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• Title: List of Short, Artist Biographys
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  • François Boucher (1703-1770)
  • Matthias Grünewald (his real name was Mathis Neithart, otherwise Gothart, 1470/80-1528)
  • Alphonse Legros (b. May 8, 1837, Dijon, Fr.--d. Dec. 8, 1911, Watford, Hertfordshire, Eng.)
• Title: Short Bio of Pieter Aertsen (1508/09-1575)
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  • Netherlandish painter, active in his native Amsterdam and in Antwerp.
  • (Butcher's Stall with the Flight into Egypt,
• Title: Short Bio of Albrecht Altdorfer
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  • of Michael Pacher.
  • Christ Taking Leave of His Mother (National Gallery, London) he
• Title: Short Bio of Altichiero (active 1372-84)
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  • Most of his surviving work is in Padua, where he had a hand in fresco cycles
  • collaborated with an artist called Avanzo, who is otherwise unknown and
• Title: Short Bio of Fra Angelico (c. 1400-55)
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  • (he became Prior there in 1450), but his most famous works were painted
  • Perugia, and most importantly in Rome, where he frescoed the private
  • Minerva, where his tombstone still exists. His most important pupil was
• Title: Short Bio of Rolf Armstrong
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  • cowboys and other macho types. Armstrong left Detroit for Chicago and the
  • renowned Art Institute of Chicago, where, to survive he taught boxing,
  • where he started producing images for magazine covers the first being for
  • 50's and moved to Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii in Sepember 1959, where he died
• Title: Short Bio of Balthasar Ast (1593/94-1657)
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  • Dutch still-life painter, the brother-in-law of
• Title: Short Bio of Dirck Baburen
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  • where his style became strongly influenced by Caravaggio.
  • He returned to the Netherlands in about 1621 and although he died only
  • whose mother-in-law apparently owned it.
• Title: Short Bio of Hans Baldung
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  • bring him closer in spirit to his other great German contemporary, Grünewald.
  • where he worked on his masterpiece, the high altar for Freiburg Cathedral,
• Title: Short Bio of Federico Barocci (c. 1535-1612)
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  • career was based there all his life. He is said to have abandoned his frescos
  • the Mannerist tradition (his rather indefinite treatment of space, for
  • the pre-eminent biographer of the Baroque age, considered him the finest
• Title: Short Bio of Jacopo Bassano (1553-1613)
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  • in Venice, Jacopo worked in Bassano all his life. His father, Francesco
• Title: Short Bio of Frédéric Bazille (1841-70)
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  • He was, however, primarily a figure painter rather than a landscapist,
• Title: Short Bio of Giovanni Bellini (1430?-1516)
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  • about his family. His father, a painter, was a pupil of one of the leading
  • 15th-century Gothic revival artists. Giovanni and his brother probably began
  • their careers as assistants in their father's workshop.
  • In 1479 Bellini took his brother's place in continuing the painting of
• Title: Short Bio of William Blake (1757-1827)
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  • poet — explained why his work was filled with religious visions rather than
  • Blake was born on Nov. 28, 1757, in London. His father ran a hosiery shop.
  • saw the boy's talent for drawing, Blake's father apprenticed him to an
  • At 25 Blake married Catherine Boucher. He taught her to read and write and
  • to help him in his work. They had no children. They worked together to
  • Catherine made the printing impressions, hand-colored the pictures, and bound
  • However, he did much work for which other artists and engravers got the
  • his own choice rather than on those that publishers assigned him.
• Title: Short Bio of Hieronymus Bosch
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  • artistic career in the small Dutch town of Hertogenbosch, from which he
  • of noble families of the Netherlands, Austria, and Spain, and they were
  • Bosch was a member of the religious Brotherhood of Our Lady, for whom he
  • painted several altarpieces for the Cathedral of Saint John's, Hertogenbosch,
• Title: Short Bio of Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Moriano Filipepi, 1444/5-1510)
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  • name is derived from his elder brother Giovanni, a pawnbroker, who was
  • 1481-82. There he painted wall frescoes in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican.
