FRUSTRATED ARTIST

Hello Bloggers, today we will be discovering Georgia O'Keeffe an American painter of Flowers, Animal skulls, Skyscrapers, and southeastern Landscapes.  Georgia was a 20th-century American painter and pioneer of American Modernism. Georgia was born on the 15th of November 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Georgia studied her art at the Institute of Chicago. Alfred Stieglitz gave O'Keeffe her first gallery show in 1916 and then the couple married in 1924. After O'Keeffe's husband died she moved to New Mexico and was inspired by the Landscapes. O'Keeffe died on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98. https://www.biography.com/people/georgia-okeeffe-9427684

Hi everyone, it has been a while since I introduced a female artist. As you know I always try to support female artist mainly because in early times they were not supported it was a man's domain. I  have been painting, I have completed one for my bedroom and I am very happy with it. Just starting another one now not sure which way this is going yet. Anyhow back to business, The female artist today is Dorrit Black, 23/12/1891 - 13/09/1951. Dorrit was born in Burnside Adelaide South Australia. Dorrit's father was Alfred Barham Black and her mum was Jesse Howard Clark and amateur artist, Jesse's father was John Howard Clark. John Clark was the editor of the South Australian Register.  She attended the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts in about 1909, working in watercolours, and then attended Jullian Ashton's  Sydney Art School in 1915, concentrating on working in oils. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorrit_Black Dorrit Black Born Doroth...

Today I am going to represent American black women simply because one she is a woman and secondly she is a black woman. Who in the past would not have been supported or represented simply because she is a woman and because she is black?  So I want to showcase some of her works and some of her history, this artist is  Edmonia Lewis. Lewis's father was an African Haitian was born in Ohio but the date is in doubt. She may have been born on July 14th of July 4th in 1843 or 45. Lewis lived with her mother in her earlier life and her mum's people the Mississauga band of Ojibway (Chippewa Indians).  She was known as a wildfire, her brother was known as sunrise. When Lewis was about 10,  Lewis and her brother were orphaned, two Aunty's took then on, so from then on they lived near Niagra Falls in northern New York state. Her brother sunrise had some wealth from the gold rush an th...

Today I found an interesting artist her name is Debora Remington I hadn't noticed her before. Born in Hassonfield New Jersey 1930 The year my mum was born, Deborah was drawn to art at a very early age. At the Philadelphia Museum School of industrial arts is where Deborah attended to start her career, as a teenager. Deborah received a BFF in 1955 from San Francisco Art Institute where she studied painting with Clyfford Still.  She was one of six painters and poets, and the only woman, who in 1954 founded the now legendary Six Gallery in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read his poem, ”Howl” in public on October 7, 1955.  A descendant of the Western artist Frederic Remington, she embraced illusionistic painting, albeit with her own distinctive version of abstraction.   She was one of six painters and poets, and the only woman, who in 1954 founded the now legendary Six Gallery in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read his poem, ”...

Today while on my computer I thought I look up to see who was the first female artist and I was very surprised I even got any info. The first woman artist was Artemisia Gentileschi who was born on the 8th July 1593. Artemisia was classed as the greatest female Painter of the Baroque period. She develop her painting skills with the help of her father Orazio, Who was known as a accomplished painter himself. Orazio was influenced by Caravaggio, they had a short friendship. Artemisia lost her mother when she was 12 years old and another tragedy hit her 5 years later was she was raped by a colleague of her father, He was  Agostino Tassi who refused to marry her , her father decided to bring a legal case and take him to court. It took several months to finalise it . Tassi was ordered to leave rome, but the order was never enforced. Artemisia married a painter from Florence his name was Pietro Antonio di Vincenzo Stiattesi. Artemisia and her new husband moved to florence and together ...

