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Art Resvick Art was a grain buyer for the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool for 37 years. Art was also a long time member of the Masonic Lodge, Elks, Legion, Lions, and a leader of the Aneroid 4H Beef Club. Art was truly a special man who was a friend to so many people in Southwest Saskatchewan that it is unlikely any hall or even town will be able to hold them. www.wjjonesandson.com /Memorials/resvickart.htm   (564 words)

Art & Harriet Ortmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Art worked at the Lyons Creamery and Harriet started teaching in a rural school at the age of seventeen. Art was a long time member of the Rural Fire Board, served on District 62 School Board, Farmers Co-op Board, and numerous positions for St. Paul Lutheran Church. Art died June 13, 1998 at his home in Bancroft cared for by his wife and children. members.cox.net /ortmann/Art_Harriet.html   (452 words)

Focillon, Henri on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Focillon, who was professor of art history at the Collège de France, was an authority on medieval art, the subject of his two-volume treatise Art of the West in the Middle Ages (2d ed. His book Life Forms in Art (1934) outlines his formal, organic conception of the art historical method, stressing analysis of style and technique over subjective interpretation. Art of the fugue: Louise Neri on Juan Munoz. www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/Focillon.asp   (265 words)

Private Art Remembers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Private Art and three other soldiers encounter a mishap on the sandy roads of Texas. Private Art remembers Captain Pitt, a personal hero whom he looked up to during his time in the hedgerows of Normandy. Memories of The 10th Replacement Depot, where Private Art was assigned to stay briefly between combat missions in 1945. www.private-art.com /remember/chow.html   (282 words)

Forms of Art It is an art by itself, but it is also the starting point for other kinds of art, like painting or sculpture. Mughal art and architecture - Mughal art and architecture, a characteristic Indo-Islamic-Persian style that flourished on the... Art Movements - Abstract Expressionism A style developed in the mid-20th century. www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0900629.html   (295 words)

Immortal German Culture They love to pretend to be the protectors and defenders of an art and culture that they themselves have not created, or to which they made at best a modest contribution that could vanish without much harm to the cultural edifice. The art treasures they possess were mostly stolen by their armies in Europe or the rest of the world. It is almost a miracle that in the midst of this gigantic battle, art is able to exist, almost untouched by the storms of war. www.calvin.edu /academic/cas/gpa/goeb43.htm   (1755 words)

Horton & Fogg Sculpture Garden and Gallery After six months of study at the Otis Art Institute in 1943, Horton was inducted in the Navy where he became a hospital corpsman. Once out of the Navy, he continued his education at the Otis Art Institute and began to show his work widely, graduating in 1950. Horton's art represents the limitless boundary of the human imagination and the infinite flexibility of artistic consciousness. www.hortonfogg.com /hbio.html   (638 words)

Art Technologies Founded in 1943, ART Technologies, Inc. is a family owned and managed high volume precision metal forming company located approximately 15 miles north of Cincinnati, Ohio. ART Technologies, Inc. serves a diverse customer base in many industries, including the Auto, Truck, Bus, Agricultural, Appliance, and Trailer marketplaces. ART Technologies, Inc. equipment includes twelve presses ranging from 45 to 800 tons capacity, eleven assembly machines, four welding machines, and a full service tool room. www.art-technologies.com   (218 words)

Story of Art Heise In November of 1942 Art went to flight school training in Santa Ana, CA and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant (SN O-750985) in the US Army Air Corps 28 July 1943, then on to "four engine pilot" school in Roswell, NM until 4 October 1943. Art was with the 444th BG until 24 July 1945 when he was detached and sent back to the "states" to be separated. Art then moved to Cleveland, Ohio and worked for his father in Heise Homes, Inc. At night he would play the piano in nightspots in and around Cleveland (Art was an accomplished pianist). www.seanachas.com /historyarchives/Art_Heise.htm   (1158 words)

The Irish Exhibition of Living Art, 1943   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Using the Art school in Kildare Street as a venue was seen as a nod to tradition. But it was significant not only for the art critics, but because it was an exhibition that the public were invited to appreciate as well. Artists who had rejected the traditions of the RHA were not going to be tied to the ideals of "Catholic, Gaelic Ireland" with the "happy maidens on the village green" and so on that Ireland had styled itself into in the post independence decades. www.pearsecom.com /Ireland/irishart/iela.htm   (639 words)

Netwings - B-17 Nose Art - Munster Mission on October 10, 1943 Looking for Nose Art of some of the B-17F's that flew on October 10, 1943. ID RE: B-17 Nose Art - Munster Mission on October 10, 1943 RE: B-17 Nose Art - Munster Mission on October 10, 1943 www.netwings.org /dcforum/DCForumID2/823.html   (284 words)

