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"It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work." ~ David Hockney Born in 1937, Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. David Hockney is renowned world over as one of the leading artists of the twentieth century. Considered a prominent figure in the history of British art, Hockney is also known as an important painter in the Pop Art Movement. Here are 3 interesting facts about the life and achievements of this versatile artist. #1 He showed an early interest in art Born on 9 July 1937, David Hockney was the fourth of five children of Laura and Kenneth Hockney. He showed an early inclination towards art and was an admirer of Picasso, Matisse and Fragonard. Hockney did his early education at Wellington Primary School and in 1948 he won a scholarship to the Bradford Grammar School. From 1953 to 1957, he attended the Bradford College of Art. #2 He sold his first painting for £10. With Hockney’s work being worth millions today, it is a little anecdotal to hear that he sold his first painting only for a tenner! Portrait of My Father, 1955, was sold to an unexpected buyer at a regional art fair in Leeds for £10, with originally no price tag at all. According to the Smithsonian Magazine, before the sale was complete, the artist wanted to clear the transaction with his father first. His dad encouraged him to take the offer, as he could always “do another.” #3 David Hockney was voted Britain’s most influential artist of all time In 2009, Hockney’s painting Beverly Hills Housewife was sold for around $8 million, which remains a record for his artwork. For his photography, he was awarded the Infinity Award in 1985 and the prestigious The Royal Photographic Society’s Progress medal in 1988. In 1990, Hockney was offered a knighthood but he declined. In January 2012 he accepted the Order of Merit. In 2011, in a poll of more than 1,000 British artists, Hockney was voted the most influential British artist of all time. [ excerpt from learnodo-newtonic.com & imitatemodern.com ]

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"It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work." ~ David Hockney Born in 1937, Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. David Hockney is renowned world over as one of the leading artists of the twentieth century. Considered a prominent figure in the history of British art, Hockney is also known as an important painter in the Pop Art Movement. Here are 10 interesting facts about the life and achievements of this versatile artist. #1 He showed an early interest in art Born on 9 July 1937, David Hockney was the fourth of five children of Laura and Kenneth Hockney. He showed an early inclination towards art and was an admirer of Picasso, Matisse and Fragonard. Hockney did his early education at Wellington Primary School and in 1948 he won a scholarship to the Bradford Grammar School. From 1953 to 1957, he attended the Bradford College of Art. #2 He sold his first painting for £10. With Hockney’s work being worth millions today, it is a little anecdotal to hear that he sold his first painting only for a tenner! Portrait of My Father, 1955, was sold to an unexpected buyer at a regional art fair in Leeds for £10, with originally no price tag at all. According to the Smithsonian Magazine, before the sale was complete, the artist wanted to clear the transaction with his father first. His dad encouraged him to take the offer, as he could always “do another.” #3 David Hockney was voted Britain’s most influential artist of all time In 2009, Hockney’s painting Beverly Hills Housewife was sold for around $8 million, which remains a record for his artwork. For his photography, he was awarded the Infinity Award in 1985 and the prestigious The Royal Photographic Society’s Progress medal in 1988. In 1990, Hockney was offered a knighthood but he declined. In January 2012 he accepted the Order of Merit. In 2011, in a poll of more than 1,000 British artists, Hockney was voted the most influential British artist of all time. [ excerpt from learnodo-newtonic.com & imitatemodern.com ]

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"Let your freak flag fly." ~ Pascó Salvador Dalí was born in 1904, in Spain. His father, Salvador Dalí y Cusi, was a middle class lawyer and notary. Salvador's father had a strict disciplinary approach to raising children—a style which contrasted sharply with that of his mother, Felipa Domenech Ferres. She often indulged young Salvador in his art and early eccentricities. Young Salvador was a precocious and intelligent child, prone to fits of anger against his parents and schoolmates. Consequently, Dalí was subjected to furious acts of cruelty by more dominant students or his father. The elder Salvador wouldn't tolerate his son's outbursts or eccentricities, and punished him severely. Their relationship deteriorated when Salvador was still young, exacerbated by competition between he and his father for Felipa's affection. In 1921, Dalí's mother, Felipa, died of breast cancer. Dalí was 16 years old at the time, and was devastated by the loss. His father married his deceased wife's sister, which did not endear the younger Dalí any closer to his father, though he respected his aunt. Father and son would battle over many different issues throughout their lives, until the elder Dalí's death. Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1960. With a Haitian-American father, Gérard Basquiat and a Puerto Rican mother, Matilda Andrades , Basquiat's diverse cultural heritage was one of his many sources of inspiration. Basquiat was a precocious child who learned how to read and write by age four and was a gifted artist. He began drawing at an early age on sheets of paper his father, an accountant, brought home from the office. As he delved deeper into his creative side, his mother strongly encouraged to pursue artistic talents. Matilde instilled a love for art in her young son by taking him to art museums in Manhattan and enrolling him as a junior member of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In September 1968, when Basquiat was about eight Basquiat dropped out of Edward R. Murrow High School in the tenth grade. His father banished him from the household for dropping out of high school and Basquiat stayed with friends in Brooklyn. [excerpt from biography.com]

