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• Title: List of Short, Artist Biographys
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  • Stuart Davis (1894-1964)
  • Matthias Grünewald (his real name was Mathis Neithart, otherwise Gothart, 1470/80-1528)
  • Simone Martini (circa 1280-1344)
  • Bartolomé Murillo (1617-82)
  • Nehemiah Partridge
• Title: Short Bio of Albrecht Altdorfer
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  • Altdorfer, Albrecht (c. 1480-1538). German painter and graphic artist
  • the leading artist of the so-called Danube School.
  • and Dürer's art too was known to him through the
  • of the art of Mantegna, perhaps through the mediation
  • the first artists to show an interest in landscape as an independent genre.
  • formed part of a large series of famous battle-pieces from Classical antiquity.
• Title: Short Bio of Altichiero (active 1372-84)
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  • collaborated with an artist called Avanzo, who is otherwise unknown and
  • the point of departure for a new style which is reflected in Pisanello.
• Title: Short Bio of Fra Angelico (c. 1400-55)
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  • ‘not an artist properly so-called but an inspired saint’
  • (Ruskin), Angelico was in fact a highly professional artist, who
  • Florentine art and in later life travelled extensively for prestigious
  • and he had considerable influence on Italian painting. His particular
  • Fra Bartolommeo, who followed him into the Convento di S. Marco in
• Title: Short Bio of Rolf Armstrong
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  • began to show an interest in art. His early sketches are of sailors, boxers,
  • renowned Art Institute of Chicago, where, to survive he taught boxing,
  • baseball and art while he studied. After Chicago Rolf arrived in New York,
  • where he started producing images for magazine covers the first being for
  • He started producing calendar girls in 1919, the first being called
  • art deco sophistication to them. Although he carried on painting throughout
  • artists such as Vargas, Elvgren, Moran and Mozert. He retired in the late
• Title: Short Bio of Zacharie Astruc (1833-1907)
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  • Sculptor, painter and art critic, he participated in the first
  • His defense of living art was consistent and whole-hearted;
  • paper for its duration, in which he lauded the participating
  • artists, describing Manet as ‘one of the greatest artistic
  • A Studio in the Batignolles Quarter
• Title: Short Bio of Dirck Baburen
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  • best-known work is The Procuress (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1622).
• Title: Short Bio of Hans Baldung
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  • Baldung Grien, Hans (1484/85-1545). German painter and graphic artist.
  • a large body of graphic work, particularly book illustrations. He was active
• Title: Short Bio of Federico Barocci (c. 1535-1612)
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  • Barocci was born in Urbino and apart from two trips to Rome early in his
  • Despite the fact that he worked away from the main centers of art, his work
  • and was one of the first artists to make extensive use of colored chalks.
• Title: Short Bio of Jacopo Bassano (1553-1613)
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  • the most celebrated member of a family of artists who took their name from
  • Apart from a period in the 1530s when he trained with Bonifazio Veronese
  • something of the peasant artist, even though the influence of, for example,
• Title: Short Bio of Giovanni Bellini (1430?-1516)
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  • art that
  • 15th-century Gothic revival artists. Giovanni and his brother probably began
• Title: Short Bio of William Blake (1757-1827)
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  • England's great figures of art and literature and one of the most inspired
  • Blake's fame as an artist and engraver rests largely on a set of 21
  • However, he did much work for which other artists and engravers got the
• Title: Short Bio of Hieronymus Bosch
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  • artistic career in the small Dutch town of Hertogenbosch, from which he
  • eccentric painter of religious visions who dealt in particular with the
  • all of which are now lost. The artist probably never went far from home,
  • Bosch's pictures are dated, although the artist signed many of them.
• Title: Short Bio of Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Moriano Filipepi, 1444/5-1510)
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  • 19th century by a group of artists in England known as the Pre-Raphaelites.
• Title: Short Bio of François Boucher (1703-1770)
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  • Boucher's delicate, lighthearted depictions of classical divinities
• Title: Short Bio of Dirk Bouts
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  • Apart from these, there are no documented works, but his style is highly
  • Particularly popular were small devotional images of the
• Title: Short Bio of Marie Bracquemond
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  • led him to participate in the Impressionist exhibitions of 1874, 1879
  • their ideas or techniques. In 1871 he was appointed art director
  • dedicated to graphic art; but nothing came of it, largely because
  • achievement, seldom showed her works to viewing artists and resented
• Title: Short Bio of Melchior Broederlam (active 1381-1409)
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  • from 1387. Documents show that he was a busy and versatile artist, but his
  • (Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, 1394-99).
• Title: Short Bio of Agnolo Bronzino
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  • of real feeling leading to empty, elegant posturing, as in The Martyrdom
  • He was a much respected figure who took a prominent part in the activities
• Title: Short Bio of Ford Brown
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  • Edward III (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1851) contains
  • His best-known picture, The Last of England (City Art Gallery,
  • Birmingham, 1855) was inspired by the departure of Woolner, the Pre-Raphaelite
  • Work (Manchester City Art Gallery, 1852-63), shows his dedicated
  • later part of his career is a cycle of paintings (1878-93) in Manchester
• Title: Short Bio of Pieter Bruegel (about 1525-69)
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  • was apprenticed to Coecke van Aelst, a leading Antwerp artist, sculptor,
  • 1563. His association with the van Aelst family drew Bruegel to the artistic
• Title: Short Bio of Sir Burne-Jones (1833-1898)
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  • Pre-Raphaelites’ concern with restoring to art what they considered
  • Burne-Jones was also prominent in the revival of medieval applied arts
  • led by his Oxford friend the poet and artist William Morris. For
• Title: Short Bio of Gustave Caillebotte
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  • Beaux-Arts in Paris. He met
  • Paris that same year. He participated in later shows and painted some 500
  • government accepted part of the collection.
