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unusual facts about fine art


Yılmaz Büyükerşen

He focused on culture and literature with establishing faculties of Literature, Communication Sciences, Applied Fine arts and also State Conservatory.


Alejandra Dorado

Dorado is a native of Cochabamba, Bolivia and majored in Fine Arts, with a minor in painting, at ARCIS (University of Art and Social Ciences) in Santiago, Chile.

ART Innsbruck

The 4 km² fair features about 70 exhibitors from 8 - 10 nations presenting fine art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Austria Classic Hotel Wien

Fine artist and playwright Stanisław Wyspiański, a Polish member of the Vienna Secession, resided in Hotel Nordbahn in summer 1904, en route from convalescent care in Bad Hall to his hometown Krakau.

Cathy Jamieson

Jamieson was educated at James Hamilton Academy in Kilmarnock, before obtaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art and a Higher National Diploma in Art at Goldsmiths College in London.

Charlotte Berend-Corinth

Charlotte Berend studied fine arts at the Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseum, taught by Eva Stort and Max Schäfer.

Duthain Dealbh

Duthain Dealbh (meaning Fleeting Sculpture in the Irish language and pronounced du-hawn dah-liv), is a group of artists made up of the three Irish sculptors Daniel Doyle, Niall Magee and Alan Magee, all graduates of Fine Art Sculpture from the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Eneas Sweetland Dallas

He was educated at the Edinburgh University, where he studied philosophy under Sir William Hamilton, and acquired the habit of applying notions derived from eclectic psychology to the analysis of aesthetic effects in poetry, rhetoric, and the fine arts.

Kathleen Coburn

Coburn made a bequest to Victoria College to set up 'Coburn Fellowships' where up to three Fellowships a year valued at $20,000 are awarded to Canadian and Israeli students who are studying in the fields of Fine Art or Humanities.

Lee Wagstaff

He studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Royal College of Art, London, and Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan, and has widely exhibited himself and his large format photographic self-portraits at fine art and performance art venues worldwide.

Liv Mildrid Gjernes

Liv Mildrid Gjernes (born 1954 in Lunde, in Telemark, Norway) is a Norwegian artist and has given name to the contemporary style of decoration, sculpture, and furniture design known as Gjernes style.

Maria Longworth Nichols Storer

Maria Longworth Nichols Storer (March 20, 1849 – April 30, 1932) was the founder of Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, a patron of fine art and the granddaughter of the wealthy Cincinnati businessman Nicholas Longworth (patriarch of the famous Longworth family).

Sarah Myerscough

She then gained a BTEC Foundation National Diploma in Art and Design at Blackpool and The Fylde College in 1999 and spent the next three years at Lancaster University where, in 2002, she gained a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Fine art: Practice and Theory.

The David Collection

The David Collection (Danish: Davids Samling) is a museum of fine and applied art in Copenhagen, Denmark, built around the private collections of lawyer, businessman and art collector C. L. David.


see also

120 Tage

120 Tage - The Fine Art of Beauty and Violence is an electro-industrial studio collaboration between German musicians Mona Mur and En Esch (of KMFDM, Pigface, and Slick Idiot).

1861 in art

Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., "Fine Art Workmen in Painting, Carving, Furniture and the Metals", set up in London by William Morris, P. P. Marshall, Charles Faulkner, Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Philip Webb to craft Pre-Raphaelite-inspired furnishings.

Alexi Torres

He has shown his work at several art fairs including the Miami International Art Fair, Scope Art Fair, Arthamptons, Art Southhamptons, Aspen Fine Art Fair, Palm Beach Art Fair, San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Art Palm Springs, and the Houston Fine Art Fair.

Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding

The video game also contains three songs from band Ink & Dagger's album The Fine Art of Original Sin. In 2005, former drummer Ryan McLaughlin sued Microsoft, claiming that they were used without the band's knowledge.

Arthur Lawson Johnston, 3rd Baron Luke

Johnston worked for the family firm Bovril Ltd from 1955 to 1971, and has been a fine art dealer in watercolours of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries since 1971.

