Homework #5

Homework #5: GE Assignment Research

Long List [7 artists]

1. Jay DeFeo

2. Raymond Pettibon

3. Wassily Kandinsky

4. Bridget Riley

5. Josef Albers

6. Lyubov Popova

7. Eileen Agar

Short Responses [3 artists]

1. Wassily Kandinsky

Quick Bio:

Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist who is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art. As a child, he was fascinated with color, and his fascination only grew as he got older. He was influenced by Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin and the style of Haystacks. He began painting studies at the age of 30, around 1896. He moved to France late in his life and passed away in 1944 in France as well. He created some of his most prominent art while living in France.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky

 

 

2. Josef Albers

Quick Bio:

Albers was a German artist and educator. He is considered one of the most influential teachers of the visual arts in the twentieth century and is known for his work as an abstract painter and a theorist. Albers was born in 1888 and emigrated to the United States in 1933 where he became the head of the Black Mountain College in North Carolina. He left the college in 1950 to be the head of the department of design at Yale University. As an artist, Albers preferred a very disciplined approach to composition. Albers also wanted to explore chromatic interactions with nested squares, which inspired several of his works that featured 3 or so nested squares, each painted with a solid color and arranged in a very specific manner. Albers published his book on color theory titled Interaction of Color in 1963 and he passed away in 1976 in Connecticut.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Albers

 

 

 

3. Eileen Agar

Quick Bio:

Agar was a British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1899. She studied under several artists such as Leon Underwood, Henry Tonks, and František Foltýn. She was encouraged to develop her art by one of her school teachers, and after studying under various artists, painted her first surrealist piece in 1930 in London, titled The Flying Pillar. She passed away in 1991 in London.