Art

Paul Cézanne

by Jeff January 19, 2012 Art

Born: January 19, 1839, Aix-en-Provence, France Died: October 22, 1906, Aix-en-Provence, France Nationality: French Field: Painting Movement: Post-Impressionism Known to many as the Father of Modern Art, Cézanne’s body of work exhibits continuous development, and the constant desire to refine his technique and style. He separated himself from contemporaries to study form and color in [...]

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Georgia O’Keeffe

by Jeff November 15, 2011 Art

Born: November 15, 1887 Died: March 6, 1986 Nationality: American Field: Painting Movement: American Modernism When O’Keeffe was a child, she had already decided to become an artist. She found out very early in her career that she would have a hard time finding a place of her own in the art market of the [...]

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Motion and Op Art

by Jeff April 11, 2011 Art

Ms. Krista’s kindergarten class has recently been working on a unit exploring motion. Last Friday, week we celebrated the art of Victor Vasarely and one of his contemporaries, Marcel Duchamp. We explored how we could create art that “moved”. Optical art concerns the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing. When the [...]

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Jackson Pollock

by Jeff February 4, 2011 Art

Paul Jackson Pollock was born on January 28, 1912. He was an American painter and an important player in the artist movement known as abstract expressionism.  Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety in his own lifetime. Known as “Jack the Dripper”, he arranged the canvas on the floor, and painting around it, as if engaging [...]

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