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4 unusual facts about visual arts


Laura Bravo

Bravo was responsible for the artwork from all Nuclear Death releases after Phil Hampson (guitarist, main music composer and artwork artist of the band up to the second LP) left the band, and also worked on the artwork for other bands such as Terrorthrone's Demo/CD Sick Obsession to Pain.

MGM Animation/Visual Arts

The first was a 1966 adaptation of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which has become a mainstay of the holiday season.

It is noted for productions such as the last series of Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts, the TV special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, and the feature film The Phantom Tollbooth, all released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The first, The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965), was an abstract piece based upon a children's book by Norton Juster.


Art of Slovenia

Historically, painting and sculpture in Slovenia was in the late 18th and the 19th century marked by Neoclassicism (Matevž Langus), Biedermeier (Giuseppe Tominz) and Romanticism (Mihael Stroj).

Etobicoke School of the Arts

ESA offers artistic programs for students who successfully complete the audition process in the major of their choice, namely Drama, Dance, Visual Arts, Film, Music (Band or Strings), and Musical Theatre.

Students are accepted into their chosen field, namely Drama, Dance, Visual Arts, Music (Band or Strings), Film and Musical Theatre, after undergoing an application process and passing an audition the year before.

Figurative art

The rise of the Neoclassical art of Jacques-Louis David ultimately engendered the realistic reactions of Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet leading to the multi-faceted figurative art of the 20th century.

Guillaume Geefs

By the end of the 1830s, however, he developed a powerful, spare realism in monumental works such as General Belliard and Frédéric de Mérode (erected in Brussels, 1836 and 1837) and Peter Paul Rubens (Antwerp, 1841).

Holt Castle

In the medieval period, the five-towered fortress was actually known as Castrum Leonis or Castle Lyons because it had a Lion motif carved into the stonework above its main gate.

Horton Hears a Who!

Horton Hears a Who! was adapted into a half-hour animated TV special by MGM Animation/Visual Arts in 1970, directed by Chuck Jones (who also directed the television version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas), produced by Theodor Geisel, and with narration by Hans Conried, who also voiced Horton.

Mariano Ching

At the art workshop which is headed by Elemer Borogan and Gina Morales, the art style of the paintings has touched him and made him to decide to switch from his fourth year engineering major to painting major in University of the Philippines.

Marius Bercea

Bercea's upcoming show, Remains of Tomorrow, to be held at BlainSouthern in September 2011, will be curated by Jane Neal, a UK-based art critic, curator and visual arts consultant.

Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale

In 2001, the museum expanded, adding the Glackens wing to house a collection of over 500 works from American realist painter William Glackens.

Nelda Ramos

She is a teacher of Visual arts with guidance in ceramics graduated at EMBA School of Fine Arts in Quilmes (Buenos Aires Province) and at IUNA (University of Buenos Aires).

Nelda Ramos (born October 4, 1977 - Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a multidisciplinary artist with a vast experience, being one of the better considered South American young artists, with a major tour in Visual Arts and especially in Performance art.

Outside Society

Outside Society is a compilation album released by American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist Patti Smith.

Spiro Mounds

The conch shells were fashioned into gorgets and drinking cups engraved with intricate designs representing costumed men, real and mythical animals, and geometric motifs, all of which had profound symbolic significance.

Tendai

Shedding worldly pleasures and attachments might seem to require that such flowers of culture as poetry, literature, and visual arts be given up.

Thomas Theodor Heine

In 1896 he became successful as an illustrator for the satirical Munich magazine Simplicissimus, for which he appropriated the stylistic idiom of Jugendstil and the graphic qualities of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Aubrey Beardsley and Japanese woodcuts.

Verkhnetoyemsky District

Their favorite motifs were the Sirin Bird and the black horses, symbols of a wealthy household.

Yara Tupinambá

Yara Tupinambá (born April 2, 1932 in Montes Claros, Brazil) is a Brazilian visual artist.


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Accademia Albertina

Turin became a leading centre of visual arts during the mid-20th century; among Turin's well-known artists are the academy's Felice Casorati, Enrico Paulucci, Francesco Menzio, Sandro Cherchi, Mario Calandri and Enrico Kaneclin.

