Andrew Clemons: A Great Artist

Throughout history the unique and changeable Australian landscape has inspired a diverse array of artistic responses. Impressios of its power and beauty, expressions of individuals' responses, symbolic religious orientation, the range of landscape art works extends onwards. A great example of the vast variations of styles can be seen in the artworks of Glover, Drysdale, Berkowitz and Reid.

Hamilton’s sculpture stands as a representation of the Civil War’s many brave and courageous United States colored troops also known as the (USTC) One side of Ed Hamilton’s sculpture has the title “The spirit of freedom,” On the other side there is a text that says “Civil War to Civil rights and beyond.” The memorial honors more than 200,000 who severed In the Union army and navy during the Civil War. The 209,145 names inscribed on the walls the surround the sculpture honors the fighters of freedom. On the highest wall in the memorial there is an 1863 quote by Fredrick Douglas: "Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even die free than to live slaves.” The United States began the organization (USTC) in 1863, the enlistment

Jeff Koons is an American sculptor, painter, and multimedia artist. He attended Maryland Institute College of Art located in Baltimore. He worked as a Wall Street commodities broker before he became an artist. Jeff Koons was born January 21, 1955 in York, Pennsylvania to parents Henry and Gloria Koons. His mother worked as a seamstress and his father was a furniture dealer and interior decorator.

T.C. Steele was a famous painter from Owen County his parents were Samuel and Harriet Steele. His father was a saddle maker and his mom stayed at home. He was best known for his landscape paintings. Steele attended a college prep school called the Waveland Collegiate Institute. There he was given a box of paints and began to develop his talent as an artist. At the age of 13, Steele was giving his fellow students lessons in drawing. Later Steele moved to Indianapolis. In 1870, Steele married Mary Elizabeth Lakin. For the first years of their marriage they lived happily in Battle Creek, Mich. Steele and Mary returned to Indianapolis in 1873. Here T.C. painted portraits for a wealthy Indianapolis resident. These people supported

On September 28th, I attend the “Artful Conversation: ‘Bridge and Tugs’” event at the Georgia Museum of Art. At the event, the curator, Carissa DiCindio facilitated an in-depth conversation about Jonas Lee’s painting, “Bridge and Tugs.” We began by looking at the painting and discussing what we saw with the others and then after a while we were instructed to find a new seat. After finding a new seat we received a pencil and a small sheet of paper and Ms. DiCindio asked us to sketch the painting to the best of our abilities. Afterwards, she asked us again what we noticed about the painting. Many people noted they had noticed new details within the painting while sketching, and others stated that simply changing their position in the room had

Born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1948 and eventually moving to New York City in 1957, Art Spiegelman made a name for himself at a young age drawing cartoons at his school. By the time he started high school, he was making money with his comics and selling his art to the local paper. He attended Harpur College for four years, where he studied art and worked as a cartoonist for the school paper. In 1971, he moved to San Francisco where he began his career as a creator of underground commix that included The Compleat Mr. Infinity and The Viper Vicar of Vice, Villainy and Vickedness. In 1986, he released the book about his father’s memory of the Holocaust, entitled Maus: A Survivor’s

Andrew had quite a vivid memory and a fantastic imagination that led to a great fascination for art. His father recognized an obvious raw talent that had to be nurtured. While his father was teaching him the basics of traditional academic drawing Andrew began painting watercolor studies of the rocky coast and the sea in Port Clyde Maine.

Art is something you can observe no matter where you are from, each piece of art withholds the thoughts of the painter and viewer that portrays a message. Thomas Cole a revolutionary painter started a new evolution of art that still inspires people to this day. Thomas Cole was born in the year 1801 in Lancashire, England, however when he turned seventeen Thomas’s family emigrated to the United States where he started his art legacy. Thomas first worked in Philadelphia as a wood engraver before moving to Steubenville, Ohio where his father kick started his wallpaper manufacturing business. Unhappy working in the wallpaper business Thomas seeked something more suitable, on the side he was learning the basics of a few paintings genres ranging

Chuck Close is a famous visual artist known for his ability to overcome challenges as well as his inventive artistic style. He is mainly recognized for his large scale, photo realistic portrait paintings. Close has been very successful with other methods such as printmaking, watercolor, finger painting, paper collage and pastels. He has degrees from extremely respected colleges despite his lack of educational interest in earlier life. Over the year Close has experienced tragic, life changing, health issues but has persevered and learned to overcome those challenges to continue to pursue his passion for the arts.

John Rankin Waddell, better known under his working title Rankin, is one of the world’s leading portrait and fashion photographers. His subjects have included Kylie Minogue, Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth II. With a vastly expansive portfolio career filled with portraits, advertising campaign and fashion photography, the growing reputation of Rankin as a photographer seems unstoppable. He currently lives in King's Cross, central London, with his ten-year-old son Lyle (Biography 2005).

Kent Monkman is a well-known Canadian artist from a Cree and Irish descent. Growing up Kent was not connected with his aborigional roots, whoch left him eith many questions about where did he come from, what his aborgional hisoty and culture entailed. The curiousity of wanting to know more sent kent out on a spirtuial journey to connect with his Cree roots. Through his journey Kent connect with art and felt he could voice his thoughts and feelings though his various forms of art.

David Milne was a painter, printmaker, and writer, who captured the essence of Canadian art. Milne showed a pure aesthetic approach to his work that was dependant of his specific formula. Essentially Milne sought to reduce a painting to the basic form. David Milne was born on January 8, 1882, in a southern Ontario village named Burgoyne. David was the last of ten children to his Scottish immigrant parents. David Milne was born to be an artist, he began drawing even before starting kindergarten, and ironically enough the only subject he had ever failed in elementary school was drawing. Although Milne spent most of his artists’ career in the United States and received much adulation in New York, in Canada he was well known as a Canadian nationalist and monarchist. In his practices David used predominately oil paint, water color and drypoint printmaking. Milne’s work was similar in context and location compared to the Group of Seven, he primarily choose landscape as an image of interest. Unlike the Group of Seven, David approached his paintings with a more modern feel and developed his own particular style that was beautiful and simple. His landscapes and still images portrayed a sense of touch and feel. While the subject of Milne’s choice was from the visible world, streets, people and landscapes he portrayed a modernist style that he had learned in New York. Milne formally believed that the elements such as line, color, shape, and composition were predominating in any piece

Court administration is very important in local, state and federal court systems because it pertains to the daily management and administration of the courts. The American court system has become complexed throughout several decades, and traditional methods of managing, organizing, and leadership are not accommodating the increased demands of today’s court daily operations.

Relationships between characters are essential to all types of literature, because they further the larger purpose for the piece of literature. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of wonderfully written, world renowned twenty-four stories that runs to over seventeen thousand lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and then three short years later in 1389, Chaucer became the Clerk of the King's work. It was during these early years that Chaucer began working on his most famous text, The Canterbury Tales. The tales are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from London to Canterbury in order to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

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