Paul Rand(Peretz Rosenbaum)(1914-1996) He is a famous american graphic designer, best known for designing corporate identities and posters.. Such as the logos for IBM, UPS and ABC. He was one of the originators of the Swiss Style of graphic design. was inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1972 Early education 1929-1932 Studying in Pratt institute at night 1932-1933 the Parsons School of Design 1933-194 the Art Students League But Rand was by-and-large “self-taught as a designer,learning about the works of Cassandre and Moholy-Nagy from European magazines . He used to paint signs for his father’s grocery store as well as for school events at P.S.
Paul Rand Though he would become one of the premier graphic designers Paul Rand was born Peretz Rosenbaum on August 15, 1914 in a strict Orthodox Jewish home in Brooklyn, New York. He started painting and designing as extracurricular activity in public high school, went on to earn an art certificate at Pratt Institute, and attended classes at Parsons School of Design and Art Students’ League, but was largely self-taught in design. From reading European art and design books and magazines, he brought European modernism to his own work and eventually introduced its influence to the graphic design industry as a whole in the United States. He established the so-called Swiss Style in the United States. Paul Rand began his professional career as an illustrator of stock advertising images for Metro Associated Services in 1934, but expanded his design portfolio through freelance work and an apprenticeship for package and industrial designer George Switzer’s studio.
Oscar-Claude Monet- “San Giorgio Maggire at Dusk” My artist is Oscar-Claude Monet and he was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France. When Monet started painting, he was studying at, Le Havre, with making charcoal paintings at the age of eleven. He would also sell his charcoal paintings in local areas. During Monet’s high school years, his art teacher was Jacques-Francois Ochard. Later on he met, Eugene Boudin.
Self-portraits have been a method of self exploration used by many artists since before the invention of the mirror. An artist uses self-portraits to transcend the barrier of time and be immortalized in history. Norman Rockwell, one of the greatest American painter and illustrator, created a famous piece called Triple Self-Portrait, which can be interpreted as timeless; an attempt of the creator to be eternal. Norman Rockwell was born in New York City in 1894. Since a little kid he knew that he wanted to be an artist, so he left high school to attend the Arts Student League, where he learned the technical skills on which he applied all through his career.
John Hooper Per:2 ASL2 3/17/12 Laurent Clerc: The Story Of His Early Years For my second out of class function in ASL class I chose to do a book report. I did a book report because my first out of class function was based on a deaf event. The book I read was about Laurent Clerc and was called The Story of his Early Years. Laurent Clerc's full name was Louis Laurent Marie Clerc. Clerc was born on December 26, 1785 in France.
Amedeo Carlo Avogadro was born in Turin , Italy in 1776 to a noble family of Piedmont , Italy. He graduated in ecclesiastical law at the early age of 21 and began to practice. Soon after, he dedicated himself to physics and mathematics (then called positive philosophy), and in 1809 started teaching them at a liceo (high school) in Vercelli, where his family had property. In 1811, he published an article with the title ("Essay on Determining the Relative Masses of the Elementary Molecules of Bodies and the Proportions by Which They Enter These Combinations"), which contains Avogadro's hypothesis. Avogadro submitted this essay to a French journal, Jean-Claude Delamétherie's (Journal of Physics, Chemistry and Natural History) so it was written in French, not Italian.
Sam Morrison ART 220 11/6/13 Vladimir Kush Vladimir Kush, a Russia native, began his art career at a young age of seven, where he studied great artists of the Modern and Impressionism art movement, and also the Renaissance. Ten years later Kush entered the Moscow Higher Art and Craft School, also known as the Surikov Moscow Art Institute, the largest educational institution in Russia. However, a year later Kush was conscripted into the Soviet Army where after being noticed for his artistic and more peaceful side, was assigned for two years to painting propaganda murals. Four years later (1987), Kush began showing his art work with the USSR Union of Artists, which , as of January, 1976, included 14,538 members. He later returned to his alma mater, where he briefly taught; but he discovered he could make more money, and further progress his newly forming style, while painting portraits on the street.
One achievement of the tang dynasty was there wood block printing. Woodblock printing is a special way of printing text images or patterns. This was widely used through out East Asia. This was known as the first method of printing. The method of wood block is prepared as a relief matrix, by cutting the white areas with knifes, chisel or sandpaper.
After a few years of school, Dürer started to learn the basics of goldsmithing and drawing from his father. Though his father wanted him to continue his training as a goldsmith, he showed such a precocious talent in drawing that he started as an apprentice to Michael Wolgemut at the age of fifteen in 1486. A self-portrait, a drawing in
At the young age of 18 he was called to the army. He was injured in 1917 at the Battle of Cambrai during a gas attack. After that he spent most of his time in war training new recruits. He continued his education when the war was finished, and in 1921 earned a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art. He was happy that he got into art school at the age of 21 because he said that at the age of 21 he was old enough to know how to get something out of it.