She lived a life of sex, privilege and money – but all she wanted was credibility within the male-dominated art world. Stuart Jeffries on Peggy Guggenheim, millionaire collector Peggy Guggenheim had an ugly nose. In 1920, she asked a Cincinnati surgeon to make it like the one she had read about in Tennyson’s Idylls of [...]
Shozo Shimamoto
Szozo Shimamoto, was born in Osaka, Japan in 1928, he is an authoratative member of the Gutai Group, which was formed in 1954 in the Kansai region. Other important figures included in the group were the likes of Yoshihara Jiro, Kanayama Akira, Murakami Saburo and Shiraga Kazuo. The activities of the group helped evolve western [...]
More from The Tate Collection – Fred Williams
When I visited The Tate Modern last week there were a number of artists that I didn’t know, mainly abstract expressionists, so I decided that over the next few weeks I would post here and there about them so I could share their works. To start with I will be introducing you to Fred williams; [...]
Urban Art at The Tate Modern London
On Tuesday I went to The Tate Modern again and again I went with someone so I couldn’t enjoy it as much as I would have liked. Anyway, they have an Urban Art exhibition on the outside walls, which was amazing. I was wondering how they got them up there because they are so big. [...]
Does Abstract Art Exist in China?
With the Olympics in China, I thought I would include this piece that I found on Chinese abstract. Zhao Wuji’s abstract painting Abstraction is the Product of Western Modernism bsent the birth of Western Modernism, there would have been no abstract art. For a brief period during the twentieth century, however, some scholars propounded the [...]
William Baziotes – Abstract Expressionist
William Baziotes, was born in Pittsburgh June 11th, 1912. His parents were Greek. From 1931 to 1933 he worked at Case Glass company in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he was painting glass and running general errands. He attended evening sketch classes and it was here that he met his lifelong friend Byron Vazakas, who was a [...]
Bridget Riley
Bridget Louise Riley was born on April 24, 1931 in London (UK). Bridget was educated at Cheltenham Ladies’ College; she studied art first at Goldsmiths College and later at the Royal College of Art, where her fellow students included artists Peter Blake and Frank Auerbach. She left college early to look after her ailing father, [...]
An old friend: A bit abstract, a bit expressionism, a bit of sealife
I was having a clean up the other day and I came across one of the paintings I manage to salvage from my move back to England 2 years ago. It brought back many memories, including all the space I used to have to paint in and that I could actually do paintings of this [...]
Guest Piece: Erika Madrid
Now here is a very talented young painter that I discovered over at Artbreak which happens to be a very friendly community of artists showing their works, with a chance to chat on a forum and sell. The artists are very friendly and I strongly recommend having a peek. There really are some talents, and [...]
