William Morris 1834 – 1896 William Morris led the Arts and Crafts movement in the 1800’s. Some of his work, like this one pictured to the left, demonstrates the beauty of the simplicity in his work. William Morris was an artist, designer, printer, typographer, bookbinder, craftsman, poet, writer and champion of socialist ideals. He believed that a designer should have a working knowledge of any media that he used and as a result he spent a lot of time teaching himself a wide variety of techniques. He also founded the Kelmscott Press which published high quality hand bound books and was very influential in the revival of the private press. Origin of Arts and Crafts Young London-based architects were inspired by the ideas of John Ruskin and
William H. Johnson was the oldest child of Henry Johnson and Alice Smoot who all lived in a poor town in the South along with his four siblings. As the oldest of his siblings Johnson spent majority of his childhood helping out his family, but also discovering his interest in painting and being an artist. Since Johnson held a great amount of responsibility he had to put his own wants and dreams aside to ensure that his family as a collective was settled. Within his teen years he moved to New York where in the year of 1921 he enrolled at the School of the National Academy of Design (NAD). In result of him enrolling at NAD he received a mentor, Charles W.
Benjamin West was truly a remarkable artist who required no formal art education to learn how to
The self taught, revered scientists, extensive naturalist and all around jack of all trades Charles Willson Peale was thought of like a true Renaissance man. All of his artistic talent and knowledge he passed on to his many sons. Being friends with George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, Peale promoted artistic development and public art. In his artwork, he captured the realness and vivacity of life. The similarities between Peale and his American contemporaries can be seen when they are compared to him. The well known Neo-classicist artist, Charles Peale through all of his trades was a masterful craftsman and artist.
In his childhood, William attended public school. Throughout his childhood he was known to have a very active imagination and loved to use it. In his later education, he attended the institute for the promotion of the mechanical arts/school of art and design and later landed his first job at the age of seventeen as a painter and varnisher. This trade lea him to the Kennard Novelty Company who opened their doors in 1890. William had begun his association with the wonderful talking board. This great man later married Anne carrie Schmidt and had several children, Five boys, and
Thomas Kinkade was known for using strong contrasts between light and dark. He had many artistic talents that spanned over many genres and styles. Kinkade would use “symbols and uplifting imagery to communicate his point of view.” He forged his own path while developing his own styles and techniques. Although Kinkade tried to forge his own path, he had inspirations as well. “The Hudson River and Rocky Mountain Schools of Painting heavily influenced Kinkade’s Early Work”
The miraculous life of Jacob Lawrence’s is said to be the most distinguished and accomplished African American Artist of his time. At a young age, Little Jacob Lawrence was introduced to art in Harlem, New York. He had always had a love for the arts, He began to develop his craft at an after-school program and further moving on to the Harlem Art Workshop then securing a scholarship to the American Artists School located in New York. He had the odds stacked against him; he further perfected his art during the great depression years which also at a time when African Americans had a harsh struggle with segregation and just trying to stay alive. His paint brush has captured everything from slave revolts to ghetto life to the destruction of the war.
The world has seen many changes, which have been depicted throughout art and architectural structures. Artist since ancient times have depicted many different subject matter often motivated through movements, beliefs, and religions. Around the 1700s still under control of the British Monarchy, America was becoming a place of growth. Towns and colonies grew tremendously, it was no surprise to see a growth in artisans, philosophers, and inventors as well. Benjamin West was an American, who soon became a well-known artist, in America and England.
Thomas Buchanan Read was born on March 12th, 1822 in Corner Ketch, Pennsylvania. Read only received an elementary school education and his father had a sudden death, which led Read to become an apprentice to a local tailor. The apprenticeship wasn’t so great either, it lead to a bad relationship containing abuse and cruelty. Luckily for Read the apprenticeship was very short lived. At the age of fifteen, Read started working in Philadelphia as a tobacconist and a grocer. Read also started to live in Cincinnati with his sister. In Cincinnati, Read took apprenticeship under Shobal Veil Clevenger. He learned to paint signs and learned sculpting through Clevenger.
Born in Ireland and immigrated to the United States of America in Philadelphia, still life Artist William Michael Harnett began his professional career as an engraver for high-end firms at Woods & Hughes as well as Tiffany & Co in the late 1860s and early 1870s. In addition to his history of employment, he attended the nation’s most prominent schools at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design, and the Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art where he studied after antique casts and live models. Exercising his talents in oil painting, Harnett was widely known for his magnificent still life masterpieces.
He was passionate about art and painting from a young age, and is accredited with introducing modernism to New Zealand art during the early twentieth century, alongside fellow artists Toss Woollaston and Rita Angus. His artwork is generally classified into
William Lewis Marple was born in NYC on Feb. 16, 1827. Cruising by scissors ship to San Francisco by means of Panama in 1849, Marple dug for some time in the Mother Lode nation around Placerville. Deserting his quest for gold, he filled in as a sign and house painter here and, as a self-trained craftsman, started painting scenes. Subsequent to moving to San Francisco in 1866, he built up a studio at 432 Montgomery and in 1867 partook in an offer of works of art with a few different specialists including Denny, Young, Holdredge, and Bush. In 1869 he made a trek to Europe to ponder the Old Masters. He went by Paris, Munich and, after a short remain in NYC, came back to San Francisco in 1871.
Christian art is classified as Byzantine, but It is also very difficult to know when Christian art
Ken has commented that Andrew Jones is one of the most influential artists in his life due to his unique ways of thinking and the work he has done in the industry. Jones is one of the founders of Massive Black Studios, a large scale graphics company that provides product design and illustration, specializing in products for analysis, movies, print mediums and commercial display.2 He also created conceptart.org, one of the largest online job search options for graphic related work.3
David Hockney was an English artist who worked in Los Angeles. Hockney was well trained in many different studios, including lithography, painting and photocollage. Hockney experimented with all sorts of ideas, including an entire painting in mainly warm colours and done in reverse perspective. A lot of his older work also dealt with issues that were previously shunned by most of society and made slight references to his homosexuality. However, it is the fact that his painting Typhoo Tea was one of the first to incorporate a brand named product, which shows Hockney helped inspire the movement to become as large as it became globally.
John Everett Millais and his colleagues were famously known for painting items sourced from the modern world and literature while at the same time utilizing traditional attires. These artists carried out their work directly from nature. Their role model was John Ruskin who inspired artists to go to nature and work wholeheartedly. John Everett Millais and his colleagues used pure color and defined structures. They focused primarily on the truth and reality.