Andy Warhol with actress Farrah Fawcett & actor Sylvester Stallone. Many of his subjects were showbiz friends who frequented the same nightclubs as Warhol or visited his luxurious beach house or vast ‘factory’. They included the likes of John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna, Sting, Bruce Springstein, Lizi Minnelli, Diana Ross and Debbie Harry. #arthistory #andywarhol #hornyforart #artist #warhol #silverfactory #artstudio #contemporaryart #modernart #fineart #artforkings #picasso #basquiat #dali #rothko #moma #moca #lacma #thebroad #MMoA #themodernmuseum #themodernmuseumofart

Ninja. Picasso light painting a Centaur like a boss, 1949. When LIFE magazine’s Gjon Mili, a technical prodigy and lighting innovator, visited Pablo Picasso in the South of France in 1949, it was clear that the meeting of these two artists and craftsmen was bound to result in something extraordinary. Mili showed Picasso some of his photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates, jumping in the dark — and the Spanish genius’s ever-stirring mind began to race. “Picasso” LIFE magazine reported at the time, “gave Mili 15 minutes to try one experiment. He was so fascinated by the result that he posed for five sessions, projecting 30 drawings of centaurs, bulls, Greek profiles and his signature. Mili took his photographs in a darkened room, using two cameras, one for side view, another for front view. By leaving the shutters open, he caught the light streaks swirling through space.” This series of photographs, known ever since as Picasso’s “light drawings,” were made with a small electric light in a darkened room; in effect, the images vanished as soon as they were created — and yet they still live, six decades later, in Mili’s playful, hypnotic images. Many of them were also put on display in early 1950 in a show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. [ excerpt from Time.com ] #arthistory #pablopicasso #artist #picasso #lightpainting #hornyforart #time #contemporaryart #modernart #fineart #artcollector #artcollection #artlover #artdealer #masterpiece #artmuseum #moma #moca #lacma #thebroad #museum #MMoA #themodernmuseumofart #themodernmuseum

It's Wednesday You Horny Devils!!! Let's Get Weird. This is Salvador Dalí in bed in 1964, projecting pieces of paper “to stimulate his inspiration”. Photo: Philippe Halsman #arthistory #salvadordali #letsgetweird #dali #hornyforart #surrealism #painter #mood #freakyfriday #contemporaryart #fineart #modernart #artlover #artcollector #artadvisor #artcollection #artforkings #expensivetaste #artmuseum #modernmuseum #moma #moca #lacma #thebroad #MMoA #themodernmuseumofart #themodernmuseum

It's Friday You Horny Devils!!! Let's Get Weird. This is Salvador Dalí in bed in 1964, projecting pieces of paper “to stimulate his inspiration”. Photo: Philippe Halsman #arthistory #salvadordali #letsgetweird #dali #hornyforart #surrealism #painter #mood #freakyfriday #contemporaryart #fineart #modernart #artlover #artcollector #artadvisor #artcollection #artforkings #expensivetaste #artmuseum #modernmuseum #moma #moca #lacma #thebroad #MMoA #themodernmuseumofart #themodernmuseum

'Merica. Jasper Johns at Pearl Street studio in 1955. Photograph by Robert Rauschenberg Jasper Johns, Born in 1930, now 87, is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker associated with Abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and Pop art. In the early 1950s, while working closely with Robert Rauschenberg in adjacent lofts in lower Manhattan, Johns resolved to be an artist. With this novel sense of determination, Johns did two things that would help establish his identity and significance as an artist. First, he systematically destroyed all existing work in his possession, vowing that henceforth his art would be free of perceptible debt to other artists. Secondly, he painted Flag, a curiously mature work inspired by a dream in which he saw himself painting an American flag. More like a riddle than an expression of patriotism or unconscious zeal, Flag is, in many respects, deeply challenging. “A close look at Flag’s surface confirms that Johns shared his contemporaries’ interest in the material properties of paint. In most other respects, however, Flag stood apart from its context: in an era that prized abstraction, Johns chose recognizable, commonplace subject matter.” “Flag is covered with a lush array of drips and fleshy brushstrokes, initially confirming Johns’s kinship with mid-century American painting. Yet Johns’s motif and technique tell a different story – one of endings and beginnings, and the passage that comes in between. Begun in the fashionable medium of oil-based enamel paint, Flag was completed using the anachronistic medium of encaustic in which pigment is mixed with hot wax and, in Flag’s case, strips of newspaper and fabric to which the coloured encaustic adhered. As Johns explained it, encaustic allowed him to be more efficient and, at the same time, more deliberate in his gestures. In other words, because pigmented wax sets quickly, Johns could add another mark or strip of saturated paper or cloth with the assurance that any previously laid marks would remain unaffected. In this way, each discrete trace was preserved, effectively embalmed. [ excerpt from phaidon.com ] #arthistory #hornyforart #jasperjohns #MMoA

