TAMARA DE LEMPICKA

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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Born in Warsaw, Poland, she had one daughter, several husbands, and lovers of both genders throughout her life. But above all, she was devoted to her social life and artistic career. She came to be known
as “the baroness with a brush” during her time spent in the United States.
Tamara de Lempicka’s work is well recognized
as part of the Art Deco Movement. - Asthrea Camilon
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LOUISE
BOURGEOIS
december 25, 1911 - may 31, 2010
french artist and sculptor, louise
bourgeois, also known as “spiderwoman”,
for her most well known spider pieces titled,
“maman” makes many works that are largely
abstract but still allude to the human body and
center around themes of protection, anxiety, betrayal and human fragility in light of the trauma
she experienced as a child as a result of her
father’s infidelity to her mother.
jennifer betonio
Romare
Bearden
September 2nd, 1911
March 12th, 1988
Romare Bearden was an African-American artist
who was known for his diverse use of various artistic
methods and mediums throughout his career (such as
collages, watercolors, oils, and photomontages). His
works focused primarily on depicting African-American
life and community (of both Harlem and the South)
and he worked on many social issues and was a civil
rights activist, creating the Black Academy of Arts and
Letters in order to support young minority artists.
Barbara Presley
EVA
HESSE
January 11, 1936
May 29, 1970
Above: Untitled (Rope Piece), 1970. Below: Sans II, 1966.
Eva Hesse was an anti-form Postminimalism American sculptor who
used valueless materials she found
at abandoned sites such as cords
and electrical wires. Later known for
using fiberglass, latex, and plastics
in her works, Hesse utilized sculpture to exhibit the aesthetic aspect
of the emotional chaos she faced
during the painful struggles in her life.
Linny Tran
April 2, 1891 - April 1, 1976
MAX ERNST
Max Ernst invented the surrealist technique called frottage,
which was graphite rubbings. He had many alter-egos, such as
Loplop, his bird self. When Max was drafted into World War I, he
claimed to have died then was reborn at a later time. At first he
mostly painted, but started to sketch and sculpt in his later years.
Diana Chang
Robert
Colescott
August 26 1925 - June 4 2009
Colescott was the first African American to represent
the United States in a solo exhibition at the Venice
Biennale in 1997. His work is often satirical, conveying the bitter reflections of being African American. In
order to express this, he found new uses and meanings for some of the most popular Western paintings
by borrowing their compositions and characters. No
American painter of that time had took this approach.
- Ericka Nowell
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KARA WALKER is a contemporary African-American artist. Her works
address the issues such
as gender, race, sexuality, identity, and violence.
Her art encompassedsdifferent forms of media
such as drawing, painting, collage, and silhouettes. Her most famous
work is her large-scale
tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. Over the
years, she tried to incorporate animation, shadow puppets, and video
into the silhouettes. Currently, she is a professor in the MFA program
at Columbia University.
November 26, 1969
Kara Walker
HELEN
FRANKENTHALER
Wisdom, 1965
1928-2011
Martha Han
HELEN FRANKENTHALER was an American
abstract expressionist painter who came to
prominence in the 1950s and on. Her painting
was characterized by “soak stains,” produced
by applying diluted oil paints on unprimed
canvas, which would absorb the paint in vivid
fields of color. She has been featured in many
exhibitions, including the show Post-Painterly
Abstraction in 1964 and a retrospective at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1989.
Canyon, 1965
Larry Rivers
(1923-2002)
Larry Rivers was an American artist, writer,
actor, and Jazz musician, who paved the way
for Pop Art with his use of appropriated imagery.
His work also retains the idiosyncratic quality of
Abstract Expressionism, eluding easy categorization. Hence, Rivers is generally described as
a transitional figure, who helped bridge the gap
between the two movements.
Veronica Li
Lee Miller
Elizabeth “Lee” Miller was an American
fashion icon and fine art photographer
known for her photojournalism during
World War II as well as her portraits of
famous artists such as Picasso, Man
Ray and Coctaeu. Her photojournalism
was focused on glaring social issues;
for example starving children, the use
of new horrifying technology such as
napalm and the Nazi concentration
camps.
