Lempicka (1898-1980)
Born into the wealthy Gorska family in Poland, Warsaw. Tamara De lempicka was the middle child of four. She had an older brother named Stanczyk Gorski and a younger sister Adrienne, who were both bossed around by their tempestuous sister. Her father who was an attorney for a French trading company and her mother who was a well educated aristocrat had properly brought up Tamara and her siblings. However, around the age of 12-13, the Gorska family split up, sending Tamara to St. Petersburg where a wealthy relative of hers lived. The wealthy grandma spoilt her, with vacations to Italy and other renaissance countries which were considered as the beginnings of her artistic inspirations.
Tamara, who earlier on had always remarkably ac celled in the artistic subjects of her learning soon received a well-rounded education as a result of her high class standing. And so at the age of 12, when she was introduced to some of her first art classes it was evident that the girls strong will and dominant personality made it difficult for her to be still for the sittings. However, soon De Lempicka was so pleased with her work that she soon began her life-long love affair wit art. during 1918, as she studied painting at the Academe De la Grand Chaumiere, and was privately tutored by Maurice Denis and studied Andre Lhote. In which time, she quickly established a reputation as a painter of portraits, mainly of people in the smart social circles impressed writers, entertainers, and the deposed nobility of eastern Europe. she was soon skilled enough to exhibit her works at the first Art Deco show in Paris, 1925.
Two years following her first marriage, and the start of her long foretasted art career, Her husband Taduesz Lempicka was arrested by the check. otherwise known as the Bolshevik secret police. Years later, they finally escaped and changed their name to Lempicka. The changes which had occurred, and the jail time which Taduez faced coldly split the two up and as her life progressed she was forced into fugitiveism with a scarce money source because her husband was not able to find work. Through the hard times news of pregnancy forced a determined Tamara to pursue her wealthy life style and turn to art to make a living.
De lempicka's first paintings caught the eye of Collette will, who was an important figure owning many European galleries.
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Kate Chopin was born on February 8, 1851, into a wealthy Catholic family in St. Louis Missouri. As a little girl, her father died a few years later in 1855 and was raised at home with her other sisters and mother, strong willed and prominent women who believed in self sufficiency. Soon, on June 9, 1870, Chopin married a man named Oscar. She graduated from St. Louis convent school. In the meanwhile, Kate was soon busy by the occupations of a being a mother and wife to the prestigious business man, Oscar whom she married. Throughout this escapade of life, Kate was forced to relocate often due to her husband’s change of business. Although, it was difficult to build upon these circumstances, Kate managed a small farm and plantation farm to keep things running. Even through these circumstances, Kate pulled through only to discover that all these locals would soon be her inspirations and se...
Kate Chopin was born February 8, 1850 in St. Louis. She was raised by a single woman; this impacted her views in the family at an early age. She began her own family at a young age; Kate had a different method compare too many women in her time. As time progressed, she developed a bad habit of dressing inappropriately. Soon she started to publish stories about the experiences and stories of her interests such as women’s individuality and miserable
Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis in 1851. Her mother Eliza O’Flaherty and father Thomas O’Flaherty were Slave-owning Catholics. (Wilson, Kathleen. The Story of an Hour. Ssfs. 2. Detroit, Michigan: Gale, 1997. 263. Print.) (Wilson 263) At the age of four she had lost her father in a train wreck. She was raised by her French-Creole mother and Great-Grandma. She had begun school at the age of five at Academy of Sacred Heart. After her father died she was taught at home. Later she returned to school and graduated at the age of 17. She got married at the age of twenty years to Oscar Chopin, twenty-five years old and a son of a wealthy cotton-growing family in Louisiana. He was also a French catholic like Kate. Chopin went as...