• Title: Short Bio of François Boucher (1703-1770)
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  • François Boucher
  • Boucher, François
  • Boucher, the son of a designer of lace, was born in Paris. He studied
  • In 1723 Boucher
  • Pompadour, mistress to Louis XV. He painted her portrait several
  • Boucher's delicate, lighthearted depictions of classical divinities
  • and well-dressed French shepherdesses delighted the public, who
  • (1744). Boucher's
• Title: Short Bio of Adolphe-William Bouguereau (1825-1905)
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  • pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of
• Title: Short Bio of Dirk Bouts
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  • Netherlandish painter, born probably in Haarlem and active mainly in Louvain,
  • where he was city painter from 1468. His major commissions there were the
  • Apart from these, there are no documented works, but his style is highly
  • in landscapes of exquisite beauty. There is little action, but deep poetry
• Title: Short Bio of Marie Bracquemond
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  • made his early reputation as a lithographer and etcher,
  • his friendship with Manet and other
  • one of her staunchest supporters, noted that he was jealous of her
  • achievement, seldom showed her works to viewing artists and resented
  • She was something of a recluse, and many of her finest works
  • Palais, Geneva) were painted in her own garden. She was a vocal
• Title: Short Bio of Melchior Broederlam (active 1381-1409)
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  • Netherlandish painter, court painter to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy,
  • forward to the later development of the Netherlandish School.
• Title: Short Bio of Agnolo Bronzino
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  • and excelled as a portraitist rather than a religious painter. He was court
  • those of other literary figures (Laura Battiferri, Palazzo Vecchio,
  • or eroticism under the pretext of a moralizing allegory. His other major
• Title: Short Bio of Ford Brown
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  • and at Rome, where he came into contact with the Nazarenes. Settling in
  • work, though he was never a member of the Brotherhood. Rossetti
  • portraits of several of the Brotherhood.
  • sculptor, for Australia. The other famous anthology piece that Brown painted,
• Title: Short Bio of Pieter Bruegel (about 1525-69)
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  • Netherlands. Accepted as a master in the Antwerp painters’ guild in 1551, he
  • there. Returning home in 1553, he settled in Antwerp but ten years later
• Title: Short Bio of Hans Burgkmair
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  • he transformed his late Gothic heritage with
• Title: Short Bio of Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
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  • He began work painting theatrical scenery (his father's profession),
  • topographically accurate, set in a higher key, and with smoother, more
• Title: Short Bio of Alonso Cano (1601-67)
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  • He was born and died in Granada, and worked there and in Seville and Madrid.
  • From 1652 he worked mainly in Granada, where he designed the façade of the
  • to further his career at Granada Cathedral. The cathedral has several of
• Title: Short Bio of Antoine Caron
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  • artistic personality, and his work reflects the refined but unstable atmosphere
  • to Catherine de Médicis, wife of Henry II of France. His few surviving
  • of the works attributed to him may be by other hands, however, for French
• Title: Short Bio of Carracci (1557-1602)
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  • Carracci. Family of Bolognese painters, the brothers Agostino
  • They worked together early in their careers, and it is not easy to distinguish
  • a small room called the Camerino with stories of Hercules, and in 1597
  • undertook the ceiling of the larger gallery, where the theme was The
  • as a pattern book of heroic figure design, but also as a model of technical
  • Annibale's other works in Rome also had great significance in the history
  • painting along similar lines, and is regarded as the father of ideal landscape,
  • lively observation and free handling (The Butcher's Shop, Christ
  • but he was important mainly as a teacher and engraver. His systematic anatomical
  • as teaching aids. He spent the last two years in Parma, where he did his
  • but somewhat spiritless version of his brother's lively Classicism.
  • those of stability and calm Classicism in his work, and at its best there
  • The Caracci fell from grace in the 19th century along with all the other
• Title: Short Bio of Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
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  • His art and ideas had a considerable influence on her own work;
  • he introduced her to the
  • of Impressionists in the USA, largely through her brother Alexander.
  • She also advised and encouraged her friends the Havemeyers to build up
  • their important collection of works by Impressionists and other
  • Her own works, on the occasions when they were shown in various
  • there. Despite her admiration for Degas, she was no slavish imitator
  • of his style, retaining her own very personal idiom throughout
  • her career. From him, and other Impressionists, she acquired an interest
  • inclining towards the domestic and the intimate rather than the social
  • with a special emphasis on the mother and child theme in the 1890s
  • She also derived from Degas and others a sense of immediate observation,
  • with an emphasis on gestural significance. Her earlier works were marked
  • held in Paris at the beginning of that decade, her draughtsmanship
  • became more emphatic, her colors clearer and more boldly defined.
