Famous Artist #13

Keith Haring

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Born 1958 and died in 1990

His style of work is a mix of pop art and graffiti. In his early days he would graffiti ever where he could for the most part trying not to get arrested, Which at times he did. His style became a widely recognized visual language.

In his later work often addressed political and societal themes.

He was an artist from the start, making drawings with his dad.

His influences were the classic cartoonists like Walt Disney, Dr. Seuss, Charles Schulz.

He studied commercial art in the late 70’s at Pittsburgh's Ivy School of Professional Art, but lost interest.

He was inspired to focus on his own art after reading a book by Robert Henri.

He had a maintenance job at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, where he saw work from the greats like Pollock.

He was highly influenced by a show of Pierre Alechinsky work and by a lecture that the sculptor Christo gave.

Moved to NYC in 78 to study painting at the School of Visual Arts.

1980 he organized exhibitions at Club 57, a gallery which hosted performances and exhibitions from emerging artists.

He had a large part in the AIDS movement and creating work and posters for the movement.

Color Run 2019

I was asked to come back and photograph the color run this year. I brought my rain jacket for my camera, so I could get closer to the color.

Famous Artist #12

Brice Marden

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born 1938 and is still alive at 80

Abstract painter, The style of work he is known for is a bit calligraphic and his work is very monochromatic for the most part.

He receiving his BFA from the Boston University, School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1961. Also earned his MFA from the Yale School of Art and Architecture in 63.

During his time at Yale he developed formal strategies that would characterize his work.

he connected with the work of Jasper Johns while employed as a guard at the Jewish Museum in NY.

He went to Paris where he started making compressed charcoal and graphite grid-patterned drawings. His paintings are an idea from his grids.

In the early 70’s is when fame came to him with his monochrome panels.

Roman and Greek art and architecture, numerous elements of certain Asian traditions were some of his influences.

Famous Artist #11

Cy Twombly

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Born in 1928 and died 2011

He is an American painter, sculptor and photographer.

For the most part his work is large, his style is a mix of graffiti and calligraphy and a simple background color.

It’s said that he influenced Basquiat.

Young Twombly began to take private art lessons with the Catalan modern master Pierre Daura

He studied art at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Washington and Lee University and Art Students League of New York. He became friends with Rauschenberg and was told to go to Black Mountain College.

His first solo show was in 51 at Samuel M. Kootz Gallery in NYC. At the same time his work was influenced by Kline's black-and-white work.

In 54 he was in the army as a cryptographer in DC.

He worked in New York, where he became a figure and shared a studio with Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns between 55-59.

He was interested in tribal art, using the painterly language of the early 50s to invoke primitivism.

often inscribed on paintings the names of mythological figures.

Famous Artist #10

Mark Rothko

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Born 1903 and died 1970

American painter with Lithuanian Jews descent. He refused to adhere to any art movement, but can be under the abstract expressionist.

He was able to speak Lithuanian Yiddish, Hebrew and Russian.

At the Art Students League of New York he saw students sketching a model and that is where his art journey began. He then went to Parsons The New School for Design and also he took courses at the Art Students League.

He moved to NYC where his influences and art learning grew.

1929 Rothko began teaching young kids to drawing, painting and clay sculpture at the Center Academy of the Brooklyn Jewish Center.

In the 30s Rothko and a group of artists met with Milton Avery where they learned that making art for a living is possible. He also learned about color from Avery.

"ultiforms" developed into the signature style

He even went so far as to recommend that viewers position themselves as little as eighteen inches away from the canvas. so that they might experience a sense of intimacy, as well as awe, a transcendence of the individual, and a sense of the unknown.