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Sex & Art. "The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn." ~ Lucian Freud In the middle of the sitting there was a knock at the door. A beautiful woman entered the studio. She did not say a word but went straight to the bathroom. The Grand Painter followed the young woman. He would be back in a few minutes. Then, there was the sound of people having sex behind the bathroom door. After a bath, the painter returned naked to the studio and continued painting. Lucian Freud (1922–2011)—the genius painter and elegant enfant terrible—thrived on sex, he needed it as a source of inspiration, to focus on the only thing he ever wanted to do: Painting. Freud painted seven days a week, 18 hours a day. He examined his models, ruthlessly inspected and exhausted them, for months, sometimes even for years. He did not want to paint them the way they looked, but who they were. [ excerpt from http://artillerymag.com/freudian-pleasures/ ] Freud, who is estimated to have more than 500 female lovers, was also rumoured to have fathered as many as forty children, although this number is generally accepted as an exaggeration. Fourteen children have been identified, two from Freud's first marriage and 12 by various mistresses. In 2008, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995), a portrait of 280-pound civil servant Sue Tilley, sold for $33.6 million – the highest price ever at the time for a work by a living artist. #arthistory #lucianfreud #artist #freud #hornyforart #sex #art #muse #model #artmuse #artistandmuse #contemporaryart #modernart #fineart #artlover #artblog #artadvisor #artdealer #artcollector #sothebys #christies #artmuseum #moma #moca #thebroad #lacma #MMoA #themodernmuseumofart #themodernmuseum #modernmuseum

Thomas William "Tom" Roberts (8 March 1856 – 14 September 1931) was an Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School, also known as Australian Impressionism. After attending art schools in Melbourne, he left for Europe in 1881 to further his training, and returned home in 1885, "primed with whatever was the latest in art".[1] He did much to promote en plein air painting and encouraged other artists to capture the national life of Australia. While he is best known for his "national narratives", among them Shearing the Rams (1890), A break away! (1891) and Bailed Up(1895), he also achieved renown as a portraitist. Through the 1880s and 1890s Roberts worked in Victoria, in his studio at the famous studio complex of Grosvenor Chambers at 9 Collins Street, Melbourne. In 1885 he started painting and sketching excursions to outer suburbs, creating camps at Box Hill and Heidelberg, where he worked alongside McCubbin, Arthur Streeton andCharles Conder, working on representing Australia’s light, heat, space and distance.[2] In 1896 he married 35-year-old Elizabeth (Lillie) Williamson and they had a son, Caleb. Many of his most famous paintings come from this period. Roberts was an expert maker of picture frames, and during the period 1903–1914, when he painted relatively little, much of his income apparently came from this work. Roberts spentWorld War I in England assisting at a hospital. In Australia, he built a house at Kallista, near Melbourne. Elizabeth died in January 1928, and Roberts remarried, to Jean Boyes, in August 1928. He died in 1931 of cancer in Kallista near Melbourne. He is buried near Longford, Tasmania. [ excerpt from Wikipedia ] #arthistory #tomroberts #hornyforart #MMoA

