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2014.
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"This is the untold story of a group of artists whose interest in fostering art in their community made an authentic contribution to the history of art in America. Taking for their subjects the local people, flora, and landscapes, they developed a distinctive impressionistic style, uninfluenced by other art movements in Indiana. Richmond, Indiana, become an important center for art in the Midwest, a place that nourished and inspired the artists whose...
8) Pollock
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2011
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Born in 1912, in a small town in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock embodied the American dream as the country found itself confronted with the realities of a modern era replacing the fading nineteenth century. Pollock left home in search of fame and fortune in New York City. Thanks to the Federal Art Project he quickly won acclaim, and after the Second World War became the biggest art celebrity in America. For De Kooning, Pollock was the "icebreaker." For...
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2011
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Edward Hopper exprime avec poésie la solitude de l'homme face à cet american way of life qui se développe dans les années 1920. S'inspirant du cinéma par les prises de vue ou les attitudes des personnages, ses peintures reflètent et dénoncent l'aliénation de la culture de masse. Avec ses toiles aux couleurs froides, peuplées de personnages anonymes, l'œuvre d'Hopper symbolise aussi le reflet de la Grande Dépression. A travers des reproductions...
11) Jasper Johns
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À l'époque où l'expressionnisme abstrait, mode de peinture alors dominant, mettait l'accent sur l'expression dramatique à travers des coups de pinceaux audacieux et de larges compositions abstraites, les peintures du drapeau américain, des cibles, des nombres ou de l'alphabet réalisées par Jasper Johns apparurent comme une rupture radicale. Froids, silencieux et impassibles, ses sujets, soigneusement établis, étaient en effet bien loin des...
13) Whistler
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2011
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Whistler suddenly shot to fame like a meteor at a crucial moment in the history of art, a field in which he was a pioneer. Like the impressionists, with whom he sided, he wanted to impose his own ideas. Whistler's work can be divided into four periods. The first may be called a period of research in which he was influenced by the Realism of Gustave Courbet and by Japanese art. Whistler then discovered his own originality in the Nocturnes and the Cremorne...
14) Jasper Johns
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At a time when the dominant mode of painting, Abstract Expressionism, emphasized expressive drama through bold brushwork and largely abstract compositions, Johns' paintings of the American flag, targets, numbers and the alphabet demonstrated a decided departure from convention. Despite being painted with obvious care, they seemed emotionally reticent, cool and quiet, far from the emotional fireworks then fashionable. "It all began… with my painting...
15) Pollock
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Jackson Pollock
(Cody, Wyoming, 1912 – New York, 1956) Pollock fut le représentant le plus important et le plus influent de l'expressionnisme abstrait. Il avait étudié auprès du régionaliste Thomas Hart Benton, et était également marié au peintre abstrait Lee Krasner (étudiante de Hans Hofmann). Il comptait parmi ses collègues Aschile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, et d'autres issus de l'école dite de New York....
16) O'Keeffe
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2011
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In 1905 Georgia travelled to Chicago to study painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907 she enrolled at the Art Students' League in New York City, where she studied with William Merritt Chase. During her time in New York she became familiar with the 291 Gallery owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. In 1912, she and her sisters studied at university with Alon Bement, who employed a somewhat revolutionary method in art...
17) Edward Hopper
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In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted to the American way of life as it developed in the 1920's. Inspired by the movies and particularly by the various camera angles and attitudes of characters, his paintings expose the alienation of mass culture. Created using cold colors and inhabited by anonymous characters, Hopper's paintings also symbolically reflect the Great Depression. Through a series of different reproductions...
18) Kahlo
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2011
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Behind Frida Kahlo's portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida's work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside the picture frame. Frida Kahlo truly is Mexico's gift to the history of art. She was just eighteen years old when a terrible bus accident changed her life forever, leaving her handicapped and burdened with...
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L'ambitieux projet d'Audubon de peindre tous les oiseaux d'Amérique du Nord résulta en un travail si important qu'il fut une des grandes étapes de l'ornithologie. Il n'identifia pas seulement des nouvelles espèces, mais il dépeignit aussi les oiseaux dans leur habitat naturel, ainsi que dans des poses dynamiques. Son impressionnante collection va du flamant rose à l'aigle à tête blanche, en passant par la conure de Caroline. Audubon décrit...
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