Jean-Michel Basquiat and Tiffany’s Blue
A storm of controversy has been surrounding Tiffany's recent ad campaign that includes a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Asa Shatkin 2021-11-26T12:04:21-05:00 November 10th, 2021|
A storm of controversy has been surrounding Tiffany's recent ad campaign that includes a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Asa Shatkin 2021-11-26T12:07:50-05:00 November 5th, 2021|
Having a triumphant retrospective at not one, but two, major museums is a wonderful way to celebrate one's 91st birthday, and that is what Jasper Johns is doing. The exhibits at both the Whitney in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art have garnered rave reviews and inspired art lovers to look at Johns' works and see how they have evolved over the past seven decades.
Asa Shatkin 2021-12-30T11:20:11-05:00 October 14th, 2020|
Derrick Adams is an American artist whose work focuses on the joyful aspects of community and family life as a Black American.
Asa Shatkin 2022-10-06T07:49:21-04:00 September 21st, 2022|
Jennifer Losch Bartlett was an American artist. She was known for paintings and prints that combine the system-based aesthetic of conceptual art with the painterly approach of Neo-Expressionism.
Asa Shatkin 2022-09-21T11:15:18-04:00 January 24th, 2018|
Basquiat attended City-as-School, an alternative high school in Manhattan, for students who don't do well in traditional schools. He finally dropped out of school altogether when he was seventeen, just one year short of graduation. His father gave him some money, threw him out of their home and wished him luck. Basquiat stayed with friends, and became part of the New York graffiti arts scene.
Asa Shatkin 2022-09-21T12:20:15-04:00 October 14th, 2020|
Peter Hill Beard was an American artist, photographer, diarist, and writer who lived and worked in New York City, Montauk and Kenya. His photographs of Africa, African animals and the journals that often integrated his photographs, have been widely shown and published since the 1960s.
Asa Shatkin 2021-09-22T07:01:57-04:00 September 20th, 2021|
Mel Bochner is an American conceptual artist. Bochner received his BFA in 1962 and honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. He lives in New York City.
Asa Shatkin 2021-08-06T16:53:14-04:00 October 15th, 2019|
Elizabeth Catlett was born in Washington, D.C. in 1915, the youngest of three children. Her parents were the children of freed slaves. Her mother worked as a truant officer for the D.C. public school system. Her father, who died before she was born, taught math at Tuskegee University and made wood carvings in his spare time. One of his woodcarvings, of a bird, fascinated Catlett, and she aspired to be an artist as early as age six.
Asa Shatkin 2018-01-19T09:37:24-05:00 September 13th, 2016|
Marc Chagall | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Marc Chagall painted a world filled with color, light and fantasy and brought an inimitable style of his own to twentieth century art. Early Life and Education Marc Chagall was born Moishe Segal in 1887 in the city of Vitebsk, now part of Belarus. He was the [...]
Asa Shatkin 2021-05-28T08:02:39-04:00 July 12th, 2016|
Chuck Close was born in Monroe, Washington in 1940. His father, Leslie Close, worked at a hardware store and also as a sheet metal worker when Close was born.
Asa Shatkin 2021-05-28T08:11:38-04:00 September 13th, 2016|
"deYoung Seawall" by RichardDiebenkorn by ed and eddie CC BY-SA 2.0 Richard Diebenkorn was an American abstract expressionist painter, who marched to the beat of his own drummer, ignoring art trends and painting the light and landscapes that he glimpsed from his Ocean Park studio. Early Life and Education Richard Diebenkorn was born in Portland, [...]
Asa Shatkin 2016-10-11T12:48:39-04:00 August 15th, 2016|
Richard Estes was born in 1932 in Kewanee, Illinois, but moved to Chicago at an early age. He remained there to study at the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1950s, where his training centered on figure drawing and traditional academic painting, the style that interested him most. Estes is one of the foremost proponents of the Photo-Realist movement, [...]
Asa Shatkin 2021-04-28T13:43:13-04:00 October 29th, 2018|
Walton Ford in his studio, 2017 Walton Ford is an American artist, whose works combine history, science and mythology to explore the effects that humans and the environment have on birds and mammals. Early Life and Education Walton Ford was born in Larchmont, New York in 1960, one of four children. Walton's father, Enfield Berry [...]
