I have known Gabor for many years, unfortunately over the past few years I lost contact with him, but one thing I do know is he is doing very well and living the way most artists would love to. I n peace and harmony and doing that which he loves and that is to paint and draw. [...]
Film star Tony Curtis dies at 85
Hollywood star Tony Curtis has died of a cardiac arrest at his US home in Nevada aged 85. The Oscar-nominated actor, who starred in Some Like it Hot opposite Marilyn Monroe, passed away peacefully in bed, a family spokesman said. The star received an Oscar nod in 1959 for The Defiant Ones, in which he [...]
Laureen Warrington – Guest Piece
An artist whose work I liked very much so I asked her if I could do a guest piece on her. So here is her biography and a link to her works. I was born in Istanbul…1951. My father was a British diplomat. I spent my childhood in Turkey and then sent to a catholic [...]
Francis Picabia – Birthday
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. Francis Picabia A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. Francis Picabia Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death. Francis Picabia God invented concubinage, satan marriage. Francis Picabia Good taste [...]
LOUISE BOURGEOIS- Birthday
Louise Bourgeois Quotes Louise Bourgeois created “Maman”, the giant spider currently being assembled outside the National Gallery of Canada. When I went there today, the spider only had five legs, and was hanging from a crane. A second crane was there, presumably, to attach the legs. * * * “My childhood has never lost its [...]
Patricia Raga – Guest Article
Here is a really great expressionist I found on ARTBREAK I was born in Venezuela, on December 15th, 1968. I have lived in Venezuela, Miami and now, I reside in Barcelona. From each place that I have lived in, I have learned a lot of things, which, every time more and more, make me feel [...]
Pierre Alechinsky
Pierre Alechinsky is a Belgian artist. He was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1927. In 1944 he attended the l’Ecole nationale supérieure d’Architecture et des Arts décoratifs de La Cambre, Brussels where he studied illustration techniques, printing and photography. In 1945 he discovered the work of Henri Michaux, Jean Dubuffet and developed a friendship with [...]
Francesco Clemente
Francesco Clemente was born in Naples, Italy, in 1952. After an early academic background in classical languages and literature, he briefly enrolled as an architecture student at the University of Rome, in 1970. Throughout the 1970s he exhibited drawings, altered photographs and conceptual works across Europe. Since 1973 he has frequently resided and worked in [...]
Adolf Born
Adolf Born was born on 12 June in 1930 in the town of Ceske Velenice on the Czech-Austrian border. His father worked as a railman. In the first years of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia under the German occupation, his family moved to Prague. During 1949-1950, Born studied Visual Art Education at the Pedagogical [...]
Alphonse Mucha, a Czech Dream
On friday I am going to The Czech republic for a while and in the light of this here is one of my favourite Czech artists Aphonse Mucha. from bpib.com Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in Ivancice, Moravia, which is near the city of Brno in the modern Czech Republic. It was a small [...]
