Joaquin Torres Garcia Joaquin Torres Garcia is an artist from Montevideo, Uruguay. Torres Garcia was born on July 28, 1874. His parents were from families of people who worked with their hands, rope makers and carpenters. His family was facing hard times, both with his home life and his family’s money issues throughout most of Torres Garcia’s early childhood. Torres Garcia’s parents were rarely home and when they were they weren’t a big help, so Torres Garcia basically had to do everything on his own, effectively raising himself. In 1890, Torres Garcia came up with the decision to move to Europe to pursue a career in art, more specifically as a painter. So Torres Garcia and his entire clan moved to Europe when Torres Garcia was 17 years of age. After travelling over Europe his family finally settled in the Spanish town of MA taro. During the day, Torres Garcia attended the town school and learned the basics of painting. At night Torres Garcia attended the Arts and Trades school. In 1892 Torres Garcia decided to move to Barcelona, a major Spanish city. This was an opportun...
Such controversy that followed him is one of the aspects of his art that made him stand out as a muralist during his lifetime (1). As with most artist his paintings became famous after his death (2) in 1957 due to heart failure in Mexico City, Mexico (1). His radical approach to art and his unique style have created a lasting impression on art and continue to do so (2). Widely regarded as the most influential Mexican artist of the twentieth century (3), Diego Rivera created a legacy in paint that continue to inspire the imagination and mind (2).
Originally, from Spain, Juan Gris moved to Paris in 1906. It was there where he learned and watched the progression of cubism. He met and lived next to innovators of this art form, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Although he is not the pioneer of this art form, his first significant paintings appeared in 1910 and...
Juan Gris was born in 1887. He was a Spanish born French painter who went to the cubist school. Originally his name was Jose Vittoriano Gonzalez, he was born in Madrid and educated there. He left Madrid in 1906 and went to Paris, making the acquaintance of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and of the French painter Georges Braque. Gris's first cubist paintings, generally more calculated than those of Picasso and Braque, appeared in 1912. He spent the next summer in Céret, France, with Picasso, and while there adopted the use of papier collé, shapes cut from paper and glued to the canvas.
Since the marriage in August 21st, 1929 Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo have been Mexico’s most important couple artists. While Diego was famous for painting in large murals, Frida was only known as his wife. However, in 1938, Frida’s small paintings were starting to get attention. Her style was unique, she had a talent that not many other artists did. She was willing to go to places where no one else has ever gone. Just like Frida, Diego had his own style. They both focused on the working class and their desire to use their art to transform political views.
Upon viewing the works of famous French artist Edgar Germaine Hilaire Degas, I noticed a similar theme. No matter the scene conveyed, his works appear mysterious and ominous. Why are his works depicted in this way? Why are the women in his works not portrayed in such a fashion as other artists of the time? Degas admired Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, even though their works contrasted immensely. This is due to the obscurity inside of Degas’ mind. It was said that you would never want to meet Degas the person, but Degas the artist is incredible. What could have caused such a conflict in how he perceived women?
Pablo Picasso was born in Spain to Jose Ruiz and Maria Picasso. He later adopted his mother’s more distinguished maiden name Picasso. Picasso was a child prodigy who was recognized as such by his art-teacher father who ably led him along. Picasso was taught for a few years and after he attended the Academy of fine art in Curna Spain where his father taught. Picasso’s early drawings such as, Study of A Torso, After A Plaster Cast (1894-1895 Musee Picasso, Paris, France) demonstrates the high level of technical proficiency he had accomplished by the age of 14 years old. (Encarta 2000) Picasso’s artwork is classified as modern art witch started in the early 1880’s to the mid 1970’s.
Salvador Dali was a modern master of art. He unleashed a tidal wave of surrealistic inspiration, affecting not only fellow painters, but also designers of jewelry, fashion, architecture, Walt Disney, directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, performers like Lady Gaga, and Madison Street advertisers. Filled with antics of the absurd, Dali fashioned a world for himself, a world which we are cordially invited to experience his eccentricity, his passions, and his eternal questioning nature. Dali’s surreal paintings transport us to fantastic realms of dream, food, sex, and religion. Born on May 11, 1904, Dali was encouraged by his mother to explore, to taste, to smell, to experience life with all of its sensuality. As a boy, Dali often visited the Spanish coastal town of Cadaqués with his family. It was here that he found inspiration from the landscape, the sea, the rock formations, the bustling harbor, with ships transporting barrels of olives and troves of exotic spices. Dali was impressed by the Catholic churches, and their altars with the portrayal of Christ and of the angels and saints gracefully flying overhead, yet frozen in time and marble. It was in Cadaqués that Dali declared “I have been made in these rocks. Here have I shaped my personality. I cannot separate myself from this sky, this sea and these rocks.” It was in
Diego Rivera was deemed the finest Mexican painter of the twentieth century; he had a huge influence in art worldwide. Rivera wanted to form his own painting fashion. Although he encountered the works of great masters like Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse, he was still in search of a new form of painting to call his own (Tibol, 1983). His desire was to be capable of reaching a wide audience and express the difficulties of his generation at the same time, and that is exactly what h...
