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Roy Lichtenstein nasce a New York nel 1923. Nel 1940 si iscrive all'Università dell'Ohio e, allo stesso tempo, frequenta anche l'Art Students League di New York, dove segue i corsi di Reginald Marsh. Dipinge quadri di ispirazione cubista. Nel 1943 parte militare e viene mandato in Europa. Tornato in America nel 1946, riprende gli studi universitari e frequenta i corsi di pittura di Hoyt Sherman. Dopo la Laurea, si iscrive alla Scuola di specializzazione in Belle Arti, che porta a termine nel 1949. Nel 1951 tiene la sua prima personale alla Galleria Carlebach di New York. Espone dipinti e assemblaggi di oggetti trovati e materiali vari. Nella mostra successiva, organizzata nello stesso anno dalla John Heller Gallery di New York, presenta lavori ispirati al tema della frontiera americana. Nel 1956 realizza la litografia  Ten Dollar Bill , che sembra anticipare alcune tematiche della Pop Art. Alterna l'attività espositiva con altri lavori. Realizza diseg...

Paul Klee Paul Klee  ( German pronunciation:   [paʊ̯l ˈkleː] ; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a  painter  born in  Münchenbuchsee ,  Switzerland , and is considered to be a  Swiss German . [a]  His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included  expressionism ,  cubism , and  surrealism . He was also a student of  orientalism . [1]  Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually got deep into  color theory , writing about it extensively; his lectures  Writings on Form and Design Theory  ( Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre ), published in English as the  Paul Klee Notebooks , are held to be as important for modern art as  Leonardo da Vinci 's  A Treatise on Painting  for the Renaissance . [2] [3] [4]  He and his colleague, the  Russian painter   Wassily Kandinsky , both taught at the German  Bauhaus  school ...

Karel Appel e Christiaan Karel Appel was born on 25 April 1921 [1]  in his parents' house at Dapperstraat 7 in  Amsterdam ,  Netherlands . As a child he was called "Kik". On the ground floor, his father, Jan Appel, had a barber shop. His mother, born Johanna Chevalier, was a descendant of French  Huguenots . Karel Appel had three brothers. [2] At fourteen, Appel produced his first real painting on canvas, a still life of a fruit basket. For his fifteenth birthday, his wealthy uncle Karel Chevalier gave him a paint set and an easel. An avid amateur painter himself, Chevalier gave his namesake some lessons in painting. [3] Career [ edit ] Appel studied at the  Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten  in Amsterdam during the German Occupation from 1940 to 1943 and it was there he met the young painter  Corneille  and, some years later,  Constant ; they becam...

Cy Twombly Ritual 1949 Min-oe 1951 MIN-OE 1951. / BITUMEN, OIL BASED HOUSE PAINT ON CANVAS, 85 X 100 CM. ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION. Untitled 1951 Landscape 1951 ZYIG, 1951. / LEXINGTON VIRGINIA. 41 X 51.5 CM. UNTITLED 1952. / OIL ON CANVAS, 73.5 X 91.5 CM. SOLON I 1952. / LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA. HOUSE PAINT AND EARTH ON CANVAS, 102 X 133 CM. UNTITLED 1953. / OIL BASED HOUSE PAINT, WAX CRAYON AND PENCIL ON CANVAS, 52 1/8 X 52 1/8 INCHES. ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION UNTITLED 1953. / MONOTYPE IN PAINT, 48 X 64 CM. UNTITLED 1953. / MONOTYPE IN PAINT, 48 X 64 CM. TIZNIT 1953. / WHITE LEAD, HOUSE PAINT, CRAYON, AND PENCIL ON CANVAS, 53, 1/2 X 6 2 1/2 INCHES (135.9 X 189.2 CM). Dal  1947  al  1949  studia al School of the Museum of Fine Arts di  Boston , alla Washington and Lee University e al Art Students League di  New York  dal  1950  al  1951 . Lì conosce  Rober...