Asa Shatkin 2022-09-30T09:04:16-04:00 September 21st, 2022|
Mark Grotjahn is an American painter and sculptor whose works have been exhibited extensively around the world and are included in the permanent collections of major museums and galleries.
Asa Shatkin 2021-05-28T08:19:54-04:00 September 13th, 2016|
Keith Haring at work in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, March 14, 1986 Keith Haring was an American street artist and activist, whose easily recognizable work has been inspirational to his admirers around the world. Early Life and Education Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1958 and raised in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. He was [...]
Asa Shatkin 2021-06-01T15:43:21-04:00 June 13th, 2016|
Self-Portrait with Cigarette, 1983, exp. Hockney, Centre Georges-Pompidou, ParisPhoto: Renaud Camus, Taken on September 4, 2017 (CC BY 2.0) Early Years and Education David Hockney was born in the city of Bradford, in Yorkshire, England in 1937. Hockney was the fourth of five children. He received his formal art education at the Bradford School of [...]
Asa Shatkin 2022-09-21T12:21:23-04:00 November 24th, 2020|
Reggie Burrows Hodges was born in Compton, California in 1965. His childhood in Compton has been the inspiration for many of his paintings. He attended the University of Kansas, where he studied theater and film. Hodges worked at various jobs in television and film production. He spent time in Brooklyn, where he became co-owner of Bass Mind Recording Studio and also co-founded the reggae dub band Trumystic. Hodges played the bass and wrote songs for the band.
Asa Shatkin 2022-10-13T17:17:52-04:00 September 21st, 2022|
Shara Hughes is a contemporary American painter known for her colorful invented landscapes. Employing varied marks, the artist loosely depicts floating moons, gnarled trees, and blazing sunlight. As in the paintings of David Hockney and Charles Burchfield, Hughes’s works defy conventional depictions of space and light while still adhering to a pictorial logic. “Texture, pattern, and perspective is something I like to use to describe a space in ways that maybe don't always make sense,” she has explained.
Asa Shatkin 2021-05-28T08:26:20-04:00 June 14th, 2016|
Robert Indiana was one of America’s most renown contemporary artists. His iconic works are recognized throughout the world. "LOVE by Robert Indiana, 1995" Photo by Dick Thomas Johnson CC BY 2.0 Early Life and Education Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana in 1928. He was adopted by Earl and Carmen Clark, who moved [...]
Asa Shatkin 2022-09-21T12:24:33-04:00 November 26th, 2021|
Kenneth Noland was an American painter. He was one of the best-known American Color Field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School movement.
Asa Shatkin 2022-09-21T12:23:26-04:00 November 26th, 2021|
Hughie Lee-Smith an African-American artist, born in Eustis, Florida in 1915. In 1938, he graduated with honors from the Cleveland School of Art and worked for the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration, creating paintings that focused on social justice and racial equality.
Asa Shatkin 2022-09-21T12:18:50-04:00 November 26th, 2021|
Samuel Lewis Francis was born in San Mateo, California in 1923. His father was a mathematics professor, his mother was a pianist. Francis attended San Mateo High School.
Asa Shatkin 2021-12-14T09:09:35-05:00 November 23rd, 2021|
Alfred Jensen was a well-traveled Guatemalan-American artist, whose eclectic works reflect his interest in such diverse topics as physics, color theory, astronomy and Chinese history.
Asa Shatkin 2021-05-28T08:40:03-04:00 June 12th, 2016|
Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn in 1927, raised in Queens, and has lived in his SoHo loft since 1968. His parents, who emigrated from Russia, encouraged Katz’s interest in the arts. He attended Woodrow Wilson High School, whose curriculum allowed him to study academic subjects in the morning and arts in the afternoon.
Asa Shatkin 2022-02-02T10:15:42-05:00 September 21st, 2016|
Brian Donnelly (born 1974), known professionally as Kaws (stylized as KAWS), is an American artist and designer.
Asa Shatkin 2022-09-21T12:10:44-04:00 September 13th, 2016|
Scott Kelley is an artist and naturalist living on Peaks Island, Maine Scott Kelley is an American artist, whose focus is on the birds and landscapes surrounding his home in Maine. Early Life and Education Scott Kelley was born in Binghamton, New York in 1963. “Having grown up as an only child,” he says, “I [...]
