Jacob Walker
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Furniture Designer, Sculptor, and Artist Paul Evans
Paul R. Evans popularly known as Paul Evans was the main figure in the mid-century American studio and brutalist furniture development. Evans reliably pushed limits with his imaginative ways to deal with metalsmithing and furniture production. Paul Evans furniture has a special attraction. His otherworldly works, which challenged what regular items resembled and how they were made, keep on uncovering the entrancing crosscurrents among figure and plan. Evans started working with metal in the mid-1950s—first at the Rochester Institute of Technology's School for American Craftsmen (SAC) in Rochester, New York, where he concentrated under the persuasive American silversmiths and fashioners John (Jack) Prip and Lawrence Copeland, and later at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Evans at that point moved to Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts, where he functioned as a full-time skilled worker, showing different silversmithing strategies at Old Sturbridge Village, a living gallery that re-makes life in provincial New England during the eighteenth and nineteenth hundreds of years. In 1955, looking for a difference in landscape, Evans moved to Lambertville, New Jersey, a notable asylum for specialists and experts, and opened a workshop in a previous chicken coop.
By Jacob Walker3 years ago in Journal
Zhang Daqian: One of the most internationally recognized Chinese painters of the 20th century.
An artist who got his beginning making phonies of the old bosses, Zhang Daqian would later get quite possibly the most universally perceived Chinese painters of the twentieth century. His duplicated works were not censured as criminal but instead celebrated as recognitions for China's set of experiences and customs. Artworks from the productive craftsman—the two his famous frauds and his own persuasive works—keep on standing out in both the East and the West.
By Jacob Walker3 years ago in Photography
Madame Alexander Dolls
Dolls remain a popular collectible category, with top-notch antique, antique, and contemporary examples topping the wish lists of enthusiasts around the world. Every July, the United Federation of Doll Clubs (UFDC), a 5013C organization at the forefront of doll research, education, conservation and appreciation, holds its annual convention. This gathering attracts attendees from all continents and is considered the most important annual event in the world of doll collecting. This year, due to COVID-19 restrictions, this celebration will be held online July 22-24 to keep everyone safe and healthy.
By Jacob Walker3 years ago in FYI
Imogen Cunningham, a photographic artist.
Imogen Cunningham, a photographic artist who rose to conspicuousness in the mid twentieth century, was confronted with the test of setting up herself in a generally male-ruled industry. "I used to say that Imogen's blood was three percent acidic corrosive. She appeared to have a corrosive response to so numerous things, and she could be unexpected," Ansel Adams once said about her.
By Jacob Walker3 years ago in Photography