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unusual facts about graphic arts



Robert E. Kennedy Library

Major subject areas in the collections include: book arts, environmental history, ethnic studies, fine printing, graphic arts, Julia Morgan's and John Steinbeck's first editions, landscape architecture in California, Robinson Jeffers' first editions, San Luis Obispo regional history, social history, William Randolph Hearst, and San Simeon.


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AIGA

In 1914, at the National Arts Club in New York City, a group of designers, led by Charles DeKay, met to create the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

Anthony Ludovici

He wrote "I have long been an opponent and critic of Christianity, democracy, and anarchy in art and literature. I am particularly opposed to 'Abstract Art,' which I trace to Whistler's heretical doctrines of art and chiefly to his denial that the subject matters, his assimilation of the graphic arts and music, and his insistence on the superior importance of the composition and colour-harmony of a picture, over its representational content."

Art Hupy

He was also a freelance Graphic Arts Consultant to Seattle Public Schools in 1971.

Aurelio Grisanty

As a teenager, Grisanty studied drawing with Dominican artist Yoryi Morel from 1963 to 1964, studied graphic arts and painting in Mexico City from 1969 to 1974, and studied interior design at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Fayga Ostrower

Ostrower began work as a secretary while studying art at the Fine Arts Association, and in 1946 attended design classes at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation’s Brazilian Society of Fine and Graphic Arts, where she studied metal and wood engraving, and art history, with tutors Axel Leskoschek, Tomás Santa Rosa, Carlos Oswald and Anna Levy.

Generación de la Ruptura

Of the foreign born Ruptura painters, the most important was Vicente Rojo from Cataluña who reshaped Mexican graphic arts.

John Gegenhuber

He also holds a degree in Graphic Arts (drawing, painting, and sculpture) and is a Le Cordon Bleu Chef.

Juraj Dobrović

Juraj Dobrović (born 1928 in Jelsa, Croatia) is a Croatian artist working in the media of sculpture, painting and graphic arts.

Lordy Rodriguez

Rodriguez's work is part of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Luc Cromheecke

After having studied painting, graphic arts and publicity at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts of Antwerp, he created the magazine "Flan Imperial" with fellow student Fritzgerald; it featured material by Dutch artists René Windig and Eddie De Jong.

Marina Skugareva

She is the daughter of journalist Olga Garitskaya and architect Vadim Skugarev, who was the head of a chair of decorative and applied arts (graphic arts dept.) at the Dagestan state teacher training institute (Makhachkala, Dagestan ASSR) since 1973.

Melanie Cervantes

She formed Dignidad Rebelde with printmaker Jesus Barraza, a collaborative graphic arts project that uses principles of Xicanisma and Zapatismo to translate stories of struggle and resistance into artwork that can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it.

Michael Hafftka

Hafftka's interest in the graphic arts led him to design a number of covers for Urizen Books, including Detour (1977 novel)"?title=Michael Brodsky">Michael Brodsky.

Morgan Wade

He later attended Tyler Junior College and majored in graphic arts before beginning his BMX career full-time.

Odimumba Kwamdela

Kwamdela taught in for the New York City Board of Education as a high school teacher of Writing and Graphic Arts, serving for several years in the roughest schools in the world, one for adolescent offenders located in infamous, volatile Rikers Island Jail.

Salvatore Vasapolli

Vasapolli photographed the large format photographic book, Montana with text written by Montana's ex-congressman, John Patrick Williams, published by Graphic Arts Center, Portland, Oregon.

Tobias Frere-Jones

His clients have included The Boston Globe, The New York Times, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the Whitney Museum, The American Institute of Graphic Arts Journal, and Neville Brody.

Winky Dink and You

Prichett decided to put a piece of Cellulose acetate film (which was a standard tool in graphic arts at the time) over the screen so that he could use a Grease pencil to sketch exactly which parts of the commercial were visible.