Charles Searles is an African-American artist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1937. The second son of a total of eight children, Searles main focus as a child was becoming an artist. Searles' mother encouraged and equipped Charles with tools to continue his passions while he grew up. Charles went to Salsburger High School, all the while working as a carpenter for his father. During his young adult life, he went to the armed forces to be able to help raise his family. Searles went for his undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania in 1973. In 1974, he graduated the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with honors accomplishments. Around this time, Charles received the Cresson Medal scholarship to travel to Amsterdam. Searles also received the Ware Memorial Traveling Scholarship, where he was the first student to use the grant to travel to Africa. …show more content…
He also taught at the Philadelphia College of Art for 20 plus years. Throughout his career, Charles Searles' work was involved in 60 group exhibitions and 25 solo exhibitions. His mural titled "Celebration" is still located at the William G. Green Federal Building in Philadelphia. He won many awards such as the Pollock Krasner Foundation award, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb award, and the Creative Arts Project and National Endowment for the Arts. His art is featured in the National Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Howard University, the Federal Reserve Bank, and First Pennsylvania Bank in
He has resided and taught in New York. I think his images and prints continue to reveal his practice and memories of growing up in the South. Not only is his subject matter about African American people, but more universally, people of all kinds - black, white, wealthy, poor, religious, northern or southern. As to what I found, his work has been portrayed as Southern, black, or radical, but I think he is above all an American artist. He draws on many different influences in his art, including his father.
Charles Drew was born to Richard T. Drew and Nora Burrel Drew and had five siblings. Charles Drew spent his childhood with his middle class African- American family in DC, Foggy Bottom. In 1918, Charles Drew graduated from Stevens Elementary School and was enrolled to Paul Laurence Dunbar High. Along with receiving high marks in each subject in school, Charles Drew was also an athlete and played his high school’s swimming, basketball, football, baseball, and track teams. After graduating high school, Charles Lewis was then awarded an athletic scholarship to Massachusetts Amherst College.
born in Topeka, Kansas, and was sometimes referred as the "the father of black American art."
Richmond Barthé was born in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi on January 28, 1901. Richmond was born in a hard time for African Americans. He demonstrated incredible guarantee as a craftsman at a youthful age, however as a Colored American in the South, he was banished from selecting in any of the craft schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, close to his home. At eighteen his area minister in New Orleans and an author for the New Orleans Times Picayune distinguished his capability. Richmond was eventually admitted to the Art Institute of Chicago, after struggling to get admitted to an art school. He began to study sculpture, which denoted a defining moment in his profession. After Barthe graduated in 1928, he opened up a studio in Harlem, where he stayed permanently in 1930. Nonetheless, ending up progressively disregarded by a symbolized world that had come to esteem deliberation an imaginative style which held no enthusiasm for him; Barthé moved to Jamaica in the late 1940s, and later existed in Switzerland and Italy before coming back to the United States in 1969. His career in Jamaica flourished, till he later decided to come back home to the states. Overall Richmond Barthe received many honors and awards including: Rosenwald Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Audubon Artists Gold Medal in 1950, and awards for interracial justice and honorary degrees from Xavier and St. Francis Universities. Overall this artist intrigues me as I’m sure it was extremely hard to start off. He was born during the worst times in America, racism throughout his life and then leading into the great depression. I’m glad he was able to express himself through the art that he published.
Charles Lyell was born on November 14,1797 in Kinnordy, Scotland. Charles was the oldest of 10 children and his father, whose name was also Charles, was a lawyer and a botanist. Charles’ father was the one who first exposed him to nature.
To this day Charles Carroll of Carrollton is best known for his political leadership in his hometown Maryland. Penning the First Citizen letters in 1773 was Carroll, a wealthy man who became a major role in the patriot movement. As a member of the Continental Congress, Carroll was one of the singers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. In fact, He also helped to write Maryland’s Constitution of 1776. Once American independence was accomplished, he served in the United States Senate and the Maryland legislature.1 Being the last to live of the signers, Charles journey is full of schooling, political and religious matter, and being a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
According to Oxford Living Dictionary the word “cult” is defined as a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or as imposing excessive control over members. Although, it might be more commonly known as Separatists, who are consumed by a certain belief, and the leader is someone who believes he or she is chosen by God or some other deity to lead those who are to follow him or her. In 1993 a standoff went viral, many lost their lives. Members and the leader of the Branch Davidians held their beliefs with them to death.
