Tag: writer

Andy Warhol

(1928–1987) Andrew Warhola Jr. The artist’s works: Gold Marilyn Monroe 1962 Museum of Modern Art, New York Liz #3 1963 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Self-Portrait 1964 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Self-Portrait 1966 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Marilyn Monroe 1967 Museum of…

Jean Arp

(1886–1966) Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp The artist’s works: Moustaches c.1925 Tate Britain, London Sculpture à être perdue dans la forêt 1932, cast c.1953–1958 Tate Britain, London Born September 16 1886 Strasbourg (France) Died June 7 1966 Basel (Switzerland) Occupation Painter Poet Occupation Sculptor…

Benvenuto Cellini

(1500–1571) The artist’s works: Saliera 1540–1543 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna La nymphe de Fontainebleau 1542–1543 Musée du Louvre, Paris Perseo con la testa di Medusa 1545–1554 Piazza della Signoria, Firenze Bindo Altoviti 1549 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Works: • Autobiography (English) • The treatises…

Bella Rosenfeld

(1889–1944) Bella Rosenfeld Chagall Бэлла Розенфельд-Шагал Marc, Bella and their daughter Ida, Paris 1924. Bella in Art: Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Bella au col blanc 1917 Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris   Born December 14 1889 Vitebsk (Belarus) Died September 2 1944 Tupper Lake,…

Portrait de Stéphane Mallarmé (1891)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Portrait de Stéphane Mallarmé (Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé) 1891 and/or 1913–1919 Etching on paper, 18.3 x 14.3 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Portrait of the symbolist writer Stéphane Mallarmé. Behind the portrait, the head of a raven, taken from Manet‘s…

Tennessee Williams

(1911–1983) Thomas Lanier Williams III Filmography as Writer: A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Director: Elia Kazan Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando     The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone 1961 Director: José Quintero Starring: Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty     The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone…

Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton

(1803–1873) Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC Works: • A Strange Story (English) • Athens: Its Rise and Fall (English) • Devereux (English) • Ernest Maltravers (English) • Eugene Aram (English) • Falkland (English) • Godolphin (English)…

Carl Jung

(1875–1961) Carl Gustav Jung Works: • Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology (English) • Psychologische Typen (German) • Psychology of the Unconscious (English) • The Theory of Psychoanalysis (English) Jung in Art: Pollock, Jackson (1912-1956) Naked Man with Knife c.1938–1940 Tate…

Guido Cavalcanti

(c.1255–1300) Works: • Rime (Italian) • Sonnets and Ballate (English) Cavalcanti in Art: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Private collection     Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Tate…

Apuleius

(c.124-c.170) Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis Works: • Amor ja Psyke (Finnish) • Apologia sive pro se de magia (Latin) • De deo Socratis (Latin) • De mundo (Latin) • De Platone et eius dogmate, Liber I (Latin) • De Platone et…