  • The exhibition also confirmed her predilection for print-making
  • techniques, and her work in this area must count amongst the most
  • impressive of her generation. She lived in France all her life,
  • though her love of her adopted countrymen did not increase with age,
  • and her latter days were clouded with bitterness.
• Title: Short Bio of Pietro Cavallini (active 1273-1308)
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  • Italian painter and mosaic designer, active mainly in Rome, where he must
• Title: Short Bio of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
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  • itself. He has been called the father of modern painting.
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779)
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  • sharply with the heroic historical subjects and lighthearted rococo scenes
  • mastery in these areas unequaled by any other 18th-century painter.
• Title: Short Bio of William Chase
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  • most important American teacher of his generation. He taught at the Art
• Title: Short Bio of Théodore Chassériau (1819-56)
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  • these were almost completely destroyed by fire. There are other examples
  • North African scenes (he made a visit there in 1846).
• Title: Short Bio of Petrus Christus
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  • (d. 1472/73). Netherlandish painter.
  • figures sometimes rather doll-like and without van Eyck's feeling of
• Title: Short Bio of Giovanni Cima
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  • figures he was also known in the 18th century (rather incongruously) as
• Title: Short Bio of Clouet
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  • with which they share a keenness of observation; whereas Holbein's drawings
  • in 1541. His work is somewhat better documented than his father's, but
  • (Louvre, Paris, 1562), much more Italianate than any of his father's paintings,
  • and Lady in Her Bath (National Gallery, Washington, c.1570). This
• Title: Short Bio of John Constable (1776-1837)
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  • father and married Maria Bicknell after a seven-year courtship and in
  • the fact of strong opposition from her family. During the 1820s
  • Bonington among others.
  • on but modifying in an individual way the tradition inherited from
  • neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation
  • atmospheric effects of changing light in the open air, the movement of
  • and loved best, particularly Suffolk and Hampstead, where he lived from
  • 1821. To render the shifting flicker of light and weather he abandoned
  • sketch, and in the 20th century there has been a tendancy to praise
  • turned rather to the formal compositions than to the more direct
• 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
  • there in 1778. In this painting
• Title: Short Bio of Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
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  • Italian painter, named after the small town in Emilia where he was born.
  • maintains that he never went there and the obvious inspiration of the
  • His first large-scale commission there was for the decoration of the
• Title: Short Bio of Piero Cosimo
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  • Cosimo Rosselli, whose Christian name he adopted as a patronym. There are
  • inventions, inhabited by fauns, centaurs, and primitive men. There is sometimes
  • in which she is depicted as Cleopatra with the asp around her neck. His
• Title: Short Bio of Thomas Couture (1815-79)
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  • Like other ‘one-picture painters', his reputation has sunk with that of
  • livelier in conception and technique, as as a teacher he encouraged direct
• Title: Short Bio of Lucas Cranach (1472-1553)
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  • He takes his name from the small town of Kronach in South Germany, where
  • (he left in 1504), but in his period there he painted some of his finest
• Title: Short Bio of Jasper Cropsey
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  • Jasper Cropsey was born on his father's farm in Rossville, Staten
  • from engravings of Claude Lorrain and other landscape artists.
• Title: Short Bio of Cuyp
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  • Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp (1612-52) was the half-brother of Jacob.
  • he also painted many other subjects. He was the son and probably the pupil
  • along Holland's great rivers to the eastern part of the Netherlands, and
  • Cuyp had several imitators there, and some of the paintings formerly attributed
• Title: Short Bio of Gerard David
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  • (d. 1523). Netherlandish painter.
  • He was born at Oudewater, now in southern Holland, but he worked mainly in
  • Bruges, where he entered the painters’ guild in 1484 and became the city's
  • His work — extremely accomplished, but conservative and usually rather
• Title: Short Bio of Stuart Davis (1894-1964)
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  • He grew up in an artistic environment, for his father
  • Luks, Glackens, and other members of the Eight.
  • basing himself on its Synthetic rather than its Analytical phase.
  • observed reality: ‘I paint what I see in America, in other words I
• Title: Short Bio of Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
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  • others. He is perhaps best known for his paintings, drawings, and
• Title: Short Bio of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
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  • Morocco in 1832 provided him with further exotic subjects.
