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Cey Adams (b. New York, 1962) is an American visual artist, graphic designer and author. He was the founding creative director of Def Jam Recordings and is known for his work with Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Jay-Z, and Mary J. Blige. [1]
Edward Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 – June 24, 1964) was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto-pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his Ashcan School pictures in the early years of the 20th century.
This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Jay Z (on left) with Teck at the MTV studios in New York for ‘Spankin New Music Week’ on DFX. 11/17/00 Photo: Scott Gries/ImageDirect – Credit: Photo Scott Gries / Getty Images Jay-Z was ...
Jay-Z released his tenth album entitled American Gangster on November 6, 2007. After viewing the Ridley Scott film of the same name, Jay-Z was heavily inspired to create a new "concept" album that depicts his experiences as a street-hustler. [77] The album is not the film's official soundtrack, although it was distributed by Def Jam. [78]
In 2018, the Hauser & Wirth Institute in cooperation with the Estate of Franz Kline began preparing the catalogue raisonné Franz Kline Paintings, 1950–1962. [26] The project, which presents for the first time an online compendium of Kline's oil on canvas works made between 1950 and the artist's death in 1962, was completed in 2022. [27] [28]
Peter Saul (born August 16, 1934) is an American painter. His work has connections with Pop Art, Surrealism, and Expressionism. His early use of pop culture cartoon references in the late 1950s and very early 1960s situates him as one of the fathers of the Pop Art movement. [1]
In the 1940s, words began to appear in his work often resulting in public criticism. McCahon felt the directness of words could help, provide a 'way in' to his images, a long tradition within painted images, especially in religious art. [5] In 1947, he worked as a labourer, and in 1948 worked as a gardener in Christchurch.