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Realism is widely regarded as the beginning of the modern art movement due to the push to incorporate modern life and art together. [2] Classical idealism and Romantic emotionalism and drama were avoided equally, and often sordid or untidy elements of subjects were not smoothed over or omitted.
Born and raised in Illinois, he moved as a youth with his family to Texas. There he developed an art career devoted to portraying Texas Longhorns, and the animals and landscapes of the vast regions of the Great Plains and the American Southwest. He worked in both pastels and oil paints and was a prolific artist, producing more than 7,000 known ...
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By the age of 6 or 7, his talent for drawing the cattle, horses, and the south Texas flora and fauna was evident. [2] After graduating from high school, in 1960 Oliver enrolled at Texas Southern University in Houston, where he was a student of the artist, Dr. John T. Biggers. [4] He married fellow art student, Katie Washington, in 1962.
The term is commonly used in French, English, and German to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art and culture. Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo , primarily in the cultural realm.
Niklaus Stoecklin self-portrait 1916. Niklaus Stoecklin (19 April 1896 – 1 December 1982) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist.He is regarded as a Swiss exponent of New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) and Magic Realism, and at least with his early works numbers among their international co-founders.
Robert Jenkins Onderdonk (January 16, 1852 [2] – July 2, 1917) was an American painter and art teacher, born in Catonsville, Maryland. [1] An important artist in the first stage of Texas art, [3] he was a long-time art teacher in San Antonio and Dallas, where he formed art associations and leagues; for his contributions to the culture of art and painting in Texas he is known as the "Dean of ...
Olin H. Travis was born on November 15, 1888, in Dallas, Texas, the second of six children born to Olin Few Travis and Eulalia Moncrief Travis. [1] He grew up with some familiarity with the arts as his father worked as a printer, and his next-door neighbor was noted sculptor Clyde Giltner Chandler. [2]