• Title: Short Bio of Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
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  • Meanwhile, partly under the influence of Luca Carlevaris, and largely
  • which ultimately formed an important part of his work.
• Title: Short Bio of Alonso Cano (1601-67)
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  • His movements were partly dictated by his tempestuous character, for more
• Title: Short Bio of Michelangelo Caravaggio (1573-1610)
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  • (1573-1610). Probably the most revolutionary artist of his time,
  • of artists before him. They had idealized the human and religious experience.
• Title: Short Bio of Lewis; Caroll
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  • London), English illustrator and satirical artist, especially known
• Title: Short Bio of Antoine Caron
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  • artistic personality, and his work reflects the refined but unstable atmosphere
• Title: Short Bio of Carracci (1557-1602)
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  • in the movement against the prevailing Mannerist artificiality of Italian
  • academy, which soon became a center for progressive art. It was originally
  • on drawing from the life (all three were outstanding graphic artists) and
  • clear draughtsmanship became a quality particularly associated with artists
  • who was by far the greatest artist of the family, was called to Rome by
  • work became accepted as a fundamental part of composing any ambitious history
  • Pantheon. It is a measure of his achievement that artists as great and
  • much to admire and praise in his work. Annibale's art also had a less formal
  • artist in his day, but after his early death was virtually forgotten, and
• Title: Short Bio of Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
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  • she studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in
  • His art and ideas had a considerable influence on her own work;
  • and she participated in the exhibitions of 1879, 1880, 1881 and 1886,
  • contemporary French artists.
  • (The Bath, 1891; Art Institute of Chicago).
• Title: Short Bio of Pietro Cavallini (active 1273-1308)
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  • have been the leading artist of his day. His two major surviving works
  • and a fragmentary fresco cycle, the most important part of which is a
• Title: Short Bio of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
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  • 20th-century artists and art movements, especially
  • art, misunderstood and discredited by the public during most of his
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779)
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  • sharply with the heroic historical subjects and lighthearted rococo scenes
  • that constituted the mainstream of art during the mid-18th century.
• Title: Short Bio of William Chase
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  • most important American teacher of his generation. He taught at the Art
  • Students’ League of New York and then at his own Chase School of Art, founded
  • Demuth, O'Keefe, and Sheeler. Chase was a highly prolific artist (his output
• Title: Short Bio of Petrus Christus
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  • Detroit Institute of Arts).
• Title: Short Bio of John Constable (1776-1837)
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  • as one of the greatest British landscape artists.
  • Although he showed an early talent for art and began painting his
  • matured slowly. He committed himself to a career as an artist only in
  • and loved best, particularly Suffolk and Hampstead, where he lived from
• Title: Short Bio of John Copley (1738-1815)
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  • show the influence of his stepfather, an engraver, and the Boston artist John
  • Smibert. In about 1755 Copley met the English artist Joseph Blackburn, whose
  • in 1766 to the Society of Artists in London. It was praised
  • by both Sir Joshua Reynolds and by the transported American artist
  • Copley used what became a frequent theme of 19th-century Romantic art, the
• Title: Short Bio of Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
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  • Correggio as one of the boldest and most inventive artists of the
• Title: Short Bio of Piero Cosimo
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  • and Frederick Hartt (A History of Italian Renaissance Art, 1970)
  • by his pupil Andrea del Sarto.
• Title: Short Bio of Gustave Courbet (1819-77)
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  • (1819-77). The painter Courbet started and dominated the
  • Art critics and the public were accustomed to
  • artists. In 1844 his self-portrait,
  • was accepted by the Salon, an annual public exhibition of art
  • In 1848 a political revolution in France foreshadowed a revolution in art,
  • as people in the arts became more open to new ideas. Courbet's early work was
  • The Artist's Studio, and, when it was refused for an important
• Title: Short Bio of Lucas Cranach (1472-1553)
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  • when he settled in Vienna and started working in the humanist circles
  • (Reinhart Collection, Winterhur), and several religious works in which he
• Title: Short Bio of Jasper Cropsey
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  • His artistic skills improved rapidly as Jasper mimicked whatever paintings,
  • architect. Trench realized young Jasper's artistic ability and provided
  • him with studio space and art supplies in order to develop his artistic
  • from engravings of Claude Lorrain and other landscape artists.
• Title: Short Bio of Cuyp
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  • as a portrait painter — his portraits of children are particularly fine — but
  • along Holland's great rivers to the eastern part of the Netherlands, and
• Title: Short Bio of Edward d'Ancona
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  • Although he was a prolific pin-up artist who produced hundreds of enjoyable images, almost nothing is known about his background. He sometimes signed his paintings with the name "D'Amarie", but his real name appears on numerous calendar prints published from the mid 1930s through the mid 1950s, and perhaps as late as 1960.
