Famous Artist #17

Joyce Pensato

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Born 1941 died 2019

There is not a lot of info about her, I found her on IG and love her work.

She was an American painter who took things from pop culture and did her abstraction to it, with rough lines. Her work is at the MOMA as well as the Whitney as well as other galleries and has also won awards.

She studied at NYSS (New York Studio School) after the second try getting in.

Most of her work is black and white she would at times add silver or gold as well as colors to her work.

Her art career took of around the age of 50.

She worked with Mercedes Matter who helped her with her work.

She would collect pop icon things for her studio.

Joan Mitchell was a mentor of hers.

Famous Artist #16

Paul Klee

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Born 1979 and died 1940

He was an expressionist, cubist and surrealist.

In his early years his parents encouraged him to play instruments. He wanted to be a musician but decided to focus on visual art.

During his school years he would draw and color in his school books.

Started studying art at Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He was an amazing drawer but thought he could never paint.

He received his Fine Art Degree. 1901-02 him and his friend went to Italy and studied master painters.

Lived at home and took art classes. he was playing with many techniques.

Became a soldier in 1916 WW1.

1919 he failed to get a teaching job but got a contract with a successful art dealer.

Klee was a teacher at Bauhaus 1921-31. he also helped create advertising material.

Famous Artist #15

Gerhard Richter

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Born in 1931 (87

German abstract painter but has also done photorealistic work, photographs and glass work.

He left school in the 10th grade to work with a advertising and staging paintings before studying at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.

Around 1949-51 he was working as a sign painter and as a painter.

Early in his career he helped prepare a wall for a Picasso for a room in the art academy for his BA.

1957-61 was a master trainee in the academy and did commission work.

Him and his wife left Germany before the start of the Berlin Wall. All of his work was painted over. Some of his work was recovered.

He was introduced to the term Capitalistic Realism which can be an anti art style. It can be related to the Socialist Realism.

Gerhard was a teacher at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and Nova Scotia College and of Art and Design and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf where he was a professor for over 15 years.

Famous Artist #14

Robert Motherwell

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Born in 1915 and died 1991

American Abstract Painter.

His school years were in CA where he found his love for spaces and colors, His later work had to do with his health as a child.

Around 1932-37 studied painting at CSFA and received a BA in philosophy from Stanford.

At Stanford he learned about modernism, symbolist and other literature.

His father wanted him to get a more secure career but he wanted to be a painter.

He went to Harvard to study philosophy.

In the 40s he moved to NYC where he went to Columbia and painted and was encouraged by Meyer Schapiro. Meyer introduced him to surrealists. During this time he was influenced a lot.

He also studied under Kurt Seligmann.

Around 1941 he met his future wife and decided to make painting his career while with Roberto Matta in Mexico. Matta helped him with the idea of Automatism or abstract automatic doodling.

He spend a lot of time developing his creative principles based on what he has learned with Matta, Wolfgang Paalen and Yves Tanguy.

In the early 40s Motherwell helped form the movement of Abstract Expressionism.

1942 he started showing his work in NYC, in 44 he had his first solo show at one of Peggy Guggenheim’s galleries.

Through out the 50’s he was a teacher at Hunter College in NY and at Black Mountain College in California.

during the 60’s he was at an art colony in Provincetown MA.

Famous Photographer #21

Bruce Gilden

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Born 1946 (73 years old)

His style of street photography is using a flash and being close to his subjects.

He has received many awards over the years, European Publisher Award for Photography and also a Guggenheim as well as others.

He is also a member of Magnum Photos since 98.

At Penn state, he learned sociology, but was to boring and quite college.

He thought about being an actor but around 67 he bought his first camera.

Taking night classes at SVA in NY.

As you can tell by his work he was fascinated with the people on the street.

He has worked with BW for a large part of his career. When he used the lecia S camera, he was doing some color work as well as digital.

Some of his subjects are everyday people, mobsters, homeless, gang members and many other types of people.