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Nov.
10
Norman
Rockwell
(1894-1978)
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Nov.
17
Gorgia
O' Keeffe
(1887-1986)
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Nov.
24
Paul
Jackson Pollock
(1912-1956)
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Dec.
1
Andy
Wahrol
(1928-1987)
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Dec.
8
Edward
Hopper
(1882-1967)
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Dec.
15
The
Kids
Art
Exhibit
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Rockwell was probably the most loved and admired
American painter for the last 50 years.
He started his career in 1912 when he illustrated a brochure for
an American Scouting magazine "Boys' Life". Rockwell
also worked with advertising agencies which was more lucrative,
though he confessed to preferring the freedom of„magazine illustration.
His favorite themes would earn him public favor:
infancy and family life, first loves, departures and returns home,
childhood and old-age, without forgetting the holidays.
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"When
I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see
this beautiful country anymore... unless the Indians are right
and my spirit will
walk here after I¹m gone."
O'Keeffe,
who moved to New Mexico in 1949, is best known for her large
paintings of desert flowers and scenery, in which single blossoms
or objects
such as a cow's skull are presented in close-up views.
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He
was the American painter largely responsible for the Abstract Expressionism
movement. He was born in Cody, Wyoming and studied at the Art Students
League in New York City with Thomas Hart Benton -- much of Pollock's
early work were in Benton's naturalistic style. Between 1943 and
1947 he experimented with Surrealism -- adopting a freer and more
abstract style as demonstrated in The She-Wolf (1943)...
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A
very successful commercial illustrator. Earlier artists, like
Monet, had painted the same motif in series in order to display
minute discriminations of perception, the shift of light and color
form hour to hour on a haystack, and how these could be recorded
by the subtlety of eye and hand. Warhol's thirty-two soup cans
are about nothing of the kind. They are about sameness (though
with different labels): same brand, same size, same paint surface,
same fame as product. They mimic the condition of mass advertising,
out of which his sensibility had grown.
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Edward Hopper, the best-known American
realist of the inter-war period, once said: 'The man's the work.
Something doesn't come out of nothing.' This offers a clue to
interpreting the work of an artist who was not only intensely
private, but who made solitude and introspection important themes
in his painting.
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the children
will show their work through this session.
We'll
share art and drinks, laughts and cookies!
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