  • The first company to publish d'Ancona pin-ups, about 1935 to 1937, was Louis F. Dow in St Paul. d'Ancona worked in oil on canvas and his originals from that time usually measured about 30 x 22 inches. His early work is comparable in quality to that of the young Gil Elvgren, who had begun to work for Dow in 1937. Because d'Ancona produced so much work for Dow, one might assume that he was born in Minnesota and lived and worked in the St Paul, Minneapolis area. It is known that he supplied illustrations to the Goes Company in Cincinnati and to several soft-drink firms, which capitalized on his works similarity to the Sundblom/Elvgren style, which was so identified with Coca-Cola. During the 1940s and 1950s, d'Ancona's superb use of primary colors, masterful brushstrokes, and painterly style elevated him to the ranks of the very best artist in pin-up and glamour art. His subject matter at this time resembled Elvgren's. Both enjoyed painting nudes and both employed situation poses a great deal. d'Ancona also painted a fair amount of evening-gown scenes, as did Elvgren, Frahm, and Erbit.
  • By 1960, d'Ancona had moved into the calendar art field. Instead of doing pin-ups and glamour images, however, he specialized in pictures on the theme of safety in which wholesorne policemen helped children across the street in suburban settings that came straight out of Norman Rockwell.
• Title: Short Bio of Gerard David
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  • leading artist after the death of
  • still maintained its prestige as a center of art and David played an
  • developed in the first quarter of the 16th century.
• Title: Short Bio of Stuart Davis (1894-1964)
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  • Stuart Davis
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  • He grew up in an artistic environment, for his father
  • was art director of a Philadelphia newspaper, who had employed
  • Using natural forms, particularly forms suggesting the characteristic
  • Davis is generally considered to be the outstanding American artist
• Title: Short Bio of Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
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  • French artist, acknowledged as the master of drawing the human figure
• Title: Short Bio of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
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  • as an artist of the
  • painters and even modern artists such as
• Title: Short Bio of Alexandre-François Desportes (1661-1743)
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  • the chase; he was among the first 18th-century artists to introduce
• Title: Short Bio of Billy DeVorss
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  • William Albartus DeVorss, (1908- ), more commonly known
  • from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1934 and soon after moved to New York
  • to pursue his career in both pin-up art and advertising.
• Title: Short Bio of Gustave Doré (1832-83)
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  • quarters of the city and captured the attention of
• Title: Short Bio of Dosso Dossi
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  • for the part played in his work by landscape, in which he continues the
  • The influence from these two artists is indeed so strong that it is thought
• Title: Short Bio of Peter Driben
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  • was perhaps one of the most productive pin-up artists of
  • George Art School before moving to study at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1925.
  • original posters & publicity artwork for 'The Maltese Falcon'. Peter
  • Driben turned, like many of his colleagues, to portrait and fine-art work,
• Title: Short Bio of Albrecht Dürer
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  • artist. His vast
  • German painter, printmaker, draughtsman and art
• Title: Short Bio of Adam Elsheimer
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  • his nocturnal scenes are particularly original, bringing out the best in
  • his lyrical temperament, and he is credited with being the first artist
  • the Dutch amateur artist Count Hendrick Goudt (1573-1648), and Elsheimer
  • unsuccessful and died in poverty. Sandrart says he suffered from melancholia
  • work of many other 17th-century artists.
• Title: Short Bio of Gil Elvgren
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  • 1914, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He started at the Minnesota Art Institute studying
  • Art. After graduation he found work at Stevens and Gross, a prestigious
  • Elvgren started producing pin-up girls in 1937 for the publishing company
  • However Elvgren soon branched out into other forms of commercial art, amongst
• Title: Short Bio of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)
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  • friendship with leading avant-garde artists.
  • progressive artists, Fantin-Latour was a traditionalist, and his portraits
  • particularly are in a precise, detailed style. Much of his later career
• Title: Short Bio of Master Flémalle (active 1406-44)
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  • (Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon), and
  • (National Gallery, London), which shows the homely detail and down-to-earth
  • naturalism associated with the artist (the firescreen behind the Virgin's
  • he emerges as a very powerful and important artistic personality.
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)
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  • but formed a particular admiration for
  • already turning against Fragonard's lighthearted style. He tried
  • easy to chart his stylistic develop;ent. Alongside those of Boucher, his
• Title: Short Bio of Art Frahm
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  • Art Frahm, yet another Chicago area artist and a likely Sundblom-shop graduate, compares favorably with such master technicians in oil as Elvgren. But his significance comes out of his defining roles in two seemingly opposite pin-up categories.
  • Frahm, whose commercial art ranged from magazine cover illustration to zany "hobo" calendar paintings, excelled in (and perhaps created) the "ladies in distress" series for the Joseph C. Hoover & Sons calendar company, in which a lovely girl is literally caught with her panties down, her lacy undies slipping to her ankles while she's in the process of bowling, walking the dog or changing a tire.
• Title: Short Bio of Lucian Freud
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  • love was drawing, and he began to work full time as an artist after being
  • (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
  • set him apart from the sober tradition characteristic of most British
  • figurative art since the Second World War. In his later work (from the
• Title: Short Bio of Caspar Friedrich
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  • May 7, 1840, was one of the greatest exponents in European art of the
  • settled in Dresden, often traveling to other parts of Germany. Friedrich's
  • time in Christian art — an altarpiece was conceived in terms of a pure
  • evening sun, which the artist said depicted the setting of the old,
  • meanings, clues to which are provided either by the artist's writings or
  • the Reformation and the transitoriness of earthly things.
