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New York School
New York School. Term applied to the innovatory painters, especially the Abstract Expressionists, who worked in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and whose critical and financial success helped the city to replace Paris as the world's leading centre of avant-garde art. An exhibition staged by the Los... Read more |
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John Chamberlain
John Chamberlain 1927-, American sculptor, b. Rochester, Ind. In the late 1950s, Chamberlain became known for his welded assemblages of smashed automobile parts and colored scrap metal. His work is represented in the Los Angeles County Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.... Read more |
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Hendrik Goltzius
Hendrik Goltzius , 1558-1617, Dutch line engraver and painter; son of a stained-glass painter. He is said to have blended the naturalism of Northern European art with the classicism of Italy. Early in life he established himself as a printer in Haarlem, returning there after extensive travel in... Read more |
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James Galanos
GALANOS, James American designer Born:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 20 September 1924. Education:Studied at the Traphagen School of Fashion, New York, 1942-43. Career:General assistant, Hattie Carnegie, New York, 1944-45; sketch artist for Jean Louis, Columbia... Read more |
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Post-Painterly Abstraction
Post-Painterly Abstraction. A term coined by the critic Clement Greenberg to characterize a broad trend in American painting, beginning in the 1950s, in which abstract painters reacted in various ways against the gestural ‘painterly’ qualities of Abstract Expressionism. Greenberg used... Read more |
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Kadir Nelson
Nelson, KadirPersonalBorn in Washington, DC; son of Emily-Diane Gunter (a motivational speaker and author); married; children: two daughters. Education: Pratt Institute, graduated (with honors).AddressesOffice—6977 Navajo Rd., Ste. 124, San Diego, CA 92119. E-mail—office@kadirnelson.com.CareerArtist... Read more |
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Pomona
Pomona , city (1990 pop. 131,723), Los Angeles co., S Calif. at the foot of the San Gabriel Mts.; inc. 1888. It is a residential, industrial, and commercial suburb of Los Angeles where citrus fruits and vegetables are canned and shipped. Manufactures include foods; paper, metal, and plastic... Read more |
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Alonso Cano
Alonso Cano , 1601-67, Spanish baroque painter, sculptor, and architect. Cano studied under Pacheco and received painting and architecture commissions from King Philip IV. He was named chief architect of the cathedral at Granada. His architectural masterpiece is the design for the cathedral facade... Read more |
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Getty Center
Getty Center art museum complex in Brentwood, Calif., operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust. It consists of six buildings on 124 acres (50 hectares) located on a spectacular promontory overlooking Los Angeles. Designed by architect Richard Meier , the center opened in 1997. The museum houses the... Read more |
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Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles. Museum devoted to art since 1940, opened in 1979. Pontus Hulten was the first director. The founders and benefactors have included several prominent local collectors of modern art, among them Robert A. Rowen (1910– ), Taft Schreiber... Read more |
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baroque
...In 17th-cent. Britain baroque was never whole-heartedly...because, quintessentially, baroque was represented by the grandeur...painter who has been labelled ‘baroque’ has surpassed Rubens, the...remembered that he was ever a master of line, and had a ... |
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Painting
...century, when a growing market in mezzotints after baroque masters introduced Renaissance principles of perspective and chiaroscuro...the tidewater plantations produced a form of colonial baroque and later rococo portraiture relying on English print... |
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Borromini, Francesco
Borromini, Francesco (1599–1667) Italian Baroque architect. Borromini was the most inventive figure of the three masters of Roman Baroque (the others were Bernini and Pietro da Cortona). His hallmark was a dynamic... |
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sculpture
...Renaissance, individual sculptors rarely achieved fame. The works of such masters as Ghiberti, Donatello, and Michelangelo enriched the Florentine Renaissance. High Baroque sculpture is exemplified in the works of the architect-sculptor Bernini... |
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painting
...creative legacy, the great painters of the Baroque period added an unrivalled bravura brushwork...grand manner characteristic of the Italian masters. By the 18th century, British painters...although overshadowed by the great Venetian masters. The 19th century opened with the ... |
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Auden, W. H.
...monologues inspired by The Tempest. The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1948) is a long dramatic poem, reflecting man...and the introspective mingle with great fluency. He was a master of verse form, and accommodated traditional patterns to a... |
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Flemish art
...In the 14th and early 15th centuries, Flemish artists were masters of the International Gothic style, brilliantly characterized...in England, and Peter Paul Rubens, the chief exponent of Baroque art in n Europe. After 1650, Flemish art went into a long... |
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Italian art and architecture
...Renaissance, the emphasis was on balance and harmony, with such masters as Leonardo da Vinci, Ghiberti, Donatello, Botticelli and...but faded by the end of the 16th century, giving way to the Baroque style of the 17th century. This was typified by artists such... |
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Venetian School
...the sumptuousness and radiance of its colour. Early Venetian masters included the Bellini and Vivarini families, who were followed...Tintoretto and Veronese represent the transition from Renaissance to Baroque, while Tiepolo, Canaletto, and Guardi revived Venetian painting... |
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Rubens, Peter Paul
...1640), Flemish painter, the chief northern exponent of the Baroque. In 1629 Rubens visited England, where he was knighted and...Banqueting House. His style was based on the great Italian masters, but in later life he painted for his own pleasure landscapes... |
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Hickox, Richard (Sidney)
...from 1971. Founder Richard Hickox Singers 1971. Org. and master of mus., St Margaret's, Westminster, 1972–82. Mus. dir...Diego SO 1983–4. Co-founder Collegium Musicum, for baroque perfs. and recordings, 1990. Opera débuts: RNCM 1974... |
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Hurford, Peter (John)
...organist and composer. Début, London (RFH) 1957. Master of the Mus., St Albans, 1958–78. Visiting artist-in-res., Sydney Opera House 1979–82. Specialist in baroque period. Comps. incl. church mus. and org. suites. OBE... |
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A toast to the baroque masters
...composer of the high baroque grand motet. By the...continue hearing the master. Perhaps impending...time surpassed their masters; "but none would...acknowledged as the supreme master of his instrument...exciting concert of French baroque ... |
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Vivaldi Project performs works of baroque master C.P.E. Bach
...musical worlds, the modern and the baroque. Her modern world encompasses...several centuries into the world of baroque masters. To that end, she founded the...but he was the link between the baroque and classical eras. You can hear... |
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Handel handled with care // John Eliot Gardiner masters Baroque
...Take that, Music of the Baroque! The choir will mark its...the event with a lecture, "Baroque Music, Why It Ought To Be...that Handel - and the other Baroque masters - really knew how they wanted...up to date because he was a master of the ... |
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Ten paintings _ including work by Baroque master Lanfranco _ stolen from Rome...
...Rome hospital, including a work by Baroque master Giovanni Lanfranco, Italy's art...was also known as Caravaggio's master, and "Testa di Vecchio" by Lanfranco...the greatest artists of the High Baroque.Il Messaggero said their total... |
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Music of Baroque masters Mozart in local concert series
...Mozart Wednesday night, the way Music of the Baroque likes to play it: serious, intelligent music...music ensembles, his own chamber group and baroque groups, such as Music of the Baroque and the City Musick, when he isn't in his... |
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STEPPING OUT WITH BACH CHOREOGRAPHER PREMIERES DANCES INSPIRED BY MUSIC OF...
...future in the past. Thursday night, Li will premiere the last of the dances she has created based on the music of the baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach - specifically, the six suites for solo cello - as they have been re-interpreted by contemporary... |
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LA museum hosts display of art by Italian Baroque master
...LOS ANGELESSumptuous oil paintings depicting scenes from mythology, the Bible and pastoral settings by Italian Baroque master Luca Giordano have arrived in Los Angeles.An exhibit opening Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art features... |
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Classical Music: Bach and beyond: Great Baroque master continues to inspire...
...represent the apotheosis of the grand Baroque period of Western music. His compositions...organization, library, and museum dedicated to Baroque and other early music, calls his composition...includes grafts from European trees dating to Baroque times, is an excellent place ... |
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CD reviews: Enjoy the lovely approachable side of this high baroque...
...compositions themselves of this Austrian product of the high baroque are anything but unapproachable, and this lovely release brings...not to be confused with the equally splendid Armonico Tributo baroque group based here in the West Midlands. HHHHH To order this... |
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Different strokes Whether you're looking for a book on baroque masters or...
SOMETIMES - maybe most times - books on art aspire to be more than just books. Vincent Van Gogh - The Letters (Thames & Hudson, GBP325/GBP395 from January 1) is an extreme example but it proves the point.It is a lavish, six-volume, slipcased thing that juxtaposes the artist's letters with the |
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