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Young Contemporaries
Young Contemporaries. Exhibition of works by British art students held in London since 1949 on a roughly annual basis (lack of funds or organization—they are generally arranged by the students themselves—has sometimes prevented the shows taking place). The first Young Contemporaries... Read more |
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Rupert Bunny
Bunny, Rupert (1864–1947). Australian painter, active in Paris for most of his career. He was born in Melbourne, the son of a judge, and moved to Europe in 1884, studying first in London, then in Paris, where he settled in 1886. His work became deeply French in spirit and was well received in... Read more |
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Susan Kathleen Hartung
Hartung, Susan KathleenPersonalBorn in Ann Arbor, MI. Education: School of Visual Arts (New York, NY), B.F.A. (illustration), 1990.AddressesHome—Brooklyn, MI. E-mail—mailbox@susanhartung.com.CareerIllustrator of children's books, 1993—. Has worked in advertising, design, and photography. Picture... Read more |
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Leo Castelli
Castelli, Leo (1907–99). Italian-born American art dealer. He was born in Trieste, studied law at Milan University, and initially worked in banking and insurance. In 1939 he opened a gallery in Paris specializing in Surrealist art, and in 1941 he emigrated to New York. Finding the market for... Read more |
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe , 1946-89, American photographer, b. New York City. He is known for his elegantly expressive black-and-white studies of male and female nudes, flowers, and celebrity portraits. He credited sculpture as an influence on his work and used traditional techniques of direct lighting... Read more |
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combine painting
combine painting. A term coined by Robert Rauschenberg for a type of work he created—a very radical form of collage—in which a painted surface is ‘combined’ with various real objects, or sometimes photographic images, attached to it. Rauschenberg first showed such works... Read more |
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Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Carlos Drummond de Andrade , 1902-87, Brazilian poet. The son of landowners, he worked as a journalist before earning (1925) a degree in pharmacology. In 1928 Andrade became a civil servant while working as a newspaper editor. His first volume of poems, Alguma poesia [some poetry] (1930),... Read more |
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Dorothea Tanning
Tanning, Dorothea (1910– ). American painter, sculptor, designer, and writer, born at Galesburg, Illinois. Except for two weeks of classes at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930 she was self-taught as an artist. In 1935 she settled in New York, where she worked at odd jobs (including being a... Read more |
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Mel Ramos
Ramos, Mel (1935– ). American painter. He was born in Sacramento, California, and studied at San José State College and Sacramento State College, 1954–8. His first exhibition was at the Bianchini Gallery, New York, in 1964, but he has lived and worked mainly in California, where... Read more |
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