FRUSTRATED ARTIST

We are looking at Emonia Lewis born in 1844 in Greenbush, New York. Lewis had her first success with a bust she sculpture of  Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.  The money she got by selling copies of the bust was her fair on a ship that sailed to Rome Italy.   Q uickly Lewis achieved success as a sculptor.  The daughter of a black father and part-Ojibwa mother, she was orphaned at an early age but later was taken in by relatives.  With the support and encouragement of a successful older brother  in Boston.  Lewis befriended abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and sculptor Edward A. Brackett. It was Brackett who taught Lewis sculpture and helped propel her to set up her own studio.   In Italy.  Lewis continued to work as an artist. Her work over the next several decades moved between African-American themes to subjects influenced by her devout Catholicism. One of her most prized works was "Forever Free" (1867), a sculpture depic...

Today we are researching a little about a female Photographer Named, Julia Margaret, Born 1815 died 1879. Julia has a remarkable legacy she would have to be one of the most import artists in Photography in the 19th Century. Her powerful Portraits are a tribute to her craft, Julia would pose her subjects into historic and biblical, using family friends whoever she could convince. Julia was criticised for her unconventional procedure but was honored for the beauty of her composition and her conviction that photography was an art form Julia Margaret Pattle was born in Calcutta, her father was an East India Company official and her mother descended from French aristocracy. Educated mainly in France, she returned to India in 1834.  In 1836, while convalescing from an illness in the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, she met the British astronomer Sir John Herschel (1792 – 1871), who was surveying the skies of the southern hemisphere.  In ...

Marie-Denise Villers   1774 – 19 August 1821  was a French p ainter  who specialized in Portraits.  Marie-Denise Lemoine was born in Paris to Charles Lemoine and Marie-Anne Rouselle. Two of her three sisters,  Marie-Victoire Lemoine  (1754–1820) and  Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou  (1755–1812), as well as distant cousin  Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet  (1767–1832), were all trained as portraitists. Little is known about Marie-Denise's childhood, however, it is likely that through her much older sisters and cousin she would have been introduced to the  salons  of Paris. It was In the Paris Salon of 1799 that she met the artist  Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson , and also began to take painting lessons with  François Gérard   and  Jacques-Louis David .   In 1794, she married an architecture student, Michel-Jean-Maximilien Villers. Her husband supported her art, during a time when many women were forced to give up professi...

Barberis was born in Chiswick, England,  in 1953 and moved to Australia in 1956. She grew up in rural Victoria and began studying ballet at the age of three, but had to give it up at the age of 19 after a bad injury. Barberis completed a Post Grad at Vic College of the Arts. After receiving the  1979 Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Fellowship from the VCA. Barberis lived and worked in Paris for three years, came back to Australia in 1982. Barberis married Australian sculptor Adrian Page in 1984 and in 1988 had their one child Rebekah Georgia Page. She completed an MFA at the Victorian College of the Arts i n 1994 and a Ph.D. on "Abstract and Figurative Elements of the Apocalypse and its Representations" in 2000.  She is a  senior lecturer at the RMIT University School of Arts and lectures in painting in the offshore School of Art program in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Art School. She is the Founder and Director...

This piece I copied from Wiki Pedia the address is at the bottom Anna Waser was born in 1678, the fifth child of a wealthy and respected family in  Zurich . "Wasser" featured with engraved portrait in part IV of the 4 part series by Jean-Baptiste Descamps, "La vie des peintres flamands, allemands et hollandois", 1764 According to  Jean-Baptiste Descamps , she was born in Zurich in 1679 and became a pupil of  Joseph Werner . According to the RKD she was born a year earlier and was an engraver and miniature painter. [1] Her parents were Esther Müller and the bailiff Johann Rudolf Waser, an educated man who promoted the talent of his daughter. He had her trained as a painter, despite all social conventions. When she could not learn anything on her first teacher Johannes Sulzer, she went at fourteen to  Bern  to study with  Joseph Werner , one of the leading Swiss painter. Four years she remained as the only girl among his male students, i...

To continue on I thought I would look up the tapestries in the era of my search for women artist and there was a mention of the tapestries that were made in this time. Where did the idea to create the  Bayeux Tapestry come from? The idea of creating the Bayeux tapestry as a monument to the Norman victory and William the Conqueror was possibly rooted in an English tradition. The Battle of Maldon in 991 had been depicted on a similar piece which was presented to Ely Cathedral. This tapestry showed the last stand of Byrhtnoth, Earl of Essex (c. 930-91), against the Vikings and was commissioned by his widow, Aethelflaed. Byrhtnoth was buried at Ely Cathedral. Why is it called the Bayeux Tapestry? It was likely to have been commissioned by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, the half-brother of William, in honor of his great victory at the Battle of Hastings. The length of the tapestry fits well around the nave of Bayeux Cathedral, suggesting that it was custom built for the church, which also fi...

Today I thought I would see how far back  I could go to find a female artist. I found some from the 12th century. Most women artist did Tapestry in this era and artist/painters were found in Nunneries or within the church. The one I have found info on is a lady called Herrad of Landsberg also Herrad of Hohenburg (c. 1130-July 25, 1195), was the 12th-century Alsatian nun and abbess  of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains of France. She is known as the a uthor  and a rtist  of the pictorial encyclopedia  Hortus Deliciarum   (The Garden of Delights) , a remarkable encyclopedic text used by abbesses, nuns, and  laywomen  alike. It brought together both past scholarship and contemporary thought that rivaled the texts used by male monasteries. Many of her ideas have been found to have a modern appreciation.  Herrad was a contemporary of several other remarkable women, including   Hildegard of Bingen  (1098-1179),...

Afshin Pirhashemi Born in 1974 in Urmia, Afshin Pirhashemi now lives and works in Tehran. I find Afshin's work absolutely striking, his artwork talks to you, it refreshing and different. Pirhashemi studied at the Rome Art Academy and finished his art education at Iran’s Azad University. his artworks are kept in public and some private art collectors through the Middle East and Europe. Pirhashemi and he have received awards from the 2003 Tehran 6th International Art Biennial, and the 2004 Beijing Art Biennial Award.  Solo exhibitions include Ayyam Gallery DIFC, Dubai (2017); Ayyam Gallery, London (2014); Ayyam Gallery, Dubai (2015, 2013); Homa art Gallery, Tehran (2009); Seyhoun Art Gallery, Tehran (2005); and Barg Gallery, Tehran (2005). Group exhibitions include In & Out, Milan (2009); Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran (2006); Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran (2004, 2003).  Afshin Pirhashemi examines the complexities of life in modern-day Ir...

Lewitska Sopfia (Sonia) B orn 9 March 1880  Polish-French died in 1937. Sonia was a French impressionist painter, printmaker, illustrator. Sonia moved to Paris to learn the art of painting in 1905. She settles in Paris and continues with her studies at a Jean Marchand, who later became her husband. Beginning as a Cubist  and Fauvist , she moved into a  Post-Impressionist  style and became known for her illustrations of limited edition books. She exhibited at the Salon d' Automne 1910, 1913, 1919, 1925, 1927–1934), the Salon des Independence 1910, 1914, 1920–1922), the section d' Or, The Salon des Tuileries 1929, 1932, 1934. The Paris Galleries and at the International Exhibitions. In 1933 she took part in Salon de Echanges. At the same time in accompany with her friends. Henriette Tirman, she helps Andre Fau and Francis Thieck in room decoration suggesting services of painters from her closest circle.  https://en.wikipedia.or...