• Title: Short Bio of Pearl Frush
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  • Gulf Coast of Mississippi when she was still a child. She enrolled in art
  • them after enrolling at the Chicago Art Institute.
  • the Clock. It wasn't until 1955 that Brown and Bigelow started producing
  • female pinup artists of the fifties.
  • often more gracefully portrayed and less overtly sexual than other artists work of the time.
• Title: Short Bio of Henry Fuseli
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  • draughtsman, and writer on art, active mainly in England, where he was
  • Institute of Arts, 1781), the picture that secured his reputation when
  • out in many of his literary subjects, which formed a major part of his
  • me almost spew'. Fuseli's extensive writings on art include Lectures
• Title: Short Bio of Thomas Gainsborough
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  • and fancy pictures, one of the most individual geniuses in British art.
  • City Art Gallery, 1782). Gainsborough's style had diverse sources. His
  • Blue Boy, Huntingdon Art Gallery, San Marino, 1770); and in his later
  • Reynolds praised ‘his manner of forming all the parts of a picture together',
• Title: Short Bio of (Eugène-Henri-) Gauguin (1848-1903)
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  • 20th-century art. After spending a short period with
  • in Arles (1888), Gauguin increasingly abandoned imitative art for
• Title: Short Bio of Aert Gelder
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  • Dutch artist to continue working in his style into the 18th century. His
  • religious paintings, in particular, with their imaginative boldness and
• Title: Short Bio of Gentile (c. 1370-1427)
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  • Italian art centers and was recognized as one of the foremost artists
• Title: Short Bio of (Jean-Louis-André-) Géricault (1791-1824)
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  • art in France. Géricault was a fashionable dandy and an avid horseman
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Léon Gérôme
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  • of academic tradition and enemy of progressive trends in art; he opposed,
• Title: Short Bio of Domenico Ghirlandaio
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  • This was commissioned by Giovanni Tornabuoni, a partner in the Medici bank,
• Title: Short Bio of Luca Giordano
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  • Italian decorative artist of the second half of the 17th century. He was
  • and was said to be able to imitate other artists’ styles with ease. His
  • Naples was the ceiling of the Treasury Chapel of S. Martino. In his
• Title: Short Bio of Giotto (c. 1267-1337)
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  • Giotto was recognized as the first genius of art in the Italian Renaissance.
  • traditional religious subjects, but he gave these subjects an earthly,
  • The artist's full name was Giotto di Bondone. He was born about 1266 in
  • artists, he saved his money and was accounted a rich man. He was on familiar
  • In common with other artists of his day, Giotto lacked the technical
  • possessed was infinitely greater than the technical skill of the artists who
  • soul-searching decisions. Modern artists often seek inspiration from Giotto.
• Title: Short Bio of Vincent Gogh (1853-90)
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  • in modern art. His work, all of it produced
• Title: Short Bio of Nuño Gonçalves
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  • and Flemish art, especially the work of Bouts.
• Title: Short Bio of Francisco Goya
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  • Spanish artist whose multifarious paintings, drawings, and engravings
  • haunting satire of his etchings, and his belief that the artist's vision is
  • continue his study of art. On returning to Saragossa in 1771, he painted
  • tradition, established Goya's artistic reputation. In 1773 he married Josefa
  • Bayeu, sister of Saragossa artist Francisco Bayeu. The couple had many
  • From 1775 to 1792 Goya painted cartoons (designs) for the royal tapestry
  • factory in Madrid. This was the most important period in his artistic
  • free style and an earthy realism unprecedented in religious art.
  • one of the few nudes in Spanish art at that time.
  • paintings hang in Madrid's Prado art museum.
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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  • 1804-05), but he died in poverty. His huge output is particularly well
• Title: Short Bio of Matthias Grünewald (his real name was Mathis Neithart, otherwise Gothart, 1470/80-1528)
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  • (his real name was Mathis Neithart, otherwise Gothart, 1470/80-1528)
  • Matthias Grünewald, c.1475-1528, whose real name was Mathis Gothart,
  • called Nithart or Neithardt, was a major figure in a generation of great
  • Martin Luther, he executed several commissions for two bishops of the Mainz
• Title: Short Bio of Francesco Guardi
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  • of a family of artists. He is now famous for his views of Venice, indeed
  • still working for other artists when he was over 40, he never attracted
• Title: Short Bio of Jan Heem
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  • artists Claesz. and Heda. In 1636 he moved to
• Title: Short Bio of Velino Shije Herrera
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  • Santa Fe and was started in art by Dr. Edgar L. Hewett. He began painting about
  • instructor at the Albuquerque Indian School in 1936. Herrera was a part
  • the trends in art for the pueblos. His "Buffalo Dancer" is a much copied
• Title: Short Bio of Nicholas Hilliard
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  • to France, which he visited c.1577-78. In his treatise The Arte of Limning
  • In particular he avoided the use of shadow for modelling and in his treatise
  • and subtlety peculiar to that art. He combined his unerring use of line
  • to heighten the vividness with which the sitter's face is impressed. Apart
  • Portrait Gallery, London, and in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. In
• Title: Short Bio of Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858)
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  • Art of the Edo Period
  • to have first kindled in him the desire to become an artist,
  • as a landscape artist, reaching a peak of success and achievement in
  • With Hokusai, Hiroshige dominated the popular art of Japan
• Title: Short Bio of Meindert Hobbema
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  • the majesty of nature. He painted a narrow range of favorite subjects — particularly
  • Hobbema has been a popular artist in England (his influence is clear
• Title: Short Bio of David Hockney (1937- )
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  • Pop Art
  • Royal College of Art, Hockney had achieved international success by
  • as by far the best-known British artist of his generation.
