In an endless battle of cancer, Swamp Thing co-creator, designer and illustrator Bernie Wrightson passed away on March 18 after battling cancer for a long time. Wrightson was a product of the second generation of comic book fandoms and began contributing to fanzine collection in the late 1960s before breaking into the comics industry, working for Web of Horror and…
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Its opening started in 1906 when an exhibition of 32 of his paintings and sculptures was held in Berlin. He himself had only a few friends and almost never left his modestly furnished studio. Oil painting became more and more difficult and was restricted mainly to sepia and ink. The palette is dark and muted; in this canvas the questioning…
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Artists often find it takes too long to understand their audience and to the detriment of their work Christo and Jeanne-Claude changed the way public art is created and understood. Christo, who used sculpture with his wife and partner Jeanne-Claude as a means of fundamentally changing people’s understanding of iconic structures and places, died at the age of 84. Christo…
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In my opinion, we are not putting ourselves in the place of the past, but adding only a new link. Underneath an inscription or dedication, Twombly often refers to the related arts of literature and music, and the subtle presence of language is an integral part of his sculptural practice. Of the many celebrities who speak by name or phrase,…
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After graduating from high school at the North Carolina School of the Arts in the mid-1980s, LaChapelle began showing her photographs in galleries in New York two decades ago. A Connecticut native, LaChapelle ran after years of sexual abuse from home and took refuge in Manhattan in the early 1980s. There he worked as assistant waiter at Studio 54 before…
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The impenetrable, sullen face of the influential minister Olivares is familiar to us from the numerous portraits painted by Velazquez, which paid well the debt of gratitude to the patron who first brought him to the attention of the king, dressed as hunters and with landscapes in the background, just like the horse portraits for Buen Retiro and Royal Cloth,…
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Yet something about Judds’ art made me want to see her flawlessly bruised lines, disturbed her lurching immobility, shaking her composure: his work often made me feel inadequate and incomprehensible, vaguely excluded. In an effort to blur the physical and psychological distance between subject and viewer, Judd sought to make his work a part of the environment and the viewer’s…
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El Greco was born in Crete as Domenic Theotokopoulos (1541-1614) and painted his most famous paintings. El Greco’s dramatic and expressionist style was met with bewilderment by his contemporaries but found recognition in the 20th century. El Greco moved to Venice in 1567 to explore a new artistic approach to the development of the Venetian Renaissance paintings through the prism…
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After finishing 2nd in 1952 at the 9th National Salon of Artists in Bogota, Botero traveled to Madrid to study the works of old masters such as Tintoretto, Titian, Goya and Velazquez at the Prado Museum and toured Italy on his motorcycle to see fifteenth-century Renaissance frescoes. In 1955, Botero moved to Mexico City and firsthand became familiar with the…
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The violence seen by Goya during the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814) inspired him to create a series of prints entitled “The Disasters of War” and perhaps his most famous painting “Execution of the Defenders of Madrid on May 3, 1808”, of which 80 were first published in 1863. In 1824, Goya emigrated to Bordeaux, France where he lived until…