Asa Shatkin 2022-06-10T14:05:19-04:00 September 13th, 2016|
Jeff Koons is one of America’s most successful and controversial artists. Early Life and Education Jeff Koons at the Vanity Fair kickoff part for the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.Author: David Shankbone Jeff Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1955. His father was an interior designer, his mother a seamstress. Koons showed an interest in [...]
Debby Dobie 2021-05-28T09:03:20-04:00 September 29th, 2016|
Julio Larraz was born in Havana, Cuba, on March 12, 1944. The son of a newspaper publisher, he began to draw at a very early age. In 1961 his parents moved to Miami, Florida, taking the whole family with them. In 1962 they moved to Washington, D.C., and in 1964 to New York City, where Larraz lived [...]
Asa Shatkin 2022-09-21T12:23:05-04:00 October 15th, 2019|
Jacob Lawrence was an African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life.
Asa Shatkin 2022-10-31T15:37:27-04:00 November 26th, 2021|
Norman Lewis was an Abstract Expressionist painter, scholar and teacher, who used his art and his teaching to focus on black urban life and his community’s struggles.
Asa Shatkin 2017-06-05T11:23:57-04:00 August 15th, 2016|
Richard Lindner (1901-1978) was born in Hamburg, Germany and is well known for his quirky POP artworks. His style blends a mechanistic cubism with personal images and haunting symbolism.
Asa Shatkin 2021-10-08T08:44:06-04:00 September 20th, 2021|
Eddie Martinez is a New York-based artist best known for large-scale paintings that feature bold color, urgent line and brushwork, and graphic shapes and forms.
Asa Shatkin 2022-09-21T12:23:47-04:00 April 28th, 2021|
Emily Mason was an American abstract painter and printmaker. Mason developed her individual approach to the Abstract Expressionist and color field painting traditions with her veils of color and spontaneous gestural mark. Mason was born and raised in New York City, where she lived and worked until her death.
Asa Shatkin 2016-10-11T12:49:04-04:00 August 15th, 2016|
French artist, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the [...]
Asa Shatkin 2021-05-28T09:11:34-04:00 June 20th, 2016|
"The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humor and in an outburst of liberty and expansion." — Joan Miro Early Life and Education Joan Miró posing while Joaquim Ros i Sabaté sculpts a statue of him. Spanish painter, printmaker and sculptor, Joan Miro, was born in Barcelona in [...]
Asa Shatkin 2021-05-28T09:26:08-04:00 August 15th, 2016|
Luis Montoya and Leslie Ortiz have been working together since 1994. Their works are as unique and their collaboration. We asked them to tell us how their partnership came about, and Leslie was gracious enough to tell us about their backgrounds and how, almost twenty five years ago, they serendipitously became one of the most remarkable artistic [...]
Asa Shatkin 2022-10-03T12:23:37-04:00 April 28th, 2021|
Joyce Pensato was an American artist who created large scale, Pop, abstract and complex paintings of popular cartoon characters. Early Life and Education Joyce Pensato was born in Brooklyn in 1941. Her father emigrated from Sicily when he was thirteen and learned to speak English by watching American movies. He worked as a printmaker, often helping artists [...]
Asa Shatkin 2022-04-14T12:39:24-04:00 June 22nd, 2016|
In 1949, Albanian-American photographer Gjon Mili was able to make an appointment with Pablo Picasso at his studio in Vallauris France. Trained as an engineer and self-taught in photography, Gjon Mili was the first to use electronic flash and stroboscopic light to create photographs that had more than scientific interest. "Pablo Picasso dibujando un centauro con [...]
Asa Shatkin 2022-10-27T23:52:13-04:00 September 21st, 2022|
Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, a Ghanaian painter, is one of the Rubell Museum's 2021 Artists-in-Residence. Quaicoe creates empowering lush portraits of his family and friends where color and texture functions as a unique language to represent the character of the subject.
Asa Shatkin 2016-10-11T12:49:09-04:00 August 15th, 2016|
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is well-known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor and the Combines are a combination of both, [...]
