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Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety, a major artist of his generation. Regarded as reclusive, he had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. Pollock died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related, single-car accident; he was driving. Early life[edit] Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, in 1912,[4] the youngest of five sons. While living in Echo Park, California, he enrolled at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School,[6] from which he was expelled. Trying to deal with his established alcoholism, from 1938 through 1941 Pollock underwent Jungian psychotherapy with Dr. Springs period and his technique[edit] Pollock signed a gallery contract with Peggy Guggenheim in July 1943. New techniques[edit]

Edward Hopper Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.[1] Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Childhood home of Edward Hopper in Nyack, New York Hopper was born in upper Nyack, New York, a yacht-building center on the Hudson River north of New York City.[2] He was one of two children of a comfortably well-off, middle-class family. Hopper was a good student in grade school and showed talent in drawing at age five. In his early self-portraits, Hopper tended to represent himself as skinny, ungraceful, and homely. Hopper began art studies with a correspondence course in 1899. Another of his teachers, artist Robert Henri, taught life class. Years of struggle[edit] Summer Interior (1909)

Boardwalk Empire Boardwalk Empire is an American period drama series from premium cable channel HBO, set in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era. It stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson. Primetime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer Terence Winter created the show inspired by the book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson about historical criminal kingpin Enoch L. Johnson.[2] Boardwalk Empire has received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its visual style and basis on historical figures, as well as for Buscemi's lead performance.[8] The series has received forty Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including two for Outstanding Drama Series, winning seventeen. Series overview[edit] Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Season 1 (2010)[edit] Season 2 (2011)[edit] Season 3 (2012)[edit] Season 4 (2013)[edit] Cast and characters[edit] Main cast[edit] Crew[edit]

performa-arts Earth from Above a collection of aerial photography... - justpaste.it "Earth From Above" is the result of the aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's five-year airborne odyssey across six continents. It's a spectacular presentation of large scale photographs of astonishing natural landscapes. Every stunning aerial photograph tells a story about our changing planet. Coal mine in South Africa Sha Kibbutz, Israel Military cemetery in Verdun, France Suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark Elephants on the savannah, Botswana Favelas in Rio de Janeiro Ruins of the medieval city of Shali, Egypt Switzerland Gullholmen, Sweden Denver, USA Fraser Island dune, Australia Pena, Portugal Amazon River, Brazil Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa Machu Picchu, Peru Walled City of Dubrovnik, Croatia The Changping District in Beijing, China Cattle near the Masai Mara National Park, Kenya Tasmania, Australia Boat Houses in Lagos, Nigeria Bazaar of Istanbul, Turkey Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany Hashima Island, Japan Stockholm, Sweden Boats stranded on the dry Aral Sea, Kazakhstan Varanasi, India

The Drawing Center | Exhibitions-Current | New York, NY Rebecca Horn - official website Rebecca Horn 1944 Born 1963 Studies at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg 1971 DAAD-scholarship at Saint Martins College of Art, London 1972–1981 Lives in New York 1974 Teaches at the California Art Institute, University of San Diego 1975 Deutscher Kritikerpreis (German Critic’s Award) for her film Berlin – Exercises in nine parts: Dreaming under water of things afar 1977 Awarded the ‘Kunstpreis der Glockengasse’, Cologne 1979 Awarded the ‘Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße’, Bremen 1986 Awarded the ‘documenta-Preis’, Kassel 1988 Awarded the Carnegie Prize at Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, for The Hydra Forest, Performing Oscar Wilde 1989 Begins teaching at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin 1992 Awarded the ‘Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar’ and the ‘Medienkunstpreis Karlsruhe’ 2004 Awarded the Barnett and Annalee Newman Award, New York 2005 Awarded the ‘Hans-Molfenter-Preis’, Stuttgart 2006 Awarded the ‘Piepenbrock Preis für Skulptur’, Berlin 2009 Alice Salomon Poetik Preis, Berlin top 9. WACK!

Olafur Eliasson Piet Mondrian Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (/ˈmɔːndriˌɑːn, ˈmɒn-/;[1] Dutch: [ˈpit ˈmɔndrijaːn], later [ˈmɔndrijɑn]; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter. Mondrian's arrival in Paris from the Netherlands in 1911 marked the beginning of a period of profound change. He encountered experiments in Cubism and with the intent of integrating himself within the Parisian avant-garde removed an 'a' from the Dutch spelling of his name (Mondriaan).[3][4] The Netherlands (1872–1911)[edit] In this house, now the Villa Mondriaan, in Winterswijk, Piet Mondrian lived from 1880 to 1892 Mondrian was born in Amersfoort in the Netherlands, the second of his parents' children.[5] He was descended from Christian Dirkzoon Monderyan who lived in The Hague as early as 1670.[3] The family moved to Winterswijk in the east of the country when his father, Pieter Cornelius Mondriaan, was appointed Head Teacher at a local primary school.[6] Mondrian was introduced to art from a very early age.

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