The first painting, Flowers, is an example of her experimentation with cubism. Cubo - Futurism was a combination of cubist shapes and Italian Futurism’s emphasis on speed and motion. This can be seen through the use of skewed angles and bent shapes. In the next painting, Goncharova took inspiration from the previously mentioned Matisse. This style was called Fauvism and was recognizable for its “wild brush work and strident colors” (Source 2). The fourth painting, the still life, can also be related to Fauvism because the Post-Impressionism movement is thought of like its father, an earlier precursor. The fifth painting, the motifs, resembles these previous works of Natalia’s but also showcases work influenced by her relationship to the Russian Orthodox Church. Most importantly, there is the painting Rayonist Lilies, which is from the movement Rayonism, which Goncharova and her husband pioneered. This movement is characterized by attempting to “[float] beyond abstraction, out of time and space, and to break the barriers between the artist and the public” (Source 6). Rayonism was a huge step in a more freeform art community in Russia, who would eventually come to appreciate abstract
In the 1960s, a wave of Cuban immigrants moved into the United States to escape their ruthless dictator, Fidel Castro. Aleida Rodriguez and her siblings were some of those immigrants. In her reflection, she looks at photographs of her childhood while she reflects upon the impact of emigration within her family during the sixties. In the excerpt from “my Mother in Two Photographs, Among Other Things,” author Aleida Rodriguez reveals the cultural rifts caused by relocation.
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond was done Adelaide Labille Guiard in 1785. It was done in Paris, France and the medium is oil on canvas. Adelaide Labille Guiard was born in 1749 and died in 1803. She was one of few to practice and master at miniatures, pastels and oil paintings. Due to male dominance in these practices, women were not accepted as pupils, due to society perception that women are not able to follow instructions as easily as men.
Marie Gouze (Olympe de Gouges) was born in Montauban, France on May 7 of 1793. Olympe was born into a family belonging to the petty bourgeoisie; her father was a butcher and her maternal grandfather owned a business of cloths. At the age of seventeen years, Olympe de Gouges was forced to marry an older man. Olympe’s only son named Pierre Aubrey was born from this union. After the death of her husband and completely disappointed with the meaning of marriage, Olympe decided to move to Paris and give a good education to her only child.
Chopin, fatherless at four, was certainly a product of her Creole heritage, and was strongly influenced by her mother and her maternal grandmother. Perhaps it is because she grew up in a female dominated environment that she was not a stereotypical product of her times and so could not conform to socially acceptable themes in her writing. Chopin even went so far as to assume the managerial role of her husband's business after he died in 1883. This behavior, in addition to her fascination with scientific principles, her upbringing, and her penchant for feminist characters would seem to indicate that individuality, freedom, and joy were as important to Chopin as they are to the characters in her stories. Yet it appears to be as difficult for critics to agree on Chopin's view of her own life as it is for them to accept the heroines of her stories. Per Seyersted believes that Chopin enjoyed living alone as an independent writer, but other critics have argued that Chopin was happily married and bore little resemblance to the characters in her stories (150-164).
Kate Chopin was born Kate O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850 to secure and socially prominent parent, Eliza O'Flaherty, of French-Creole descent, and Thomas O'Flaherty, an Irish immigrant and successful commission merchant. Kate attended the St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart from 1855 until she graduated on 1868. In 1855, her father was died in a railroad accident. She lived at home with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, all of them were widows. Her great-grandmother, Victoria Verdon oversaw her education and taught her French, music, and the gossip on St. Louis women of the past. Kate O'Flaherty grew up surrounded by smart, independent, single women. Victoria's own mother had been the first woman in St. Louis to obtain legal separation from her husband. She was influenced by her upbringing among these women. This showed up later in her fiction. For example, in her first short story “Wiser than a god” she characterized a strong and independent woman. This woman had an exceptional musical talent. She preferre...
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was born August 12, 1831 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Her father was Colonel Peter von Hahn and her mother was Helena Andreyevna von Hahn. Colonel von Hahn was a military man fighting in Poland when Helena was born. Her mother, often hurt by her husband’s absence and wrote about the turmoil of being a woman in her time. She published 8 novels by the time she faced an untimely death at the age of 27 as a highly regarded novelist. Helena’s mother knew from the time she was born that she was no average child. (3, 4, 5, 6)