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Dog Painting, Alex Katz
Alex Katz is considered a pop artist. He not only paints but creates in sculpture and prints as well. His formal art training was conducted at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where he learned to paint from life. The artist admits that he destroyed thousands of pieces of canvas in an attempt to find his style. In addition to art, Katz also studies biology which helped him in his art which is 50 portrait landscape and 50 percent portrait. -
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Fine Art 1975-2000
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Buenos Aires, Richard Celma
Richard Celma discovered his artistic talents at the age of 5 when he began taking art workshops. HIs paintings blend realism with fantasy to depict human beings in celestial settings. -
"Interview with a Vampire" Anne Rice
Anne Rice published the first book in the Vampire Chronicle Series in 1976. While RIce studied Creative Writing in college, she did not writing until after the death of her daughter. Writing gave her a means to cope with her daughter's death and her subsequent alcoholism. The first book was criticized for its eroticism but has inspired many young writers to this day, spurring on such recent successes as the Twilight francise. -
Northwestern University group by Sylvia Sleigh
Sylvia Sleigh was a feminist artist born in England 1916. She studied at the Brighton School of Art and later moved to New York City. Sleigh attempted to revert the artist's muse back to the traditional female nude but was unsuccessful in her movement. Critic Ken Johnson states "Like other things about the 70's, they are embarrassing, unintentionally comical and oddly creepy, yet they remain somehow touching in their quixotic ambition to establish a new humanely erotic tradition" -
Mujer Angel, Graciela Iturbide
This photograph was completed by Iturbide in 1980 in Silver Gelatin. She is a Mexican photographer born in 1942. Her father taught her photography as a young girl and while she cherished the memories the pictures provided, she gave up photography until the death of her daughter in 1970 She is a feminist devoted to capturing everyday life in Mexico. -
Gianfranco Gorgoni, Broadway Studio
Gianfranco Gorgoni is an Italian photographer who decided to become an artist after a trip to London in 1965. Gorgoni would work in exchange for chances to travel around and travel across America like a "hippie". He also traveled to South America and compiled phtographs for books and magaizine articles. He is a fan of "pop art". -
The Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel
This novel was published in 1980 as the first book in the Earth's Children Series. The book focuses on what life would have been like among Neanderthal and modern Cro-Magnon humans. The story is set about 18,000 Before Present (BP) before the Neanderthals were killed of by the polar ice shields, In 1986, the book was made into a film starring Daryl Hannah. -
Annie Lebovitz, John and Yoko
Lebovitz started her career with Rolling Stone Magazine in 1970 and one of her first assignments was photographing the band, The Rolling Stones. Lebovitz took this famous picture of Jon Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono at the apartment in New York City in 1980. She tried to get Lennon alone but her insisted his wife be in the photo as well. There was nothing planned about the photo and Lebovitz finds the photo to be evocative of the couple's relationship. -
Mati Klarwein
Klarwein was born in Germany and die in Spain. He is most famous for his album cover art painted in Surrealist fashion. His main interests for artistic inspiration were typical of the sixties and seventies with his fascination with pop culture and psychedelic art. He was considered to by Andy Warhol's favorite artist. -
Dance of Eagle, Allan Houser
Allan Houser was an Apache Indian Sculptor who died in 1992. He is one of the renowned Native American painters and sculpters in the twentieth century. He studied art in Sante Fe, New Mexico in 1934 and showed his work for the first time at the World's Fair. His work was commissioned in both painting and sculpture by the U.S. Department of State to create scenes out of Native American History. -
Country Girl, Veniamin Ivanovich Borisov
This painting was created Soviet painter Veniamin Ivanovich Borisov in 1986. Ivanovich was part of the Leningrad School, a troop of painters who specialized in Socialist Realism. His first art exhibirtion was in 1957 and her focuses on depicting landscapes, still lifes, genre scenes, and portraits. In 1968 he was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Artists. -
Nirvana Rock Band, 1987-1994
American rock band famous for Grunge Metal type music. They have sold of 75 million albums world wide making them one of the most successful bands in history. While they only released three albums, they are considered to be one of the most influential and imprtant bands of the modern era. -
Everybody's Child, Franceso Clemente
Clemente is an Italian artist best known for his Contemporary artwork resulting from his nomadic lifestyle and his work is found to be intellectual and geographical. He is associated with William Blake and Allen Ginsberg who are considered to be some of his artistic inspirations. Clemente originally studied architecture at the University of Rome which is seen in his attention to deatil and form. -
Children Playing Elena Kostenko
Elena Kostenko is a Soviet/Russian artist born in 1926. She is regarding as one of the most important artist of the Leningrad School of painting and specializes in portraits. She started at the Leningrad School of Art in 1938 and studied Realism which is evident in her lovely, true to life paintings. -
Bostic Girls Series, Connie Bostic
Connie Bostic is a native of North Carolina where she still lives and teaches. Her work is considered multimedia and is known for its "expressive, vibrant, symbolic and dynamic" properties. The "Bostic Girls" is a series of paintings that are oil on paper. -
Christy Turlington, Brittish Vogue
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Ceremonies Su Mer, Frantz Zephirin
Franta Zephirin is a Haitian artist born in 1968. He is nicknamed "The Painter of Haiti". He began painting in 1973 with Antoine Obin, grand master of the School of Cap-Haitien (a city in the north of Haiti) but soon departed to form his own art that focuses on parallel universes. -
The Cloisters/Pilgrim, Masami Teroaka
This painting is oil on panel with a gold leaf frame. Masami Teroaka created this piece to depict her view of the sex abuses scandal within the Catholic Church. She is attempting to convey her distaste with the Chruch and their opinion that ordaining women as clergy is on par with pedohilia.
