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Charles Alston: 12 interesting facts

Charles Henry Alston (November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977) was an American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and hypothetical who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem. Alston was responsive in the Harlem Renaissance; Alston was the first African-American proprietor for the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project. Alston meant and …

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4 facts about the amazing Arthur Dove

Arthur Dove (August 2, 1880 – November 23, 1946) was an American artist. An to the front American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter. Dove used a broad range of media, sometimes in well ahead combinations, to develop his abstractions and his abstract landscapes. Me and the Moon from 1937 is …

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14 facts about Sonia Boyce

Sonia Dawn Boyce, OBE RA (born 1962), is a British Afro-Caribbean artist, living and operating in London. She is a Professor of Black Art and Design at University of the Arts London. Boyce’s research interests consider art as a social practice and the valuable and contextual debates that arise from this place of study. With …

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This is Mary Endico

Mary Endiko (also known as Endiko and Mary Endiko Fuguette; born June 13, 1954) is a professional watercolor artist based in the northeastern United States. Mary Endico (/ m e r i e n d I, k oU /; also known as Endico and Mary Endico Fugett; born June 13, 1954) is a professional watercolor …

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This is Edward Boccia

Edward Eugene Boccia (1921–2012) was an American painter and poet who lived and worked in St. Louis, Missouri and served as a university professor in the School of Fine Arts, Washington University, St. Louis. Boccia’s statute consisted mostly of large scale paintings in Neo-Expressionist style, and reflect an immersion in religion and its role in …

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This is Colette Bangert

Colette Stuebe Bangert (born 1934, Columbus, Ohio) is an American artist and new media artist who has created traditional and computer-generated artwork. Her computer work is the result of a decade-long collaboration with her husband, Charles Jeffreys “Jeff” Bangert (1938–2019), a mathematician and computer graphics programmer. Colette Stube Bangert (born 1934, Columbus, Ohio) is an …

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Claes Oldenburg: 22 cool facts

Claes Oldenburg (born January 28, 1929) is a Swedish-born American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large replicas of unknown objects. Another theme in his ham it up is soft sculpture versions of unmemorable objects. Many of his works were made in collaboration when his wife, Coosje van Bruggen, who died …

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Who is Robert Indiana?

Robert Indiana (born Robert Clark; September 13, 1928 – May 19, 2018) was an American player associated once the pop art movement. His “LOVE” print, first created for the Museum of Modern Art’s Christmas card in 1965, was the basis for his 1970 Love sculpture and the widely distributed 1973 United States Postal Service “LOVE” …

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