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Jon Rafman (born 1981) is a Canadian artist, filmmaker, and essayist. His work centers around the emotional, social and existential impact of technology on contemporary life. His artwork has gained international attention and was exhibited in 2015 at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (Montreal) [1] and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. [2]
Her uncle, also named Clark Voorhees, [4] was a wood carver [7] and his wife, a painter. [8] Fish knew from a young age that she wanted to pursue the visual arts. [3] She said, "I came from a family of artists, and I always made art and knew I wanted to be an artist." [9] Fish was talented in ceramics and she initially intended to be a sculptor ...
An alternative to the traditional contemporary art symposium, the Artist Research Project comprises two major components. The first component is a private “think tank” gathering of conservators, art historians, art fabricators and others to discuss the artist’s work and the proper presentation, materials, methods of fabrication ...
Robert Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington on January 24, 1915, the first child of Robert Burns Motherwell II and Margaret Hogan Motherwell. The family later moved to San Francisco, where Motherwell's father served as president of Wells Fargo Bank, but returned to Cohasset Beach, Washington, every summer during his youth.
Sir Grayson Perry CBE RA Hon FRIBA (born 24 March 1960) is an English artist. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries, [1] and cross-dressing, as well as his observations of the contemporary arts scene, and for dissecting British "prejudices, fashions and foibles".
Underground comic artist Bill Griffith drew a four-page biographical sketch of Rousseau, A Couch in the Sun, which was included in issue #2 of the Arcade anthology. [ citation needed ] The visual style of Michel Ocelot 's 1998 animation film, Kirikou and the Sorceress , is partly inspired by Rousseau, particularly the depiction of the jungle ...
He celebrates their faces, he gives them larger-than-fiction size. He puts wit into the beauties, fantasy into the rich, depth into the glamorous and adds instant patina to newcomers." [3] [7] Bernstein was commissioned by the World Federation of United Nations to create a UN postage stamp in 1990. [8]
Franklin Booth (July 18, 1874 – August 25, 1948) was an American artist known for his detailed pen-and-ink illustrations. He had a unique illustration style based upon his early recreation of wood engraving illustrations with pen and ink.