NARA - Holocaust-Era Assets - Art Provenance and Claims Records and Research The criterion for inclusion in the files seems to have been involvement in wartime art dealings, whether or not of a criminal nature. For most of the nationalities, the card entries seem to be biographical, with no effort made to establish participation in art looting. The French nationality (approximately two-thirds of the card file) is an exception, with the clear intent of identifying those who had collaborated with the Germans or assisted in art looting. www.archives.gov /research/holocaust/art/key-series-descriptions/key-series-descriptions-03.html?template=print   (1848 words)

The New Republic: Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art, 1928-1943. (book reviews)@ HighBeam ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) It used to be that patronage of the avant-garde in art by adventurous wealthy individuals was fairly common in America. It looks saintly only in retrospect, now that there is no longer a true avant-garde, and the astronomical growth in wealth over the last generation has fueled merely an interest in treating art as a financial asset. Nicholas Fox Weber has built an interesting story out of what are some footnotes to the history of modernism and its progress on these shores. www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:12813597&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (210 words)

WWW Pop Art: Eduardo Paolozzi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art in 1943. Its themes were the mass media, science and technology and their significance for contemporary art. From 1977 to 1981 he was Professor of Ceramics at the Art and Design Department of the Fachhochschule, Cologne. www.fi.muni.cz /~toms/PopArt/Biographies/paolozzi.html   (490 words)

Salvador Dali - Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man, 1943 - Art Print Poster - Cheap Posters and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man, 1943 is a Art Print. This Art Print made by Salvador Dali is very pretty. This Art Print was available at $13.99, but it is worth the money. www.poster.us.com /poster_96706.php   (233 words)

ART 336 The Experience of Mexican Art As such, the student is asked to analyze modern Mexican art history in reference to specific problems which s/he confronts in studio practice and, simultaneously, to understand her/his formal and conceptual artistic decisions by comparing and relating them to previous historical experience in Mexico. Hence, the studio and art historical components of the course, while not repeating, will influence each other in terms of the kinds of questions and answers to problems raised or solved by the experience of modern Mexican art. In the history section of this course we will learn that while Mexican art cannot be categorized as one-dimensional, what is consistent throughout its history is how artists borrowed from previous conventions of other ethnic groups but simultaneously adapted those conventions to their own needs. condor.depaul.edu /~pjaskot/mexico   (2012 words)

The Anarchist Encyclopedia from the Daily Bleed: A Gallery of Saints & Sinners; Labor, Radical, Poets, Anarchists, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) English poet, art critic, anarchist, political philosopher, man of letters, assistant conservator of Victoria & Albert Museum of London, professor of fine arts in Edinburgh & various English universities. Read was a poet, art critic & champion of modern art in Britain, & produced approximately 1,150 titles on a broad range of topics. His 80 monographs include 26 on art & artists; 14 literary criticisms; 13 collections of poetry; 10 on politics, primarily on anarchism; 7 "belles lettres" & biography; 5 on education, most notably "Education Through Art"; & 5 autobiographies. recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/ReadHerbert.htm   (413 words)

Henry Miller Art Collection But his reputation as a watercolor painter was becoming established; in 1943 he earned $1400 from sales of his paintings. In March 1943 he moved to Big Sur and re-established contact with Janina Martha Lepska, a graduate student whom he had met earlier in New York. The 14 paintings and drawings by Miller were created between 1943 and 1963 and include two self-portraits and several abstract works. www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/miller.html   (1214 words)

The Cathedrals of Art–Artworld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Stettheimer's original title for this work was "Our Dawn of Art," satirizing the current dealings between artists, the commercial art world, and three New York museums. Here "New Art" is symbolized by a naked baby resembling a sleeping bronze angel acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1943. Museum goers are represented by a beautifully dressed young lady who basks in the glow of light reflecting off the baby but ironically generated by the photographer and the critic. www.metmuseum.org /explore/artists_view/art_artworld.html   (142 words)

Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art - Howard University, Department of Art - Absolutearts.com Howard University, Department of Art, and the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture in Washington, DC present the Twelfth Annual James A. Porter Colloquium entitled Migrations and the Diaspora: Caribbean and African American Connections on April 6 and 7, 2001. In 1929, he studied at the Art Institute and was awarded the Arthur Schomburg Portrait Prize for his painting Woman Holding A Jug in 1933 exhibited in the Harmon Foundation Exhibition of Negro Artists. James A. Porters classic book, Modern Negro Art (1943, Howard University Press 1992) proved to be one of the most informative sources to date on the productivity of the Negro artist in the United States since the 18th century. www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2001/03/16/28248.html   (841 words)

