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Louisa May Alcott biography Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) Louisa May Alcott was an American poet and novelist known above all for the novels Little Women (1869) and Good Wives (1869) about the childhood and adolescence of four sisters, based on her own childhood experience. The novels have been reissued many times and have become classics of…

Biography Keith Haring (1958 – 1990) The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as…

Biography John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) John Singleton Copley was the son of ‘an Irishman who died in the West Indies in 1737. As far as can be ascertained the artist was born on July 3d of the same year in Boston, whither his par ents had emigrated the year before. Ten years later the Widow…

Biography John Ruskin (1819–1900) English author and art critic, born in London. Son of a wealthy wine merchant, he was brought up in a cultured and religious family, but his mother’s over protectiveness undoubtedly contributed to his later psychological troubles. On his frequent trips in Europe, he took an artist’s and a poet’s delight both in…

Biography It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. The technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. – Jackson Pollock The creativity of the American artist, Paul Jackson Pollock, even during his lifetime, made his rich and famous. However, it also brought…

Biography Henri (Marie Raymond) de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) French painter and lithographer, born at Albi. Descended from an ancient family of southwest France, a fall from a horse broke his thighbones, and he was crippled. Left only 1.55 metres (61 inches) tall, he felt cut off from his family, sought refuge in art and went to…

Biography The name of the famous Austrian painter, graphic artist and book illustrator Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is inextricably linked with the modernist style, and his paintings are his most vivid manifestation. He was one of the most interesting and popular representatives of the world of fine arts. He never tried to show his exclusiveness to…

Biography Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) Extremely talented and outstanding avant-garde artist of Central America, the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo became well-known for painting the self-portraits, illustrating the pain that bothered her the whole time. The works of Frida Kahlo belong to Surrealism as they contain strange and thought-provoking themes. Frida Kahlo’s works reflected the state of…

Biography Edward Henry Weston is an American photographer who created his masterpieces in the 20-40s of the last century. Having achieved success in pictorialism, that is, art, which emphasizes in the photo those features that brought it closer to the painting and graphics of the era, he suddenly turned to art exactly the opposite and…

Biography El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (1541–1614) Born in Candia (Iráklion), Crete. In Italy he was called El Grequa and later in Spain El Greco. Few details of his life are known. He was in Venice by 1570 (he probably studied under the then aged Titian), when he went to Spain is uncertain. His earliest known…