Africa Beyond

Africa Beyond is a project celebrating African arts and culture in the UK, supported by Arts Council England, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the British Museum, the Southbank Centre, iniva (Institute for International Visual Arts) and other partners.

Aidan Dunne

Currently visual arts critic of The Irish Times, Dunne has written extensively on Irish art, with essays on Michael Mulcahy, Victor Sloan, Patrick Scott, Hughie O'Donoghue, Patrick Swift, and Jennifer Trouton.

Alan Saperstein

He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1981 with a degree in Cinematography and went to work for NFL Films as Director of the Entertainment Division, employing the off season American football cameramen to cover large multi-camera arena rock performances by artists such as Journey, Billy Squier, Cyndi Lauper, and Bruce Springsteen for major record labels and MTV.

Alice Rawsthorn

As well as chairing the British Council's Design Advisory Group, she was a member of its Visual Arts Group and Arts Advisory Committee.

Andrew Nairne

He was the Visual Arts Director at the Scottish Arts Council and for eight years he was the Exhibitions Director at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow.

Ang Kiukok

Ang Kiukok (Chinese: 洪救國; March 1, 1931 – May 9, 2005) was a leading Filipino painter and a National Artist for Visual Arts.

Basil Blackshaw

In 2001 he received the Glen Dimplex Award for a Sustained Contribution to the Visual Arts in Ireland.

Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship

In 2004, Beryl Whiteley was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her service as a benefactor to the visual arts through the creation and endowment of the scholarship.

Brian O'Doherty

For many years, O'Doherty was an influential member of the senior staff of the National Endowment for the Arts, first as director of the Visual Arts Program, and subsequently as director of the Media Arts Program, where he was responsible for the creation of such major public television series as American Masters and Great Performances.

Bronx High School for the Visual Arts

The Bronx High School for the Visual Arts (BHSVA), familiarly known as Visual Arts, is a New York City public high school established as an art school in 2002 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Small Schools Initiative program (officially, the New Century High Schools Initiative).

Bruce Onobrakpeya

The Zaria Arts Society, later called the Zaria Rebels, was formed on 9 October 1958 by a group of art students at the college led by Uche Okeke with the aim of "decolonizing" the visual arts as taught by expatriate Europeans.

Cauleen Smith

Cauleen Smith (Born September 25, 1967) is an American born filmmaker and professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.

City Arts Centre, Dublin

They had an innovative visual arts programme directed for a while by artist John Carson, later of Artangel in the UK.

Disjecta

Visual arts programming highlights include solo exhibitions by Anna Fidler, Chris Fraser, Peter Halley, Karl Burkheimer, Mark Licari, Avantika Bawa, Jenene Nagy, and Dan Gilsdorf.

Élisabeth Ballet

2010 : Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, USA ; Institute of Visual Arts Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA ; MONA Museum of New Art - Detroit's Contemporary Museum, Pontiac, USA ;

Graeme Sullivan

In 1998 he produced a CD-ROM entitled Critical Influence: A Visual Arts Research Project, which documented two contemporary artists preparing for an exhibition, and explored the influences and contexts between their separate art practices.

Greco-Buddhism

The Shape of Ancient Thought. Comparative studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies by Thomas McEvilley (Allworth Press and the School of Visual Arts, 2002) ISBN 1-58115-203-5

Guy Street

Concordia University's Integrated Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex is located on this street, as is the John Molson School of Business building.

Jan Yoors

1966 - 1967: Yoors travels throughout South America, Asia, the Middle East and Russia photographing postwar religious architecture, commissioned by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for the 1967 “International Congress on Religion, Architecture and the Visual Arts”.

Joan Chalmers

In 1972, she and her parents, Floyd and Jean Chalmers, founded the annual Chalmers Awards, which donates $25,000 CAD to artists in dance, theatre, crafts, film, the visual arts and music.

Jones/Ginzel

Current and recent major works include the Visual Arts Complex at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Hoboken Ferry Terminal in New Jersey, the Tiber River in Rome, and public buildings in Florida and Utah.

Kirk Martinez

He is one of the founders of the Electronics and the Visual Arts: EVA Conferences

Knox Chandler

In the early to mid-1970s, Chandler attended the Hammonasset School in Madison, Connecticut, a private open-door policy high school focusing on music and performing and visual arts.

