MAC BECKMANN 1/4 – He was born in Leipzig on a February day. Against strong opposition from his family, he pursues a career as an artist. He is accepted into the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School. The en plein air painting (which is taught there), makes the academy one of Gemany’s most progressive art schools. He goes to Paris to …
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FRANK WESTON BENSON (1862/1951), AMERICAN PAINTER – The impressionist painter of portraits, watercolors and etchings of wild birds
REPRESENTING CHARACTERS, WITH BRUSHES AND COLORS – Anders Zorn, the painter who captured the personality of his models
ANDERS ZORN 1/4 – He was one of Sweden’s foremost artists. His fame abroad is founded mostly on his portraiture, where he had the ability to capture the personality of the depicted person. In Sweden his nude studies are very famous (as his genre pictures, which mostly depict people at work). As a young boy, he had shown an artistic …
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EXTRAORDINARY TALENTS FROM THE EVER SHIFTING SOCIETY – Chinese contemporary painters
China is home to an explosive contemporary art scene. After 1978, the People’s Republic of China has gone through a liberalization of culture, which led to numerous forms of avant-garde and museum-based art. The recent period of rapid Westernization (but also the rise to global power), have shaped every aspect of Chinese life. Eastern and Western styles. As you can …
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