  • than 850 paintings and great numbers of drawings, murals, and other works. In
• Title: Short Bio of Gustave Doré (1832-83)
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  • a rather naïve but highly spirited love of the
  • Alexandre Dumas in the Place Malesherbes in Paris, erected in 1883, is his
• Title: Short Bio of Dosso Dossi
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  • Ferrara, where he spent most of the rest of his career, combining with
  • c.1523). His brother Battista Dossi (c.1497-1548) often collaborated
  • with him, but there is insufficient evidence to know whether he made an
• Title: Short Bio of Peter Driben
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  • cataloges of work, neither come close to the output of Driben.
  • Driben was also a close friend of publisher Robert Harrison, and in 1941
• Title: Short Bio of Albrecht Dürer
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  • Northern Renaissance
  • Albrecht Dürer. Began as an apprentice to his father in 1485, but his earliest
• Title: Short Bio of Adam Elsheimer
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  • Elsheimer, Adam (1578-1610). German painter, etcher, and draughtsman,
  • He was born in Frankfurt, where he absorbed the Coninxloo tradition,
  • Elsheimer achieved fame during his lifetime and there are numerous contemporary
  • and of so many other subjects.'
  • work of many other 17th-century artists.
• Title: Short Bio of Gil Elvgren
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  • However Elvgren soon branched out into other forms of commercial art, amongst
  • them adverts for Coca Cola, Ovaltine and others.
• Title: Short Bio of Jan Eyck
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  • to have been Jan's brother.
• Title: Short Bio of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)
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  • (1836-1904). French painter and lithographer.
  • and others grouped round a portrait of
  • and others in Manet's studio. In spite of his associations with such
  • imaginative lithographs illustrating his music and that of other
• Title: Short Bio of Robert Feke
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  • life is once more veiled in obscurity. There are about fifteen signed
• Title: Short Bio of Master Flémalle (active 1406-44)
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  • Netherlandish painter named after three paintings in the
  • come from Flémalle, near Liege. There is a strong consensus of scholarly
  • Rogier now has few adherents.
  • While there is still doubt about the Master of Flémalle's identity,
  • there is no argument about his achievement, for he made a radical break
  • as one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of painting. None of
  • questioned. Among the other works generally accepted as his are
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)
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  • Boucher,
  • in 1752. From 1756 to 1761 he was in Italy, where he eschewed the work of
  • 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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  • sometimes been described as a ‘Realist’ (or rather absurdly as a
• Title: Short Bio of Caspar Friedrich
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  • settled in Dresden, often traveling to other parts of Germany. Friedrich's
  • landscapes are based entirely on those of northern Germany and are beautiful
  • renderings of trees, hills, harbors, morning mists, and other light effects
  • fir trees are an allegory of hope. Friedrich painted several other important
  • meanings, clues to which are provided either by the artist's writings or
• Title: Short Bio of Pearl Frush
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  • was born in Iowa, although she and her family moved to the
  • and New York. By this time her family had moved to Chicago, where she joined
  • Frush opened her Chicago studio in the early 1940's, doing freelance
  • calendars of her work, however she soon became one of the most successful
  • and her crisp detailed style is reminicent of Vargas's work. Her subjects are
  • 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
  • it was shown at the Royal Academy in 1782 (there is another version in
  • his time Fuseli was in exploring the murky areas of the psyche where sex
• Title: Short Bio of Thomas Gainsborough
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  • in 1774 he moved permanently to London. Here he further developed the personal
  • pictures of pastoral subjects (Peasant Girl Gathering Sticks, Manchester
  • what he learnt from others, and he relied always mainly on his own resources.
  • He was in many ways the antithesis of Reynolds. Whereas Reynolds was
  • 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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  • and elsewhere in the South Pacific. His masterpieces include the early
  • Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897-98).
• Title: Short Bio of Aert Gelder
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  • After studying there with Hoogstraten, he became one of Rembrandt's
• Title: Short Bio of Gentile (c. 1370-1427)
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  • where there is a night scene with three different light sources.
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Léon Gérôme
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  • a pupil of Paul Delaroche and inherited his highly finished academic style.
