For over thirty years Catherine Wagner has been observing the built environment as a metaphor for how we construct our cultural identities. She’s examined various institutions as art museums and science labs, the home, and Disneyland.
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Maud Hunt Squire (January 30, 1873 – October 25, 1954) was an American painter and printmaker. She had a lifelong relationship with artist Ethel Mars, with whom she traveled and lived in the United States and France. #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
“The aspiration...to start
from scratch, to paint as
if painting never existed
before....That made
painters out of painters.”
Barnett Newman #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
Alice Neel was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers.
Hugh Hurd
Alice Neel • 1964
Crystal Bridges Museum of
American Art #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
#JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines in one of the very best movie dance scenes youtube.com/watch?v=Imzk...
“What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.”
Barbara Kruger
Untitled (When I hear the word culture I take out my checkbook)
Barbara Kruger • 1985
Sound and Music #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
Ladies and gentlemen. The one and only Miss Etta James #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty youtube.com/watch?v=1qJU...
Untitled (S.095, hanging single-lobed, six-layered continuous form within a form)
Ruth Asawa • 1952 de Young museum #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
“I would kiss you, had I the courage.” 💋
Édouard Manet
Jan 23, 1832 - Apr 30, 1883
The Balcony
Édouard Manet • 1868 - 1869
Musée d'Orsay, Paris #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
Designed by Jon Jerde, CityWalk opened in May 1993 adjacent to the Cineplex Odeon cinema. A $1 billion, 93,000 sq ft expansion opened in 2000, with planning also executed by Jerde Associates. Street performers are a common sight. #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
Legendary fashion designer Christian Dior exploded onto the Paris fashion scene with designs that flew in the face of wartime restrictions and reintroduced a femininity and focus on luxury to women's fashion. #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
David Lynch #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
“I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.”
Paul Cézanne
Jan 19, 1839 - Oct 22, 1906
Seated Woman in Blue Paul Cézanne • 1902-1904
The Phillips Collection #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
Henderson grew up in the Cold War era, with the additional threat of tornados in her home state of Nebraska,… constantly aware that either she or her family members could potentially die at any minute—an anxiety that influenced her subsequent art practice and activism.
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“A love of nature is a consolation against failure.”
Berthe Morisot
Jan 14, 1841 - Mar 2, 1895
The Artist's Sister at a
Window
Berthe Morisot • 1869
National Gallery of Art,
Washington DC #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
Teraoka’s work integrates reality with the surreal, humor with social commentary, and the historical with the contemporary.
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You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
John Singer Sargent
El Jaleo
John Singer Sargent • 1882
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
Pedro Friedeberg is a contemporary Mexican artist best known for his Surrealist sculptures and prints. His eclectic body of work bridges architectural imagery and psychedelic patterns with occult iconography. #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
“Body experience... is the centre of creation.”
Barbara Hepworth
Jan 10, 1903 - May 20, 1975
Barbara Hepworth with the plaster of Figure for Landscape and a bronze cast of Figure (Archaean),
November 1964.
Barbara Hepworth • 1964
The Hepworth Wakefield #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
Friday Fun: Vic Mizzy…is perhaps best known for writing TV theme songs for Green Acres and The Addams Family (for which he also sang on the original recording). #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
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The Thin White Duke and The King #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty double dose youtube.com/watch?v=CmjW...
Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West.
Nevada Falls, Yosemite Albert Bierstadt • 1872 or 1873
The Metropolitan Museum of Art #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
Hôtel Tassel, Brussels
Victor Horta • 1892/1893
Italia Liberty
Hôtel Tassel at Rue Paul-Emile Janson 6,
1000 Brussels, Belgium #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
Jean Shrimpton by
David Bailey
David Bailey • 1961
British Fashion Council
Photograph of Jean Shrimpton on Tower
Bridge, 1961 #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
“Wherever there is light, one can photograph.”
Alfred Stieglitz
Jan 1, 1864 - Jul 13, 1946
The Glow of Night - New
York
Alfred Stieglitz • 1897
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Getty
View of a wet street, illuminated by streetlamps which are reflected on the ground. #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
“Department Store”
Amrita Sher-Gil
Date Created: 1933
Location: Paris
Physical Dimensions: Oil on Canvas, 49.5cm x 62cm
Type: Painting
Possibly done in the early 1930s when Amrita Sher-Gil was studying art in Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris #JanuaryBirthdayArtistParty