Hi everyone I am siting on my computer and thought I haven't chosen an artist for a long time so here I am to share.  Today's artist is Leonora Carrington  Born: April 6, 1917 - Clayton Green, Lancashire, England Died: May 25, 2011 - Mexico City, Mexico . Carrington was a key figure in Surrealist painting and as a female artist of major individuality. Carrington had a romance with an older and one of my favorite artist Max Ernst. Her dream like art, often highly detailed work of fantasy creatures in a different world to ours and are based on very personal symbols but did not want to go into. https://www.theartstory.org/artist-carrington-leonora.htm  

I have been very busy with my photography and so have not been blogging. Today we are talking about Maggi Hambling apparently a controversial artist, that divides opinions, ignores critics, work very hard, and swears, who doesn't today.   Born 23 October 1945, Sudbury Suffolk.  She had two siblings, a sister, Ann, who was 11 years older, and a brother, Roger, nine years older.  Her brother had wanted a brother but ignored the fact that his younger sibling is female. He taught her carpentry, and how to wring a chicken's neck, wonderful.  Hambling had a relationship with her mother who taught ballroom dancing and took Hambling along to be her partner.   From her father that she inherited the painting and artistic skills. She was not as close to her father as she was to her mother but when her father retired at the age of 60, Hambling gave him some oil paints and discovered that he had a knack for painting. Hambling first stud...

Today we are going to have a look at an Australian artist Lisa Marie Bellear born in Melbourne 2 May 1961 passed away on the 5th of July 2006.  Lisa was an indigenous woman Goernpil from the   Noonuccal  people of  Minjerribah  ( Stradbroke Island ),  Queensland .  Lisa was a poet, Photographer, Spokesperson dramatist, activist, comedian, and broadcaster Lisa had an Uncle his name was Bob Belleair Australia first Aboriginal Judge, and there was also Sol Bellear who worked in and to find the Aboriginal Housing Corporation in Redfern in 1972 Lisa was adopted into a white family as a baby and they told her she had Polynesian blood. As an adult, she explored her Aboriginal roots. Bellear died unexpectedly at her home in Melbourne. She was 45 years old. Women's Liberation https://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poem/item/785

Today's artist/painter is a woman named Nampeyo she lived in the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. She was a Hopi Yewa Potter  Her Tewa name was also spelt  Num-pa-yu , meaning "snake that does not bite". Nampeyo used ancient technics for firing and designs from ancient Hopi pottery from the 15th century, Sikyatki ruins.  Her artwork is in National Museums in America, Arizona, the Peabody Museum and Havard University.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_American_Art_Museum Nampeyo was born on First Mesa in the village of Hano, also known as Tewa Village which is primarily made up of descendants of the Tewa people from Northern New Mexico who fled west to Hopi lands about 1702 for protection from the Spanish after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.  Her mother, White Corn was Tewa; her father Quootsva, from nearby Walpi, was a member of the Snake Clan. According to tradition, Nampeyo was born into her mother's Tewa Corn Clan. She had three older brothers,...

Hi to all,  Today day I am featuring my information on a female artist, born in 1915 a town called Cochiti Pueblo New Mexico. The artist is Helen Cordero and was born at a time when the rich pottery tradition was declining.  In the late 1950s, Helen and her cousin, an accomplished potter began their journey making pottery a nice change to from their bead and leather work. Helen never liked her bowls she was making so her cousin said why not try making figurines and so a never-ending story began. So began countless birds and animals and people came to life.  A traditional form was a female holding a child, she was known as the singing mother. When Helen started the female form, she was repeatedly seeing her grandfather Santiago Quintana, who constantly had his grandchildren on his knee telling stories. So her first form turned male with countless children all over him and he was called the storyteller. Almost immediately, the Story Teller brought Co...

Todays featured artist is Barbara Hepworth born in Wakefield on the 10th of January 1903. Barbara trained at the Leeds Scool Of Art from 1920-1921. On a scholarship, at The Royal College of Art1921-1924. Barbara also was runner-up to John Skeaping but went to Florence on a West Riding Travel Scholarship.  After visiting Rome and Siena with Skeaping, they were married in Florence on 13 May 1925 and moved to Rome, where both began carving stone. The married couple became very successful in sculptures made a name for themselves  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Barbara-Hepworth https://www.google.com.au/search?safe=active&rlz=1C1CHZL_enAU760AU760&biw=1360&bih=637&ei=9ximWvfqKZi4jAOoxZvYCQ&q=barbara+hepworth+works+of+art&oq=Barbara+Hepworth+wrks+of+art&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.35i39k1.5017.14017.0.16756.14.14.0.0.0.0.297.3488.2-14.14.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.14.3484...0j46j0i22i30k1j0i20i263k1j0i67k1j0i46k1j0i13k1j0i13i30k1j0i1...