Raised in Brooklyn, Walt Kuhn (born William but called Walt from a young age) developed an early interest in drawing and theater. In 1893 Kuhn took art classes at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
The artist also painted many still lifes in a similarly bold, geometric manner.
Jan Miense Molenaer possessed the remarkable ability to create works that were as expressive as they were diverse. Taking inspiration from proverbs, poems, and the Bible, he painted merry companies, tavern groups, biblical scenes, and portraiture with brushwork that ranged from precise and refined to loose and free.
in 17th-century literature to conducting one’s life in a balanced and harmonious manner
Northern Landscape, Spring is the first oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich (1774 – 1840) or by any artist of the German romantic school—to enter the collections of the National Gallery of Art. It joins a superb pen and sepia wash drawing by Friedrich, Moonrise on an Empty Shore , 1837/1839, acquired in 1992.
There Friedrich learned his delicate and precise manner of painting, and developed
Born in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent much of his childhood in South Carolina. He briefly attended the University of South Carolina but in 1949 moved to New York City, where he took classes at a commercial art school.
visual arts by presenting them in a cool, seemingly detached, and often enigmatic manner
nurtured me from a boy up to a virile age, and taught me to cast aside uncivilized manners
such as Snow in New York, and successfully combines the monochromatic, tonalist manner
Maes was born in Dordrecht in January 1634, the son of a well-to-do soap manufacturer and merchant. The details and dates of his early career are not precisely known, but Houbraken tells us that Maes’ first instruction in drawing came from “an ordinary master” ( een gemeen Meester ) , probably a local artist in Dordrecht.
Were it not for the existence of transitional paintings signed in the earlier manner
have viewed this change primarily as a consequence of Lippo’s adjustment to the manner
Born in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent much of his childhood in South Carolina. He briefly attended the University of South Carolina but in 1949 moved to New York City, where he took classes at a commercial art school.
visual arts by presenting them in a cool, seemingly detached, and often enigmatic manner
In her youth, Georgia O’Keeffe had been particularly fascinated by the jack-in-the-pulpit. In 1930, she executed a series of six paintings of the common North American herbaceous flowering plant at Lake George in New York.
The green foliage is arranged in a less symmetrical manner, and the mauve background