Bongoût

Their artists books are in numerous prestigious museums and collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Harvard University's Fine Art library in Cambridge, MA, the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University "Art of the Book" Collection (Sterling Library), New Haven, CT.

Bruce Gilbert

2006 saw him contribute to Susan Stenger’s Soundtrack for an Exhibition within the eponymous project curated by Mathieu Coupland that brought together artists from the realms of music, fine art, and film at the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon.

Charles Percy Parkhurst

Parkhurst went on to obtain his master’s in fine art at Princeton University in 1941 with his mentor, Clarence Ward’s urging as there was no higher level degree in art history at the time.

David D. Stern

Karen Wilkin and Mitchell Cohen in David Stern: Recent Paintings, New York: Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art 1999

Ellis Waterhouse

After the war Waterhouse briefly served as editor to The Burlington Magazine where he was soon succeeded by Benedict Nicolson and began his academic career: Manchester University, 1947–48; Director of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh (1949–52); Barber Professor of Fine Art, Birmingham University and director of its Barber Institute of Fine Arts (1952–70): Slade professor at Oxford University (1953–55).

Eric Leach

He holds a degree in Fine Art Illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Éric Troncy

In 1991 he curated the exhibition No Man's Time a 'key' group exhibition of fine art of the early-1990s which has become a 'well-known historical show'.

Fabien Fryns

Most prominent among them being F2 Gallery, opened 2004 in Caochangdi, and Fabien Fryns Fine Art, opened 2010 in Los Angeles.

Feel Tank Chicago

Its founders are Lauren Berlant, an English professor at the University of Chicago who focuses on publics and affects; Vanalyne Green, a professor in Fine Art at the University of Leeds; Debbie Gould, a sociologist of political feelings at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Patten, a writer and video artist at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Rebecca Zorach, an art historian at the University of Chicago.

Guillermo Gracida, Jr.

Gracida also enjoyed a long and successful career playing for Les Diables Bleus, a team sponsored by fine art dealer Guy Wildenstein.

Hans Gissinger

Hans Gissinger is a Swiss commercial, editorial, and fine-art photographer whose work has received wide exposure, thanks in part to Michael Pollan’s best-selling book The Omnivore's Dilemma, which features a Gissinger photograph on its cover image.

Hong Kong Academy of Fine Arts

The Hong Kong Academy of Fine Art's history can be traced back to the 1800s when Professor Chan Hoi-Ying's teacher, Li Tiet-Fu, began learning his trade from the two famed American painters; John Singer Sergeant and William Merritt Chase.

Ian Pedigo

He studied art at the University of Texas at Austin with a focus on installation and sculpture, as well as in 2001 at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Art, under the instructors Ilya Kabakov & Emilia Kabakov and the theorist/critic Boris Groys.

Idem Paris

Filmed at the eponymous Idem Paris, a fine art printing studio in Paris, France, and "virtually wordless", it documents the lithographic process.

International Institute for Conservation

The HP Image Permanence Award, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard and given with participation of IIC, was run until 2013 and recognised outstanding contributions that advance the longevity of photographic and fine art images created via modern digital methods.

Irene Ferguson

Ferguson gained a Diploma of Fine Arts with Honors from Otago School of Fine Art, Dunedin in 1993 and a Master of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art in 2005.

Jacob Kramer

His father, Max, was a painter who had studied at the St Petersburg Fine Art Academy under Ilya Repin, and had become a court painter to Baron Ginsburg.

Jacquelyn Ford Morie

She next received a Masters degree in Fine Art from the University of Florida in 1984, studying with noted photographer Jerry Uelsmann.

Jayne Lawless

She is currently a Fine Art Masters student at Bath Spa University following her successful post-graduate diploma course at Stass Paraskos' Cyprus College of Art in Lempa (Lemba), Paphos.

JoAnne Lorenzana

Incidentally, also in 2009, JoAnne sang with her American-born first cousin, Craig Abaya, on "When Change Comes" from his alternative rock release "The Fine Art of Politics (ARTifice music)."

