January 2012
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JIM HARRISON
Jim Harrison (born January 12, 1936) is an artist and writer whose work is known for chronicling earlier twentieth century rural life. Harrison’s paintings are featured in personal and corporate art collections across the country and he has had successful one-man shows at the Hammer Galleries in New York City and the Conacher Gallery in San Francisco.
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JACOB GRIMMER
Jacob Grimmer (ca. 1526–1590) was a Flemish Renaissance landscape painter. Grimmer was born and died in Antwerp. According to Karel van Mander he first learned to paint landscapes from Matthys Cock and later from Christiaen Queburgh, both of Antwerp. He was a very skilled painter of houses, sky, and foreground views. He was a member of the Guild of St. Luke who was active as a rederijker and acted...
December 2010
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ABEL GRIMMER
~(b Antwerp, c. 1570; d Antwerp, 1618-19). Son of Jacob Grimmer. He married Catharina Lescornet on 29 September 1591 and in 1592 became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St Luke. He is principally known for his numerous small paintings of country scenes, sometimes with a biblical theme, which often form part of a series of the Four Seasons or the Months of the Year. Some of these paintings were...
October 2010
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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
Robert Mapplethorpe (November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and naked men. The frank, homosexual eroticism of some of the work of his middle period triggered a more general controversy about the public funding of artworks.
Mapplethorpe worked primarily in the studio, particularly...
August 2010
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GIORGIO DE CHIRICO
Giorgio de Chirico (July 10, 1888 – November 20, 1978) was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Italian painter.
After studying art in Athens and Florence, De Chirico moved to Germany in 1906 and entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he read the writings of the philosophers Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer, and studied the works of Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger.
He returned to...
July 2010
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RON MUECK
Ron Mueck (born 1958) is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in the United Kingdom.
Ron Mueck began his career working on the Australian children’s television program Shirl’s Neighbourhood. He was the creative director and made, voiced and operated the puppets Greenfinger the Garden Gnome, Ol’ Possum, Stanley the snake and the much loved Claude the Crow amongst many...
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LUCIAN FREUD
Freud was born in Berlin in December 1922, and came to England with his family in 1933. He studied briefly at the Central School of Art in London and, to more effect, at Cedric Morris’s East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham. Following this, he served as a merchant seaman in an Atlantic convoy in 1941. His first solo exhibition, in 1944 at the Lefevre Gallery, featured the...
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JOSEPH BEUYS
Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) is widely understood to be the most important German artist of the post–World War II period. Highly provocative and always controversial, he and his peers reinvented a thriving avant-garde after the long period of Nazi repression. His
influence is comparable to that of the American artist Andy Warhol, but whereas Warhol’s work features a style and imagery that...
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WILL MCBRIDE
Will McBride, born 1931, is a photographer in reportage, art photography and book illustration. He is also known as a painter and sculptor. In the following excerpt taken from Will’s official website he speaks about his views on photography:
A Photographer has only one thing to give to his photography. His whole being. The photographs should be the result of this involvement with the...
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FERDINAND HODLER
Self-potrait
Ferdinand Hodler is one of the few swiss painters with a worldwide reputation. In his painting, he attempted to achieve a synthetis of Impressionism, Realism and Simbolism.
The works of Hodler’s early maturity consisted of landscapes, figure compositions and portraits, treated with a vigorous realism.
Grammont
Thunersee
The Breithorn
Hilly Landscape...
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ANDREW WYETH
Andrew Newell Wyeth was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century. Several galleries and museums, including the National Gallery of Art, display his work when prior to this they had never featured the work of a living artist.
Christina’s World
Andrew Wyeth’s...