One of his most famous paintings today, “Les Perruches”, which was in oil on canvas, was exhibited there. Jean Dupas is also known for decorating interiors of the Île-de-France and the SS Libertè in 1934. The SS Normandie had more than 400 square meters of painted and frosted glass decorated in the grand salon with the help of Champigneulle. Throughout the whole of the Art Moderne period, Dupas’ art stlye dominated advertising and commercial art. Dupas did a quantity of posters eg.
Walker Evans was born on the 3rd of November 1903 and died 10th of April 1975.He was an American photographer that is best known for capturing the effects of the Great Depression for the Farm Security Administration. He was born in Saint Louis, into a reasonably affluent family. His father was an advertising executive. Walker disliked the establishment and wanted to become a writer. He studied literature at Williams College for a year, before dropping out and going to Paris.
Thomas Nast was born September 27, 1840, Landau, Bandan, which is now Germany. He was the son of a musician in the 9th regiment Bavarian band. His mother took him to New York in 1846. He studied art there for about a year with Alfred Fredericks and Theodore Kaufmann and at the school of the National Academy of Design. After school (at the age of 15), he started working in 1855 as a draftsman for Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper; three years afterwards for Harper's Weekly.Nast drew for Harper's Weekly from 1859 to 1860 and from 1862 until 1886.
His aim was to shed light on what the conditions of were like in “War to end all wars” and its trench-warfare. He didn’t live to see his poems published and the fame they wrought him as he was killed not long after recovering and returning to the front six days before the treaty of Versailles came into effect on the western front on November 4th 1918. Wilfred Owen laid out his poem “Dulce et decorum est.” with details about the men and their state of mind first, with the pace building and the action unravelling. In the second stanza the action is at full pace with gas shells (or Five-nines) dropping behind and around them, the fumbling and panic of fitting a gas mask and eventually the effects of gas on someone unfortunate enough to have not been able to fit his mask in time. The third stanza starts with the man being thrown into a wagon and driven away.
Some of the most important collection of Renaissance painting would be that of Federico da Montefeltro who helped Urbino flourish in art and culture and commissioned perhaps the largest library in Italy with the paintings in Monefelto's court displaying the first theoretical treatise on perspective. Ludovico Gonzago strongly promoted Mantua for its art and culture he had the church of Sant Andrea rebuilt by Alberti who displayed religion and architectural with a combination of three ancient roman forms temple front, triumphal arch and basilica. The Medici family played a huge role in discovering the great artist of the 15th century. Giovanni de'Medici
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.
Russell Werner Lee, son of Burton and Adeline Lee, was born in Ottawa, Illinois, on July 21, 1903. At age five his parents divorced and at age ten he watched as his mother dies from being hit by an automobile. His life wasn’t easy growing up. He attended Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana for four years and disliked the ways of military treatment. Lee graduated from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania with a degree in chemical engineering.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), was an American leading artist in the pop movement. One of his noted pieces is the advertisement for Campbell’s soup (1968). He was well noted for is pop art of Marilyn Monroe and the Eight Elvis’s. He used silk screening and bright colors most often, even when he painted images of suicide, car crashes and disasters. He actually did a painting in which he prepared the canvas with copper paint and oxidized it with urine.
Instead of taking his father’s last name, Picasso took his mothers last name. Picasso was soon an artistic prodigy. When he was 14 years old he finished the 1-month qualifying examination of the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona in one day. He showed his passion and skill for drawing at an early age. He received training from his father Jose Ruiz.
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. Therefore, when he was thirteen, his family took advantage of the recent opening of the borders and sent him to Paris as an exchange student. He later travelled and studied in Switzerland. Calatrava was initially interested in becoming an artist so he made plans to attend art school in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts), but he arrived in mid-1968, with the student protests of that year at their height, and found that his classes had been cancelled. As a result, he returned to Valencia and enrolled in the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura, a relatively new institution, where he earned a degree in architecture and took a post-graduate course in urbanism.