2. Date, Place of Birth and Education: Gough Whitlam was born on the July 11th 1916 at Kew in Victoria. When he was two, he moved to Sydney with his parents, father Harry Fred Whitlam, mother Martha and a younger sister, Freda. He attended Knox Grammar school and joined Canberra Grammar school when he was 11. At 18, he studied Bachelor of Arts at University of Sydney and graduated in 1938. Now Whitlam has two sons, Tony Whitlam and Nicholas Whitlam.…
John White who was a colonist and artist sailed to the shore of North Carolina with Richard Grenville in 1585. He served as mapmaker and artist during this journey. As he traveled, he completed a number of watercolor drawings of native people and the landscapes. White’s watercolors soon caught a widespread reaction of interest of people in Europe. Later, watercolors were engraved by a Flemish engraver Theodor de Bry and published in 1590. Comparing John White’s original work and De Bry’s work, depiction is much more defined in the De Bry’s engravings than John White’s watercolor. De Bry engraved following very close in some details and differs in others from White’s original works. By looking at some of the De Bry’s work, he focuses on picturing…
On November 25th in 1835, Andrew Carnegie was born into poverty in Dunfermline, Scotland. His father, William Carnegie, was a linen weaver, and a local leader of the Chartists, who sought out to improve the conditions of the working-class life in Great Britain. His mother, Margaret…
Jamie Wyeth was the third generation artist in a family who was known for having artists. There is over 100 pieces done by Jamie in this museum. These pieces contained artwork showing off paintings of others, paintings of the landscape in which Jamie was living at the time and just random object he wanted to paint. Many of his paintings you could see the brushwork, which can be seen as a characteristic of his style of painting. He would paint on almost anything, from canvases to paper. The oddest thing he did a painting on was just regular old cardboard. I find it weird that you could just paint on a piece of cardboard and it becomes famous and is put into a…
Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25th, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland. He was born into an average class family of four. His father worked in the weaving industry, and was also part of a labor union called the Charist Group. His father was later fired for this, so the Carnegie family immigrated to the Allegheny City, PA in 1848. While living in the U.S., Carnegie got his first job as a bobbin boy at the age of twelve. He later got a job tending to steam train boilers, and then worked his way up from there. The train boilers company then gave him a job as a telegraph messenger boy.…
The Alison watt painting I will be writing about is 'The native boy', It was made in 1990, made with oil paint on a board.…
Robert Heinecken was an American artist whose art ranged from the 1960s to the 1990s. His work focused around this idea of picking apart the American society, revealing it’s imperfections and faults. As a result, his pieces always faced controversy. Many claimed his artwork was pornography, due to the large number of pieces he produced featuring nudity and sexual themes. Heinecken’s work was meant to be more than pornography, it was meant to reveal the true faults of American society.…
The Crocker Art museum exhibited fourteen works by Julie Heffernan in a show called “Sky is Falling”. In the exhibit Heffernan show cases male and female figures, often believed to be self-portraits in different manifestations, in extravagant landscapes while using metaphorical imagery to express the lives of women and the concern she has for the endangered environment. The figures are often depicted trying to restore order to a world that is falling apart around them. Heffernan is known for her lush, colorful, and mystical style artworks and many of her paintings display an assortment of styles. The artists paintings are reminiscent of paintings done by Heironymus Bosch, also of the Rococo, and Romantic…
He works in a wide range of genres, including portraits and still lifes, but also landscapes that reflect his fascination with Australianness, a passion which has its origins in Arthur Streeton’s edict that Australian artists should look to their own backyards for inspiration.…
Wayne Thiebaud’s passion for art began with his early enthusiasm for comic strips and illustration that later led to serious art. One summer, between terms in high school, Thiebaud found work at Walt Disney Studios drawing thousands of individual frames that gave the illusion of movement to animated characters. During that upcoming summer, he enrolled in Los Angeles in the Frank Wiggins Trade School preplanning to learn sign painting. At about 30 years of age, Thiebaud enrolled in the California State University system (first at San Jose and later at Sacramento) where he earned both his bachelor and master degrees. Throughout the 1950s, he worked at Sacramento City College as a teacher but still continued to keep his career as an artist going. Growing up, Wayne Thiebaud rarely received any special training or education to become as successful as he is to this day. It was simply his passion and interest in art that led him to pursue a career as an artist.…
His first trip to England to paint Queen Victoria was in 1842. He returned several times to paint the growing royal family, doing at least 120 works for them (abcgallery, par.1). One of these, a private painting commissioned by Queen Victoria, was to be given to Prince Albert as a…
The world revolves around currency, in reality we all use money in our everyday life we are making it, spending it or saving it. Andrew Lang wrote “Ballade of Wordly Wealth,” through repetition in this poem we learn about the people in the 1800s and 1900s and what they thought about money.…
Since I was old enough to hold a crayon, I have wanted to be an artist. The desire to create has grown exponentially with time, and so I attended the University of Iowa to expand my creative capabilities and learn from the work of experienced faculty and other students. Through my studies, I quickly learned a traditional fine arts education focused on technique. However, I learned the strength of my art resided in the conceptualization of my own story and emotions…
West began making drawings around 1970 before moving on to painted collages incorporating magazine images that showed the influence of Pop Art. His art practice started as a reaction to the Viennese Actionism movement has been exhibited in museums and galleries for more than three decades. Over the last 20 years he had a regular presence in big expositions like Documenta and the Venice Biennale.…
He created the Golden Marilyn Monroe in 1962. When Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, Andy Warhol wanted to commemorate Marilyn Monroe. He wanted the viewers to know the superficial of Marilyn Monroe life was on how Hollywood wasn’t glamorous as it seems. Golden Marilyn Monroe art open a new path on how the art was made and how is was mass produced. Andy Warhol used a piece of newspaper picture of Marilyn has a center piece to his art. The painting or art was created with silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas. To this day, many famous artist use Andy Warhol technique which I consider to be a monumental work of…