FRUSTRATED ARTIST

Today's Famous artist is Johannes Vermeer, Born in Delft, Netherlands on the 30th October 1632, Died 15th  December 1675 His father was an art dealer and silk weaver who also kept a tavern, and Vermeer probably took over the business after his father's death in 1655. It is thought that his father  was an early influence on the young child.  Vermeer's only mythological subject, is also suggestive of Italy. It is his only painting of figures in a landscape setting.       Diana and Her Companions. He painted the  Girl Asleep at a Table,  in which he used the warm range of color  T he Soldier and Laughing Girl  marked the shift between Vermeer's early and mature works in that pointillé (gleaming highlights of thick layers of paint, which brightens the surface) appeared for the first time.  " The Concert"   about 1662   the  Woman with a Water Jug    Allegory of the Catholic Fai...

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 institu...