FRUSTRATED ARTIST

Artist featured today is Sonia Delaunay was Ukraine-born French artist on the 14th of November died December 5th, 1979. Worked in Paris most of her life with her husband Robert Delaunay. The Orphism art movement was Co-founded by Sonia and other members noted for its use of strong colors and geometric shapes. Sonia's expert field traveled int various mediums example, painting, textiles, and stage sets. Hats off to Sonia Delaunay she was the first female artist to have an analytical exhibition at the Louvre in 1964, again in 1975. Her work in modern design included the concepts of geometric abstraction, the integration of furniture, fabrics, wall coverings, and clothing. Her work alongside other artists is one of my favorites.   This is my absolute favorite pieces that she has done so colorful and abstract, wonderful This is one of Robert Delaunay paintings a different style to his wives art. This is what I love about art, everyone ...

Today we are looking at one of my favourite artists from my favourite era. I am talking about the roaring 20's where the music was fantastic the clothes to die for and the art. T he Jazz Age,  flappers,   We had cubism art deco pieces of furniture and the way they advertised example Bauhs and prohibition. So lets get to the chase the painter is Tamara de Lempicka, s he was born Maria Gorska of well-to-do parents in turn-of- the-century Poland. After her mother and father divorced, her wealthy grandmother spoiled her with clothes and travel.   By age 14 she was attending school in Lausanne, Switzerland.  Tamara vacationed in St. Petersburg with her Aunt Stephanie, whose millionaire banker husband had their home decorated by the famous French firm Maison Jansen.  All this high living gave the young girl an idea of how she wanted to live and what her future should be.  She fell in love with the most handsome bachelor in Warsaw, a lawyer named Taduesz Lempic...

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...