• Title: Short Bio of Domenico Ghirlandaio
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  • and rather old-fashioned (especially when compared with that of his great
  • in Florence. This he ran in collaboration with his two younger brothers,
  • home of a wealthy Florentine burgher. It is this talent for portraying
  • and his Grandson (Louvre); this depicts the grandfather's diseased
• Title: Short Bio of Luca Giordano
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  • and was said to be able to imitate other artists’ styles with ease. His
  • he was called to Spain by Charles II and stayed there for 10 years, painting
• Title: Short Bio of Giotto (c. 1267-1337)
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  • the village of Vespignano, near Florence. His father was a small landed
  • farmer. Giorgio Vasari, one of Giotto's first biographers, tells how Cimabue,
  • supposedly saw the 12-year-old boy sketching one of his father's sheep on a
  • flat rock and was so impressed with his talent that he persuaded the father
  • to let Giotto become his pupil. Another story is that Giotto, while
  • saw it, he "instantly perceived that Giotto surpassed all other painters of
  • In common with other artists of his day, Giotto lacked the technical
• Title: Short Bio of Hugo Goes
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  • Goes, Hugo van der (d. 1482). The greatest Netherlandish painter
  • a priory near Brussels as a lay-brother, but he continued to paint and
  • oil technique. There is a great variety of surface ornament and detail,
  • in the depiction of individual figures, notably the awe-struck shepherds.
  • The other works attributed to Hugo include two large panels probably designed
• Title: Short Bio of Nuño Gonçalves
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  • hand survive, but there is a strong circumstantial evidence that he was
  • the outstanding Portuguese painting of the 15th century. The style is rather
  • presumed self-portrait. There are affinities with contemporary Burgundian
• Title: Short Bio of Francisco Goya
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  • Fuendetodos, a village in northern Spain. The family later moved to
  • Saragossa, where Goya's father worked as a gilder. At about 14 young Goya was
  • A serious illness in 1792 left Goya permanently deaf. Isolated from others
  • to work until his death there on April 16, 1828. Today many of his best
• Title: Short Bio of El Greco (1541-1614)
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  • met there, described him as a pupil of
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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  • success at the 1755 Salon with his Father Reading the Bible to His Children
  • their surface appearance of mawkish innocence; The Broken Pitcher
• Title: Short Bio of Juan Gris
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  • pushed Cubism further to its logical conclusion until his ultimely death in
• Title: Short Bio of Antoine-Jean Gros
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  • his father, a miniaturist and then with Jacques-Louis
  • In 1793 Gros went to Italy, where he met Napoleon and was appointed
  • and his pupil Bonington amongst others.
• 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)
  • northern German
  • Martin Luther, he executed several commissions for two bishops of the Mainz
• Title: Short Bio of Francesco Guardi
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  • of his brother Gianantonio (1699-1760).
  • still working for other artists when he was over 40, he never attracted
  • having qualities of spontaneity, bravura, and atmosphere lacking in Canaletto's
  • in Italy, Britain and elsewhere. The major problem in Guardi studies concerns
  • divided as to whether these brilliant works, painted with brushwork of
  • breathtaking freedom, are by Francesco or Gianantonio (there is dispute
  • of the Guardi brothers, and it was possibly through his influence that
• Title: Short Bio of Willem Heda
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  • of ontbijt (breakfast piece) painting in the Netherlands. His overall
  • and after 1629 never included a herring in his pictures. His son Gerrit
• Title: Short Bio of Jan Heem
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  • who taught him there. Later he worked in Leiden and showed
  • productive life there. The paintings he did in Flanders are the ones for
• Title: Short Bio of Velino Shije Herrera
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  • Velino Shije Herrera
  • Herrera, Velino Shije
  • and died in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1973. Velino Herrera went to school in
  • instructor at the Albuquerque Indian School in 1936. Herrera was a part
  • work. Herrerra's Zia name is Ma Pe Wi, a name that has a double meaning,
• Title: Short Bio of Nicholas Hilliard
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  • from the Queen herself, many others of the great Elizabethans sat for him,
• Title: Short Bio of Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858)
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  • like his father, was a fire warden. The prints of Hokusai are said
  • as an apprentice. In 1812 Hiroshige took his teacher's name
  • He maintained this high level of craftmanship in other travel series,
• Title: Short Bio of Meindert Hobbema
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  • in his native Amsterdam, where he was the friend and only documented pupil
  • a wine gauger with the Amsterdam customs and excise, and thereafter seems
• Title: Short Bio of David Hockney (1937- )
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  • British painter, draughtsman, printmaker, photographer, and designer.
