Artists in the History

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…

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…

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…

Sherman appears in his historical photographic series Untitled Stills (1977-80) as actress in the B and Noir movies. When asked if she had thought about acting in her photographs, Sherman replied: “I never thought about acting. Many of Sherman’s dramas, such as 1981 Centerfolds, draw attention to stereotypes about women in society, movies, TV and in magazines. Sherman has been…

Monet’s performance declined when he retired, although he worked with great financial success on several panels for the French government from 1914 to 1918 and would later create works for the state. In October the weather forced Monet to stop painting open air and sold four of eleven paintings with water lilies the next month despite the fact that he…

Damien Hirst has created installations, sculptures, paintings and drawings that address the complex relationships between art and beauty, religion and science, life and death reinterpreting the traditional plot of landscape painting with a playful irony. Since his appearance in the international art scene in the late 1980s, his work challenges modern belief systems by tracking down the character of character…

I was a huge Jeter fan and they had all these great guys on their team, so it was hard to not love them. I was always chasing my dog and I always active too I think that helps a lot too. David was the proud father of four wonderful children he loved Skyler Nicole, Kaylee Michelle, Lauren Jean and…

Hockney was a distinguished academic at the Royal College of Art after a distinguished career as an award-winning student and achieved international success when he was 20. Hockney rose to prominence with the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Art in London at the age of twenty-five and quickly became one of the defining figures in the British pop…

One of Arbus’s creative achievements was August Sander, who created hundreds of portraits of the citizens – and social structure – of Weimar Germany. Earlier this summer, the museum opened an exhibition of Arbuss photographs in the Met Breuer headquarters. Here are all Arbus’s most iconic images including works from the year before his death in 1970. Perhaps other titles…