Artists in the History

Joan Mitchell aims to tell the story of Mitchell’s art as fully as possible without the biographical concerns of most of the exhibitions of women artists of the past. While the life of Mitchell (1925-92) was full of fascinating details: a privileged childhood in Chicago steeped in 19th century poetry and art; national competitions for young figure skaters; numerous tumultuous…

Vermeer’s work belongs to the Allegory of Faith (circa 1670; Metropolitan Museum, New York) and Love Letter (circa 1670; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) during that period. Initially, his work was ignored by art historians for two centuries after his death, but many of his works are attributed to more famous artists such as Metsu or Mieris. During his lifetime he was a…

The’sophisticated’ injustice of his time has not only been due to the extraordinary rift between Lee and Timothy Spalls, Turner’s brilliant achievement and Ruskin’s complete distortion, but it is at an injustice that has been going on for over a century. Although he was the prophet of his time, the patron saint of the Pre-Raphaelites and the best art historian…

Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965) better known under the pseudonym Le Corbusier (today known as Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, born in the small Swiss town of La Chaux de-Fonds, is considered an outstanding architect of the 20th century… a talented architect, provocative writer, controversial urban planner, talented artist and unparalleled polemicist, Le Corbusier was able to influence some…

In June 1974 she appeared unexpectedly in front of Pace and asked if they would like to show her new work. Martin settled in a remote mountainous area outside Cuba, New Mexico and returned to the art world in 1973. In 2015, Tate Modern organized a retrospective of his life and career from the 1950s to his last work in…

Ai Weiwei, Romanization by Wade-Giles Ai Weiwei (born May 18, 1957 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese artist and activist who has created a wide range of artistic works including sculptures, architectural projects, photography and video. While Aisa’s art is highly regarded internationally, the often provocative and subversive aspects of his art – as well as his political directness –…

Albert Bierstadt, a leading painter of the American frontier of the 19th century, was born in Solingen, Germany in 1830 and emigrated with his family to the United States at the age of two in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Nothing is known about his first art education however, he may have been influenced by local landscape painters and daguerreotypes. A 20-year-old…

Famous paintings include a self-portrait from 1500 and the so-called Four Apostles (1526). In addition to woodcuts of Dürer and copies of Marantonio Raimondi (etchings published at the beginning of the 16th century in Venice), Virgil Solis (published at the end of the 16th century in Nuremberg with the monogram Solis VS, as well as the Misleading Mommard series published…

Alec Andon, also known professionally as Alec Monopoly, is a street artist from New York City. His signature covers his face with his hand or uses a medical mask to hide his face. Alec Andon is known for his street art online while enjoying an elite lifestyle in Los Angeles, apparently funded by his artistic career. This first collaboration with…

Although working on these early abstract painting, Calder began to contemplate a new style of abstract sculpture : sculptures that would appear in the Percier Galerie in Paris six months later. Alexander Calder ( ; 22 July 1898 — 11 November 1976 ) was an American sculptor and an inventor of the “mobile” and kinetic art, from 1926 to 1933…