FRUSTRATED ARTIST

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...

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...