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"Art & Artists :: Biography and Books"
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Andy Warhol
Information and facts all about Andy Warhol(shot by revolver) and his pop art movement, Campbell soupe can, pictures, handbags. Order art workbooks, magazines subscriptions online directly from wholesaler at discount wholesale price.
Art nouveau
Art Nouveau is a style of art based on decoration that flourished between 1880 and 1914, recognizable by typical natural motives as vines, leafs, flowers and birds. Art Nouveau was an opposition to historicism and prepared the ground for abstract art
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo and Jeanne-Claude are known worldwide for their large-scale environmental art works and wrappings. Famous works of the couple are the ‘Wrapped Reichstag’, ‘Surrounded Islands’ and ‘Running Fence’.
Digital Art
Digital Art is art created by computer. It has recently become very popular due to the availability of computers and software. The media is using Digital Art in many different fields, but it is still not gaining a similar acceptance as traditional ar
Hergé
Hergé (full name: Georges Prosper Remi) 1907 –1983, was a Belgian comics writer who wrote The Adventures of Tintin and many other comic strips. His work and the drawing style of ‘ligne claire’ had a strong influence on other comic illustrators
Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (c1450–1516), also known as Jeroen Bosch, was a Dutch painter in the 15th and 16th century. His work depicted sin and evil of man using obscure symbolism and was an inspiration for the surrealist movement of the 20th century.
Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà (1893 –1983) was one of Spain’s most celebrated abstract and Surrealist artists. His paintings, sculptures and ceramics are characterized by simple flattened forms and bright colors and remind of childlike drawings.
Karel Appel
Karel Appel (1921–2006) was a Dutch painter and sculptor of Modern Art and co-founder of Cobra, a European avant-garde movement that focused on abstract expressionism. Appel’s style is childlike, with thick layers of paint slapped on canvas.
Keith Haring
Keith Haring (1958-1990) was an American artist and social activist whose work can be described as Pop Art or Modern Art. Haring was known for cartoon like figures surrounded by kinetic lines suggesting movement like ‘radiant babies’ and ‘barking dog
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian artist and engineer mostly known for his paintings of Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and his journals with very advanced inventions of machines and drawings of human anatomy.
M.C. Escher
M.C. Escher (1898-1972) was a Dutch graphic artist known for his brain-teasing lithographs and woodcuts with impossible structures, multiple perspectives and optical illusions. His works create new views of the relationship of time and space.
Michelangelo
Michelangelo (1475-1564) was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect and poet of the High Renaissance. He was celebrated as the ‘Divine One’ and created masterworks as Pietà (1499), David (1504) and the Sistine Chapel ceiling (1512).
Picasso
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish-born French painter. He was one of the originators of Cubism and devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed to development of Modern and Abstract Art in the 20th century.
Roy Lichtenstein
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Salvador Dali
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was a Spanish Surrealist painter in the 20th century. His eccentricity, exhibitionism and flamboyant waxed moustache were iconic of him. He painted bizarre fantasy worlds in an extremely precise manner.
Surrealism
Surrealism (1924-1960’s) is cultural movement influenced by the theories of Freud, that attempted to express the imaginations free of self censoring and conscious control. Best known artist are André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Louis Aragon.
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) was a Dutch-born American painter of abstract expressionism who helped establish New York as an artistic center. His work is known for the aggressive images in raw colors slashes on the canvas, as the series ‘Woman’.
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"Design :: Biography and Books"
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Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) was an Italian architect known for his timeless designs. Rossi wrote ‘The Architecture of the City’ (1966) and ‘A Scientific Autobiography’ (1981). Rossi best-known designs of the cemetery of San Cataldo and Teatro del Mondo.
Architectural Design
Architecture is the art and science of designing and erecting buildings. It developed out of need for shelter, security and worship and throughout the history buildings were based on the principles stated by Vitruvius; durability, utility and beauty.
Design Lighting
Lighting design is a mixture of art and science, the key part of interior design and the fourth dimension in architecture. Lighting designers use different kinds of lighting to serve the different purposes of a building or room.
Design Magazines
Design is a form of art with a clearly defined purpose. It used to be only for the elite, but has now become a mass-market phenomenon. Magazines influenced the definition and use it to describe style and fashion of interior design and decoration.
Emotional Design
Emotional design is based on the idea of Don Norman that there are three levels of design; visceral, behavioral and reflective. A well-designed product on all three levels should look good, work well and have meaning to the owner/ user as well.
Fashion Design
Fashion design is the art of creating clothing. It has started in 1858 with Charles Worth, who opened the first haute couture house in Paris. Fashion design can be divided into three categories: haute couture, ready-to-wear and mass market design.
Furniture Design
Furniture design is the creation of movable objects that make a room fit for living or working. Furniture design is related to both architecture and interior design. Furniture is designed with the principles of aesthetics and function.
Glass Design
Glass design is many millennia old. It was already used as architectural decoration around 2500 BC. With inventions of new techniques mass-produced glass is now commonly used for various purposes. Blown glass has become a luxury product and an art.
Graphic Design
Graphic design is the art of designing a visual representation. It is used to convey a message or present information. The main elements of graphic design are images and typography. Graphic design is the most universal art and part of our daily life.
Home Design
The term ‘home design’ often describes two different things; residential interior design and decorating. Interior designers completed formal training on architectural plans, safety concerns, and building codes, decorators focus on the aesthetic.
Industrial Design
Industrial design is design of mass-produced products and is concerned with function, value and appearance of products. Industrial design developed after the Industrial Revolution out of the need for a balance between the industry and the craft.
Interior Design
Interior design is the process of shaping the experience of interior space, through the manipulation of spatial volume as well as surface treatment. The profession of interior design is a relatively young profession that developed from decorating.
Photoshop
Photoshop is the most popular image editor in the world. It is developed by the brothers John and Thomas Knoll and launched by Adobe Systems in 1990. Photoshop is widely used by graphic designers, web designers, and photographers.
Product Design
Product design is the process of idea generation, concept development, testing and manufacturing or implementing the object or service. Product design is especially important for manufacturers whose products are in a very competitive sales climate.
Web Design
Web design is the arrangement and creation of content shown on the Internet in the form of websites. The basic design of pages on the Web use HTML (HyperText Markup Language) to create documents displayed on the World Wide Web.
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Alessi
Alessi is an Italian family-rum company that produces household items in collaboration with celebrity designers and architects. The products are known as creative, humorous, practical in use, and of a high quality.
Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck (1949- ) is a French designer and architect. He is known for his often provoking works in simple and fluid forms. His work varies from designing the lemon squeezer ‘Juicy Salif’ to a whole street block in Paris; La Rue Starck.
Porsche Design Studio
Porsche Design Studio in Zell am See, Austria, is known for its classic men’s accessories that are designed in a clear, elegant style that betrays the company’s automotive origins. Porsche Design was founded in 1972 by F.A. Porsche.
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