Holbein Rugs Analysis

Claes Oldenburg is known for his unique sculptures that reflect the pop-culture era. Born in Sweden, his family moved to the United States when Oldenburg was just a baby. When Oldenburg got older her attended Yale University and moved to New York where he met the two people that inspired him artistically, Jim Dine and Allan Kaprow. With this inspiration, Oldenburg began his career as an artist.

After his father died in 1903, his mother allowed him to drop out of his school and 2 years later, he went to Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria in order to become an artist. He failed in entrance exam and decided to remain in Vienna as a casual laborer and watercolor painter. A year later, he tried to take entrance exam and he failed again. While he run out of money, he moved into a homeless shelter and remained for several years. During his time in Vienna, he learned to hate non Germans. He was a German-speaking Austrian and considered himself as a German.

The first art piece consists of a beautiful curtain fragment of coptic textile from the late Roman and early Byzantine 4th century. Woven textiles were commonly incorporated in Byzantine clothing tapestries, furniture coverings and curtains. The most expensive textiles were made of silk. Inexpensive textiles like the curtain fragment were made of linen and wool. Although dyed textiles were rare, they were colored with plant based dyes like saffron or minerals (Carrol, pg.57). The majority of textiles were created by the horizontal two-beam loom later to be replaced by the vertical loom and domed spindle whorl.

He started studying at the Royal Academy in London and married Esther Kenworthy in 1883 then moved to St. John’s Wood. They lived in a purpose built artistic colony .”Early in his career his works appeared similar to the the works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema” and he painted many distinctive painting and was influenced by many talented artist before him. He produced over 200 paintings during his lifetime including “The Lady of Shalott,” “Boreas,” and,“The Crystal Ball.” “ He painted many excellent portraits of women”. His paintings were rich for their color, and was neglected through most of the 20th century. He produced works of mythological and literary themes through the 1890s and 1900s. He taught at St. John’s Wood art school between 1892 and 1913. He left no diaries or journals, and died of cancer in 1917.

John William Waterhouse was born in Rome, Italy in 1849. He painted figurative and narrative pictures primarily in oil. He was interested and found inspiration in stories and legends from British literature and Classical mythology. His

Jan van Eyck was born during c. 1935 in Maaseik, Bishopric of Liege, the Renaissance period. He had a sister Margareta, and at least two brothers, Hubert (died 1426) and Lambert was active between 1431 and 1442 (Both of them were also painters). Yet the order of their births is not known. Another significant, and rather younger, painter who worked in Southern France, Barthélemy van Eyck, is presumed to be a relation. It is not known where Jan was educated, but he had knowledge of Latin and used the Greek and Hebrew alphabets in many of the inscriptions, indicating that he was schooled in the classics. (From Wikipedia) The first ever record of Eyck is from the court of John of Bavaria at The Hague, where payments were made to Jan van Eyck between 1422 and 1424 as court painter, with the court rank of valet de chambre. This suggests a date of birth

The woolen bedcovers were made of a woolen or glazed worsted fabric dyed in neutral colors as a top layer, with the filling was a soft layer of carded wool; the layers were held together

Today women with noble birth in the Kautaha tribe produce the barkcloth. The men plant the Mulberry tree and it takes 2-3 years for the tree to be ready to be cut down and used to make barkcloth. After the tree has been cut, the women then strip off the outer bark and soak the inner bark in water in order to prepare the bark for further processing. The women then place the soaked inner bark strops over a wooden anvil and repeatedly strike the bark with a wooden beater. They continue to do this until the bark is flat. Folding and layering the bark strips while beating them, results in a wider piece of bark than that of the original strips. After all of the bark has been beaten, the bark is set outside to be bleached by the sun. Next, the strips are placed over semicircular boards. Once they have been fastened to the boards, the women attach an embroidery design to the tablet. They transfer the design from the tablet to the piece of bark by rubbing. After this, the women then fill in the lines and patterns with pigments such as brown, red and black. These pigments that are used are derived from things such as clay, soot and fruits. These barkcloths play a very

woolen yarn (Buckley 12). A layer of white cotton string is wrapped around the yarn (Honig

Founded in 1979 by Bill and Judy Adams, Dalyn Rugs has 39 different collections that range from traditional styles to fun styles for children and rugs for the game room. For instance, tones is a collection of great rugs made with 100 % wool pile, plush, loop, and over twist assembly, and they come in 20 different colors and styles. Some of these include flowers, bordered classical designs, geometric designs, abstract ones, and of course basic solid colors. Whichever one of the Tones collection you pick, then you will get a fantastic, quality made rug at the best possible price that will last for many years

Christopher Althoff was an honest, hard working man. He was born in Florsheim, Germany on June 25, 1852. Christopher and his younger brother, Henry left Germany to seek employment and to start a new life in America. Christopher was just twenty years old when he left Germany, all that he had known.

He was born into a Catholic family with German origins in a small town in Austria-Hungary ( later Zwittau, Czechoslovakia) on April 28th, 1908 and he grew up in Zwittau, Moravia. He had a younger sister named Elfriede and he is Son of an uneducated alcoholic who sold electric motors for a father and an elegant and pleasant woman as a mother. He died on October 9th, 1974 in Frankfurt, Germany due to heart and liver problems. He had

Alexander Runciman (figure five) was born in Edinburgh, the elder brother of historical and biblical painter John Runciman. Originally a prominent and popular decorative painter at the Noire Firm in Edinburgh, he seemingly abandoned his role as senior partner and made is way to Italy in May 1767 to spend time as a student under the direction of Hamilton and learn from the great classical masters, as Hamilton had done before him. Unlike Hamilton Runciman returned to Scotland in 1771.

Born in the Austrian town of Braunau on April 20, 1889, Adolf was the fourth child of Alois Schickelgruber and Klara Hitler. By 1900, young Adolf's talents as an artist surfaced. He did well enough in school to be eligible for either the university preparatory school or the technical/scientific Realschule. Because the technical/scientific Realschule had a course in drawing, Adolf enrolled in there. Adolf suffered from frequent lung infections, and he quit school at the age of 16, partially the result of ill health, but mainly the result of poor schoolwork. In 1906, Adolf traveled Vienna to seek his fortune, but he wasn't able to get admission to any prestigious art school. Hitler spent six years there, living on a

     Hans Holbein the younger was a German artist born in Augsburg, Bavaria. He was an outstanding portrait and religious painter and his