FRUSTRATED ARTIST

Todays post is about an Australian artist Margaret Olley who just passed away not long ago. Margaret Olley  24 June 1923 – 26 July 2011.  Margaret Olley was born in  Lismore, New South Wales . She was the eldest of three children of Joseph Olley and Grace (née Temperley). She attended  Somerville House  in  Brisbane  during her high school years and was so focused on art that she dropped one French class in order to take another art lesson. In 1941, Margaret commenced classes at Brisbane Central Technical College and then moved to Sydney in 1943 to enroll in an Art Diploma course at East Sydney Technical College where she graduated with A-class honours in 1945.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Olley IF Margaret Olley was not Australia's greatest artist she was certainly the most loved. Her close friendships were legion and ranged from her cleaning woman to the highest in the land. In addition, she was an artist of the people and...

Séraphine Louis , known as  Séraphine de Senlis  ( Séraphine of  Senlis ) (1864–1942), was a  French painter  in the  naïve style . Self-taught, she was inspired by her religious faith and by stained-glass church windows and other religious art. The intensity of her images, both in colour and in replicative designs, are sometimes interpreted as a reflection of her own psyche, walking a tightrope between ecstasy and mental illness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9raphine_Louis Films about “mad women artists” seem to be proliferating in France recently.  Séraphine  tells the story of Séraphine Louis (1864-1942?), played superbly by Yolande Moreau, a poor and simple  domestique  who began painting in middle age. Séraphine’s is a profoundly private, solitary world, and some visiting local nuns hint that she previously had problems with her mental health. Séraphine has no family, we learn, and her only daily conversations involve rot...

Todays female Australian Artist is Mirka Madeline Mora  (born 18 March 1928) is a prominent  French -born  Australian   visual artist  who has contributed significantly to the development of  contemporary art  in Australia. Her mediums include  painting ,  sculpture  and  mosaics .  . Her artworks take my eye they are childlike but interesting especially the dolls she made. Please have a read there are many Australian Female artist that we dont know existed  Mora was born in  Paris , to a  Lithuanian  Jewish father, Leon Zelik, and a  Romanian  Jewish mother, Celia 'Suzanne' Gelbein. [1]  She was arrested in 1942 during the  Vel' d'Hiv Roundup  ( Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv ). Her father, Leon, managed to arrange for her release from the concentration camp at  Pithiviers  ( Loiret ) before Mora and her mother, Celia, were scheduled to be deported to  Auschwitz . The f...

Today's  artist is Margaret Rose Preston (1875-1963),  was born on 29 April 1875 at Port Adelaide, eldest daughter of David McPherson, marine engineer, and  wife Prudence Cleverdon (d.1903), née Lyle.  By 1885 the family was living in Sydney where Rose about 1888 began training with  Lister Lister . In Melbourne in 1893 she enrolled at the National Gallery's school of design under  Frederick McCubbin . Her father was admitted in February 1894 to Parkside Lunatic Asylum, Adelaide, where he died next year. In June 1894 she joined her sister and mother in Adelaide. She exhibited with the (Royal) South Australian Society of Arts (and continued to do so annually when in Adelaide). Returning to Melbourne in July 1896, she enrolled at the National Gallery's school of painting under  Bernard Hall  and with a painting, 'Still Life', won a year's free tuition Inheriting her mother's money in 1903, she moved to a new studio where one of her students w...

Female artist I try to support and most of the time I do. Today we are looking at Marie Laurencin was born in Paris, where she was raised by her mother and lived much of her life. At 18, she studied   porcelain painting   in   Sèvres . She then returned to Paris and continued her art education at the Académie Humbert, where she changed her focus to   oil painting . Marie Laurencin, 1909,  Réunion à la campagne  ( Apollinaire et ses amis ), oil on canvas, 130 x 194 cm,  Musée Picasso , Paris. Reproduced in  The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations  (1913) During the early years of the 20th century, Laurencin was an important figure in the Parisian  avant-garde . A member of both the circle of  Pablo Picasso , and Cubists associated with the  Section d'Or , such as  Jean Metzinger ,  Albert Gleizes ,  Robert Delaunay ,  Henri le Fauconnier  and  Francis Picabia , exhibiting with the...

To days person of interest is Kara Walker Artist born in November 26 1969. Kara is a African American  contemporary artist and painter who explores  race ,  gender ,  sexuality , violence and  identity  in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper  silhouettes . Walker lives in  New York City  and has taught extensively at  Columbia University .  Walker's silhouette images work to bridge unfinished folklore in the  Antebellum South , raising identity and gender issues for  African American women  in particular. However, because of her confrontational approach to the topic, Walker's artwork is reminiscent of  Andy Warhol 's  Pop Art  during the 1960s (indeed, Walker says she adored Warhol growing up as a child). [4]  Her nightmarish yet fantastical images incorporate a cinematic feel. Walker uses images from historical textbooks to show how African American slaves we...

We have had a couple of days off blogging as I had to sort out my knees they both need surgery bummer. Lets get on with it todays Artist is Mona Hatoum born in Beirut Lebanon in 1952 Studied graphic design at Beirut University 1970 to 72. Her parents were not in agreeance of Mona pursuing art as a career. Mona has lived and worked in London since 1975. http://www.alexanderandbonin.com/artist/mona-hatoum/biography I think her work is fantastic she really thinks outside of the box. Example, an installation 'Drowning Your Sorrows' where Mona cut bottles and placed them on the ground and they looked like drowning bottles. These are just a small handfull of all the works that Mona has produced. Have a look, there is not much info about her but the work is amazing.