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Charley Harper. Charley Harper (August 4, 1922 – June 10, 2007) was a Cincinnati -based American Modernist artist. He was best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters, and book illustrations. Born Charles Burton Harper [1] in Frenchton, West Virginia in 1922, Harper's upbringing on his family farm influenced his work to his ...
Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. His father, Cai Ruiqin, was a calligrapher and traditional painter who worked in a bookstore. As a result, Cai Guo-Qiang was exposed early on to Western literature as well as traditional Chinese art forms. [1]
Establishing and maintaining an art gallery to perpetuate, protect, enhance and promote the artistic and cultural legacy of nature-inspired artists, including Robert Bateman. Supporting or developing educational programs relating to the environment and nature-inspired artists. Robert Bateman is already aligned with child-in-nature philosophies.
Nature quotes. “During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.”. — John James Audubon. “If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ...
Bob Ross. Robert Norman Ross (October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was an American painter and art instructor who created and hosted The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in the United States, CBC in Canada, and similar channels in Latin America, Europe and elsewhere.
David Hockney was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, the fourth of five children of Kenneth Hockney (1904-1978) [13] [14] who was an accountant's clerk who later ran his own accountancy business, [15] and who had been a conscientious objector in the Second World War, and Laura (1900-1999) née Thompson, [16] a devout Methodist and strict vegetarian.
5. "Going to the mountains is going home." 6. "The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark." 7. "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in ...
National Medal of Arts (1985) Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977) Edward MacDowell Medal (1972) Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements.