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Mood Disorders
Mood disorders Definition Mood disorders are mental disorders characterized by periods of depression, sometimes alternating with periods of elevated mood. Description While many people go through sad or elated moods from time to time, people with mood disorders suffer from... Read more |
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Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich , 1774-1840, German romantic landscape painter. After studying painting in Copenhagen he visited various scenic spots in Germany and chose to live in Dresden, where he remained until his death. Friedrich's melancholy and symbolic compositions were singular expressions of the... Read more |
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Charles Burchfield
Charles Burchfield 1893-1967, American painter, b. Ashtabula, Ohio, studied at the Cleveland School of Art. Living at first in Ohio, then moving (1925) to upstate New York, he worked (1921-20) as a wallpaper designer. His paintings, predominantly in watercolor, fall into three periods: from 1916 to... Read more |
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Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Jean-Yves Thibaudet Piano For the Record… Selected discography Sources Classical pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has become a command performer much in demand on the world concert scene. He is known for his beautiful poetic musical interpretations, and his skill at evoking the... Read more |
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John Sell Cotman
John Sell Cotman , 1782-1842, English landscape painter and etcher. He was a leading representative of the Norwich school. Cotman studied in London and in 1806 settled in Norwich where he opened an art school. He suffered periods of melancholia throughout his life. He took up etching c.1810 and... Read more |
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Elihu Vedder
Vedder, Elihu (1836–1923), painter known for his mystical subjects treated in a symbolic manner and his book illustrations, of which those made for the Rubáiyát (1884) are in the sensuous vein of Art Nouveau. He was long expatriated, as described in his rambling, whimsical memoir,... Read more |
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Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler , 1928-, American painter, b. New York City. A painter of the abstract expressionist school (see abstract expressionism ), Frankenthaler was greatly influenced by Jackson Pollock , with whom she studied. In the early 1950s she developed a technique for staining unprimed... Read more |
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pendant
pendant. A painting created by an artist to be displayed as one of a pair. Pendants are usually exactly the same size as each other and closely related in theme; portraits of husband and wife were often produced as pendants, for example. Several of Claude's landscapes were painted as pairs,... Read more |
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Albert Pinkham Ryder
Albert Pinkham Ryder 1847-1917, American painter, b. New Bedford, Mass. In 1867 his family moved to New York City. There he studied with W. E. Marshall, the engraver, and at the National Academy of Design, but he was largely self-taught. Except for several brief trips abroad, most of his life was... Read more |
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Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke , 1908-63, American poet, b. Saginaw, Mich., educated at the Univ. of Michigan and Harvard. A poet of the Midwest, Roethke combined a love of the land with his vision of the development of the individual. The moods of his poetry range from acid wit to simple feeling, his poetic... Read more |
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