The princes’ photographs show that it is not the origin of the images (artist or advertising agency) that matters, but their destination… the place belonging to the viewer… where the images find their meaning…. In the mid-1970s Prince made pictorial drawings and collages which he has since abandoned. Studying images from media, advertising and entertainment of the late 1970s, he…
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Richard Serra ( born November 2, 1939 in San Francisco, California, USA ) is an American sculptor best known for his massive abstract steel sculptures, in which the essential presence challenges the physical qualities of the pieces and their specific locations. However, his sculptures still evoke a sense of sublime due to their immensity and materiality. One of the most…
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Sol LeWitt was one of the leading figures of his day; he transformed the process of artistic creation by questioning the fundamental relationship between an idea, an artist’s subjectivity and the work of art an idea can create. While many artists challenged modern notions of originality, authorship and artistic genius in the 1960s, LeWitt denied that approaches such as minimalism,…
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Lempicka won the first prize in 1927 at the International Exhibition of Fine Arts for the painting “Quizette on the Balcony” – a striking portrait of her daughter she rarely saw – a portrait of his mistress with Diosheg. After World War II, she and her husband moved to the United States and painted celebrity portraits, still lifes, and some…
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On December 24, 1934, Benton was considered one of the three leading American regionalist artists, along with Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942) and John Stuart Curry (American, 1897-1946) when his work (self portrait) appeared on the cover of Time magazine. In 1935, Benton left New York and settled permanently in Kansas City, Missouri, where he taught at the International Art Students…
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Italian painter Titian first studied in Venice under the mosaic master Sebastiano Zuccato, but soon moved to the Bellini family workshop, where Giovanni Bellini, the greatest Venetian artist of the time, became his true master. The Italian artist Tiziano was born in the small village of Pieve di Cadore, located on the mountains of the Alps, north of Venice and…
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Vivian Dorothy Meyer ( February 1, 1926 — April 21, 2009 ) was an American street photographer whose work was discovered after her death and recognized. She worked for about 40 years as a nanny in the North Shore of Chicago while simultaneously taking photographs of the people and architecture of Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. During his lifetime…
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When I show him Kim Kardashian West’s Instagram, he says, “While I can’t imagine Eggleston navigating the little things in life like grocery shopping or filling out any form, I can imagine an understated version — a harsh — parallel universe, as he sketches the One Theory of Everything on paper napkins and then pops it up as a sweet…
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The exhibition focuses on earlier works such as the paintings of Homer (1836–1910) and Salvation, painted in 1881–1882 on the North Coast of England, and the increasing renown of the artists as war drew to a close and an understanding of what war meant. Through the 1870s Homer continued to paint mostly rural or idyllic scenes of the peasant life,…
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According to Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro: “In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to have believed that art is a warning about the fragility of the flesh – all pleasures that we know are doomed to die – so his works manage simultaneously to induce a process of decay. Time and the endless struggle for life. During this period his…