  • made him a recognizable figure even to people not particularly interested
  • in art: a film about him entitled A Bigger Splash (1974)
• Title: Short Bio of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
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  • Art of the Edo Period
  • developed into a series of spirals that imparted the utmost freedom
  • of coloring that imparted a more somber mood to his work,
• Title: Short Bio of Hans Holbein (1465?-1524)
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  • received his first lessons in art from his father. In 1515 the younger
  • Erasmus, who befriended the young artist and asked him to illustrate his
  • other books, including Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible. In
  • Basel a difficult place for an artist to work. In 1526 Holbein, carrying a
• Title: Short Bio of Johan Jongkind
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  • Johan Barthold Jongkind
  • Jongkind, Johan Barthold (b. June 3, 1819, Lattrop, Neth. — d. Feb. 9,
• Title: Short Bio of Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
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  • 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Fr.), Russian-born artist, one of the first
  • piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching
  • at Atlantis Art reviews.
• Title: Short Bio of Anselm Kiefer
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  • law studies at Univ. of Freiburg to study at art academies in Freiburg,
  • particularly Nazi period; in 1970s painted series of landscapes that capture
• Title: Short Bio of Ron Kitaj
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  • Pop Art
  • American painter and graphic artist, active mainly in England, where he
  • has been one of the most prominent figures of the Pop art movement.
  • Before becoming a student at the Royal College of Art, Kitaj had travelled
  • Allen Jones), particularly in holding up his own preference for figuration
  • Late 19th-century French art has been a major source of inspiration,
  • Unlike the majority of Pop artists, Kitaj has had relatively little interest
  • sources — indeed he has declared that he is not a Pop artist.
• Title: Short Bio of Paul Klee
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  • A Swiss-born painter and graphic artist whose personal, often gently
  • Primitive art,
  • and children's art all seem blended
  • hesitation he chose to study art, not music, and he attended the Munich
  • enthusiastically to Early Christian and Byzantine art.
  • Munich, then an important center for avant-garde art. That same year he
  • of abstract art.
  • These, part of Klee's complex language of symbols and signs, are drawn from
  • reality. He wrote that "Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes
  • of his several important essays on art theory, Klee tried to define and
• Title: Short Bio of Charles de La Fosse (1636-1716)
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  • the dictator of artistic matters in France
  • later artists, however, are his smaller works, such as
• Title: Short Bio of Nicolas Largillière (1656-1746)
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  • the wealthy middle classes. Most artists of his time took as their
  • pioneer by those 18th-century artists who followed the later, more
• Title: Short Bio of Charles Le (1619-90)
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  • arbiter of artistic production in France during the last half of the
  • artists created a homogeneous style that came to be accepted
  • throughout Europe as the paragon of academic and propagandistic art.
  • French painter and art theorist, the dominant artist of Louis XIV's reign.
  • becoming a convert to the latter's theories of art. He returned to Paris
  • of art. His lectures came to be accepted as providing the official standards
  • of artistic correctness and, formulated on the basis of the
  • of Poussin, gave authority to the view that every aspect of artistic
  • His importance in the history of French art is twofold: his contributions to
  • the basis of academicism. Many of the leading French artists of the next
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  • French artist best known for, and one of the greatest masters of,
  • ideal-landscape painting, an art form that seeks to present a view of
  • century, the key period of its development, were artists of many
  • of light, was particularly influential, not only during his lifetime
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  • the creator of the ‘Artist's Sketch Pad’ style of
  • pinup artwork, was born in August, 1910. He was born on his grandparents'
  • doctor for the delivery with a pig. His father started to teach Earl to
  • an art teacher for Earl).
  • Earl MacPherson went on to study at the Chouinard School of Art in
  • School of Fine Arts he spent several years painting portraits and acting
  • despite painting the best selling pinup girl for the Shaw-Barton Calendar
  • did not come into his own until 1943 when he created the first ‘Artist's
  • MacPherson was lured away from Brown & Bigelow in 1945 by Shaw-Barton,
  • opportunity to work where ever he wished. 1946 saw the start of an eleven
  • Foster ‘How to’ art books: ‘Pinup Art: How to Draw and Paint Beautiful
  • took over the Artist's Sketchbook calendars, successfully reproducing
  • / early 1960's, MacPherson started travelling again, moving to Tahiti
  • time he developed a reputation as a ‘Western’ artist. Earl MacPherson
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  • abstract art.
  • Kiev School of Art and Moscow Academy of Fine Arts; 1913 began creating
  • turned against modern art, and he died in poverty and oblivion.
  • Yale Univ. Art Gallery, 1912).
  • Malevich, however, was fired with the desire ‘to free art from
  • which brought abstract art to a geometric simplicity more radical
• Title: Short Bio of Andrea Mantegna (1431?-1506)
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  • years old he was adopted by Francesco Squarcione, an art teacher in Padua.
