Famous Artists
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- Signac
- In 1880, at the age of 16, he was thrown out of the fifth Impressionist exhibition by Gauguin because he was copying a picture by Degas.
- DiChirico
- his artist was born in 1888 of Italian parents and raised partly in Greece, where his father, an engineer, planned and built railroads.
- Signac
- In 1880, at the age of 16, this artist's father died of tuberculosis. His mother and grandfather sold the family business and moved to a suburb of Paris.
- Van Gogh
- This artist was born in the Netherlands in 1853
- Van Gogh
- During his lifetime, he never sold a painting.
- Hockney
- He is a British painter, draftsman, printmaker, photographer, and designer
- Van Gogh
- He spent his later life in and out of asylums, and when he got into an argument with Gauguin, he chased him around with an open razor. In the confusion, he cut off part of his own ear.
- Kahn
- Often juxtaposing saturated magentas, pinks and oranges with cool, muted pastels, this artist achieves a balance that transports the viewer into his tranquil world.
- Moore
- This artist is best known for his semi-abstract, large sculptures, many of which dwell on families.
- Signac
- His depiction of space is extremely shallow and shapes are simplified and radically geometrized.
- Signac
- He was interested in Art (Manet, the Impressionist painter), in writing (Emile Zola was a famous writer), and in Music (Wagner was a well-known composer).
- Moore
- This artist was born in July 1898 in Castleford, Yorkshire.
- DiChirico
- This artist is often said to have used Renaissance space in his pictures, but really, his perspective was a means of distorting the view and disquieting the eye.
- Morandi
- studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti.
- Morandi
- he would depict the same familiar bottles and vases again and again in paintings notable for their simplicity of execution.
- Morandi
- This artist's landscapes are view of the countryside near Bologna.
- Moore
- his artist was an elementary school teacher until he joined the army to fight in the First World War.
- Morandi
- During World War I, he joined the army but suffered a breakdown and was discharged.
- DiChirico
- A description of this artist's work: It is a fantasy town, a state of mind, signifying alienation, dreaming and loss. Its elements are so well known by now that they fall into place as soon as they are named, like jigsaw pieces worn by being assembled over and over again
- Kahn
- This artist lived with his grandparents in Frankfurt after his mother ran away with her instructor and his father (a well-known conductor) remarried.
- Kahn
- Born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1927, this artist immigrated to the United States by way of England in 1940.
- Moore
- his artist was a sculptor, but during the bombings in London during World War Two, he began sketching people in the bomb shelters, and became better known for his drawings.
- DiChirico
- A constant theme of this artist's early work is the loss of his father, a railroad engineer commemorated in those white statues, smokestacks, cannons, towers, and trains.
- Monet
- French Painter, who started his career as a caricaturist, then converted to landscape painting by his early mentor Boudin.
- DiChirico
- Volos, the Greek town where he grew up, was bisected by a railway, and the glimpse of a train among the houses must have been a childhood memory.
- Hockney
- His early paintings, often almost jokey in mood, gained him a reputation of leading Pop artist, although he himself rejected the label. His early work made superb use of the popular magazine-style images on which much of Pop Art is based.
- Moore
- In the late 1940's and the 1950's, this artist was offered commissions for works on a massive scale.
- Kahn
- This artist is a resident of both New York City and, during the summer and autumn, West Brattleboro, Vermont.
- Kahn
- He was sent to England in 1939 - along with other refugee children - by his grandmother, who was later taken to a concentration camp, where she and his grandfather apparently died in 1942.
- DiChirico
- This artist became a hero of painters and poets of Surrealism when he produced a series of strange, dreamlike cityscapes.
- Signac
- This artist was born in Paris 1863 in a well-to-do bourgeois family, which made luxury saddles for people in high places.
- Kahn
- As child in Germany, he was knocked from his bicycle and beaten by a group of adults who knew he was Jewish because he was not wearing a Hitler Youth uniform.
- Van Gogh
- His inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful; dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and emotional, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature.
- Kahn
- On his report card, his rugby coach wrote of him "he is a keen forward who does not always abide by the rules."
- Monet
- From 1890 he concentrated on series of pictures in which he painted the same subject at different times of the day in different lights.
- Hockney
- His phenomenal success has been based not only on the flair, wit, and versatility of his work, but also on his colorful personality, which has made him a recognizable figure even to people not particularly interested in art.
- Van Gogh
- This artist's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line.
- Monet
- During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) he took refuge in England with Pissarro: he studied the work of Constable and Turner.
- Morandi
- He was a drawing teacher in the Bologna elementary schools.