Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi was a Scottish sculptor and artist, widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art. Continue reading Showcase: Eduardo Paolozzi
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Showcase: Vincent van Gogh
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who created some 2100 works. Considered to be among the most influential artists of all time. He only sold one painting during his lifetime. Famous for cutting his ear off, being misunderstood and marginalized all his life to become a genius after his death. Continue reading Showcase: Vincent van Gogh
Showcase: M.C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically-inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations. Continue reading Showcase: M.C. Escher
Showcase: Edvard Munch
Norwegian painter Edvard Munch’s works can cause psychological trauma. Or are they depictions of such trauma? There’s something bizarre about them, and said works show how art is not about the outward appearance of things, but their inner complexities. What hides behind a smile? What can you figure out about a person from their body language? What is it about colors? Continue reading Showcase: Edvard Munch
Showcase: Jack Vettriano
Jack Vettriano is a contemporary Scottish painter, most famous for his 1992 painting, The Singing Butler, which became a best-selling image in Britain. Oh, and he’s undoubtedly one of my favorite painters.
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Photography: Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. Continue reading Photography: Richard Avedon
Showcase: Jean-Michel Basquiat
As part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, post-punk, and street art movements had coalesced, Jean-Michel Basquiat managed to get the attention of many of the days artists, including Andy Warhol. His mixed art made use of poetry, drawing, and painting. Continue reading Showcase: Jean-Michel Basquiat