Asa Shatkin 2016-10-11T12:49:12-04:00 August 15th, 2016|
Growing up in a genteel family in New York City, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was a member of the rugged realist school of landscape painters as well as a popular illustrator and printmaker. His 1930 illustrations for Moby Dick are among his most lasting achievements. He was the first American artist to have work exhibited in the Soviet [...]
Asa Shatkin 2022-03-02T11:34:07-05:00 August 15th, 2016|
James Rosenquist was one of America's most influential Pop artists, known for his enormous compositions relating to consumerism, politics and science. Photo of James Rosenquist in his Aripeka, Florida studio, 1988. Photo by Russ Blaise. Early Life and Education James Rosenquist was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota in 1933 to parents of Scandinavian descent. The [...]
Asa Shatkin 2022-10-21T08:05:31-04:00 September 21st, 2022|
Richard Serra is an American artist known for his large-scale sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings. Serra's sculptures are notable for their material quality and exploration of the relationship between the viewer, the work, and the site.
Asa Shatkin 2017-06-05T11:23:56-04:00 August 15th, 2016|
Born in 1951, Hunt Slonem is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He is best known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings of tropical birds, often based on a personal aviary in which he has been keeping from 30 to over 100 live birds of various species. Slonem's works are included in many important museum collections all over the world.
Asa Shatkin 2021-05-28T10:07:02-04:00 October 7th, 2019|
Pat Steir is an American painter and printmaker, whose fifty year career has led to her being one of the few female artists whose work has sold for seven figures at auction. Early Life and Education Pat Steir Photo: Jeffrey Beall CC BY-SA 2.0 Pat Steir was born Iris Patricia Sukoneck in 1940 in [...]
Asa Shatkin 2021-05-28T10:14:53-04:00 April 28th, 2021|
Donald Sultan’s large-scale still life paintings are filled with rich iconography—provocative objects, like bulbous fruits, set against a tar-black background.
Asa Shatkin 2021-05-28T10:19:19-04:00 August 15th, 2016|
Anthony Thieme - Rooftops, Gloucester Photo: by irinaraquel, CC PDM 1.0 Anthony Thieme (1888-1954) was born in Rotterdam, Holland. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, Holland, under George Hacker; Garlobini, Guardaciona; and Mancini in Italy. He also studied in Germany. In the 1920's he emigrated to the United States, initially [...]
Asa Shatkin 2021-05-28T10:21:37-04:00 August 15th, 2016|
Andy WarholPhoto by Stefan Leijon, CC BY-ND 2.0 Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, [...]
Asa Shatkin 2021-09-16T15:47:13-04:00 June 26th, 2016|
Tom Wesselman, Still Life #30 Photo: C.K.H., CC BY-ND 2.0 Tom Wesselmann was one of America’s most innovative Pop artists. A painter, printmaker and sculptor, his work is as American as the country and western music he sang and wrote. Early Years and Education Tom Wesselmann was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended [...]
Asa Shatkin 2021-05-28T10:36:46-04:00 August 15th, 2016|
John Whalley in his studio John Whalley was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1954, Whalley's mother, herself an artist and graduate of the Pratt Institute, encouraged him to draw and paint from an early age. He completed his first oil painting at eight years of age at his childhood home in upstate New York, [...]
Asa Shatkin 2021-05-28T11:02:53-04:00 September 8th, 2020|
Jonas Wood was born in Boston in 1977. His father was an architect, his mother was head of the theater department at the progressive Cambridge School of Weston high school, which Wood attended.
Asa Shatkin 2017-06-05T11:23:59-04:00 June 10th, 2016|
James Browning Wyeth was born, in 1946, into a family of gifted American artists. His father, Andrew Wyeth, grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, and aunt, Carolyn Wyeth all contributed to his art education. Early Life and Education Wyeth was raised in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, home of the Brandywine School, established by artist Howard Pyle. Pyle was the teacher [...]
Asa Shatkin 2022-02-26T14:19:17-05:00 June 25th, 2016|
Stephen Scott Young is one of America’s finest contemporary realist painters. Young’s watercolors and etchings have been compared to those of Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent. Young is just one of the few living artists whose work has been offered for auction at Christie’s. Early Life and Education Young was born in Hawaii in 1957. He [...]