Jolyon Stern

Its fine art practice provides clients with art dealers and galleries insurance; fine art collections and coverage for valuable articles, among others.

Ludovic Debeurme

After studying fine art at the Sorbonne, he was first published in the anthology Comix 2000, followed by the acclaimed graphic novels Céfalus (2002) and Mes ailes d’homme (2003), the autobiographical story collection Ludologie (2003), and youth-oriented illustrated editions of the classics Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2001), The Chancellor (2004), and Gargantua (2004).

Marty St. James

Marty St James (born 1954) is a British performance artist and Professor of Fine art in the School Art and Design at the University of Hertfordshire, he is perhaps best known nationally and internationally, for his portrait of Olympic swimmer Duncan Goodhew: The Swimmer – commissioned in 1990 by the National Portrait Gallery and recently migrated to new digital formats.

May Wilson

Long before artists such as Cindy Sherman and Yasumasa Morimura would embark on similar critical projects, Wilson's "Ridiculous Portraits" sent up the ubiquitous sexism and ageism that exists in popular and fine art images of women.

Michael Sak

Sak received his Diploma from Grand Rapids Union High School in 1977, his Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Utah State University in 1982 and his Masters of Education degree from Grand Valley State University 13 years later.

Michaele Jordana

Jordana took a hiatus from the world of New wave music to have a child, Ramona Pringle, and went on to integrate fine art and music in her future works as a multiplatform artist.

Mourlot Studios

Starting in the 1920s, Jules' son, Fernand Mourlot, converted one of the locations into a studio dedicated to printing fine art lithography.

Neecy Twinem

She studied fine art at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and then transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute, where she graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts in Sculpture and Video Performance in 1980.

Ockham's Razor Theatre Company

They had previously all been studying unrelated theatre subjects at separate universities: Harvey studied Fine Art at De Montfort University in Leicester, Mooney studied English Literature with Spanish at the University of Sussex as well as La Universidad de Santiago, Chile, and Koch studied Cultural Science and Aesthetic Communication at Universität Hildesheim, originally training as a dancer.

Oliver Weber

The list of photographers already included is like a "whos who" of the contemporary fine art photography scene, like Magnum Photosphotographer Martin Parr or Alec Soth and Amy Stein.

Renee Mallett

Renee Mallett is also the owner and art director of Nolia Gallery, a fine art gallery located in Amherst, New Hampshire.

Robert DeMott

Until the age of eight, he lived with his parents on the estate of well known political artist and fine-art illuminator Arthur Szyk, who published The New Order (1941) and Ink & Blood (1946) and illustrated numerous Biblical and literary texts, as well as the 1948 Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel.

Rosa Hope

In 1938 she accepted the post of Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, where she remained until 1957.

Sadakazu Uyenishi

Notable individuals who were directly influenced by Sadakazu Uyenishi's teaching included William Garrud, whose book "the Complete Jujitsuan" (published in 1914) became a standard reference work on the subject; Edith Garrud, who went on to establish jujitsu classes for members of the militant Suffragist movement; and Mrs. Emily Watts, whose 1906 book The Fine Art of Jujitsu was the first English work to record Kodokan judo kata.

San Francisco Art Exchange

The gallery first rose to prominence through its role in establishing the work of pinup artist Alberto Vargas as fine art.

Sarah Beth Goncarova

Goncarova graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2002 from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Art in Sculpture and Extended Media, with a minor in Art History.

Shock SuspenStories

A similarity can be noted between Wood's dramatically effective Shock renderings and the caricatures of corruption in the acclaimed fine art of Jack Levine.

Textile art

Fiber art, the creation of fine art using textile arts techniques and materials

Watercolor Artist

The magazine is included in the magazine's Fine Art group -- along with The Artist's Magazine and The Pastel Journal.

Xue Yongjun

Xue Yongjun is a Chinese contemporary artist who was born in Nantong, Jiangsu in 1973.He graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Art in the year of 2002 and has started to get involved in different group shows since 2004.