Artists in the History

Julie Mehretu (born 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is an artist most known for her abstract paintings and dense-layered prints. Mehretu was born in Ethiopia in 1970 as the eldest son of an Ethiopian university professor and American teacher. He attended Sheikh Ant Diop University, Dakar (1990-91) and received his BA from Kalamazoo College, Michigan (1992) and an MA in…

The Walker family moved to Atlanta, where his father took a job at Georgia State University and then moved with his family to Atlanta, Georgia, where he spent the rest of his childhood and then graduated from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and engraving. Kara Walker (born November…

In his work Wylie refers to Western European portraiture in what he calls the “urban and classical” style: Wylie’s portraits often have ornate backgrounds, elements of which surround and sometimes intertwine around his subjects. His work addresses the politics of race and power in art, highlighting the widespread lack of representation of people of color in the art world. Wylie…

Several months later, I saw him in New York, where his seventy-two paintings occupied two floors of the Met Breuer, the modern and contemporary branch of the Mets at the time. Painting after painting supported the fusion of image and idea, as well as the subtle, not so subtle and sometimes funny references to the history of art. Two people…

Mary Leonora Carrington ( April 6, 1917 — May 25, 2011 ) was a Mexican painter, surrealist painter and writer of British descent, born in Westwood House in Clayton Green, Chorley, Lancashire, [5] [6] [7] England. His father Harold Wilde Carrington (1880-1950) was a rich textile manufacturer [6] [8] and his mother Marie (née Moorehead) was Irish. Leonora Carrington (1917-192011)…

In 1976, after moving to Amsterdam, Abramovich met the West German performance performer Uwe Laysiepen, whose name was Ulay. She returned to solo performances in 1989 and remained motionless in The Artist Is Present (2010) for at least eight hours a day for three months silently staring into the eyes of hundreds of strangers one after another. In 2010 Abramovich…

As a result, the abolition of Rothko symbols removes and creates obstacles to work, which as it turned out will become his last artistic statement to the world after World War II. Rothko believed that his titles limited the larger and more transcendental goals of his paintings. For maximum interpretation of the viewer, he stopped giving names and framing his…

Dinky Bird, illustration from childhood poems illustrated by Eugene Field (1904) illustrates Parrish’s characteristic use of androgynous figures. In the golden age of illustrations, Maxfield Parrish’s work included monumental murals in office buildings and hotels, magazine covers and advertisements, and illustrations from his books. Many of his still popular children’s book illustrations are the result of his struggles as an…

In his youth he worked at the Paris Stock Exchange and painted in his spare time. In his spare time he began to paint but soon took his hobby seriously. Gauguin’s work has influenced the French avant-garde and many contemporary artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. It became popular after his death, and many of his paintings belonged…