University of Kentucky Art Museum - COLLECTIONS As the longtime repository for artwork created under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project, the University of Kentucky Art Museum preserves over 160 important works on paper by a diverse range of mid-century artists, including Ben Shahn, Mitchell Siporin, O. Louis Guglielmi, Ernest Fiene, Nan Lurie, Paul Weller, and many others. (In addition to the WPA holdings, the Art Museum has acquired a complementary sampling of works by photographers working in the Farm Security Administration.) The Art Museum has supplemented collection holdings with other works of the 1930s and ‘40s, when American printmaking was, in a sense, rediscovered. One division of the W.P.A. was the Federal Art Project (F.A.P.), which employed painters and muralists, printmakers and sculptors, teachers and models. www.uky.edu /ArtMuseum/collections_WPA_prints.html   (506 words)

New Deal/W.P.A. Artist Biographies His works are in the Fogg Museum of Art; Cambridge, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Zanesville, OH Art Institute. She had studied art at the Watkins Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Ropp School of Art. Born in 1918 in St. Louis, MO. "Suzanne Martyl was a student of the Art Institute of Chicago under the well known WPA artist Arnold Blanch and she later studied in the Provincetown Art Community under Charles Hawthorne at the Hawthorne School of Art. www.wpamurals.com /wpabios.html   (12195 words)

Thomas Hart Benton Online Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York Museum of Nebraska Art at the University of Nebraska Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/benton_thomas_hart.html   (440 words)

AllRefer.com - Sir Herbert Read (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia Read was an important critic of both art and literature, and he influenced the treatment of these subjects in British education. As an art critic he defined and advocated various modern art movements and aided the careers of many British artists, notably Henry Moore. His works of art criticism include The Innocent Eye (1933), Art and Industry (1934), Art and Society (1936), Education Through Art (1943), Art Now (1948), The Grass Roots of Art (1961), and Art and Alienation: The Role of the Artist in Society (1967). reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Read-Sir.html   (387 words)

ARTSZONE: Degenerate Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) In 1943 he served as the Senior U.S. Naval Interrogation Officer in Northwest African waters, charged with the special interrogation of German U-boat crews. From November, 1944, to April, 1946, he was Director of the Art Looting Investigation Unit, OSS, and in this capacity he was directly responsible for recovering the works of art which had been looted by Rosenberg, Göring, and Hitler and hidden in Germany. A number of art connoisseurs scoured from country to country invaded by Germany solely in pursuit of attaining priceless works for Hitler and the Nazi leadership. www.ovationtv.com /artszone/programs/degenerate/wild.html   (587 words)

The Nation, 01/02/1943 - Art by Greenberg, Clement This article presents information on two art exhibitions; namely "1942-43 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art," held at the Whitney Museum, in January 1943 and "Artists For Victory," held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in February 1943. ...Moving art in any age is that which wins new experience for human beings... ...The Metropolitan is more coy in its selection and hanging of "radical" art, and it has no four or five works as good as the best four or five at the Whitney, but it has staged a better show on the whole, if only because it gives the preponderance to landscapes and still lifes... www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v156i0001_28.htm   (1127 words)

Minnesota Historical Society | History Topics | WPA Art Project The Work Progress Administration (WPA) was one of the "alphabet agencies" of the New Deal, the broad sweeping social and economic experiment created by executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term in office during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Minnesota artists worked on several publicly funded art programs, including the Public Works of Art Project (1933-1934) and the WPA Federal Art Project (1935-1943). Art for a Democracy: The WPA's Art Education Programs in Minnesota, 1935-1943, by Susan Ray Euler. www.mnhs.org /library/tips/history_topics/07wpa.html   (659 words)

Milieu: The Harlem Community Art Center and the WPA - Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking ... He also participated in the Harlem Arts Workshop, the Uptown Art Laboratory, and the Harlem arts salon known as "306." Lithography classes offered at the WPA-sponsored Harlem Community Art Center introduced him to the art of printmaking. Blackburn's drawings and lithographs from this period won national acclaim in exhibitions from Chicago to New York and were cited and praised by such art critics as Alain Locke and James Porter. By 1943, prominent art critic James Porter considered him the 'foremost Negro abstractionist painter' in New York. www.loc.gov /exhibits/blackburn/milieu.html   (672 words)

Eduardo Paolozzi artist and art...the-artists.org His slide projections Bunk, started in 1947, with their collage of cuttings from advertising, comic-strips, design and magazines, provoked a controversial debate which had a considerable influence on the development of Pop Art... To understand where we are in American art, we need 'Pop Art: A Critical History' to remind us of where we were. The grid is one of the fundamental compositional and structuring devices of postwar art and became especially significant to the generation of Minimal and Conceptual artists of the 1960s. www.the-artists.org /ArtistView.cfm?id=239B6333-C5CF-11D4-A93800D0B7069B40   (408 words)

Charles Saatchi Quotes + The art critics on some of Britain’s newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. + I don’t buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane. There’s a squad of conservators out there to look after anything an artist decides is art. www.artquotes.net /quotations/charles-saatchi-quotes.htm   (132 words)

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