Henri Matisse was born on 1869 France. He studied law in Paris from 1887 to 1888 but in 1891, when he was 21 years old he became ill and which was when he started painting and discovered his love for art.
In 1931, he visited America where he was commissioned to paint murals for the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. In 1948, he designed the decoration of Chapelle du Rosaire at Vence, which was completed in 1951. Major retrospective of his work was presented at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He traveled to Cleveland, Chicago, and San Francisco. Matisse continued to make large paper cutouts but a design for the rose window at Union Church of Pocantico Hills, New York was his last.
Hi all, now I would like to share with you guys the biography and paintings by the famous Jack Vettriano….enjoy !!!
Jack Vettriano was born in 1953, Scotland. Vettriano actually left school at 16 to become an apprentice mining engineer He later become a mining engineer and worked in the Scottish coalfields.
In his twenties he took painting as a hobby and only did his paintings in his spare time but later he quit his job and took painting as a full-time job. 1988 was the year in which he submitted two canvas painting for the Royal Scottish Academy annual show. To everyone’s surprise both paintings were sold on the very first day of the opening and that was the break-through of his career as a professional painter. Vettriano was approached by several galleries who wanted to sell his other work.
Successful exhibitions followed in London, Johannesburg, Edinburgh, Hong Kong and New York. Vettriano mostly used himself as model for all his paintings. Critics however dismissed Vettriano art work as being vulgar but he remain as one of the most commercially successful living artists in his time. Vettriano has studios in London and Scotland. In 2003 he was awarded the OBE.
I’m going way off this blog topic and anybody out there care to protest or said anything, might as well GET LOST......“It my blog and it’s my way”
Ok. this rant stems from a latest discussion about meme for example, Music Monday and Wordless Wednesday, at a very well respectable site. I was going to comment back at the forum but as I just don’t have the time yesterday I decided to write this is MY blog today and I might as well express my opinion here. That's right, you guys are not the only ones that are entitled to your opinion.
I have been following the forum at the site and its new policy. However, let's forget about the site new policy but rather concentrate on the discussion that bothered me.
Don’t you think the program you’re in and writing in the forum is not just ANOTHER MEME. You don’t have to be there but you choose to be and following all the rules and doing all the linking up, commenting, blog hopping and even earning MONEY too. Don’t write about what you obviously don’t understand and never will with that kind of attitude for just the sake of a forum post or a 5cents. Don’t you think you might be hurting someone feeling as a real person is doing all the coding every week and not A BOT or is there no more courtesy and guilty feeling in the blogger world anymore and that really makes me SICK!!!!!!.
Some members that have participated in the thread have raised valid issues however there are some that simply state their opinion as a matter of fact rather than a view. I for one participate in memes and I especially love Music Monday. Let me tell you, Music Monday is not a lazy way for me of escaping on writing a post but it’s the sharing and the togetherness that cause people to join each week. Sharing something one enjoy with others and linking up is nothing to be ashamed off. In fact, I am sure the creator, LadyJava, created the linkies so that it will enhance the blog hopping experience of all the participants. I, for one make use of the linkies to bloghop from one blog to another to enjoy each participant's choice of song for the week. And let me ask you again, are you not just doing the same in the program by clicking on the widget and forum you write in?
And who's to say which post is good while others hate it …everyone have their own point of view, you love it while I hate it and I hate it while you love it. Just keep it to yourself and move on dude....and not just to score some point or 5cents. WHO MADE YOU THE WEB POLICE anyway?..
And to LJ chin up girl coz you have the eye of the tiger on you..
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