Overlooked painter is becoming recognised as being decades ahead of abstract pioneers such as Wassily Kandinsky
Georgiana Houghton was a spiritualist medium who was trained in classical art but gave up painting after the death of her younger sister in 1851. A decade later, after she had become aquatinted with spiritualism she began once more to put coloured pencils and watercolours to paper. However, this time she said it was spirits […]
How many times do you go to an exhibition, especially in England, and end up talking to practically every other person in the room whilst looking at art? Not too often, I suspect! But that is exactly what happened as I went around a small and remarkable exhibition, "Georgia
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How many times do you go to an exhibition, especially in England, and end up talking to practically every other person in the room whilst looking at art? Not too often, I suspect! But that is exactly what happened as I went around a small and remarkable exhibition, "Georgia
Mark has developed an international reputation and has won numerous awards, both in his native Canada and in the United States. A dedicated painter, he was born in Lachine, Quebec in 1964 and has had a fascination with drawing since childhood, a skill he practices constantly, even to this day. Upon graduation from Montreal’s Concordia […]
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In the 1860s and 1870s, trained artist, spiritualist and medium Georgiana Houghton (1814-1884) painted kaleidoscopic, psychedelic abstract watercolours, her brush guided by spirits, including angels, family members and Renaissance artists. Houghton called her work “spirit drawings”. On the verso, she wrote inscriptions. In 1871, Houghton displayed 155 of her artworks in a gallery she’d rented for … Continue reading "Georgiana Houghton’s Spirit Drawings: A Victorian Medium Channels The Eye of God"
Sherman expertly toys with pose, gesture, backdrops, costume, makeup, lighting, digital image processing technology, and composition, to create a wide variety of realist and imagined portraits, often with her as the model.
STEPHEN SHANABROOK. Stephen J Shanabrook (born 1965 in Cleveland, USA) is an American conceptual artist, who lives and works in New York City and Moscow, Russia. He graduated from Syracuse Univer…
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