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Rodney Alan Greenblat, (American, born 1960) Rodney Alan Greenblat is an American graphic artist known best in the United States as the artist behind the PlayStation series PaRappa the Rapper and in Japan for his picture book, Thunder Bunny. Born in California, Greenblat moved to New York City in the 1980s where he attended the School of Visual Arts and immersed himself in the East Village art scene. To quote Greenblatt “I started making [...] Click here to continue reading. Mary Tillman Smith (American, 1905 to 1995) Mary T. Smith was born Mary Tillman, the daughter of a sharecropper. School was a strain, despite her intelligence, as her hearing was impaired. She worked for most of her life as a domestic laborer. In 1941, the father of her only child built a home for her in Hazelhurst, Mississippi. It was near a garbage dump piled with discarded corrugated tin that was free for the [...] Click here to continue reading. Michel Nedjar (French, born 1947) Michel Nedjar is a self-taught artist and filmmaker whose work can be seen in institutional collections and gallery shows across Europe and North America. Born to emigre Holocaust refuges in France, he grew up amid garments and sewing machines in his father’s tailor shop. It was there that he made his first dolls from fabric scraps and tree roots. After leaving school in 1961, he worked as an apprentice [...] Click here to continue reading. Nicholas Krushenick (American, 1929 to 1999) Nicholas Krushenick was born in New York City in 1929, He attended the Art Students League of New York, and the Hans Hofmann School Of Art. Krushenick began showing his work publicly in New York in 1957 and by 1962, his work was shown at upscale galleries. He was a contemporary of the Pop artists, but took Pop art to a different level, closer to the Op movement. [...] Click here to continue reading. Norton Bush (American, 1834 to 1894) Norton Bush was born in Rochester, New York on February 22, 1834. As a teenager he studied in the studios of Jasper Cropsey and James Harris. He received criticism from Frederick Church who was already famous for his lush tropical scenes. It was Church who encouraged Bush to paint tropicals. Bush came to San Francisco in 1853 via the Isthmus of Panama and the Chagres River. He remained [...] Click here to continue reading. Alfred Bryan Wall (1861-1935) The son of painter Alfred S. Wall and the nephew of William C. Wall, Alfred Bryan Wall was a second-generation member of the Scalp Level School, a regional group who painted the Pennsylvania landscape in which they lived and worked. Wall was not formally trained as a painter, but rather learned from his father and uncle. Like most of the Scalp Level School members, he primarily painted landscapes, and was [...] Click here to continue reading. John Ritto Penniman (1782 to 1841) Born in Boston, John Ritto Penniman came from a talented family, his father was a physician and entrepreneur, and his ten siblings include booksellers, an artist and inventor, and a teacher. Penniman trained as an ornamental painter in Roxbury, Massachusetts, which was, at the time, a community of artisans, including clock and furniture makers. Some of his early work was as a dial painter for noted clockmakers Aaron [...] Click here to continue reading. Cartouche – Definition The decorative arts world has many “squishy” and vague vocabulary words, but few are “squishier” and vaguer than cartouche. Originally, the term comes from Egyptology and is used to describe a oval enclosing hieroglyphics and having a horizontal line at one end. (The line denotes royalty.) The oval had significance not unlike that of a closed circle, in that it was believed that an oval around a person’s name provided protection [...] Click here to continue reading. Grisaille Grisaille, from the French word gris meaning grey, is a term used to describe works of art painted entirely in a monochromatic palette. Technically speaking, there are other terms that apply when the monochromatic palette used is of a different color (brunaille for brown, verdaille for green, for instance), but grisaille is often misused to cover all monochrome works, regardless of hue. There are also plenty of works that are considered grisaille that [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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