• Title: Short Bio of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
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  • in 1775 and there learned the new, popular technique of
• Title: Short Bio of Hans Holbein (1465?-1524)
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  • Holbein, like his brother Sigmund, painted richly colored religious works in
  • received his first lessons in art from his father. In 1515 the younger
  • Holbein went to Basel, Switzerland, with his brother, Ambrosius. Among the
  • other books, including Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible. In
  • addition he painted pictures and portraits and, like his father, designed
  • and stayed there for two years. In 1528 he returned to Basel, where he
  • children there and traveled once again to London.
  • In England, where he became court painter to Henry VIII, Holbein was known
  • sent Holbein to paint her portrait. In 1543 Holbein was in
  • London working on another portrait of the king when he died, a victim of the
• Title: Short Bio of Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
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  • one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.'’
• Title: Short Bio of Ken Kelly
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  • and sorcery/heroic fantasy. Whether at the foot of Conan the Barbarian,
• Title: Short Bio of Ron Kitaj
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  • American painter and graphic artist, active mainly in England, where he
• Title: Short Bio of Paul Klee
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  • Academy in 1900. There his teacher was the popular symbolist and society
  • Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to Be of Higher Rank.
  • Louis Molliet in 1914. He was so overwhelmed by the intense light there that
  • Klee, but he also produced series of works that explore mosaic and other
  • Klee taught at the BAUHAUS school after World War I, where his friend
  • to Switzerland. There he came down with the crippling collagen disease
• Title: Short Bio of Charles de La Fosse (1636-1716)
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• Title: Short Bio of Nicolas Largillière (1656-1746)
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• Title: Short Bio of Charles Le (1619-90)
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  • Despite the Classicism of his theories, Lebrun's own talents lay rather
• Title: Short Bio of Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)
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  • (b. May 8, 1837, Dijon, Fr.--d. Dec. 8, 1911, Watford, Hertfordshire, Eng.)
  • (b. May 8, 1837, Dijon, Fr. — d. Dec. 8, 1911, Watford, Hertfordshire, Eng.)
  • French-born British painter, etcher, and sculptor, now remembered
• Title: Short Bio of Claude Lorrain (1600-1682)
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  • nationalities congregated in Rome. Later, the form spread to other
• Title: Short Bio of Earl MacPherson
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  • farm and his father, who was short of money, apparently paid the country
  • 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
  • of then-President Herbet Hoover's grandchildren. By the late 1930's
  • MacPherson was working in Hollywood, painting portraits of the Earl
  • the studio also housed both Earl Moran and Rolf Armstrong, MacPherson
  • for their 1942 Calendar ‘Lucky Strike Green Has Gone to War’), MacPherson
  • Sketch Pad’. MacPherson apparently got the idea when he noticed Brown
  • 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
  • year run of ‘The MacPherson Sketchbook’ calendar. During this
  • time MacPherson also wrote and illustrated one of the best selling Waiter
  • In 1951 MacPherson developed Polio and his assistant T. N. Thompson
  • MacPhersons style. When the Pin-Up market collapsed in the late 1950's
  • / early 1960's, MacPherson started travelling again, moving to Tahiti
  • time he developed a reputation as a ‘Western’ artist. Earl MacPherson
• Title: Short Bio of Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935)
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  • in Moscow in 1915 and there is often difficulty in dating his work.
  • (There is often difficulty also in knowing which way up his paintings
• Title: Short Bio of Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
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  • Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
  • other notable works include
• Title: Short Bio of Andrea Mantegna (1431?-1506)
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  • painted heroic figures, often using a dramatic perspective that gives the
  • years old he was adopted by Francesco Squarcione, an art teacher in Padua.
  • There was much interest in Padua at that time in collecting and studying
  • whose brothers,
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  • times where he saw the work of
  • group of heroic horses.
• Title: Short Bio of Simone Martini (circa 1280-1344)
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  • (1320) for the Church of Saint Catherine in Pisa.
  • Simone lived in Assisi for a time, where he produced one of his
  • XII, he went to Avignon, where he executed frescoes in the papal
• Title: Short Bio of Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
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  • was a born leader and taught and encouraged other painters, while Picasso,
  • to spend time on the French Riviera at Nice and Vence. Here he
  • inappropriate name for this gentlemanly intellectual: there was no wildness
  • in him, though there was much passion. He is an awesomely controlled artist,
• Title: Short Bio of Hans Memling (1430?-94)
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  • In about 1466 Memling moved to Brugge, where his career prospered. Like
  • many other Flemish masters, Memling painted with glowing colors and fine
• Title: Short Bio of Amedeo Modigliani
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  • In 1906, Modigliani settled in Paris, where he encountered the works of
• Title: Short Bio of Earl Moran
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  • moving on to Manhattan where he enrolled at the Art Students League.
