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"Popcorn Venus" (2012) by Juno Calypso | Image source: creativeboom.com
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The Female Gaze: Celebrating Female Photographers1839 is the date generally accepted as the birth year of photography. And in the same year, Constance Fox Talbot was believed to be the first woman ever to take a photograph. A century forward since then, more and more women have been captivated by photography, proving that for many brilliant and creative minds, it…
Jackson Pollock in front of ‘Summertime: Number 9A’ for LIFE magazine, 1949 | Image source: kazoart.com
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The Myth and Genius of Jackson Pollock“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.” – Jackson Pollock Jackson Pollock’s painting technique was far from conventional. Not only were his canvases typically laying on…
Painting "Death and the Maiden" (1915) by Egon Schiele | Image source: ligiafascioni.com.br
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The Art of Egon Schiele: Angst, Frustration, and Intellectual HysteriaFrom portraits of naked bodies twisted in often uncomfortable positions to disturbing self-portraits, Austrian painter Egon Schiele is remembered for his work that exuded raw sexuality, anguish, and narcissism. Born in 1890 in Tulin, Lower Austria, Schiele grew up a shy, strange child who did poorly in school and exhibited troubling behavior at home due…
Frida Kahlo, center, in 1938. Left: her prosthetic leg with leather boot. Right: plaster corset painted by Frida Kahlo. © Diego Riviera and Frida Kahlo Archives, Banco de México; Nickolas Muray © The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of 20th Century Mexican Art | Image source: theguardian.com
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Why We Love Frida KahloIn 1954, self-taught Mexican artist Frida Kahlo died at the age of 47. But despite her short life, hundreds of admirers mourned and stood in the rain outside the Panteón Civil de Dolores where her funeral ceremony was held just before she was cremated. Why did so many love Frida? Because Frida loved Frida. Frida’s…
Chaim Soutine, “Still Life with Rayfish” (ca 1924), oil on canvas | Image source: thejewishmuseum.org
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Chaim Soutine, the Master of Still-Life and FleshCarcass of Beef Fish, Pepper, Onions Hanging Turkey These are just a few of the names Chaim Soutine’s works of art. And if you’re hearing them for the first time, you probably think Soutine is a master chef of sorts. However, Soutine was no culinary genius; he was, however, the Expressionist artist who would go…
Image from the article: How Do You Define 'Lynchian'? by V Renée | Image source: nofilmschool.com
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Who is David Lynch?Filmmaker. Screenwriter. Director. Painter. Actor. Musician. Photographer. Sound designer. Producer. Wouldn’t the better question be, what isn’t David Lynch? In 1946, David Lynch was born into a middle-class family in Montana; however, he moved around quite a lot as a child because of his father’s job as a research scientist. Before moving to Los Angeles…