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Artist & activist Joe Jones 1909 in St Louis, Missouri. Largely self-taught, he left school at 15 to work as a house painter. He lived for a while in a houseboat & painted several New Deal murals.Although a communist he was enlisted as a combat artist during WW2.

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2019-04-08

1917
Leonora Carrington was in
“The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.”

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2019-04-06

1647
Naturalist & Maria Sibylla Merian was in
"Art & shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another."


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2019-04-02


Austrailan Mirka Mora was in Paris.
"#Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t choose the they choose me."

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2019-03-18

1918
Elaine de Kooning was in
"A to me is primarily a verb, not a noun - an event first and only secondarily an image."

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2019-03-12



Elaine Marie Catherine Fried
aka Elaine de Kooning
NOT just de Kooning's wife
"I was a lot of fun...I mean a LOT of fun."

Self Portraits:
- c.1942
- 1946
- 1968
Portrayed by Willem de Kooning,1940

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2019-03-12

Jackson Pollock earned his nickname ‘Jack the Dripper’ by his unique method of painting: he splashed painting on a canvas, typical for his dynamic and unpredictable personality.

‘The Water Bull’ is now on display in Stedelijk BASE. Jackson Pollock was in 1912.

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2019-01-29