Artists in the History

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    Ana Mendieta

    By people looking at blood, Moffitt was a groundbreaking and incendiary film that showed our willingness to ignore everyday signs of violence – a common feature in Mendietas’ work in which he tried to always get people to see “other bodies” as their own – a few of which were discovered decades after his death by his brothers. Mendieta used…

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    Aya Takano

    The friendship between the two protagonists of this new series reflects her thoughts on the complexity of the female psyche in a society where our values ​​and choices are influenced by the media and outside forces. While science fiction offered Takano a portal to escape the discomfort of the dystopian notions that manifest in his art and manga, his fictional…

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    Barbara Hepworth

    After their parents’ departure from Yorkshire, the girls’ perceptions of reality were further explored during trips to Yorkshire with their father, a land surveyor. During his graduate studies in Italy, Hepworth worked with master stone carvers and met the British sculptor John Skipping, whom he later married. Back in London, Hepworth was part of a group of avant-garde sculptors who…

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    Barbara Kruger

    He is currently developing face masks for a number of artful nonprofits, and his journalistic social criticism was featured in last April on the editorial pages of newspapers (“A corpse is not a buyer” ) Kruger is doing more without images, as in Untitled (Greedy Shmuk), a black bar with headline words printed in large white letters he placed in…

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    Bernie Wrightson

    In an endless battle of cancer, Swamp Thing co-creator, designer and illustrator Bernie Wrightson passed away on March 18 after battling cancer for a long time. Wrightson was a product of the second generation of comic book fandoms and began contributing to fanzine collection in the late 1960s before breaking into the comics industry, working for Web of Horror and…

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    Caspar David Friedrich

    Its opening started in 1906 when an exhibition of 32 of his paintings and sculptures was held in Berlin. He himself had only a few friends and almost never left his modestly furnished studio. Oil painting became more and more difficult and was restricted mainly to sepia and ink. The palette is dark and muted; in this canvas the questioning…

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    Christo

    Artists often find it takes too long to understand their audience and to the detriment of their work Christo and Jeanne-Claude changed the way public art is created and understood. Christo, who used sculpture with his wife and partner Jeanne-Claude as a means of fundamentally changing people’s understanding of iconic structures and places, died at the age of 84. Christo…

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    Cy Twombly

    In my opinion, we are not putting ourselves in the place of the past, but adding only a new link. Underneath an inscription or dedication, Twombly often refers to the related arts of literature and music, and the subtle presence of language is an integral part of his sculptural practice. Of the many celebrities who speak by name or phrase,…

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    David Lachapelle

    After graduating from high school at the North Carolina School of the Arts in the mid-1980s, LaChapelle began showing her photographs in galleries in New York two decades ago. A Connecticut native, LaChapelle ran after years of sexual abuse from home and took refuge in Manhattan in the early 1980s. There he worked as assistant waiter at Studio 54 before…

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    Diego Velázquez

    The impenetrable, sullen face of the influential minister Olivares is familiar to us from the numerous portraits painted by Velazquez, which paid well the debt of gratitude to the patron who first brought him to the attention of the king, dressed as hunters and with landscapes in the background, just like the horse portraits for Buen Retiro and Royal Cloth,…