PAINTERS

WHEN PAINTER CARRIES THE WHOLE PAINTING CULTURE IN HIS HEAD – Robert Motherwell

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HE BELIEVED TO PHILOSOPHY ART-AS-ART – Ad Reinhardt

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IF YOU ARE ONLY MOVED BY COLOR RELATIONSHIP, YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT – Mark Rothko

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WHEN PICTORIAL TECHNIQUE IS MOTIVE FOR STATEMENT – Jackson Pollock

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PAINTING ACTION AND COLOR FIELDS – American Abstract Expressionism

The Abstract Expressionism was born between 1940-1950. Some American artists become known for their new vision. The group includes artists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Motherwell and Norman Lewis. Jackson Pollock argued, that the painting has a life of its own, for that he reveals the life of the painting through actions (an energetic technique …

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ITALIAN PAINTER WITH CAREFUL EYE – Guercino and the effects of light and shade

GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI / GUERCINO 1/3 – Because he was cross-eyed, at the early age he acquired the nickname Guercino (Italian for “squinter”). He was Italian Baroque painter from the region of Emilia, active in Rome and Bologna. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fevhwZ9FFYU Considering a subject for a painting, he imagined the scene from every angle. Often he used close-up studies, to examine the …

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GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI / GUERCINO (1591/1666), ITALIAN PAINTER – Painting with fond appreciation for sacral and everyday life

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THE INFLUENCE OF IMPRESSIONISM UNDER THE SKY OF ICELAND

GUOMUNDUR THORSTEINSSON / MUGGUR 1/3 – His body was sent to Iceland, and now rests in the old cemetery by Suðurgata. In the summer of 1923, although his health was already deteriorated due to hard life, he made final trip abroad (to France and then Denmark), where he died in 1924, at the age of 32. In 1927, in the first major retrospective of …

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GUOMUNDUR THORSTEINSSON / MUGGUR (1891/1924), ICELANDIC PAINTER – From Iceland’s frigid shore

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MARIE CERMINOVÁ, ALIAS TOYEN (1902/1980), CZECH PAINTER – The natural urge to paint, without any ambition

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