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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Artist Birthdays in March

It's artist birthday remembrance for March!

Van Gogh has a birthday coming up March 30 and surely by then I can start thinking if not of Irises just yet, at least of a crocus or two.

A long before Van Gogh but on the same day, Francisco de Goya was born in 1746.

March 6 was the birthday of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni ((6 March 1475 – 18 February).

American photographer Diane (Nemerov) Arbus was born on March 14, 1923 and died in 1971, in New York City.

Diane Arbus

Self-Portrait

March 7 was American modernist painter Milton Avery's birthday, born in 1885 in Sand Bank, New York

Self-Portrait

Monday, January 24, 2011

There are a whole slew, in fact. This post features mini-tributes to Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Barbara Hepworth.

Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker

Motherwell in his studio

Robert Motherwell,

Elegy to the Spanish Republic (Basque Elegy)

1967

Oil on canvas 82 ¼ x 138 inches, Private Collection.

Location: 2nd floor, JCMCA Portland Art Museum

portlandart.net

Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English sculptor.

Photo from NewArtCentre

(see link below)

Jackson Pollock
(January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956)

American abstract expressionist

Photo by Martha Holmes
1949

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Happy Birthday John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American painter, and a leading portrait painter of his era.

One of my favorite American painters, only two of the selections featured below are my own photos.The others are culled from various sources on the 'net and represent paintings I've actually seen up-close and personal at their respective permanent museums. I felt really lucky when I realized this! :-)

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose

1887

Tate Britain

Fumee d'ambre gris (Smoke of Ambergris)

1880

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA

Madame X

(Virginie Avegno Gautreau)

1884

The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit

1882

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Note:The large, grand vases portrayed in the painting above are also displayed in the same room and I was able to photograph them. I also photographed the painting below. Unlike my attempts to photograph the portrait of the two little girls playing, this one below didn't give me nearly as much trouble.

Mrs. Fiske Warren and her daughter Rachel

1903

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Friday, December 31, 2010

Happy Birthday Henri Matisse ( December 31, 1869-November 3, 1954)

Self-Portrait

December 31, 1869-November 3, 1954

Henri Matisse

"If I trust my drawing hand it is because in training it to serve me, I forced myself never to let it take precedence over my feelings." ~ Henri Matisse

Sources:

Davis Art Education Catalog

Matisse: Life and Painting

Art Knowledge News

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Happy Belated Birthday, Joni Mitchell

November 7, 1945

Joni Mitchell is an accomplished singer, painter, poet and photographer.

For all things Joni, visit the official homepage JoniMitchell.com

Both Sides Now I
1999

(Self-Portrait)

Joni Mitchell at the gala concert held in her honor in January of 2007. Singer-songwriters, friends and musicians serenaded Mitchell with renditions of some of her most memorable songs. James Taylor, Herbie Hancock and Chaka Khan.

And next, a good-quality clip of Joni performing Sunny Sunday from her 1994 release Turbulent Indigo.