Love the simplicity yet passion of his work Ludio Fontana was born on February 19th, 1899 in Rosario di Santa Fé in Argentina. His father was an Italian sculptor. In 1905 the artist’s family moved to Milan. From 1914 Fontana attended Carlo Cattaneo’s vocational school for the building trade. Having completed his military service, he [...]
JACKSON POLLOCK – Birthday
I am going away for a few days so I am doing some advanced posting about my favourite artists who have birthdays this month, and this is my all time favourite with whom I share a birthday. And Happy Birthday to my son for the 30th January. Did You Know? Many things have been written [...]
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 [...]
Nothing to do with painting: Elvis Presley
Today would have been one of my music idol’s birthdays. Happy Birthday Elvis Elvis Presley is a star who continues to mesmerize his fans even years after his demise. He would turn 75 on January 8th 2010 had he been alive. However, a lot of plans have been made for celebrating the Rock n Roll [...]
Happy Birthday HENRI MATISSE
Seeing as Matisse’s birthday will be on 31st of December and I will be out making merriment I thought I would pay tribute to one of my favourite artists now with some of his famous quotes and a few pictures that I like. A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for [...]
Morris Louis biography
Morris Louis was perhaps the greatest exponent of Colour Field painting. He was a notorious perfectionist with many paintings being destroyed that did not meet his exacting standards. Born Morris Louis Bernstein in 1912 to Russian-Jewish immigrants, he was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts from [...]
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 [...]
Joan Miro Biography
The painter, Joan Miró, was born in Barcelona in 1893 and died in Mallorca in 1983. He produced works in a variety of different styles, and using a wide range of materials, but the majority of them had a surrealist flavour. This is how he is best remembered, although he preferred to think of his [...]
Tom Wesselmann
Tom Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati / Ohio on 23 February 1931. Between 1945 and 1951 he studied at the Hiram College in Ohio before studying psychology at Cincinnati university. One year later he was called up for military service due to the Korea war. Being discontented with his situation he began to draw cartoons [...]
WASSILY KANDINSKY’s BIRTHDAY
Tomorrow is the birthday of Wassily Kandinsky, who is one of my favourites, so here is a quick recap. The Russian painter and graphic artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was one of the great masters of modern art and the outstanding representative of pure abstract painting that dominated the first half of the 20th century. Wassily [...]
