Art movements

Paul Klee was one of the most unique and influential artist’s of his time period. Klee was born in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland on the 18th of December 1879. Klee, being born in Switzerland and creating a majority of his work in Germany, was considered both a Swiss and German artist. As a child Klee was extremely…

Katz is probably best known as a printer but he also did paintings, drawing, sculptures, collages, and painted cut-out figures. He has also done some set design for the choreographer Paul Taylor in 1960. Alex Katz was born on July 24, 1927 in Brooklyn, NY. In 1928 moves to St. Albans, Queens with his family….

Kokoschka was born in P’chlarn, a Danube town, on March 1, 1886. He studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts from 1905 to 1908. As an early exponent of the avant-garde expressionist movement, he began to paint psychologically penetrating portraits of Viennese physicians, architects, and artists. Among these works are Hans Tietze and…

The exhibition of recent stoneware vessels by Peter Voulkos at Frank Lloyd Gallery featured the sort of work on which the artist established reputation in the 1950s. The work was greeted with stunned amazement. However now it is too, but it’s amazement of a different order — the kind that comes from being in the…

Joseph Cornell was born December 24th 1903, in Nyack, New York and attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He lived primarily in New York City from 1929. A collage album made by surrealist Max Ernst inspired Cornell to make his signature boxes, something he began in the early 1930s. Cornell had no training for constructing…

The word Minimalism is often used, and more often misused in various social and cultural circles. People are frequently heard using it at an art gallery, or an exhibition of sorts, sometimes within houses while exclaiming on architecture of a certain kind, and at times, even when commenting on interior design or furniture. Therefore, the…

Kurt Schwitters Kurt Schwitters, (1887-1948) is generally acknowledged as the twentieth century’s greatest master of collage. Just as collage is essentially the medium of irony, so Schwitters’ life is characterized by paradox and enigma. Born in Hanover, the only child of affluent parents, he was a loner in his youth, plagued by epileptic attacks, introverted and…