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No 409 Helen Levitt
“ I never had a “project.” I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes—what they noticed, I tried to capture with my camera, for others to see.” Helen Levitt, an American photographer who was particularly noted for street photography around New York City, … Continue reading
No 408 Man Ray
“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.” Man Ray, a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, was born on August 27, 1890 in Philadelphia.
No 404 Thomas Moran
“Of all places on earth the great canyon of Arizona is the most inspiring in its pictorial possibilities.” Thomas Moran. This evening I’ve been at an exhibition opening at the Portico Library in Manchester. One of the speakers stressed the … Continue reading
No 403 Hedda Sterne
“I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.” Hedda Sterne, an artist best remembered as the only woman in a famous photograph of a group of Abstract Expressionists known as “The Irascibles”, was … Continue reading
No 402 Arthur Dove
“I can claim no background except perhaps the woods, running streams, hunting, fishing, camping, the sky…” Arthur Dove, an early American modernist, often considered the first American abstract painter, was born on August 2, 1880.
No 398 Marcel Duchamp
“A painting that doesn’t shock isn’t worth painting.” Marcel Duchamp, commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the arts in the opening decades of the … Continue reading
No 395 Maxfield Parrish
“It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.” Maxfield Parrish, an American painter and illustrator known for his distinctive saturated hues … Continue reading
No 393 Alexander Calder
“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect.” Alexander Calder, an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that … Continue reading
No 392 Edward Hopper
“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist.” Edward Hopper, a prominent American realist painter and printmaker who was most popularly known for his oil paintings, was born on July 22, 1882.
No 386 Andrew Wyeth
“It’s a moment that I’m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.” Andrew Wyeth, one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century, was born on July 12, 1917.
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