FRUSTRATED ARTIST

Rebecca Spencer-Don't know much of this girl, I  fell upon her accidentally. Bec is from the  Northern Beaches, Sydney , Australia,  who has loved creating since since a child. Her major art resembles influences of old Italian and  Dutch masters, Victorian art.  Still life works, portraits, Bec loves experimenting 

This Artist is one my favorites and you will know him-  Paul  Jackson Pollock  was  born  on January 28, 1912 in Cody, Wyoming,  died  August  11, 1956, East Hampton, New York . H is mother, Stella May McClure, was a fierce woman with artistic ambitions.  His father, LeRoy  Pollock , was a farmer and a government land surveyor.  In 1928 they moved to  Los Angeles , where Pollock enrolled at Manual Arts High School. There he was influence of  Frederick John de St. Vrain Schwankovsky, a painter and illustrator.   Schwankovsky gave Pollock some  rudimentary  training in  drawing  and painting, introduced him to advanced currents of European modern art,  In the fall of 1930 Pollock followed his brother Charles, who left home to study art in 1922, to  New York City , where he enrolled at the  Art Students League he suffered a nervous breakdown in 1938, which caused him to be institutionalized for about four months. After these experiences, his work became semi abstract and showed the

To days photographer is - Weegee  (Usher Fellig) was  born  on June 12, 1899 in Złoczów, near the town of Lemberg, Austria. ... This is also where he got his now iconic nickname “ Weegee ”. After leaving Acme he worked as a freelance  photographer  for a decade. Weegee specialized in crime and catastrophe very few policeman have seen so much violence as Arther Fellig known as Weegee.  Weegee’s work is regarded as some of the most powerful images of the 20th century. His profound influence on other photographers derives not only from his sensational subject matter and his use of the blinding, close-up flash, but also from his eagerness to photograph the city at all hours, at all levels. Coffee shops at three in the morning, hot summer evenings in the tenements, debutante balls, parties in the street, lovers on park benches, the destitute and the lonely.   http://www.stevenkasher.com/artists/weegee?view=slider#8 No other photographer has better revealed the non-stop spectacle of life