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POPSArt of Charles Sheeler Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) was a founder of American modernism and a master photographer of the 20thC. Born in Philadelphia, he first studied at the Penn. Academy of Fine Arts. In 1909 he went to Paris, just when Cubism was becoming popular. Returning to the US, he realised that he would not make a living with Modernism, so he took up commercial photography, his focus on architectural subjects. He was a self-taught photographer, and learned on a $5 Brownie. He shared a farmhouse in Doylestown, Penn., close to Philadelphia, with artist Morton Schamberg. He was so fond of the 19thC stove there that he called it his "companion" and made it a subject of his photographs (see last clip). The farmhouse serves a prominent role in many of his photographs. He painted using a technique called Precisionist, a term that emphasised the linear precision he employed in his work. His subjects were generally things such as machinery and structures.
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POPSPropaganda art "Propaganda is neutrally defined as a systematic form of purposeful persuasion that attempts to influence the emotions, attitudes, opinions, and actions of specified target audiences for ideological, political or commercial purposes through the controlled transmission of one-sided messages (which may or may not be factual) via mass and direct media channels. A propaganda organization employs propagandists who engage in propagandism—the applied creation and distribution of such forms of persuasion." Richard Alan Nelson, A Chronology and Glossary of Propaganda in the United States, 1996
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POPSViktor Schreckengost Vicktor Schreckengost (1906-2008) died on January 26, 2008 at age 101. Schreckengost taught industrial design at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) for more than 50 years, and was a professor emeritus at CIA until his death. He was also the youngest faculty member ever at CIA (then known as the Cleveland School of the Arts). He founded CIA's school of industrial design, the first of its kind in the country. He also enlisted in the Navy at age 37 to help the Allies in World War II. He was flown on secret missions to Europe where he used his modeling knowledge to help improve the radar used in the Battle of the Bulge. Later he helped design prosthetics for wounded soldiers. He retired from the Naval Reserves as a Captain. Schreckengost was also good friends with Cleveland's famed safety director Eliot Ness.
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POPSThe Art of Dean Cornwell Dean Cornwell (1892- 1960) was an American illustrator and muralist. His oil paintings were frequently featured in popular magazines and books as literary illustrations, advertisements, and posters promoting the war effort. Throughout the first half of the 20th century he was a dominant presence in American illustration. At the peak of his popularity he was nicknamed the "Dean of Illustrators".
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POPSPaintings of Arthur Sisley Alfred Sisley (October 30, 1839 – January 29, 1899) was an English Impressionist landscape painter who lived and worked in France.
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POPSPompeii Art The sheer beauty and extent of the ruins of Pompeii - and the treasures it held secret for almost 2,000 years - have made it the most famous of archaeological sites. (Dr Joanne Berry)
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POPSS. Dali Esq. "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?" - Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí
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POPSMary of Denmark I am looking at a painting but am in the same room as the subject. (Portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, 2006, oil on canvas: Ralph Heimans.)
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POPSArt: Thomas Benton - Boy on a mule Larger image on site - unable to clip. This is one of my favourite paintings. I like the simplicity of the subject matter, the clear lines, the colours and despite its weary hanging head, the mule still has a jaunty step. What do you think?
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POPSClassic London Transport posters The 1940s and 50s was a period, in England, when the public were encouraged to explore Britain's countryside and archaeology. Writers such as John Betjeman and Niklaus Pevsner had already begun to produce architectural guides to the counties of England. These pictorial posters were part of a series published by London Transport in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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POPSFrom Russia: With Dance The Russians had pulled out at the last minute, fearing that descendants of the original owners of The Dance and other masterpieces seized by the Soviet government after the Revolution might be able to prevent their return to Russia. Thanks to the new law, that can't happen - now or in the future. The stakes could hardly have been higher. The Hermitage, Pushkin, Tretyakov and State Russian Museums have all lent unstintingly to an exhibition that tells the story of artistic interchanges been France and Russia between 1870 and 1925. (DT)
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POPSA late Monet His eyesight was really poor by this time. What a result though. One of my favourites. Marvelous colour and texture.
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