JEAN DUPAS Jean Dupas was born in Bordeaux, France in 1882 and died in 1964. He was a designer, poster artist, decorator and painter. His paintings are the most closely associated with the Art Deco period. Dupas worked in Rome, Italy in 1910 for two years where he produced ‘Le Danse’ (on the right), a smaller part of a bigger painting ‘Le Pigeons Blanc’ which won a gold medal when it was presented in Salon des Artistes Français in 1922. This work was inspired by Inges “Turkish bath” and it is on eof the first examples of Art Deco painting due to the way the figures have been drawn; arabesque-ish long necks, bent wrists, almost sculptural.
Carlos Schwabe Part A Carlos Schwabe was famous symbolic artist which he was born on July 21st, in 1866 and died in 1926. When Carlos Schwabe moved to Geneva in Switzerland from Altona he started studying art which he got brief success there which his talent was later unlocked when he moved to Paris while he was still a young man. He developed considerable graphic skills. He soon became active in Symbolist circles winning, favour as an illustrator of mystical religious themes. His highly refined drawings and watercolours accompany texts such as Le Reve by Emile Zola While working as a wall paper designer he became familiar with symbolist artists which then lead him to usually painting mythological and allegorical topics.
There was also a painting of him by William dargie won the Archibald prize 1956 Namatjira initiative won national and international acclaim. As the first prominent aboriginal artist to work in modern idiom, He was widely regarded as a representative of assimilation. Also in 1944 he was included in who’s who in Australia and was elected an honorary member of the royal art society of New South Wales 1955. With Albert becoming so well know, Australian people push for him to get citizenship. This happened in 1957.
His mother who was a amateur photographer made sure that Roy artistic talents were nurtured through drawing and music lessons. DeCarava was one of only two black students at a high school for textile studies in the Chelsea section and one of only a few at the Cooper Union School of Art. Roy had won a scholarship to study art and architecture at the Cooper Union School. After two years there, discouraged by the aggressive manner of white students toward him, he left and enrolled at the Harlem Community Art Center on 125th Street. There DeCarava pursued painting using his brushes to make signs for the Works Progress Administration.
Lee graduated from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania with a degree in chemical engineering. He married in 1927 to Doris Emrick, a talented painter. During this marriage, Lee was inspired to begin painting and so he enrolled for a course at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco from 1929-1931. Then he joined Arts Student League in New York from 1931-1935. Struggling with painting, he bought a camera as an aid for his work, but soon became interested with photography alone.
He married Elizabeth Ann Holland in 1954. John Howard Griffin gained an appreciation for literature and music because of his exposure to it at an early age from his parents. He attended R.L. Paschal in Fort Worth at age fifteen left to pursue better education in France. By age nineteen John Howard Griffin worked as a medic in the French resistance army.
He took on the challenge of carving this beautiful work out of a “huge oblong chunk of pure white unflawed Carrara marble – some 18 feet high and weighing several tons – that had been badly block out and then abandoned by an earlier sculptor” (Coughlan 85). This piece had always fascinated Michelangelo, but neither he, nor anyone else, could think of what to carve from it, until now (Coughlan 85). Thus began a new era in art, the High Renaissance. He began carving this statue for the city of Florence. It would become a symbol of this
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renior was born on 25 February 1841 in Limoges, France to a large working class family. He was the sixth child born to his father who was a tailor and his mother, who was a seamstress. As a child, Renoir worked in a porcelain factory to help earn money to support the family. From an early age, he was recognized as a talented artist and was soon chosen to paint designs on the fine china at the Lévy Frères factory. Soon, Renoir was also painting other items, including fans and religious wall hangings for overseas missionaries.
Consider as the projects that built Piano reputation and give him an international name is the futurist Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. Years later Piano designed the Menil Collection Art Museum, built in Texas, in which he utilizes natural light to illuminates arts pieces during different times of the day. Another project that really reflects Piano’s ideals is the Shard of Glass, in which he used a high tech approach. Son of a builder and one of the most recognized architects in world is Renzo Piano. Piano was born on September 14, 1937 in Genoa Italy.
Architect, artist, and engineer Santiago Calatrava was born on July 28, 1951, in Benimamet, near Valencia, Spain. Calatrava family's hillside home was grand, with large rooms that Calatrava later named as an inspiration for his attraction to major projects and big spaces. He attended primary and secondary school in Valencia. From the age of eight, he also attended the Arts and Crafts School, where he began his formal instruction in drawing and painting. Calatrava's family had suffered during the political upheavals of the 1930s in Spain, and they saw an international future as their son's best chance.