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"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling." ~ Frida Kahlo (2907 - 1954) Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter, who mostly painted self-portraits. Here's a few fun facts you might not have known about Frida. 1. She had Polio as a child. Kahlo struggled with many types of illnesses throughout her life. When she was six years old, she contracted the virus which consequently left her right leg much thinner than her left. She disguised the bottom half of her body in full long colorful skirts. 2. The artist was not able to bear children. Due to a terrible bus accident when she was 18, Kahlo suffered severe injuries, including a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, 11 fractures to her right leg, and a dislocated shoulder. During the accident, an iron handrail pierced her abdomen and her uterus, causing injury that would make it impossible for her to reproduce. 3. She arrived at her first solo exhibition in an ambulance. During the early 1950s, Kahlo was in and out of the hospital, having been diagnosed with gangrene in her right foot. In 1953, still bedridden, the artist arrived at her first solo show in Mexico in an ambulance. Her foot later had to be amputated to prevent spread of the gangrene. 4. Her home (Casa Azul) was turned into a museum after her death. The artist was born in the home in 1907 and it had remained in her family throughout her life. Known as Caza Azul, or the Blue House, it was turned into a museum after she died. It now sees over 25,000 visitors monthly. 5. Kahlo was bisexual. Although she was married to artist Diego Rivera, their relationship was tumultuous and they both had extramarital affairs. Kahlo had a well-known tryst with female artist Josephine Baker. Diego Rivera supposedly had an affair with Kahlo’s sister, Cristina. 6. The artist has lived in Mexico City, New York, San Francisco, and Paris. She followed Rivera to San Francisco and New York City where he traveled for work. In 1939, Kahlo moved to Paris for some time, where she became friends with Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso. #hornyforart #arthistory #MMoA

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Focused AF. Salvador Dalí died on January 23, 1989, almost 28 years ago. The Surrealist artist remains well-recognised, thanks to his moustache, but did you know about these unusual antics? 1. Salvador Dalí made accidental millionaires of his secretaries - Long before the interning trend took off, Dalí refused to pay his secretaries. Instead he gave them commissions, which didn't pay their rent at the time, but resulted in many of them cashing in seven-figure sums in later life. 2. Dalí was expelled from art school, but only because he wanted to be - The budding artist refused to be examined for the art history final of his degree, saying “none of the professors of the school being competent to judge me, I retire”. Dalí’s reason for leaving was not, however, ideological, but practical: he wanted to continue being financially supported by his father, but this would stop once he had a degree. Instead, he had reason to go and study in Paris at his expense. 3. Dalí nearly suffocated explaining his own importance - During the London International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936, Dalí, then in the prime of his artistic career, gave a lecture wearing an old-fashioned deep-sea diving suit to represent, he later revealed, how he existed in the bottom of the sea of subconciousness. What his adoring fans didn't realise is that Dalí was suffocating inside the soundproofed glass bowl, thinking his exaggerated gestures an amusing part of his act. As the artist nearly fainted, poet David Gascoyne came to the rescue with a spanner. 4. Dalí married his friend's wife - Dalí met his beloved wife, Gala, while she was still married to his friend, French poet Paul Eluard in 1929. Eluard diplomatically appeared as one of the witnesses at their wedding. The marriage offended Dalí’s family, who disapproved of Gala being both a mother and 10 years older than Dalí, and Dalí was disinherited by his Father as a result. [ excerpt from telegraph.co.uk ] #arthistory #fridaynightgrind #mood #focusedAF #dali #MMoA

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Giovanni Boldini (1842 – 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting. Born in Ferrara, Italy as the eighth in a family of thirteen children, Giovanni Boldini was the son of a painter and art restorer. He was a sickly baby, which led to a sick childhood, but was favored by his father nonetheless. This closeness with his father was probably the reason that Boldini became interested in art. At the age of 20, Boldini received a bit of money from a wealthy uncle and decided to go to Florence and attend The Academy of Art. Here he met members of the Barbizon school and was also influenced by the Macchiaioli—a group of artists opposed to academic painting. Boldini was able to travel extensively over the next few years to London, Italy, Spain and other corners of Europe. He studied the works of Degas, Manet, Caillebot and Sisely and was said to have admired the work of Corot. By the 1890s he was one of the most fashionable portrait artists in Paris, though he is not well-known today. Boldini's specialty was flashy, sketchy portraits of women. Not only that, but his subjects were often placed in slightly (or very) seductive poses that made the women in his portrait look sensual and even powerful. He married journalist Emilia Cardona in 1929, when he was 87: Cardona was 30. This was the same year Alaida Banti died. Alaida was the daughter of artist Cristiano Banti, who assisted Boldini's career after the young artist moved to Florence from Ferrara. Alaida was a teenager when she met Boldini and fell in love with him. Cristiano did not approve of the relationship. Boldini and Alaida maintained some sort of relationship even after he left Italy. He proposed marriage in 1903 but this was thwarted by Cristiano, who died the following year. [ excerpts from Wikipedia.com & artexpertswebsite.com ] #hornyforart #arthistory #MMoA #boldini