Jose Campeche is the first known Puerto Rican visual artist and considered one of the best rococo and religious artist in the Americas and gained international fame, he has left behind a legacy that even people today are astonished by his glorious artwork. Jose real name is Jose de Ribafrecha and was born on December 23, 1751, in San Juan, Puerto Rico and died on November 7, 1809, in San Juan, he was 57 years old. His parents are Thomas Campeche and Maria Jordan y Marques, His father was a feed slave who lived in Puerto Rico. He was a decorator and a restorer on old art work he was also a painter, he was a big influence on Jose and his passion for art. His mother was a native in the Canary Islands, he was referred to as a “mulatto” for his diverse nationalities. Some of his most famous
Jose Clemente Orozco was one of the most controversial and celebrated Mexican artists of the twentieth century. He provoked people through his outrageous metaphors and sparked the fuel to the fire of awareness, this being to change the blemishes of our society whether it be dictatorship, war, imperialism, religion, slavery, greed, alienation, and so much more. Even though he lost his left hand when he was just a teenager, he made dozens of major mural pieces that still provoke people’s principles to this day. When he wasn’t creating massive murals he was painting or drawing hundreds of new ideas about social reform, war, imperialism, etc. Both murals and easel paintings influenced generations to come such as Pollock, Guston, and Shahn. He painted the true lifestyle of real mexicans and their problems at the time but called for peasants and workers to change what he was painting so it could be apart of history, not part of the future. With his paintings he challenged authority, norms, and stereotypes of Mexico, Europe, and the United States. His creations are often dark rich colors that have splashed of white and depict tragedies with strong figures that resemble gods, average men, and past dictators/ imperialists. Jose opened peoples eyes in an unconventional way with his massive murals. His pieces are highly detailed and make us question our everyday life. His art made people question society, and once an artist got that question in peoples head, you’ve changed society. But Orozco always caused heated controversy and debates wherever he painted his striking eye-raising social analytical murals and paintings.
My first artist is Rafael Cauduro. Rafael Cauduro was born in capital city of Mexico and now resides in the city of Cuernavaca (state of Morelos) 1950. Rafael started out making superior studies of architecture and industrial design in the Latin American University in Mexico City. According to his biography Cauduro is a self taught painter who steps outside of traditional artist’s standard. Cauduro’s paintings contain a “trompe de l’oeil” (Fool the eye) quality as indicated in by how in his paintings walls, fences, and objects are so real that people can almost touch them. To the visual realism of Cauduros work, according to critic Ruiz Soto, adds what he termed “critical illusion” which combines an extreme technical proficiency with fantasy-filled concepts(www.rafael cauduro.com). Rafael Cauduro painting technique is of a surrealism in which the reality of dreams, or subconscious mind are as more real than the surface reality of everyday life (Sayre p.51). Cauduro paints in a Surrealistic way usually portraying the forces of dreams and subconscious that he has been famous for. This artistic movement originat...
According to Cabanne, P. (1977) Pablo Picasso was born in October 25 1881 in Malaga Picasso was a spanish artist, Picasso was deceased in Mougins on April 8, 1973 Picasso is best known for his paintings, and is one of the best artists or the twentieth century. Picasso was also one of the founders and part of the Cubist movement. Pablo Picasso’s full name was José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Pablo Diego Trinidad Ruiz Picasso Crispin Crispiniano of Santissima. Picasso 's father, Don José Ruiz y Blanco, was both a professor of drawing and a painter at the school of Malaga called "San Telmo". His Mother, Dona Maria has arabic origins and is actually originally from Andalusia. Picasso goes back to the allegorical. In the 1920s, he crosses
Raised by his grandparents, Marquez was born in 1928 in a Colombian fishing village located in the Caribbean coast. “Because his parents were still poor and str...
Mario works only at the Arte Maya Tz'utuhil as an artist. He is one of two younger brothers to Pedro Rafael Gonzalez Chavajay. While most artists who work at Tz’utihil learn from their family, Mario taught himself. He has been painting for about twenty years and works very hard. He usually spends about eight hours every day painting. He worked for Salvador Reanda’s gallery in Santiago Atitlán for many years as a tourist artist. He decided to quit tourist p...
Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga. Picasso’s father, who was a drawing teacher at the Escuela Provin cal de Bell Artes starting teaching Picasso how to paint. His father recognized and encouraged his son’s talent as an artist. His childhood and teenage drawings showed his father’s repertory, an interest with the bullfight and conventional academic work. He enrolled in his father’s drawing classes in 1892 and produced about fifteen oil portraits in 1895.He did experiments with caricatures and sketches in 1894. At fourteen years old in 1895, Picasso passed exams to enter the high level courses in classical art and still life. He studied the old master paintings in 1897 and he critized the teaching of the academia real de. During the next couple of years Picasso began to assert his independence and went out and found a studio and started ...