February 2011
Frida Kahlo de Rivera
Frida Kahlo de Rivera (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954; born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán. Perhaps best known for her self-portraits, Kahlo’s work is remembered for its “pain and passion”,and its intense, vibrant colors. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national andindigenous tradition, and by feminists for...
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Gil Elvgren
Gil Elvgren (March 15, 1914 – February 29, 1980), born Gillette Elvgren, was an American painter of pin-up girls, advertising and illustration. Elvgren was one of the more important pin-up and glamour artists of the twentieth century. Today he is best known for his pin-up paintings for Brown & Bigelow. Elvgren studied at the American Academy of Art
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Jonathan Lerman - An Extraordinary Artist
Jonathan Lerman’s remarkable artistic ability emerged quite unexpectedly at age 10. Already now, at age 14, Jonathan has had several art shows of his own, and a New York Times article on January 16, 2002 has given his work national visibility. His mother describes Jonathan as a normal, happy child who began to ‘slip away’ into autism at about age 2. At age 3, he was given a...
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