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Mark Chagall
(1887-1985)
Russian-born French painter. Born to a humble Jewish family
in the ghetto of a large town in White Russia, Chagall passed
a childhood steeped in Hasidic culture.
His Slav Expressionism was tinged with the influence of Daumier,
Jean-Franois Millet, the Nabis and the Fauves. He was also influenced
by Cubism. Essentially a colourist, Chagall was interested in
the Simultaneist vision of Robert Delaunay and the Luminists of
the Section d'Or.
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Nov. 11:
visit at the Austin Children Museum
"Our Current Feature Exhibit Chagall for Children will
be transported to a world of fantasy and whimsy where cows float
in mid-air and people walk upside-down in our newest hands-on
exhibit, Chagall for Children, (August 20 - November 12). The
exhibit is a multi-sensory, miniature, kid-friendly art gallery
featuring reproductions of the works of Marc Chagall, one of the
great artists of the twentieth century. The exhibit features more
than a dozen of Chagall's works reproduced in various media from
stained glass to computer animations, sculpture and tapestry."
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Joan Miro
(1893 - 1983)
His parents wanted for him a commercial career, he decided
to live for painting alone.
At Mont-roig, the telluric force of the earth was was rising in
his body through his feet: his strong countryside experience.
In Palma, Majorca, he captured the vivid colors: intense blues
from the Mediterranean. His first drawings done when his was 8,
are very realistic.
Joan Mir's work includes different fields:
- painting
- sculpture
- engraving
- graphic work (stencils, lithographs, etchings, and, woodcuts)
- tapestry
- ceramics
- theater
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser
(1928-2000)
Hundertwasser was already a name to be reckoned with when
I first met him in the sixties. He was an eccentric emerging artist
on the Austrian scene, a self-proclaimed continuation of Vienna's
distinguished tradition from the turn of the century. Friedrich
Hunderwasser's success in the graphic arts took an unusual turn.
His work evolved towards the enrichment and improvement of architecture.
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Guiseppe Arcimboldo
(1527-1593)
Italian painter, born in Milan, draughtsman and tapestry designer,
activ also in Austria and Bohemia.
He came from a distinguished Milanese family that included a number
of archbishops of the city.
Like Leonardo da Vinci he was interesting in many subjects
of science and art, while spending his spare time devising hydraulic
machines and new forms of musical notation using colours. But
he was famous mostly for his paintings.
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