David to Vien. David went to Italy with the latter in 1776, Vien having been appointed director of the French Academy at Rome, David having won the Prix de Rome. In Italy, David was able to indulge his bent for the antique and came into contact with the initiators of the new Classical revival, including Gavin Hamilton. In 1780 he returned to Paris, and in the 1780s his position was firmly established as the embodiment of the social and moral reaction from the frivolity of the Rococo.
Jan or Johannes Vermeer van Delft, b. October 1632, d. December 1675, a Dutch genre painter who lived and worked in Delft, created some of the most exquisite paintings in Western art. His works are rare. Of the 35 or 36 paintings generally attributed to him, most portray figures in interiors. All his works are admired for the sensitivity with which he rendered effects of light and color and for the poetic quality of his images.
Spanish painter, whose surrealist works, with their subject matter drawn from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy, are some of the most original of the 20th century. Miró was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona and studied at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and the Academia Galí. His work before 1920 shows wide-ranging influences, including the bright colors of the Fauves, the broken forms of cubism, and the powerful, flat two-dimensionality of Catalan folk art and Romanesque church frescoes of his native Spain. He moved to Paris in 1920, where, under the influence of surrealist poets and writers, he evolved his mature style. Miró drew on memory, fantasy, and the irrational to create works of art that are visual analogues of surrealist poetry.
The genius of the Tuscan scholar, Leonardo da Vinci can be seen in the admirable "Annunciation", in the unfinished cartoon of the "Adoration of the Magi", and in the "Baptism of Christ", in which his sfumato technique is mixed with his master Verrocchio's plastic style. Some works by Perugino, Piero Di Cosimo, Luca Signorelli and Lorenzo Di Credi can also be seen here, other works of theirs being in later rooms.
Murals are important cultural markers on the Los Angeles landscape. On the following WWW Pages we will attempt to bring you a representative sample of murals and documentary resources. This page is being sponsored by: Chicano/LatinoNet at UCLA; the Social al and Public Art Resource Center's Mural Resource Center in Venice (SPARC); the Los Angeles Mural Conservancy; and Social Sciences Computing at UCLA.
Nationality: American From the time he graduated from Yale until his death by suicide in 1970, Mark Rothko struggled with many of the same ideas as other abstract expressionists. Rothko painted "color fields," which are floating clouds of pure color that seem to be absorbed by the canvas.
This site is dedicated to documenting the History of Mexican American Art in Books. Here you can fine Cancel, Luis, et al. The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920-1970.Castillo, Griswold del. Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation. Los Angeles: Wight Art Gallery, 1991. Quirarte, Jacinto. Mexican and Mexican American Art in the United States, 1920-1970. Austin: U of Texas P, 1973.
NAVA is the national advocacy and research organization for the visual arts, crafts and design in Australia. NAVA members cover a broad spectrum of the community including artists, visual arts organizations, the
arts education sector, public and commercial galleries and arts manufacturers and retailers. NAVA undertakes to represent the professional interests of these sectors to advance the visual arts, crafts and
design in Australia.
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881. He is one of the most famous artists in the world. When he was young he amazed friends by drawing a perfect picture without lifting his pencil or looking at the paper. Pablo had many different periods in his artwork. Two of his most famous paintings are Guernica and The Young Ladies of Avignon. He even created a new way to sculpt and paint! His work was also an important step in Modern art. Picasso painted things the way he saw and felt about them. The way he saw things wasn't always as they really were. He kept on working right up to his death in 1973.
Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906),
French painter, born in the southern French town of Aix-en-Provence, January 19,1839. Cezanne, son of a wealthy banker, was often called the father of modern art, who strove to develop an ideal synthesis of naturalistic representation and abstract pictorial order.
Robert Crumb might be one of the weirdest comic artists in the world, but that makes him one of the best. For being a member of his family (which is described intensively in the movie "Crumb") you could even say he's "normal" (does this exist?). Today, Crumb is known as a chronist of the flower power time. His comics often (always?) have to do with sex, drugs and... well, sex. No wonder that society was shocked by this man who just drew (and still draws) what was in his mind... without restriction or censorship. Over and over again he was accused of racism, sexism and all the other -ism-s. The greatest success was Fritz the Cat( which also had these ingredients). Crumb now is fairly well accepted as an artist and lots of his originals hang in museums.
The construction of the Uffizi palace began in 1560, when the Duke Cosimo I dei Medici decided to build a special seat for the offices (hence the name "uffizi") of the thirteen magistracies, that is for the administrative center of the Florentine State. Cosimo I commissioned the project of the building to Giorgio Vasari, painter and architect at the Medici court, who realized one of the most famous architectural masterwork of Florentine Mannerism. Now a museum, the Uffizi houses some of the worlds great masterpieces.
The Very Special Arts Galleries in Washington DC and Beverly Hills CA represent emerging and professional artists with disabilities from around the country. The Galleries help to connect these artists with art patrons, collectors and exhibition opportunities across the country. Proceeds from art sales benefit the artists and programs of Very Special Arts.
Your central resource for finding out what's happening on the Washington, DC, visual arts scene. If you're planning to visit Washington, or just want to check out what's going on here, browse through ArtWOW first. ArtWOW is sponsored by the KOAN Art Newsletter, a monthly hardcopy publication.
Women in the Visual Arts, Inc. is a non-profit organization, founded in 1989 with a membership of six professional artists who formed the organization with the idea in mind of encouraging and supporting the
visual arts in the state of Florida. Its main goal is to promote public interest in the visual arts through its programs and activities and to award
scholarships to worthy, talented, graduate students enrolled in a fine arts program at a local university. It also created a forum in which members could network, sharing ideas and helping one another achieve their artistic
goals.
From Leonardo to Lichtenstein, Durer to Warhol - References, Biographies, Images. Over two hundred reproductions of some of the world greatest painters are presented on this site.
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