Charles attended Allan Glen’s school and the Glasgow School of Art. In 1890, Charles won the Alexander Thomson Traveling Scholarship. He studied ancient classic architecture under a scholarship. He also traveled extensively through Italy.
Frank Stella is an American painter who remains poplar after almost four decades of work. He was born in 1936 and studied at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts under Patrick Morgan and at Princeton University under William Seitz and Stephen Greene. After 1958 he lived in New York. He came to the fore in the 1960s as one of the most inventive of the new school of Post-Painterly Abstraction, a reaction against Abstract Expressionism. He was then exhibited widely in New York, Los Angeles, and elsewhere. A retrospective exhibition in 1970 was held under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He began as one of many post war minimalist painters, but then his work took a different route from the others, leading him to a "second career" in abstract expressionism. In this career, he struggled with issues, which had placed abstract art in a standstill after Mondrian, and Stella looked back to the sixteenth century for solutions. Stella has also been influenced by the Baroque period, first because of parallel situations, but also because of similarities in the creation of space ("Concepts in career: Frank Stella").
Richard Estes was born on May 14, 1932, in Kewanee, IL. Although still living, his legacy lies in his precise detail and invisible brushwork. Estes studied Fine Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The famous sculptor that I chose to write about is Andy Goldsworthy. Andy Goldsworthy was born July 26, 1956 in Cheshire, England. Andy Goldsworthy’s parents name was Fredrick Alan and Muriel Goldsworthy. Andy’s father, Allan Goldsworthy, was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Leeds. Andy love the outdoors at a young age so he started working on a farm at the age of thirteen in Yorkshire. It says by him working on the farm gave him a better understanding of nature. After working on the farm, he studied at Fine Art at Bradford School of Art and Preston Polytechnic. At Preston Polytechnic, he learned how to turn nature into work of art. He was inspired by Professor Long, who was also an artist. So, he decided to get his Bachelor’s degree in arts.
(Zamira Rahim, CNN) * Canadian baby given health card without sex designation. Searyl Atli Doty is probably the first baby in history to be born without an assigned gender stated on a government issued I.D. card. The parent of the infant avoided delivering their child in a medical facility so that the baby would not have to encounter a “genital inspection” in the hands of the medical system. Normally on a health document, there is always an indication of the sex whether it’s a male or female. There never was a third option until now which is the letter “U” defined as unknown or unspecified. Kori Doty, Searyl’s parent identifies as a non-binary transgender. They are part of the “Gender Free I.D. Coalition” campaign. As stated on their website,
..., where his paintings grew even more popular due to their religious themes. His study in drawing and painting became beneficial to becoming friends with a renowned mentor, Stuart Davis. “In the early 1930’s, he joined the Harlem Artists Guild and was responsible for the drawing of cartoons that were to be published in Baltimore Afro-American. He formed the spiral group that dealt with the promotion of the black artists’ works, as well as, exploring ways for contributing to the civil rights movements at that time” (edu, 2014). His lifelong commitment to African Art, helped shape the way that African American art was viewed.
While perhaps not as well known as the great William Shakespeare, the English Renaissance author, Edmund Spenser, was influential in more ways than one. The Renaissance was a time of discovery and economic and artistic blossoming. After a challenging time, England was finally beginning to thrive. However, the creative influence of the Renaissance did not seem to reach them. While other countries, such as Italy, were growing artistically, England lacked the motivation and creative minds necessary to make change. But, once Edmund Spenser’s works began to be publicized, his ideas sparked change in more ways than one. Edmund Spenser not only influenced authors of his era with his new writing, but also helped spread Renaissance beliefs such as monarchism, Protestantism, rationalism, and anti-Catholicism.
Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 in London , † January 13 1599 ) was an English poet , elder contemporary and one of the models of William Shakespeare .