Recently I got a message from my college senior whose daughter is doing well in fine arts. She wants to know the details about choosing the creative industry as career option for her daughter. I would have messaged her back with few lines saying that she can pick from this list. Instead, I want to write [...]
Diego Rivera : (Dec 8, 1886 – Nov 24, 1957) – 125th Birthday “An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn’t capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won’t put down [...]
Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890) is generally considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, though he had little success during his lifetime. Van Gogh produced all of his work (some 900 paintings and 1100 drawings) during a period of only 10 years before he succumbed to mental illness (possibly bipolar [...]
Boris Vallejo started off as the son of a distinguished solicitor in Lima, Peru. He immigrated to the United States in 1964, and he currently resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He frequently works with Julie Bell, his wife, painter, and model. Originally he wanted to be a concert violinist, not a painter, and so he took violin lessons [...]
