Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois was born on the 25th of December 1911 in Paris France. In 1932 bourgeois mother died and inspired her to trade in a math degree for a artist degree. She was a very influential figure on modern and contemporary art and is recognized as the founder of confessional art. When she started art school she was told that she should go into sculptor rather then painting. Her most famous piece is a giant spider that has been placed all around the world and earned her the nick name the Spiderwomen. She died on the 31^st of may in 2010 after living a full life and continued to work on her art till that day that she died.

Sally Mann

Sally Mann, one of America's most renowned photographers, was born in Lexington Virginia in 1951. She has received numerous awards including the Nigeria Entertainment Awards (NEA), the National endowment for the Humanities award (NEH) and the Guggenheim Foundation grants. Her work has been shown in major institutions internationally. Not only is she a photographer, she has made a feature film about her work called "What Remains" and has published many books of her photograph which include Second Sight (1983), At Twelve (1988), Immediate Family (1992), Still Time (1994), What Remains (2003), Deep South(2005), Proud Flesh (2009) and The Flesh and the Spirit (2010). Mann is represented by Gagosian Gallery, New York and Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York. Today Mann still live in Virginia.

                                                           
                                                                  Virginia at Four, 1989

                                                             The Perfect Tomato, 1990

                                                             Jessie Bites, 1985

The Last Time Emmett Modeled Nude, 1987

Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore, born July 30th, 1898 was an English sculptor and artist. He volunteered for service during World War I, and was injured in a gas attack. With a education grant from the British army for his service, Moore attended the Leeds School of Art in 1919. As a student, his more modern style was in contention with his teachers who held classical values. In 1924, Moore traveled to Italy and studied the works of the Old Masters. He also viewed the Chac Mool in Paris, which had a reclining figure and partly inspired Moore’s most famous motif. Upon his return to London, Moore taught at the Royal College of Art, did commissioned work including West Wind, and worked on his own pieces. During World War II, Moore drew Londoners sleeping in the London Underground, and coal miners in “At the Coal Face. A Miner Pushing a Tub.” His drawings were included in the War Artists’ Advisory Committee’s Britain at War exhibit which toured North America. Moore’s mother died two years before his wife, Irina Radetsky, gave birth to their daughter Mary Moore in 1946. Moore’s work turned towards depicting mothers and children. In the ‘50s, Moore received many commissions to be installed in public spaces. 25 years to the minute after Enrico fermi and his team achieved the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear reaction, Moore unveiled Nuclear Energy on the campus of the University of Chicago. In his later years, Moore continued to fulfill commission requests, and was the subject of retrospectives, documentaries, films.

Chac Mool

West Wind

Women and Children in the Tube

At the Coal Face. A Miner Pushing a Tub

Family Group

Reclining Figure

Mother and Child

Upright Interior Form

Vertebrae

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor born on December 7, 1598 in Naples. Mostly working in Rome, he was seen as the primary and leading sculpture of his time. Amazingly, at the age of 23, he was knighted by Pope Gregory XV. He was also a famous painter and architect. He died at the age of 81 on November 28, 1680. He is seen as the creator of the "Baroque" sculpture. Baroque sculpture is essentially when the subjects  are in dynamic poses--maybe in action. This creates a sculpture that has many interesting viewing angles, rather than just one. Below are pictures of some of Bernini's most famous Baroque sculptures.

"Ecstasy of Saint Teresa"


"Apollo and Daphne"


"The Rape of Proserpina"

bee-apocalypse and pizza-apocalypse

I have been loving this bee apocalypse on facebook trending where all the bees fell out of the truck. Love the idea of a million bees. also sad how there aren't enough bees so they bring them around in trucks like a touring band! lol. I love the facebook trending graphic with the Erupting arrow. I also love this image of double yellow lines turned because of the hole in the road thing. i can't remember if I took it or if I found it online. I love this over-the top pizza its like some kind of chuck-ee -cheese tweenage monster.love the picture from when the bee truck fell. as the news anchor said "it looks like it's from some kind of science fiction movie. Also I love the way the truck lights look in that picture. It looks like a post-apocalyptic world.  Love, Gabe.