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Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko , 1903-70, American painter, b. Russia. Rothko emigrated to the United States in 1913. He was a student of Max Weber , then came under the influence of the surrealists. In the mid-1940s Rothko experimented with abstraction, arranging intense colors in irregular shapes. Soon he became a... Read more |
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Graham Bell
Bell, Graham (1910–1943). British painter and art critic, born in South Africa. After studying at Durban Art School he moved to London in 1931 and became a pupil of Duncan Grant. In the early 1930s he painted abstracts (he exhibited with the Objective Abstractionists in 1934), but from 1934... Read more |
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suprematism
suprematism Russian art movement founded (1913) by Casimir Malevich in Moscow, parallel to constructivism . Malevich drew Aleksandr Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to his revolutionary, nonobjective art. In Malevich's words, suprematism sought "to liberate art from the ballast of the... Read more |
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Public works
PUBLIC WORKS OF ART PROJECT MURALS The Federal Art Project Like its counterparts, the Federal Theatre, Writers, Dance, and Music Projects, the Federal Art Project (FAP) was a part of the Works Progress Administration. Preceded by the Public Works of Art Project in 1933 and... Read more |
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , 1884-1976, German painter and woodcut artist. Schmidt-Rottluff cofounded and named the Brücke in 1905. After moving to Berlin in 1911, he developed an art of compelling color and mystical intensity influenced by fauvism , cubism , and primitive art. His vigorous... Read more |
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Arts Council
Arts Council. An organization established in 1945 and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1946 ‘to preserve and improve standards of performance in the various arts'. It was a successor to the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), a wartime organization that had operated... Read more |
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William Wilson Corcoran
William Wilson Corcoran , 1798-1888, American financier, philanthropist, and art collector, b. Georgetown, D.C. After becoming a successful banker, he retired in 1854 and devoted himself to his philanthropic activities, which included gifts to many educational and religious institutions, as well as... Read more |
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Lawrence Alloway
Alloway, Lawrence (1926–1990). British art critic and curator, active for much of his career in the USA. He suffered from tuberculosis in his childhood and had little formal education, but he attended classes in art history at London University. After working as a lecturer at the National... Read more |
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Video art
Video art. A broad term applied to works created by visual artists in which video and television equipment and technology are used in any of various ways. Edward Lucie-Smith (Visual Arts in the Twentieth Century, 1996) writes that Frank Popper, in his Art of the Electronic Age (1993),... Read more |
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Abstractionist Rothko found his way in art
...continued to abstract his work, focusing more...figure altogether. Mark Rothko and the Lure of a Figure...1946 shows an era of Rothko's life that is rarely...this collection shows his amazing progression from...to the world's first ... |
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Rothko's 'Reality,' channeled by his son
...enough it's his voice that...said.Now Rothko has found a way to channel his father's...manuscript by Mark Rothko that helps...as the ''abstractionist's manifesto...to his own ... |
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Freudian Gottlieb Turned to the Greeks In His Pictography.(Arts&Entertainment)
...possible for art, towards...have the visual arts in mind when he wrote this, but his point about...influence in art circles. Years...Art Project, found inspiration...Avery and Mark Rothko, who served as ... |
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Invisible man strives to reach across barriers A leading light in British art...
...barriers in the way that music does." After early art training in...England's early abstractionists "who explained...exposure led to his inclusion...few others of his age group were...when they found they couldn't sell ... |
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Visual Art: When Cornwall got closer to the USA Peter Lanyon Tate St Ives,...
...While American abstractionists spent the 1950s...dogs. They had Rothko and Pollock...compromise. And, if his comments on his own work are...in an abstract way, not so much an abstractionist as an abstractionish...painted ... |
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Forgotten master of a lost universe
...Leading the abstractionist camp was Ben...Piper, hedging his bets, is...the wisdom of art terms, and, perhaps, of art history. Quite...Contemporary Arts. Then again...peninsula. His pacifism in...admired by Mark ... |
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MULTI-TALENTED: POPULAR DJ IS ALSO ARTIST, COLUMNIST.(LIFESTYLE)
...bending visual art. Vaughn is...medium: visual art. She has...expressionist Mark Rothko and pioneering...Catfish River Arts and Antique...electricity -- the way that cell...engulfing his roof. A year...expect Mark ... |
 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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PAINTED INTO A CORNER
...Zeaman, Record Art Critic The Record...contemporaries as Mark Rothko or Jackson Pollock...spent most of his life insisting -- both in his painting and...grades to fellow abstractionists who strayed...of women, or Rothko with ... |
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Depth Charge
...preeminent gestural abstractionists, more than...passed since his work was last...Museum of Modern Art in New York...Newman, and Mark Rothko, but the last...though, I found myself more...breaks. TW: His approach to...in ... |
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The Children of Matisse; An Up-and-Down View of the Giant's Heirs
...to deal with his brilliant shadow...in American art was upon abstract...the clarity of his post-World War II cutouts found fertile soil...one opened the way for great American...such as Mark Rothko and ... |
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