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F.A.C.T.S. Schedule 2003-04
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Le berceau
(The Cradle)
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Berthe Morisot
(b. Jan. 14, 1841, Bourges, France--d. March 2, 1895, Paris)
Morisot is a French painter and printmaker. Born into a family of wealth and culture, Morisot received the conventional lessons in drawing and painting. She went firmly against convention, however, in choosing to take these pursuits seriously and make them her life's work. The first woman to join the circle of the French impressionist painters, she exhibited in all but one of their shows, and, despite the protests of friends and family, continued to participate in their struggle for recognition. Morisot and American artist Mary Cassatt are generally considered the most important women painters of the later 19th century.
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Portrait of the
Artist at his Easel
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Rembrandt
(b. July 15, 1606, Leiden, Netherlands--d. Oct. 4, 1669, Amsterdam)
Rembrandt, full name Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn, was a Dutch painter, draftsman, and etcher of the 17th century -- a giant in the history of art. His paintings are characterized by luxuriant brushwork, rich color, and a mastery of chiaroscuro. Numerous portraits and self-portraits exhibit a profound penetration of character. His drawings constitute a vivid record of contemporary Amsterdam life. The greatest artist of the Dutch school, he was a master of light and shadow whose paintings, drawings, and etchings made him a giant in the history of art.
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Water Lilies
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Claude Monet
(b. Nov. 14, 1840, Paris--d. Dec. 5, 1926, Giverny, France)
French painter, initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style. He is regarded as the archetypal Impressionist in that his devotion to the ideals of the movement was unwavering throughout his long career. He studied the work of Constable and Turner in London, painted the Thames and London parks, and met the art dealer Durand-Ruel, who was to become one of the great champions of the Impressionists. It is fitting that one of Monet's pictures -- Impression: Sunrise -- gave the group of Impressionist painters its name.
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The Great Wave
Off Kanagawa
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Hokusai
full name Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese painter and wood engraver, born in Edo (the modern-day Tokyo). He is considered one of the outstanding figures of the Ukiyo-e, or "pictures of the floating world" (everyday life), school of printmaking. Hokusai's prints, as well as those by other Japanese printmakers, were imported to Paris in the mid-19th century. They were enthusiastically collected, especially by such impressionist artists as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, whose work was profoundly influenced by them.
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Untitled
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February 2004
Keith Haring
(b. May 4, 1958, Reading, PA--d. February 16, 1990)
An American cartoonist and graffiti artist, Haring is remembered for his strong, provocative, often smile-inducing works. Educated at the New York School of Visual Arts, Haring began drawing his own graffiti on the streets. Like other graffiti artists, he invented his own tag or signature. Haring's pop art combined the simple with the complex, blending color and pattern to form dynamic images of great variety and originality. He also produced powerful images of social consciousness. Over the course of his career Haring called attention to causes by creating works to promote literacy, support UNICEF, work against apartheid in South Africa, and fight drug use.
Explore the art of Keith Haring and access a July CNN 1997 report on the Haring retrospective at the Whitney by clicking here.
(c) John Gruen on Haring's official website www.haring.com
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Watching The
Good Trains Go By
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Romare Bearden
(b. September 2, 1911, Charlotte, NC--d. March 12, 1988, New York)
An American artist of African American heritage, Romare Howard Bearden was educated at Boston University, New York University, the Art Students League and the Sorbonne in Paris. Joining the Harlem Artists Guild, he embarked on a lifelong study of art, gathering inspiration from such wide-ranging influences as cubism, the Italian Renaissance, social realism, and classical Chinese landscape painting. His success as an artist was recognized with his first solo exhibition in 1940. Bearden experimented with many different mediums and styles but found a unique form of expression in the art form of the collage.
Explore the art of Romare Bearden and listen to a September 2003 story on NPR by clicking here.
(c) Romare Bearden Foundation
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The Starry Night
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Vincent van Gogh
(b. March 30, 1853, Zundert, Netherlands--d. July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris)
Vincent van Gogh is generally considered the greatest Dutch painter and draughtsman after Rembrandt, with Cézanne and Gauguin the greatest of Post-Impressionist artists. He powerfully influenced the current of Expressionism in modern art. His work, all of it produced during a period of only 10 years, communicates themes of high complexity through the use of striking color, coarse brushwork, and contoured forms. Among his masterpieces are numerous self-portraits and the well-known The Starry Night (1889).
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Son of Man
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René Magritte
(b. November 21, 1898, Lessines, Hainaut, Belgium--d. August 15, 1967, Paris)
Magritte studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium, and had his first one-man exhibition there in 1927. Magritte's work is closely associated with Surrealism, a style that asserts the superiority of the unconscious and the role of dreams in artistic creation. Next to Magritte, the most important surrealists were the German artist Max Ernst, the Spaniards Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró, and the French artists Jean Arp and André Masson. A meticulous, skillful technician, Magritte is noted for the extraordinary juxtaposition of ordinary objects in his paintings. This juxtaposition is frequently termed magic realism, of which Magritte was the prime exponent.
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