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Elaine de Kooning was born Elaine Marie Catherine Fried in 1918 in Flatbush, New York. [6] Later in life she told people she was born in 1920. Her parents were Mary Ellen O'Brien, an Irish Catholic, and Charles Frank Fried, a Protestant of Jewish descent.
Henry Taylor was born the youngest of eight brothers and sisters, which earned him the childhood nickname "Henry VIII" [1] (which he still occasionally calls himself) [2] in Ventura, California, to a father who was employed by the U.S. government as a commercial painter and is listed as a painter on Henry's birth certificate.
Bruno Bischofberger became Basquiat's art dealer and gave him a one-man show at his Zurich gallery in September 1982. [4] Bischofberger also represented Warhol and arranged a lunch meeting between the two artists on October 4, 1982. [5] Warhol documented the meeting in a diary entry, which was posthumously published in The Andy Warhol Diaries ...
Paul Jackson Pollock (/ ˈ p ɒ l ə k /; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter.A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, Pollock was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles.
The following is a list of significant artworks by the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), who played a historic role in the rise of street art and neo-expressionism. During his short yet productive career, Basquiat created more than 600 paintings and 1,500 drawings. [ 1 ]
Kenneth Price (February 16, 1935 – February 24, 2012) was an American artist who predominantly created ceramic sculpture. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute and Otis Art Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design) in Los Angeles, before receiving his BFA degree from the University of Southern California in 1956.
A native of Madison Heights, Michigan, Wyland began painting as a child and attended Detroit's Center for Creative Studies in the 1970s. [1] His connection with whales began when he was 14 on a visit with his family to Laguna Beach, California where he saw the ocean for the first time and witnessed several gray whales migrating down the California coast towards Mexico. [2]
Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali (Greek: Χρυσά Βαρδέα-Μαυρομιχάλη; December 31, 1933 – December 23, 2013) was a Greek American artist who worked in a wide variety of media. [3] An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture, [ 4 ] [ 1 ] known for her neon , steel , aluminum and acrylic glass installations, [ 5 ...