Lord Morpheous

Morpheous attended the University of Western Ontario and acquired his bachelor’s degree in education and an honors degree in visual arts.

Luigi Russolo

As part of its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Italian Futurism, the Performa 09 biennial, in collaboration with the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, invited Luciano Chessa (author of the book Luigi Russolo, Futurist. Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult) to direct a reconstruction project to produce accurate replicas of Russolo’s legendary Intonarumori instruments.

Luis Felipe Noé

In 2002 Konex Foundation from Argentina, granted him the Diamond Konex Award for Visual Arts as the most important artist in the last decade in his country.

Maggie Allesee National Center For Choreography

In 2002, the President of FSU and the Dean of Visual Arts and Dance invited Libby Patenaude, former Chair of the Department of Dance, to begin searching for ways to initiate the creation of The National Center for Choreography (NCC) as a “Center of Excellence”, which would be associated with FSU, a Research I university.

Nicole Stenger

The project foundation was laid out at the Visual Arts Program at MIT, employing Wavefront's Advanced Visualizer on a Silicon Graphics personal IRIS.

Ofelia Márquez Huitzil

After her return from Europe, she studied her masters in visual arts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (ENAP) and began studying Nahua philosophy.

Ørestad Gymnasium

Apart from the regular subjects, students are offered a "creative subject" which can be Multimedia (mainly communication, Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash), Media (production of films, commercials and a theoretical introduction to media), or Visual Arts (including use of Adobe Photoshop).

Patty Chang

She was a 2008 finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize and a Guna S. Mundheim Fellow in the Visual Arts at the American Academy in Berlin in Germany, for Fall 2008.

Rhine romanticism

In the visual arts William Turner drew attention to the Rhine, especially in England, with his paintings, which were the result of several cruises on the river.

Richard Speer

Since 2002 Speer has been visual arts critic at Willamette Week, a Portland, Oregon alternative weekly newspaper that won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2005.

Rising Appalachia

After working with visual arts during her early school days Leah Smith graduated from Grady High School and moved at the age of nineteen to Mexico to study and work alongside the Zapatista movement.

Salima Hashmi

She has served as Dean of the School of Visual Arts & Design at the Beaconhouse National University Lahore, Pakistan.

Salvador Arango

In 1990 was invited by International Art Connection to represent Colombia in a major exhibition of visual arts International Des Createurs Laura La Chapelle de la Sorbonne in Paris.

Samy Benmayor

He was also awarded scholarships by the United States Information Agency and the Foundation for Artist Colonies in 1988 and 1989 to study visual arts at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California.

Sanyog Mohite

The film was also screened at Ecofilms, Rodos International Film & Visual Arts Festival 2010 in Rhodes, Greece.

Sarah Charlesworth

Throughout her career, Charlesworth held various teaching positions at New York University, the School of Visual Arts (NY), Hartford University (CT), and before her death taught Master Critique in the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Program and The School of Visual Arts.

Spencer Penrose

She was an enthusiast of performing and visual arts, and original founder of the Central City Opera (1932) and Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

Tagum City National High School

Tagum City National High School has many clubs in support of its curriculum program, most notably the renowned TCNHS Dance Theater Guild (DTG), the Philippine Society of Youth Science Clubs in the Philippines (PSYSC-TCNHS) Chapter, the Visual Arts Guild (VAG), the TCNHS Tinig Ensemble, and the Boy Scouts of the Philippines and Girl Scouts of the Philippines - TCNHS Chapter.

Têtes

Têtes Raides, French folk rock group blending French poetry, theater, visual arts and the Big Top circus antics

Theatre Bizarre

In June 2011, The Kresge Foundation named John Dunivant as one of its 2011 Visual Arts Fellows.

Visual ethics

Elaine A. King and co-editor Gail Levin addressed many of these issues in the anthology they compiled titled "Ethics and The Visual Arts" published in September 2006 by Allworth Press in New York.

Vivian Selbo

Selbo has created sites and web works for clients such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), the Walker Art Center, Cal Art's Center for Integrated Media, the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego, PBS/POV, Visual Understanding in Education, and Eyebeam, among others.

Vonones of Indo-Scythia

"The Shape of Ancient Thought. Comparative studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies" by Thomas McEvilley (Allworth Press and the School of Visual Arts, 2002) ISBN 1-58115-203-5