  • Mantegna's skill as an artist developed quickly, and at the age of 17 he set
  • is apparent in his art. His paintings helped foster the growing interest in
  • were also artists, and both of
  • that Mantegna started in
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  • studied at the Munich Art Academy and traveled to Paris several
  • Franz Marc was a pioneer in the birth of abstract art at the
  • forth a new program for art based on exuberant color and on
  • particular contribution to introduce paradisiacal imagery that had
• Title: Short Bio of Simone Martini (circa 1280-1344)
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  • Simone Martini
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  • most original and influential artists of the Sienese school. Simone
  • greatest frescoes, illustrating scenes from the life of St. Martin for
  • the chapel of St. Martin. In 1339, at the request of Pope Benedict
  • (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) and
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  • ‘‘Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree
  • artist often regarded as the most important French painter of the 20th century.
  • The art of our century has been dominated by two men: Henri Matisse and
  • They are artists of classical greatness, and their visionary forays
  • into new art have changed our understanding of the world. Matisse was
  • Matisse's artistic career was long and varied, covering many different
  • Matisse's art has an astonishing force and lives by innate right in a
  • only rival, was a man of peasant fears, well concealed. Both artists, in
  • of painting: Picasso destroyed his fear of women in his art, while Matisse
  • coaxed his nervous tension into serenity. He spoke of his art as being
  • brilliant man — but his art was a respite, a reprieve, a comfort to him.
  • in him, though there was much passion. He is an awesomely controlled artist,
• Title: Short Bio of Alphonse Maureau
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  • The Place Pigalle and the Bords de la Seine are the work of an artist who is
• Title: Short Bio of Hans Memling (1430?-94)
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  • artist.
  • craftsmanship. Unlike most artists, his style varied little throughout his
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  • Western art.
  • — Michelangelo, quoted in Vasari's Lives of the Artists
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  • Beaux-Arts, Rouen).
  • that was to be characteristic of the rest of his artistic career.
  • his success partly stemmed from the fact that, though
  • artists, to whom he gave help and encouragement.
  • to become an artist, and his work certainly influenced the young
  • Although towards the end of his life, when he started using a lighter
  • that appealed to artists such as
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  • Artistic Emigres
  • during his brief career few apart from his fellow artists were aware of his
  • Modern Art, New York City) exemplify his sculptural work, which consists
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  • The 20th century is distinguished in art history for one invention above all:
  • abstraction. The Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was a pioneer in this
• Title: Short Bio of Earl Moran
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  • many of his contempories Moran studied at the Chicago Art Institute, while
  • moving on to Manhattan where he enrolled at the Art Students League.
  • Earl Moran became one of America's best known pin-up artists after Life
  • magazine ran an article on him in 1940, he was also well known as a cover
  • artist, along with Peter Driben etc., for Robert Harrison, and indeed painted
  • deciding to retire to paint fine art subjects. He signed with Aaron Brothers
  • started to fail. Earl Moran died on the 17th January 1984, in Santa Monica.
• Title: Short Bio of Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)
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  • Symbolist artists. He was a pupil of
  • Ecole des Beaux-Arts and proved an inspired teacher, bringing out
  • (the artist's house), which Moreau left to the nation on his death.
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  • either out-of-doors or in domestic settings. Morisot and American artist
• Title: Short Bio of Rowena Morrill
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  • was born into a mobile military family in 1944 and had the opportunity to travel widely as a child. She absorbed a diversity of cultures in such places as Japan, Italy and many parts of the United States, to which she nows attributes much of her inspiration.
  • Rowena began painting at age of twenty-three due to her restlessness as a military wife, but it wasn't long before her painting evolved from a part-time avocation to a full-time occupation. In the course of the next ten years she brought together her diverse experience, vivid imagination, inspiration and talent and developed the style and technique for which she is now so well known.
  • Since 1975 she has lived and worked in New York and has become a celebrity to science fiction fans, artists and art students. Aside from illustrating book covers for more than a dozen publishers in both the United States and Europe, she has participated in gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the country, and her work is found in important private and museum collections worldwide.
• Title: Short Bio of Bartolomé Murillo (1617-82)
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  • (1617-82). An artist whose many religious paintings
  • emphasized the peaceful, joyous aspects of spiritual life, Bartolome Murillo
  • Murillo was much admired in other countries, particularly England. Here his
  • and he went to live with a local artist, Juan del Castillo. As might be
  • are extremely lifelike. In 1660 Murillo helped found a public academy of art
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  • Nehemiah Partridge
  • Nehemiah Partridge lived in New York, and was known for naïve,
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  • and most respected of the pin-up artists. Petty was born in Abbeville,
  • Louisiana in 1894 and after the family moved to Chicago Petty started working
  • By the early 20's Petty was working as a freelance artist, painting
  • based on Petty's wife, although like Vargas and many artist's after him, Petty
  • Petty Girl started life in Esquire magazine in the Autumn of 1933, however
• Title: Short Bio of Piero (1420?-92)
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  • (1420?-92). One of the great artists of the early Italian
  • studied painting with one of several skilled artists of the Sienese school
  • Florence, where he would have seen the works of such sculptors, artists, and
• Title: Short Bio of Ludovic Piette (1826-77)
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  • and started to follow the tendancies of
  • He participated in the third and fourth Impressionist exhibitions
• Title: Short Bio of Jackson Pollock (1912-56)
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  • ‘‘On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting,
  • He began to study painting in 1929 at the Art Students’ League, New York,
  • under the Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton.
  • From 1938 to 1942 he worked for the Federal Art Project.
  • of automatism that it was supposed by artists and critics alike to result
  • artist.
