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SunSpotting

Sun Spotting Niki de Saint Phalle is best known for her oversized figures that embrace contradictory qualities such as good and evil, modern and primitive, sacred and profane, play and terror.

Women Artists

E. Charlton Fortune: Artist Extraordinaire

Effie Fortune was obviously driven by a desire to create in spite of her parents discouraging. She returned to San Francisco in 1905 to join her mother and brother and enrolled in the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, where she studied under Arthur Mathews

America

Contemporary Carmel Creators

Contemporary

Erin Hanson: Modern Impressionist

Erin Hanson’s artistic style has been inspired by painters such as van Gogh, the Group of Seven, the early California Impressionists and Japanese Art. She is the creator of the modern style "Open Impressionism". Image: Enchanted Forest - (erinhanson.com)

Expressionism

Byron Randall

Byron Randall (1918-1999) had four partners over his life (being married to three of them) and lead a very interesting existence which had considerable influence on his works. His art expressed strongly the environment in which he lived. Image: en.wikipedia.org

Patterns

Patterns in Paintings

This post is especially directed at those of you who are learning to paint though hopefully everyone will gain something from the content. Contains paintings by naive artist Antonio Ligabue, Emmy Lou Packard and Anne Newman.

Naive and Folk Art

Morris Hirshfield

Morris Hirshfield, born Poland in 1872 migrated to New York America when he was 18 years old. Finding work making women’s coats eventually lead him to establish his own coat manufacturing business with his brother.

Naive and Folk Art

More Paintings Created by Grandma Moses

Anna Mary Robertson Moses had her first solo exhibition on 9 October 1940 at The Galerie St Etienne 46 West 57th Street, New York City. The owner of the gallery Otto Kallir believed in Anna Mary and her style of painting.

Naive and Folk Art

American Folk Art: Grandma Moses

Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961) began painting seriously in a folk/naive style at 78 years proving you are never too old to start. She gained her fame as Grandma Moses.

Naive and Folk Art

Shaker Art

The Shaker furniture designers and makers were reacting to their contemporaneous situation, the functional needs of their time. Other Shaker artists who produced gift drawings were reacting to the spiritual revelations they believed were coming from their leader Mother Ann Lee who died in 1784.

Furniture

Shaker Furniture

Of all art forms furniture has to meet the greatest variety of requirements. It has to be functional for everybody using it across all ages and physical ability. Shaker Furniture meets many of these requirements.

Birds

Bird Artists continued

John James Audubon (1785–1851) was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. His book The Birds of America (1827-1839) is acclaimed as one of the world's best documentation of birds

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