Showing posts with label Artist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artist. Show all posts

Thursday 31 January 2019

Hans Normann Dahl, Norwegian illustrator and painter, Died at 81

Hans Normann Dahl was born on October 7, 1937, and died on January 29, 2019.

He was a Norwegian illustrator, painter, and sculptor.

Dahl provided illustrations the newspaper Dagbladet from 1967 to 1988 and illustrated a number of books.

Dahl was represented at the National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design, at Bergen Museum and at the National Gallery in Warsaw.

Hans Normann Dahl passed away at 81 years old.

Wednesday 30 January 2019

Susan Hiller, American artist, Died at 78

Susan Hiller was born in 1940, in Tallahassee, Florida and died on January 28, 2019.

She was a American-born artist.

Hiller resided in London, United Kingdom.

Hiller's craft practice included establishment, video, photography, execution and composing.

She went to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and got a B.A. in 1961.

In the wake of going through a year in New York City considering photography, film, drawing and semantics, HIller proceeded to seek after a post-advanced education at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana with a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology. She finished a Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1965.

In the wake of doing hands on work in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, with a give from the Middle American Research Institute (1962-5), Hiller wound up incredulous of scholastic human studies; she didn't need her examination to be a piece of the "typification of the oppositeness of lived occasions bound to end up another complicit string woven into the texture of 'proof' that would enable human studies to wind up a science".

Hiller addressed at the Slade School of Fine Art, London and has filled in as 'Recognized Visiting Professor' at California State University (1988) and as 'Visiting Professor' at the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles (1992).

Susan Hiller passed away at 78 years old.

Thursday 24 January 2019

Elio Berhanyer, Spanish fashion designer, Died at 89

Elio Berhanyer was born on February 20, 1929 and died on January 24, 2019.

He was a Spanish fashion designer.

He was awarded several prizes in his career. Berhanyer's designs were worn by actresses such as Ava Gardner and Cyd Charisse.

He started working as a seamster, in 1956 Following four years, Berhanyer opened up his own shop in the cities of Madrid and Barcelona.

Berhanyer's name spread quickly and he quickly won the Cadillac House Award for being the best designer of the year.

Berhanyer had a collection that gained recognition in order to win this award.

Berhanyer had upon occasion represented Spain in the International Fashion Week.

Elio Berhanyer passed away at 89 years old.

Thursday 17 January 2019

Tinca Stegovec, Slovenian artist, Died at 91

Tinca Stegovec was born on April 8, 1927, and died on January 14, 2019.

She was Slovenian craftsman.

She was mostly a printmaker and painter and related to the gathering of specialists universally known as Ljubljana Graphic School.

Stegovec is depicted as "exceedingly metaphorical craftsman and an unpretentious eyewitness of her general surroundings and relational relations".

She thought of her works are "profound individual stories, described by a purposeful selection of subjects and cautiously chosen visual methods".

For wellbeing reasons anyway she surrendered printmaking after 1988 and dedicated herself to drawing and painting.

An expansive piece of her life was additionally educating, voyaging, news coverage and deciphering.

Stegovec gave her whole printmaking oeuvre together with frameworks and four illustrations, just as a huge segment of her expert library, to the International Center of Graphic Arts Ljubljana.

Tinca Stegovec passed away at 91 years old.

Thursday 10 January 2019

Kevin Fret, Puerto Rican musician, Died at 24


Kevin Fret was born in 1994 and died on January 10, 2019.

He was a Trap artist from Puerto Rico.

Fret was shot and killed in Puerto Rico.

Fret was the first openly gay Latin trap artist.

He was born in Puerto Rico, Fret was living in Miami. In 2018, he released his breakthrough single, Soy Asi.

He was described by Papermag as a 'strict religious upbringing' as the reason he courted controversy in the LGBT+ community by saying that homosexuality was 'a choice' for him.

On 10 January 2019, he was in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, "At 5:31 a.m., He was on a motorcycle near the intersection of Eduardo Conde and Bellview in Santurce when he was shot eight times.

" Which is not known whether Fret was targeted specifically, and an investigation was subsequently announced by police.

His manager, Eduardo Rodriguez said in an official statement that "Kevin was an artistic soul, a big-hearted dreamer. Fret's passion was music, and still had a lot to do.

This violence must stop.

Kevin Fret passed away at 24 years old.

Friday 4 January 2019

Dagfinn Bakke, Norwegian artist, Died at 85

Dagfinn Bakke was born on August 16, 1933 and died on January 1, 2019.

He was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and graphical artist.

Bakke was born in Lødingen, and settled in Svolvær.

Since 1952, Bakke worked as the illustrator for the magazine Magasinet For Alle, and from 1956 to 1992 for the newspaper Lofotposten. Bakke was the illustrator of several books.

Bakke was represented at the National Gallery of Norway and other art galleries.

Dagfinn Bakke passed away at 85 years old.

Monday 31 December 2018

Don Lusk, American animator and director, Died at 105

Donald Lusk was born on October 28, 1913, Los Angeles County, California, and died on December 30, 2018, in San Clemente, California.

He was an American animator and director.

He was hired by The Walt Disney Company in 1933.

A few of his more popular work included Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, Song of the South, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady, and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, and One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

He resigned from Disney in 1960 but when on to work as an animator during the 1960s and 1970s. He career lasted decades before he retired.

Don Lusk passed away at 105 years old.

Warren MacKenzie, American potter, Died at 94

Warren MacKenzie was born on February 16, 1924, and died on December 31, 2018.

He was an American potter.

MacKenzie experienced childhood in Wilmette, Illinois the second most seasoned of five kids including his siblings, Fred and Gordon and sisters, Marge (Peppy) and Marilyn.

MacKenzie's secondary school days were spent at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois.

He and his first spouse, Alix, contemplated with Bernard Leach from 1949 to 1952.

MacKenzie's basic, wheel-tossed useful earthenware is vigorously affected by the oriental tasteful of Shoji Hamada and Korean pottery.

MacKenzie is credited with bringing the Japanese Mingei style of ceramics to Minnesota, affectionately alluded to as the "Mingei-sota style."MacKenzie was outstanding as an educator.

Since 1952 he had instructed at the University of Minnesota, where he was a Regents' teacher emeritus.

His understudies have included Randy Johnston, Dick Cooter, Mike Norman, Jeff Oestreich, Wayne Branum, Mark Pharis, Barbara Diduk, Paul Dresang, Shirley Johnson, Michael Brady, Sandy Simon, and E.A. (Mike) Mikkelsen.

His second spouse of 30 years, Nancy MacKenzie, kicked the bucket in October 2014, at 80 years old.

Nancy was a practiced material craftsman utilizing discovered items from nature and the reuse receptacle.

For a long time, they were the essence of expressions of the human experience network of St. Croix River Valley.

He keeps on living in the home they shared outside Stillwater, Minnesota, where he kept on keeping up his studio until his demise on December 31, 2018. Warren

MacKenzie passed away at 94 years old.