FRUSTRATED ARTIST

Edvard Munch , ( born  December 12, 1863, Löten, Norway—died January 23, 1944, Ekely, near Oslo), Norwegian painter and printmaker.  Edvard Munch established a free-flowing, psychological-themed style all his own.  the second of five children. In 1864, Munch moved with his family to the city of Oslo, where his mother died four years later of tuberculosis. A series of familial tragedies in Munch's life: His sister, Sophie, also died of tuberculosis, in 1877 at the age of 15; another of his sisters spent most of her life institutionalized for mental illness; and his only brother died of pneumonia at age 30.  Three years of study and practice later, Munch received a scholarship and traveled to Paris, France, where he spent three weeks. H e began working on new paintings, one of which was "The Sick Child," which he would finish in 1886. In what would be seen as the first work to represent Munch’s break from the realist style. Want to know more go to this web page https://

Robert Freeman ( photographer ) Robert Freeman (5 December 1936 – 6 or 7 November 2019) was an English  photographer,  and graphics designer, best known for his work with The  Beatles. Shooting some of the band's most recognizable images featured on several of their album covers.  From 1963 to 1966, he worked extensively with the group and did the photography and design on five of their album sleeves released.    Freeman designed the end credit sequences for their first two films and some of the graphics and photography displayed on the films' posters and promotional materials. Freeman first came to prominence as a photojournalist working for the British newspaper  The Sunday Times , for which he photographed a variety of subjects.  He had also become noted for his black-and-white photographs of several jazz musicians including  John Coltrane .  It was these photographs which impressed the Beatles' manager  Brian Epstein  and the Beatles themselves and led to his first

Georgia O'Keeffe was born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in 1887. O'Keeffe was  encourage to study art from her mother and took watercolor lessons from a local artist, Sara Mann. O'Keeffe attended  School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1905 to 1906 where she studied with John Vanderpoel.  In the fall of 1907, O'Keeffe moved to New York City O'Keeffe moved in 1907 and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying under the artist-teacher William Merritt Chase.  She won a prize for one of her still lifes, which allowed her to attend the League's summer school in Lake George, New York.  While in NYC, she frequented exhibitions at Gallery 291, which was owned by photographer Alfred Stieglitz.   For the first time O'Keeffe was exposed to popular European artists, such as  Auguste Rodin  and  Henri Matisse . She abandoned the pursuit of art as a career in 1908 for four years, taking a job in Chicago as a commercial artist.  She began focusing on her art a