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What artist is described below?

Though her family objected to her becoming a professional artist, this artist began studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at the age of 15.  Although about 1/5 of the students there were female, most of them viewed art as a socially valuable skill, bur few of them were desired to make art their career. At the time, it was quite improper for females to draw from live figures and instead they drew from casts of figures.

Some early critics of her work claimed this artist’s colors were too bright (she actually darkened some of them to make them more acceptable) and that her portraits were too accurate to be flattering to the subjects and only after many years was her work widely appreciated. Her popular reputation is based on a series of rigorously drawn, tenderly observed, yet largely unsentimental paintings and prints on the theme of the mother and child. (Source:Wikipedia)

A)Berthe Morisot

B) Mary Cassatt

C) Cheryl Dolan

D) Helen Frankenthaler

E) Judith Leyster

 

And the answer is Jeff Koons who rose to prominence in the mid-1980s as part of a generation of artists who explored the meaning of art in a media-saturated era. He gained recognition in the 1980s and subsequently set up a factory-like studio (Andy Warhol did this too) in a SoHo in New York. It was staffed with over 30 assistants, each assigned to a different aspect of producing his work. Today, he has a huge factory and employs 90 to 120 assistants. Koons developed a color-by-numbers system, so that each of his assistants could execute his canvases and sculptures as if they had been done "by a single hand". Koons feels art takes you outside yourself, takes you past yourself. and that his artwork has been a journey to remove his own anxiety. He believes the more anxiety you can remove, the more free you are to make that gesture, whatever the gesture is. That anxiety removal is first within the artist, but then it goes outward, and is shared with other people. And if the anxiety is removed everything is close,and available, and it's just this little bit of confidence, or trust, that people have to delve into. [from Wikipedia]

So how would you rate your artist confidence level?

What American artist is known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces?

His works have sold for substantial sums, including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist. On November 12, 2013, this artist's Balloon Dog (Orange) sold at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York City for US $58.4 million, becoming the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction.

A. Jasper Johns

B. Christopher Wool

C Andy Warhol

D. Jeff Koons

See the answer on August 11!

 

As you know, Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings most of them in the last two years of his life in France, where he died. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterized by bold colors and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.

How many paintings did Vincent Van Gogh sell during his lifetime? Do you think it was 

1. Thirty-two
2. Three hundred twelve
3. One
4. Over four hundred

Tune in May 12 for the answer :-)