  • parts within the whole canvas and therefore abandons the traditional idea
  • of composition in terms of relations among parts. The design of his
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  • — Vasari, Lives of the Artists
• Title: Short Bio of Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
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  • French painter and graphic artist, one of the outstanding figures of
  • oils and pastel. The flower pieces, in particular, were much admired by
• Title: Short Bio of Rembrandt (1606-69)
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  • etcher of the 17th century, a giant in the history of art. His
• Title: Short Bio of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
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  • particularly of women (e.g. ,
  • His predilection towards light-hearted themes was also influenced
  • particularly close at this time, and their paintings of the beauty
  • subjects, particularly nudes, but also pictures of young girls in
  • (The Judgement of Paris; Hiroshima Museum of Art; 1913-14),
  • ‘Why shouldn't art be pretty?', he said, ‘There are enough unpleasant
• Title: Short Bio of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
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  • (1840-1917). The French artist Auguste Rodin had a profound
  • age of 14 he entered the Petite Ecole, a school of decorative arts in Paris.
  • He applied three times to study at the renowned Ecole des Beaux-Arts but was
  • him to pursue his art. In 1864 Rodin met a seamstress named Rose Beuret. She
  • Arts. Although the work was unfinished at the time of his death, it provided
  • collection of his own works and other art objects he had acquired. They
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  • their art the richness and purity of the medieval period.
  • Darthur inspired his art in the 1850s. His visions of Arthurian romance and
• Title: Short Bio of Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)
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  • Art of the Fantastic
  • naïve artists.
  • accepted early retirement in 1893 so he could devote himself to art.
  • He tried to paint in the academic manner of such traditionalist artists as
  • The Football Players (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1908)
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  • (1954- ). Spanish Fantasy artist.
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  • 30, 1640 was the most renowned northern European artist of his day, and is
  • now widely recognized as one of the foremost painters in Western art history.
  • fact that was to be of crucial importance in his artistic career. His
  • his early training as an artist and a courtier. By the age of 21 he was a
  • art. He also spent a considerable amount of time in Rome, where he painted
  • dominant artistic figure in the Spanish Netherlands.
  • contemporary, Rembrandt. But if his roots lay in Italian classical art and
  • painters’ workshops, in which fully qualified artists executed paintings
  • arthritis, he remained an unusually prolific artist throughout his last
• Title: Short Bio of Donald Rust
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  • Donald Rust was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1932. He began drawing and painting at a very early age and has never had the desire to be anything but a serious artist. His early work was directly influenced by his grandfather, Emil Rust, Gil Elvgren, Bob Toombs, and Norman Rockwell. However, he feels there has been no one single influence in his wildlife art and insists that all wildlife artists have affected his style.
  • For many years, Rusty's paintings concentrated on circus and portrait subjects; but recently, wildlife subjects have intrigued him more and more. His portraits include such prominent individuals as: Emmett Kelly Sr., Emmett Kelly Jr., Merle Evans (Ringling band leader), Norman Rockwell, and Molly Rockwell. In fact, D.L. Rust and Norman Rockwell used to correspond regularly and in one letter Rockwell emphasized that Rusty's artwork "is very good indeed."
  • He has illustrated books for Valkyrie Press, A.S. Barnes & Co., and World of Yesterday Publications; and has provided illustrations for Reader's Digest and other magazines. His artwork has also appeared on collector's plates, appointment books, wall calendars, porcelain mugs, playing cards and jigsaw puzzles.
  • Rusty's ability to capture nature lies between fantasy and reality. Realism is his style, but he wants to take the collector's imagination one step further. He is an artist sensitive to nature and its surroundings. The beauty of his artistic documentation is distinctly his own. Rusty takes us not just to a creative visual, but to a place and a story.
• Title: Short Bio of John Sargent (1856-1925)
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  • the major part of his working life, described him as
  • (1887; National Gallery of Art, Washington).
  • Sargent persuaded Monet to exhibit at the New English Art Club,
• Title: Short Bio of Egon Schiele
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  • artist
  • d. Oct. 31, 1918, was at odds with art critics and society for most of his
• Title: Short Bio of Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
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  • The Life and Art of Georges Seurat and
  • ultimate example of the artist as scientist. He spent his life studying color
  • the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1878 and 1879. His teacher was a disciple of
  • other artists founded the Societe des Artistes Independants. His famous
• Title: Short Bio of Joshua Shaw
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  • was primarily self-taught as an artist. During his residence in Bath
  • in America, he actively participated in the artistic life of his
  • this particular view projects a sense of man's harmony with a world
  • pastoral existence would have been particularly appealing to a
  • than a landscape of mood, a poetic expression of a particular attitude
  • artist, the overall composition as well as the landscape elements are
  • part of the vocabulary of the picturesque, one of the leading aesthetic
  • concepts of the day. Such works also have artistic affinities with
  • by these artists but also those developed by seventeenth-century Dutch
  • American landscape painting. As an artist born and trained in England,
  • touch with current artistic developments and aesthetic theories. Through
  • work and techniques of some of Britain's leading artists.
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  • in particular. As president of the annual Salon des
  • Independants (1908-34), Signac encouraged younger artists by exhibiting the
• Title: Short Bio of Alfred Sisley
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  • Sisley returned to Paris in 1862 with the aim of becoming an artist.
  • By this time, however, he had started to frequent the Café Guerbois,
  • becoming part of that dealer's stable.
