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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
(Encyclopedia) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum was designed by Gordon Bunshaft to house 6,000 pieces of the enormous art…Jarves, James Jackson
(Encyclopedia) Jarves, James JacksonJarves, James Jacksonjärˈvĭs [key], 1818–88, American art critic and art collector, b. Boston. He spent some years in Honolulu, where he founded and edited a…Derain, André
(Encyclopedia) Derain, AndréDerain, AndréäNdrāˈ dərăNˈ [key], 1880–1954, French painter. He studied for a short time under Carrière. Derain's friendship with Vlaminck and Matisse led to his…Zao Wou-Ki
(Encyclopedia) Zao Wou-Ki or Chao Wu-chi, 1920–2013, Chinese-French painter who combined a traditional Asian sensibility with Western abstraction. He studied ink painting and calligraphy as well as…school of Paris
(Encyclopedia) school of Paris. The center of international art until after World War II, Paris was a mecca for artists who flocked there to participate in the most advanced aesthetic currents of…Broad, Eli
(Encyclopedia) Broad, Eli, 1933-2021, American financier and philanthropist, Bronx, N.Y., Michigan State College (BA, 1954). Broad was the son of poor…Schnabel, Julian
(Encyclopedia) Schnabel, JulianSchnabel, Julianshnäˈbəl [key], 1951–, American artist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. He studied art at the Univ. of Houston and the Whitney Museum. A neoexpressionist, he became a…2001 Deaths: A - F
AaliyahLionel AbelLarry AdlerMortimer AdlerAffirmedTommie AgeeMichele AlboretoStephen AilesBlaise AlexanderGreat AlzanaJorge AmadoA. R. AmmonsPoul AndersonFrank AnnunzioJoe AndrewsEarl…perspective
(Encyclopedia) perspective, in art, any method employed to represent three-dimensional space on a flat surface or in relief sculpture. Although many periods in art showed some progressive diminution…Wood, Grant
(Encyclopedia) Wood, Grant, 1891–1942, American painter, b. Anamosa, Iowa, studied Art Institute of Chicago and in Paris. He experimented with an impressionist style in Paris, but in Munich in 1928…Trending
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