“M” Marina Abramović is a 68-year-old Serbian performance artist who has been on the art scene since the 1970s. From Wikipedia, performance art is described as “performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation.” Following is…
“L” I have always appreciated Lalique glass works, but knew nothing about René Lalique, the founder of the company. Before Lalique (1860-1945) worked chiefly with glass, he went to the College Turgot and then to École des Art Décoratifs. Later, he moved from Paris to London for two years to attend Crystal Palace School of Art…
“J” –artist Maritza Jauregui Maritza Jauregui is an internationally renowned artist who started painting at a very young age. Born in 1970, she was 3 years old when she started watching her father paint and copying him. Later, she worked with clay and from this work, she received a scholarship for college. At the ripe…
“I” Isabelle Alford-Lago is a muralist I recently discovered perusing the internet. Her specialty is gorillas. Alford-Lago is a graduate of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and she also studied in Florence, Italy. Most of her murals are in California, but a number of her murals can be found in Philadelphia. Alford-Lago recently…
“G” I apologize to the A to Z Challenge followers for such a late posting! –sculptor Antony Gormley Antony Gormley is a world-renowned British sculptor. He was born in 1950, grew up in Yorkshire, and went to school at Cambridge. After Cambridge, Gormley headed to India for a few years and studied Buddhism. He then…
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