  • He now saw himself as a full-time professional painter and part of
• Title: Short Bio of Dorothea Tanning
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  • learned to paint, she claimed, by visiting art museums.
  • She attended Knox College in Galesburg, studied art in Chicago, and in
  • 1935 moved to New York City, where she supported herself with advertising art
  • and painted in her spare time. A commercial artist in New York, she began
• Title: Short Bio of James Tissot
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  • French painter and graphic artist. Early in his career he painted historical
  • artist, bug there has been a recent upsurge of interest in him, expressed
• Title: Short Bio of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
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  • observed and captured in his art the Parisian nightlife of the period.
• Title: Short Bio of Jesse Trevino
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  • Jesse Treviño, who won his first art contest when he was in grade school,
  • Art Museum. In recent years Treviño has become known for his building-size
  • the world of Treviño's artistry. He was attending the Art Students League
  • he turned again to his love of art. He enrolled in a drawing course at
• Title: Short Bio of Joseph Turner (1775-1851)
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  • (1775-1851). One of the finest landscape artists was J.M.W.
  • life was devoted to his art. Unlike many artists of his era, he was
  • was the extent of his education except for the study of art. By the age of 13
  • called "decaying artists." His collection of paintings was bequeathed to his
  • Dido Building Carthage,
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  • supreme artists of all time. A master of technique, highly individual in
  • style, Diego Velasquez may have had a greater influence on European art than
  • Portuguese descent. In his teens he studied art with Francisco Pacheco, whose
  • the first painter of common things than second in higher art." He learned
  • The artist made two visits to Italy. On his first, in 1629, he copied
  • responsible for the royal quarters and for planning ceremonies.
  • artists of his country." He was a master realist, and no painter has
  • Bartolomé Murillo,
  • development of art. Others who have been noticeably influenced by him are
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  • exquisite paintings in Western art.
• Title: Short Bio of Jim Warren
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  • Beginnings: Started painting at age 1, like all children. Went through the usual string of career choices such as: artist, magician, artist, rock star, artist etc. I officially decided in high school in 1967 that an artist, a "Rich and Famous" one at that, was what I was going to be!
  • Art Training: "I'm basically self taught. I learned some basics in my high school art class. At college I attended several life-drawing classes, and always studied the great masters at museums."
  • Philosophy of Art: "To hell with the rules...paint what you like."
  • 1975: Entered first public art show, in Westwood CA, and won first prize.
  • 1979: Accepted first-place award from Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley for Westwood art show.
  • 1990: Painted "Earth...Love It or Lose It." This painting received critical acclaim, was featured on posters, magazines, billboards, t-shirts ect. and soon became the visual representation for the global environmental movement.
  • 1992: Began the unique trendsetting idea of collaboration paintings with famed marine life artist, Wyland, showcasing both artists' specialties...Marine Life (Wyland) and People (Jim).
  • 1997: To celebrate Jim's first 30 years as an artist, his fans convince him to release his first book entitled "The art of Jim Warren: An American Original."
  • 2000: My greatest accomplishment to date, and one that can not be matched, is the many letters and communications that I have recieved from people telling me that my art has inspired them or made their day a little brighter.
  • Currently: Jim lives in Clearwater, FL with his wife, Cindy, daughter Drew (born in 1992) and his son, Art (born in 1994). Jim's stepdaughter, Rebecca (born in 1974) lives in California. Jim feels that maintaining a close family with a demanding career is one of his greatest accomplishments, and thanks his family for all their support and assistance. His entire family helps with his art business, doubling as Art Director, Assistant (his wife) and Models (his children).
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  • (City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1896).
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  • (1684-1721). A French rococo artist whose charming and
  • religious pictures and copying the works of popular Dutch artists. In 1704 he
  • characters from the commedia dell'arte.
  • rich financier and art collector who owned a splendid collection of Flemish
  • E.F. Gersaint, an art dealer. For him he did
• Title: Short Bio of Benjamin West (1738-1820,)
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  • (1738-1820). One of the first American artists to win a wide
  • development of art in the United States through such young American painters
  • as Gilbert Stuart, Charles Willson Peale, and
  • first major artist working in England to do so.
  • Swarthmore) in the Pennsylvania colony. Young West was encouraged to draw,
  • was 16 his Quaker community approved art training for him. For a time West
  • another royal appointment West was made a charter member of the Royal
  • they respect his leadership and influence on later artists. West died on
• Title: Short Bio of James Whistler (1834-1903)
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  • American-born painter and graphic artist, active mainly in England.
  • training as an artist began indirectly when, after his discharge from
  • etching as a US navy cartographer. In 1855 he went to Paris, where he
  • and became a devotee of the cult of the Japanese print and oriental art
  • Whistler's art is in many respects the opposite to his often aggressive
  • musical titles to suggest an analogy with the abstract art of music:
  • ‘Art should be independent of all claptrap — should stand alone, and
  • appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with
  • which are mainly portraits and landscapes, particularly scenes of the
  • Thames. No less original was his work as a decorative artist, notably
  • Art Nouveau style of the 1890s.
  • (Detroit Institute of Arts), accusing him of ‘flinging a pot of paint
  • but the awarding of only a farthing's damages with no costs was in effect
  • 19th-century graphic art — that helped to restore his fortunes when he
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  • the artistic treatment of industrial subjects. He was also the best
  • European painter of artificial light of his day.
  • science. His pictures of technological subjects, partly inspired by