Tiffany Wang
April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977
LEE (1908 - 1984)
KRASNER
Lee Krasner was an American abstract expressionist
painter. Krasner’s surviving body of work is relatively
small because she would often revise or discard an entire
series due to her self-criticalness. She often tore up her
drawings and paintings to create collages.
As of 2008, Krasner is one of only four women artists
to have had a retrospective show at the Museum of
Modern Art. Following her death, her East Hampton
property became the Pollock-Krasner House and Studio,
which is open for public tours. She is portrayed in an
Academy Award-winning film called Pollock in 2000.
Patty Lin
Sophie Calle
An introduction by Mary Painter
Sophie Calle is a French conceptual and installation
artist known for challenging the ideas of privacy and
identity. Her photography, texts, installations and
performances are famous for engaging outside
audiences into previously considered “private”
realms and thoughts; the pieces or works can leave
the audience with a deeper understanding of the
self and the psychology of others.
October 9, 1953-
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nfluenced by the rugged
surroundings of his home
state, Maine, and European modernist painters,
Marsden Hartley painted his landscapes with
a touch of realism and
spiritualism. At the brink
of World War I, the artist
travelled all over Europe
and the Americas, integrating cultural motifs in his abstract works, from military regalia to elements of folk art.
marsden
hartley
1877 JAN 4 - 1943 SEP 2
Sophie
TaeuberArp
1889-1943
A significant artist during the Dada era, she is most notable for her geometric abstractions that subtly play with
color and form. She participated in the Cabaret Voltaire
collaborating in performance art pieces with her
husband, Jean Arp. One of her most famous pieces
Dada Heads, which resemble hat-maker mannequins
combining “high” and “low” art.
Blaine Morris
SUSAN
ROTHENBERG
Born: 1945, Buffalo, New York
Susan Rothenberg is an American contemporary painter who was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1945 and graduated from Cornell University. Now she lives and works in New Mexico USA. She is considered as one of the most innovative and independent artists of the modern period. She focuses on figural representation and Minimalist abstraction by
using formal elements investigating the meaning, mechanics,
and essence of painting.
BY MOONHEE SUNG
Agnes Martin rejected many of the dominant trends that defined the art-world in the 1950s into the 1970s.
She fit in neither with the subjectivity of Abstract Expressionism nor the precise aesthetic of Minimalism.
Utilizing grid modifications, faint colors, symmetry, and a touch of the human hand’s imperfections, her art
sought a level of subtlety that bypassed the artist’s voice and existed as its own entity to give viewers
a
spiritual experience.
---PATRICK MAGNO
AGNES MARTIN
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DUANE
HANSON
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Duane Hanson was an American sculptor who was famous for his hyperrealist works of people,
made in a wide range of materials, from polyester resin to fiberglass. Many of Hanson’s early
works were focused on brutal or violent subjects but later he transitioned to more subtle topics
that never displayed any overt sense of violence. His sculptures were cast from actual people and
included all the minute and intricate details that each individual had, including veins and blemishes.
Lauren Fong
RachelWhiteread
April 20, 1963 - Present
Whiteread is an English sculptor who creates minimalist sculptures in the
form of casts and addresses personal, monumental, and public spheres
by creating a relationship between time and space, public
and intimate, and everyday and habitual. Her works focus on
the negative spaces of ordinary objects, furniture, and
architectural spaces, which evoke melancholy as if
something is missing in these overlooked spaces.
Alice Aycock
November 20,1946-Present
Aycock graduated with her bachelor of arts degree from
Douglass College in 1968 and received her masters
at Hunter College in 1971, where she was taught and
supervised by Robert Morris. As an American sculptor,
she is best known for her large scale installations and
outdoor sculptures.
She has created installations at the Museum of Modern
Art, New York (1977), the San Francisco Art Institute
(1979), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1983),
and outside the United States, including Israel, Germany,
The Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, and Japan.