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A Wild Beast. André Derain in his studio with a model in 1924. André Derain (1880 -1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. n 1898, while studying to be an engineer, he attended painting classes and there met Matisse. In 1900, he met and shared a studio with fellow artist Maurice de Vlaminck and together they began to paint, but this was interrupted by military service at Commercy from September 1901 to 1904. Following his release from service, Matisse persuaded Derain's parents to allow him to abandon his engineering career and devote himself solely to painting. In 1907 art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler purchased Derain's entire studio, granting Derain financial stability. He experimented with stone sculpture and moved to Montmartre to be near his friend Pablo Picasso and other noted artists. Fernande Olivier, Picasso's mistress at the time, described Derain as: "Slim, elegant, with a lively color and enameled black hair. With an English chic, somewhat striking. Fancy waistcoats, ties in crude colors, red and green. Always a pipe in his mouth, phlegmatic, mocking, cold, an arguer." The 1920s marked the height of his success, as he was awarded the Carnegie Prize in 1928 for his "Still-life with Dead Game" and began to exhibit extensively abroad—in London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, New York City and Cincinnati, Ohio. During the German occupation of France in World War II, Derain lived primarily in Paris and was much courted by the Germans because he represented the prestige of French culture. Derain accepted an invitation to make an official visit to Germany in 1941, and traveled with other French artists to Berlin to attend a Nazi exhibition of an officially endorsed artist, Arno Breker. Derain's presence in Germany was used effectively by Nazi propaganda, and after the Liberation he was branded a collaborator and ostracized by many former supporters. A year before his death, he contracted an eye infection from which he never fully recovered. He died in Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France in 1954 when he was struck by a moving vehicle. #MMoA #arthistory #hornyforart

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Getting ready for Art Basel Miami like... Top photo: Jacqueline and Pablo Picasso stacking canvases freshly signed and dated by the artist. In 1955, Picasso relocated to Cannes where he bought an eccentric 19th century house which became known as “La Villa California”. He settled there with his last wife-to-be, Jacqueline Roque and created some of his most famous works in an art nouveau studio space with uninterrupted sea views. In 1961, the construction of a building interrupting his sea view prompted Picasso to relocate to a new house in nearby Mougins, where Picasso stayed until he died in 1973. While he kept ownership of the Villa California, Picasso abandoned the residence with all its contents– including his art. After his death, it took three years to complete the inventory of the considerable number of works left behind and ‘forgotten’ by the artist in his various houses. La Villa de la Californie had the biggest treasure. There were so many unseen drawings, sculptures, ceramics and paintings discovered there that the Picasso Museum in Paris was founded specifically to house the finds. #arthistory #pablopicasso #artist #picasso #hornyforart #muse #artbasel #contemporaryart #modernart #fineart #artforkings #artcollector #artlover #artdealer #artadvisor #artmuseum #expensivetaste #moca #moma #lacma #thebroad #museum #MMoA #themodernmuseumofart #themodernmuseum

Dream Bigger. "Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world." ~ Gethard Richter, 1966 German artist Gerhard Richter (born 1932) is considered one of the most significant and challenging artists of the last quarter-century. His diverse paintings cover a range of artistic genres, from Realism and Naturalism to Impressionism, Pop Art, Conceptualism, and Post-Abstract Expressionism. Richter of ten painted from photographs, either clipped from newspapers and various other sources or shot by the artist himself, and worked mainly in groups of paintings numbered sequentially. Last year in 2015, Gerhard Richter’s 1986 Abstraktes Bild, sold for $46.3 million. The vibrant, squeegeed painting is one of Richter’s largest, as well as one of his favorite works. The same painting made just $607,500 at Sotheby’s in 1999, then a record for an abstract by the artist. #arthistory #gerhardrichter #contemporaryart #modernart #fineart #popart #artforkings #masterpiece #artoftheday #igart #sothebys #artbasel #warhol #picasso #basquiat #jeffkoons #dali #matisse #moca #thebroad #moma #lacma #MMoA #themodernmuseum #themodernmuseumofart

ROY LICHTENSTEIN WITH MASTERPIECE (1962), THE RING (1962) AND THE ENGAGEMENT RING (1962) AT LEO CASTELLI GALLERY, NEW YORK, 1962. Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City 1923. He became famous for his bold, Pop Art paintings of comic strip cartoons and everyday objects: Although best known as a painter, he worked in a variety of media: sculpture, murals, prints and ceramics. #arthistory #roylichtenstein #lichtenstein #castelli #contemporaryart #modernart #fineart #popart #artforkings #masterpiece #artoftheday #igart #sothebys #artbasel #warhol #picasso #basquiat #jeffkoons #dali #matisse #moca #thebroad #moma #lacma #MMoA #themodernmuseum #themodernmuseumofart

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