  • where also a time of some hardship for Moran following his bitter divorce
  • deciding to retire to paint fine art subjects. He signed with Aaron Brothers
• Title: Short Bio of Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)
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  • Ecole des Beaux-Arts and proved an inspired teacher, bringing out
  • his pupils’ individual talents rather than trying to impose ideas on them.
  • The bulk of his work is preserved there.
• Title: Short Bio of Berthe Morisot
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  • them her life's work. Having studied for a time under Camille Corot, she
  • later began her long friendship with
  • Edouard Manet, who became her
  • brother-in-law in 1874 and was the most important single influence on the
  • development of her style. Unlike most of the other impressionists, who were
  • impressionists’ high-keyed palette and to abandon the use of black. Her own
  • 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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  • Murillo was much admired in other countries, particularly England. Here his
  • and cherubs, that surrounds the central figures. The few portraits he painted
  • Espousal of St. Catherine on
  • the walls of the Capuchin monastery there. He fell from the scaffold, and his
  • St. Anthony of Padua was another of the subjects that he painted
• Title: Short Bio of Pierre Patel (1605-1676)
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  • (1648-1708), painted in his father's manner.
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  • in his father's photography studio. After graduating from high school Petty
  • Laurens. Petty then returned to Chicago, working as a photo retoucher for a
• Title: Short Bio of Piero (1420?-92)
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  • Italy. His father was a well-to-do tanner and shoemaker, and Piero's varied
  • Florence, where he would have seen the works of such sculptors, artists, and
  • of their wedding. Another notable accomplishment of Piero's was a series of
  • life Piero apparently ceased painting to pursue other interests, including
  • writing. He wrote a treatise on painting and others on geometry and applied
• Title: Short Bio of Ludovic Piette (1826-77)
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  • the Académie Suisse, where he became friendly with
  • of Montfoucault in Brittany, and where Pissarro painted a number
• Title: Short Bio of Jackson Pollock (1912-56)
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  • by an admixture of ‘sand, broken glass or other foreign matter'.
  • parts within the whole canvas and therefore abandons the traditional idea
• Title: Short Bio of Raphael
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  • ‘‘While we may term other works paintings, those of Raphael are living things;
  • pulsates everywhere.'’
• Title: Short Bio of Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
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  • the book's hero, a disenchanted aristocrat who lives in a private world of
• 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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  • Bathers, 1884-87).
  • Gleyre and there formed a lasting friendship with
  • feathery brush-strokes characteristic of his Impressionist manner,
  • ‘Why shouldn't art be pretty?', he said, ‘There are enough unpleasant
  • (Renoir, My Father) in 1962.
• Title: Short Bio of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
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  • The father superior of the order recognized Rodin's talents and encouraged
  • Rodin traveled in 1875 to Italy, where the works of Michelangelo made a strong
  • The Burghers of Calais.
  • collection of his own works and other art objects he had acquired. They
• Title: Short Bio of Dante Rossetti
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  • brother of the poet Christina Rossetti, Dante showed literary talent early,
  • Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.
  • drawings, and his memory of her after she died (1862) is implicit in the
• Title: Short Bio of Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)
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  • His other work ranges from the jaunty humor of
• Title: Short Bio of Peter Rubens
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  • 30, 1640 was the most renowned northern European artist of his day, and is
  • painting, he fundamentally revitalized and redirected northern European
  • father, an ardently Calvinist Antwerp lawyer, fled in 1568 to Germany to
  • back to Antwerp, where Peter Paul was raised a Roman Catholic and received
  • lessons of the other Italian Renaissance masters and made (1603) a journey
  • art. He also spent a considerable amount of time in Rome, where he painted
  • (1608) to Antwerp following the death of his mother and quickly became the
  • dominant artistic figure in the Spanish Netherlands.
  • In the mature phase of his career, Rubens either executed personally or
  • ending the war between the Spanish Netherlands and the Dutch Republic and
• 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.
  • 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.
  • Rusty is the father of five children and currently resides in Florida with his wife, Faith.
