Charles Rennie Mackintosh
1868, Glasgow /1928, London.
Architect. 1890 : Mackintosh second winner of the Alexander Thomson Travelling Studentship. Won a competition to design the Glasgow School of Art, his first commission and most important building.
Lee MILLER
Elizabeth Miller was born in 1907 in Poughkeepsie, New York USA. She was an American photographer and first entered the world of photography in New York as a model to the great photographers of the day . In 1929 she went to Paris and worked with the well- known Surrealist artist and photographer Man Ray, and succeeded in establishing her own studio. She became known as a portraitist and fashion photographer. Then, she took a job as a freelance photographer on Vogue. She is best known for her surrealist photographs. She also photographed the Second World War. Lee Miller died at Farley Farm House in 1977.
Joan Mitchell by Julie E.
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Biography:
She was born in 1925 in Chicago. She grew in a rich family. In 1942, she joined Smith College which she left in 1944 for the Art Institute of Chicago. She also studied at Hans Hofmann’s school in New York and travelled in France, Spain and in Italy. In the 1950s, she was considered as an essential element of the School of New York. She was an American painter. She was one of her era’s few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim. She died in 1992 in Vetheuil, in France.
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Work :
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| Notes and remarks : She is a part of expressionists abstracts from the second generation.Her work was influenced in its debuts by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Wassily Kandinsky, then by Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning, Monet.
She said that her paintings had to “pass on the feeling of a sunflower fading ” Her paintings are very meaningful and moving. Joan Mitchell’s works are often big dimensions, covering two panels. She often used paint.
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