FRUSTRATED ARTIST

Hello Bloggers, today we will be discovering Georgia O'Keeffe an American painter of Flowers, Animal skulls, Skyscrapers, and southeastern Landscapes.  Georgia was a 20th-century American painter and pioneer of American Modernism. Georgia was born on the 15th of November 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Georgia studied her art at the Institute of Chicago. Alfred Stieglitz gave O'Keeffe her first gallery show in 1916 and then the couple married in 1924. After O'Keeffe's husband died she moved to New Mexico and was inspired by the Landscapes. O'Keeffe died on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98. https://www.biography.com/people/georgia-okeeffe-9427684

Hi everyone, it has been a while since I introduced a female artist. As you know I always try to support female artist mainly because in early times they were not supported it was a man's domain. I  have been painting, I have completed one for my bedroom and I am very happy with it. Just starting another one now not sure which way this is going yet. Anyhow back to business, The female artist today is Dorrit Black, 23/12/1891 - 13/09/1951. Dorrit was born in Burnside Adelaide South Australia. Dorrit's father was Alfred Barham Black and her mum was Jesse Howard Clark and amateur artist, Jesse's father was John Howard Clark. John Clark was the editor of the South Australian Register.  She attended the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts in about 1909, working in watercolours, and then attended Jullian Ashton's  Sydney Art School in 1915, concentrating on working in oils. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorrit_Black Dorrit Black Born Doroth...

Today I am going to represent American black women simply because one she is a woman and secondly she is a black woman. Who in the past would not have been supported or represented simply because she is a woman and because she is black?  So I want to showcase some of her works and some of her history, this artist is  Edmonia Lewis. Lewis's father was an African Haitian was born in Ohio but the date is in doubt. She may have been born on July 14th of July 4th in 1843 or 45. Lewis lived with her mother in her earlier life and her mum's people the Mississauga band of Ojibway (Chippewa Indians).  She was known as a wildfire, her brother was known as sunrise. When Lewis was about 10,  Lewis and her brother were orphaned, two Aunty's took then on, so from then on they lived near Niagra Falls in northern New York state. Her brother sunrise had some wealth from the gold rush an th...

Today I found an interesting artist her name is Debora Remington I hadn't noticed her before. Born in Hassonfield New Jersey 1930 The year my mum was born, Deborah was drawn to art at a very early age. At the Philadelphia Museum School of industrial arts is where Deborah attended to start her career, as a teenager. Deborah received a BFF in 1955 from San Francisco Art Institute where she studied painting with Clyfford Still.  She was one of six painters and poets, and the only woman, who in 1954 founded the now legendary Six Gallery in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read his poem, ”Howl” in public on October 7, 1955.  A descendant of the Western artist Frederic Remington, she embraced illusionistic painting, albeit with her own distinctive version of abstraction.   She was one of six painters and poets, and the only woman, who in 1954 founded the now legendary Six Gallery in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read his poem, ”...

Today while on my computer I thought I look up to see who was the first female artist and I was very surprised I even got any info. The first woman artist was Artemisia Gentileschi who was born on the 8th July 1593. Artemisia was classed as the greatest female Painter of the Baroque period. She develop her painting skills with the help of her father Orazio, Who was known as a accomplished painter himself. Orazio was influenced by Caravaggio, they had a short friendship. Artemisia lost her mother when she was 12 years old and another tragedy hit her 5 years later was she was raped by a colleague of her father, He was  Agostino Tassi who refused to marry her , her father decided to bring a legal case and take him to court. It took several months to finalise it . Tassi was ordered to leave rome, but the order was never enforced. Artemisia married a painter from Florence his name was Pietro Antonio di Vincenzo Stiattesi. Artemisia and her new husband moved to florence and together ...

Hi everyone I am siting on my computer and thought I haven't chosen an artist for a long time so here I am to share.  Today's artist is Leonora Carrington  Born: April 6, 1917 - Clayton Green, Lancashire, England Died: May 25, 2011 - Mexico City, Mexico . Carrington was a key figure in Surrealist painting and as a female artist of major individuality. Carrington had a romance with an older and one of my favorite artist Max Ernst. Her dream like art, often highly detailed work of fantasy creatures in a different world to ours and are based on very personal symbols but did not want to go into. https://www.theartstory.org/artist-carrington-leonora.htm  

I have been very busy with my photography and so have not been blogging. Today we are talking about Maggi Hambling apparently a controversial artist, that divides opinions, ignores critics, work very hard, and swears, who doesn't today.   Born 23 October 1945, Sudbury Suffolk.  She had two siblings, a sister, Ann, who was 11 years older, and a brother, Roger, nine years older.  Her brother had wanted a brother but ignored the fact that his younger sibling is female. He taught her carpentry, and how to wring a chicken's neck, wonderful.  Hambling had a relationship with her mother who taught ballroom dancing and took Hambling along to be her partner.   From her father that she inherited the painting and artistic skills. She was not as close to her father as she was to her mother but when her father retired at the age of 60, Hambling gave him some oil paints and discovered that he had a knack for painting. Hambling first stud...