• Title: Short Bio of John Sargent (1856-1925)
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  • in sending his son to see him in London, where Sargent spent
• Title: Short Bio of Egon Schiele
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  • the nude figure suggests a lonely, tormented spirit haunted rather than
  • in 1907, Schiele soon achieved an independent anticlassical style wherein his
  • as that of his father-in-law,
• Title: Short Bio of Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
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  • 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
  • on France's northern coast. In his short life Seurat produced seven
• Title: Short Bio of Joshua Shaw
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  • area admired for its natural beauty. There is an almost identical
  • is clearly evident in Landscape with Cattle and other works by the
  • James de Loutherbourg, George Barret — whose numerous, seemingly
  • atmospheric clarity, achieved through subtle gradations of pink and
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  • and others. After he and Seurat met in 1884, they developed their technique
  • inspired by the bright sunlight of southern France. He also painted some
• Title: Short Bio of Alfred Sisley
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  • his father, a merchant trading with the southern states of America,
  • where he met
  • In the mean time, his father had lost all his money as a result of the war,
  • he produced a remarkable series of landscapes of Argenteuil, where
• Title: Short Bio of Yves Tanguy (1900-55)
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  • group. In 1939 he emigrated to the USA, where he lived for the rest of
• Title: Short Bio of Dorothea Tanning
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  • 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
  • paintings have evolved from her early surrealist evocations of perverse
  • later, sculptural approaches — although her involvement with symbolic and
  • dream material has remained constant. Her
• Title: Short Bio of James Tissot
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  • he took refuge in London, where he lived from 1871 to 1882. He was just
  • as successful there as he had been in Paris and lived in some style in
  • ‘a studio with a waiting room where, at all times, there is iced champagne
  • at the disposal of visitors, and around the studio, a garden where, all day
  • (the archetypal Tissot model — beautiful but rather vacant), he
  • went into a church to ‘catch the atmosphere for a picture', and
  • thereafter he devoted himself to religious subjects. He visited the Holy
  • artist, bug there has been a recent upsurge of interest in him, expressed
• Title: Short Bio of Jesse Trevino
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  • notice for Vietnam. There he lost his right arm in combat. While recovering
• Title: Short Bio of Joseph Turner (1775-1851)
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  • 1775. His father was a barber. His mother died when he was very young. The
  • boy received little schooling. His father taught him how to read, but this
  • he was making drawings at home and exhibiting them in his father's shop
  • Venice was the inspiration of some of Turner's finest work. Wherever he
  • visited he studied the effects of sea and sky in every kind of weather. His
  • As he grew older Turner became an eccentric. Except for his father, with
• Title: Short Bio of Diego Velázquez (1599-1660)
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  • any other painter.
  • shortly before his baptism on June 6, 1599. His father was of noble
  • daughter he married. The young Velasquez once declared, "I would rather be
  • the first painter of common things than second in higher art." He learned
  • wedding of the Infanta Maria Theresa to Louis XIV of France. This was a most
  • development of art. Others who have been noticeably influenced by him are
  • and a portrait of the Infanta Maria Theresa.
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  • of any other figure, epitomized the
• Title: Short Bio of Jim Warren
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  • Born: Nov 24 1949 in Long Beach, CA to Don and Betty Warren. Jim's brother Rick was 2 and his sister Kathy was 5.
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
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  • In 1702 he traveled to Paris, where he supported himself by turning out
  • Watteau's work. In 1709-10 Watteau returned to Valenciennes, where he
  • first of three versions of the myth of Cythera, the island of love for which
  • Nogent-sur-Marne just east of Paris, where he died on July 18, 1721.
  • Francois Boucher
• Title: Short Bio of Benjamin West (1738-1820,)
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  • years of study. In 1763 he went to England and remained there for life.
  • Joshua Reynolds, England's leading painter. Soon other influential Londoners,
  • another royal appointment West was made a charter member of the Royal
• Title: Short Bio of Rogier Weyden (1399/1400-1464)
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  • The leading Netherlandish painter of the mid-15th century.
• Title: Short Bio of James Whistler (1834-1903)
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  • He spent several of his childhood years in Russia (where his father had
  • etching as a US navy cartographer. In 1855 he went to Paris, where he
  • Manet, and others.
  • Washington), where attenuated decorative patterning anticipated much in the
  • Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother