"Man Ray Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called ""rayographs"" in reference to himself. During his career as an"
"pleasure and liberty', unlocked every door it came to and walked freely where it would."" Seeking pleasure and liberty was one of Ray's guiding principles, along with others such as doing things that are socially prohibited. In March 2013, Man Ray's photograph ""Noire et Blanche"" (1926) was featured in the United States Postal Service's ""Modern Art in America"" series of stamps. Man Ray Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although"
"Ian Hornak Ian Hornak (January 9, 1944 – December 9, 2002) was an American draughtsman, painter and printmaker and one of the founding artists of the Hyperrealist and Photorealism art movements. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to parents who immigrated from Slovakia, Hornak moved to Brooklyn, New York at the age of 3 and then relocated with his family to Mount Clemens, Michigan at age 8. At age 9 he received a set of oil paints and a book of important Renaissance paintings from his mother as a gift and immediately began copying the works of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci"
"Scarecrow Press, NJ, 1973 Brumme, C. Ludwig Crown Publishers, New York, 1970 Meilach, Dona Z. Crown Publishers, New York, 1970 Gulack, Herman C. Plantin Press, New York, 1957 Proske, Beatrice Gilman Order of the Trustees, Brookgreen, S.C. 1955 Daniel Trowbridge Mallett Peter Smith, NY, 1948 Schnier, Jacques University of California Press, 1948 Vincent Glinsky Vincent Glinsky (December 18, 1895 – March 19, 1975) was an American artist. Vincent Glinsky was born in Russia on December 18, 1895 and emigrated to America just before World War I, settling in Syracuse, NY, with his family. In 1916 he moved to New York"
"City, Germany, Japan, and California. Thomas Pradzynski Thomas Pradzynski (29 November 1951 – 21 December 2007) was a Polish painter. Born in Łódź in 1951, he attended the Lycée Français in Warsaw, where he received a master's degree in sociology and economics. He and his wife, Joanna, moved to Paris in 1977, where he became known for his realistic Parisian street scenes. At the time of his death, he lived in Montmartre. He was murdered in December 2007 in a road rage incident while he was walking with his wife in Paris. Pradzynski's work has been showcased at exhibitions around"
"Piotr Litvinsky Piotr Petrovich Litvinsky (; November 7, 1927, Leningrad, USSR, – July 8, 2009, Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet realist painter and art teacher, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad) and Moscow. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), and regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his cityscapes and historical paintings. Piotr Petrovich Litvinsky was born November 7, 1927, in Leningrad, USSR."
"Thomas Pradzynski Thomas Pradzynski (29 November 1951 – 21 December 2007) was a Polish painter. Born in Łódź in 1951, he attended the Lycée Français in Warsaw, where he received a master's degree in sociology and economics. He and his wife, Joanna, moved to Paris in 1977, where he became known for his realistic Parisian street scenes. At the time of his death, he lived in Montmartre. He was murdered in December 2007 in a road rage incident while he was walking with his wife in Paris. Pradzynski's work has been showcased at exhibitions around the world, including New York"
"Walery Mroczkowski Walery Karłowicz Mroczkowski, born 1840 in Olonets, Russian Republic of Karelia - died 1889 in Paris, was a Polish insurgent in the 1863 January Uprising. He was arrested and imprisoned by the Prussian authorities. Upon release in 1865, he was sent into exile and travelled to Italy, Switzerland, London and finally settled in France. While in Florence he met Mikhail Bakunin and became an anarchist and a member of the latter's close circle. He is also known as a portrait photographer in France, working under the pseudonym, ""Ostroga"" or ""Valerien Ostroga"". Nothing is known, at present, of Mroczkowski's"
"Erwin Panofsky Erwin Panofsky (March 30, 1892 in Hannover – March 14, 1968 in Princeton, New Jersey) was a German-Jewish art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime. Panofsky's work represents a high point in the modern academic study of iconography, which he used in hugely influential works like his ""little book"" ""Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art"" and his masterpiece, ""Early Netherlandish Painting"". Many of his works are still in print, including ""Studies in Iconology: Humanist Themes in the Art of the Renaissance"" (1939), ""Meaning in the Visual Arts"""
"Yury Annenkov Yury Pavlovich Annenkov ( also known as Georges Annenkov); in Petropavlovsk, Akmolinsk Oblast, Russian Empire – 12 July 1974 in Paris, France), was a Russian artist mostly known for his book illustrations and portraits. He also worked for theatre and cinema (design). A member of Mir Iskusstva. In his essay ""On Synthetism"" (1922), Yevgeny Zamyatin writes that ""[Annenkov] has a keen awareness of the extraordinary rush and dynamism of our epoch. His sense of time is developed to the hundredth of a second. He has the knack--characteristic of Synthetism--of giving only the synthetic essence of things."" Yury Annenkov"
"Helmar Lerski Helmar Lerski (18 February 1871, Strasbourg - 19 September 1956, Zürich) was a photographer who laid some of the important foundations of modern photography. His works are on display in the USA, Germany, Israel and Switzerland. He focused mainly on portraits and the technique of photography with mirrors. His real name was Israel Schmuklerski. The family moved in 1876 to Zürich, Switzerland, where the family was naturalized. In 1888, Lerski emigrated to the United States, where he worked as an actor. Around 1910, he began to photograph. In 1915, he returned to Europe and worked as a cameraman"
"Gallery in 2004 and Dmitri Plavinsky: Book of Grass at The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow in 2015. Dmitri Plavinsky Dmitri Plavinsky (Russian: Дмитрий Петрович Плавинский) (28 April 1937 – 1 September 2012) was a Russian-American artist. An active member of the Nonconformist art community in the Soviet Union, Plavinsky mastered various mediums including painting, etchings, and mixed media. In 1956, he graduated from the theater department of the 1905 Institute of Art. In the 1960s, Plavinsky became one of the founders and leaders of the artistic nonconformist movement in Russia. Plavinsky's artistic themes ranged from origins on"
"He died in 1942 in Prague of pneumonia. Jindřich Štyrský Jindřich Štyrský (11 August 1899, Čermná u Kyšperka – 21 March 1942, Prague) was a Czech Surrealist painter, poet, editor, photographer, and graphic artist. His outstanding and varied oeuvre included numerous book covers and illustrations. He also wrote studies of both Arthur Rimbaud and Marquis de Sade. Along with his artistic partner Toyen (Marie Čermínová), he became a member of ""Devětsil"" in 1923, participating in their group exhibitions. He and Toyen also exhibited in Paris in the late 1920s, where they founded their own movement, Artificialism. Between 1928 and 1929"
"Mikhail Roginsky Mikhail Roginsky (; 14 August 1931 – 5 July 2004) was a Russian painter. Roginsky was one of the leaders of Soviet Nonconformist Art and the creator of the modern national visual method, with its laconic means and inner expressiveness. In 1978, Roginsky moved to Paris. One year before his emigration he had gone back to documentary art and did a series of five or six works with cans. ""I felt (he explained) that I had to go back to what I had begun with, to return to myself"". He left Russia shortly after he had finished that"
"Gleb Derujinsky Gleb Derujinsky (March 19, 1925 – June 9, 2011) was an American fashion photographer. He worked for ""Esquire"", ""Look"", ""Life"", ""Glamour"", ""Town and Country"" and ""The New York Times Magazine"", before shooting extensively for ""Harper’s Bazaar"". Eileen Ford, founder of Ford Models agency, described him as an “early visionary on a path that others were to follow”. Gleb Derujinsky was born in New York City in 1925, and named after his father Gleb W. Derujinsky, an immigrant of Russian nobility who became a successful sculptor. The Derujinsky family served the Russian tsars as far back as Peter the"
"Jindřich Štyrský Jindřich Štyrský (11 August 1899, Čermná u Kyšperka – 21 March 1942, Prague) was a Czech Surrealist painter, poet, editor, photographer, and graphic artist. His outstanding and varied oeuvre included numerous book covers and illustrations. He also wrote studies of both Arthur Rimbaud and Marquis de Sade. Along with his artistic partner Toyen (Marie Čermínová), he became a member of ""Devětsil"" in 1923, participating in their group exhibitions. He and Toyen also exhibited in Paris in the late 1920s, where they founded their own movement, Artificialism. Between 1928 and 1929 he was designer for the group's drama wing,"
"Isaak Brodsky Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky (; , – 14 August 1939) was a Soviet-Jewish painter whose work provided a blueprint for the art movement of socialist realism. He is known for his iconic portrayals of Lenin and idealized, carefully crafted paintings dedicated to the events of the Russian Civil War and Bolshevik Revolution. Brodsky was born in the village of Sofiyivka near Berdyansk in what is now Ukraine to Yisrael, a Jewish merchant. He studied at Odessa Art Academy and the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. In 1916 he joined the Jewish Society for the Encouragement of the"
"most sought-after. He also created an isohelia technology, a technique that sharpens contrasts and defines three-dimensional images, under the brand name ""izobrom"". Henryk Derczyński Henryk Derczyński (1906-1981) was a photographer, who lived in Poland. Derczyński was a leading photographer in 20th century Poland. He was educated in Warsaw. After World War II, he documented the fate of citizens forcibly moved to the city of Wrocław (Breslau). He later established the Cabinet of Photography in the National Museum, Wrocław. The city developed into a centre of Polish photography, and Derczyński worked at the forefront of the realist style prevalent at the"
"Evgeny Pozdniakov Evgeny Mikhailovich Pozdniakov (; July 9, 1923, Petrograd, USSR – 1991, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most known for his landscape paintings. Evgeny Mikhailovich Pozdniakov was born July 9, 1923, in Petrograd (former Saint Petersburg, in 1924 renamed of Leningrad), USSR. In years 1933-1938, Evgeny Pozdniakov studied drawing and painting at Art studio of the City Palace of Young Pioneers, then in the Secondary Art School at the"
"Jorge Lewinski Jorge Lewinski (1921–2008) was a Polish-British photographer and soldier. Born in Lwow, Poland (now Ukraine), in 1921, Lewinski survived Russian occupation, internment, and forced labour in Siberia. After conscription into the Polish army, he served with Allied forces in the Middle East. In 1942, he was sent to Britain to join the RAF, and afterwards settled. In 1966, having developed a name for himself through the portraiture of artists, he became the pre-eminent photographer of artists in Britain. Subjects included Francis Bacon, LS Lowry, David Hockney, Henry Moore, Marcel Duchamp, Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Gilbert and George, Barbara"
"Rafał Olbiński Rafal Olbinski (born February 21, 1943) is a Polish illustrator, painter, and educator, living in the United States. He is considered one of the major representatives of the Polish School of Posters. Olbinski was born in Kielce, Poland. He graduated from the architecture program of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1969. Olbinski immigrated to the United States in 1981, where he soon established himself as a prominent painter, illustrator and designer. Olbinski's work is very similar to the work of the famous Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte; Olbinski describes his approach to painting and illustrating as ""poetic surrealism""."
"Izis Bidermanas Israëlis Bidermanas (17 January 1911 in Marijampolė – 16 May 1980 in Paris), who worked under the name of Izis, was a Lithuanian-Jewish photographer who worked in France and is best known for his photographs of French circuses and of Paris. Born in Marijampolė, present-day Lithuania, Bidermanas arrived in France in 1930 to become a painter. In 1933, he directed a photographic studio in the 13th Arrondissement of Paris. During World War II, being a Jew, he had to leave occupied Paris. He went to Ambazac, in the Limousin, where he adopted the pseudonym Izis and where he"
"I do feel that my Jewish types reflect the tradition and beliefs that . . . have kept them separate as a people since Abraham."" Israel Abramofsky Israel Abramofsky (September 10, 1888 - January 16, 1975) was a Russian-born artist, who trained in Paris and settled in the United States, known for his landscape works and works depicting Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Abramofsky was born in Kiev, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) and left Czarist Russia for Vienna, Austria where he first took an interest in art. He lived briefly in Paris and arrived in the United States in 1909."
"Saul Alinsky Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. He is often noted for his book ""Rules for Radicals"" (1971). In the course of nearly four decades of political organizing, Alinsky received much criticism, but he also gained praise from many public figures. His organizing skills were focused on improving the living conditions of poor communities across the United States. In the 1950s, he began turning his attention to improving conditions in the black ghettos, beginning with Chicago's"
"and Gros. Rayski gained a reputation as a distinguished portrait painter, but also produced animal and hunting scenes, as well as, yet less frequently, military, historical and mythological paintings. He lived in Dresden from 1840 until his death in 1890. Ferdinand von Rayski Ferdinand von Rayski (1806–1890) was a German painter noted for his portraits. Rayski was born in 1806 in Pegau. From 1816 to 1821 he studied drawing under Traugott Faber at the Freimaurerinstitut in Dresden and from 1823 to 1825 studied at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. He began his career as a professional artist in"
"the French choreographer Marius Petipa, inspired Radunsky to design the set as an enormous pop-up book. Vladimir Radunsky Vladimir Radunsky (born March 1, 1954 in Perm, Russia - died September 11, 2018 in Rome, Italy) was a Russian-born American artist, designer, author and illustrator. Vladimir Radunsky grew up in Moscow where he studied fine art, design, and architecture. In 1973 he studied at the Moscow Architectural Institute. In 1982 he immigrated to New York, became a US citizen, and continued his work as a graphic designer, producing mainly art books and children's books. Radunsky produced very different types of books:"
"Sacha Sosno Alexandre Joseph Sosnowsky, (1937 – 3 December 2013), better known by the name Sacha Sosno, was an internationally renowned French sculptor and painter. Working most of the time in Nice, in his last decades Sosno achieved international recognition for his monumental outdoor sculptures in Côte d'Azur, France. Along with: Yves Klein, Arman and Cesar he was part of the New Realist (Nouveau réalisme) movement . Sosno had a singular artistic approach: the concept of obliteration. His sculptures are masked by empty or full space, inviting the viewer to use his own imagination. Sosno was born in Marseilles. His"
"Vladimir Radunsky Vladimir Radunsky (born March 1, 1954 in Perm, Russia - died September 11, 2018 in Rome, Italy) was a Russian-born American artist, designer, author and illustrator. Vladimir Radunsky grew up in Moscow where he studied fine art, design, and architecture. In 1973 he studied at the Moscow Architectural Institute. In 1982 he immigrated to New York, became a US citizen, and continued his work as a graphic designer, producing mainly art books and children's books. Radunsky produced very different types of books: A book of shapes for young readers ""Square Triangle Round Skinny"" (a set of four books"
"Genrikh Pavlovsky Genrikh Vasilievich Pavlovsky () (October 15, 1907 in Kamenskoe, Ukraine, Russian Empire – December 17, 1973 in Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator, who lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, who played an important role in the formation of the Leningrad school of painting. Genrikh Vasilievich Pavlovsky was born on October 15, 1907, in the village of Kamenskoe on Ukraine. In 1910 his family moved to the small town of Novo-Borisov. In 1929 Pavlovsky graduated from Vitebsk Art School and was sent to continue his studies in"
"Emanuel Glicen Romano Emanuel Glicen Romano or Emanuel Glicenstein (1897 – 1984) was a painter born in Italy. He emigrated to America and spent some time in Safed in Israel. where he organised a museum for his father's work. Emanuel Glicenstein was born in Rome on 23 September 1897. His father Henryk Glicenstein was a sculptor and he was living in Rome with his wife Helena (born Hirszenberg) when Emanuel was born. His father obtained Italian citizenship and adopted the name Enrico. Emanuel was brought up in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Poland. in 1926 Emanuel and his father sailed"
"subject of a documentary film in 1966. Nikolay Samokish Nikolay Semyonovich Samokish (; translit.: ""Nikolay Semyonovich Samokish""; 25 October 1860, Nezhin, Government of Chernigov, Russian Empire - 18 January 1944, Simferopol, Russian SFSR, USSR) was a Russian and Soviet painter and illustrator of Cossack descent who specialized in military art and animal painting. During the First World War Samokish was a correspondent for """", one of the most popular patriotic journals in Imperial Russia. He was a recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1941. Samokish is also known as the second husband of the book illustrator Elena Sudkovskaya, with whom"
"of Fondi, Italy awarded him Divina Giulia for his contribution to contemporary art. Rafał Olbiński Rafal Olbinski (born February 21, 1943) is a Polish illustrator, painter, and educator, living in the United States. He is considered one of the major representatives of the Polish School of Posters. Olbinski was born in Kielce, Poland. He graduated from the architecture program of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1969. Olbinski immigrated to the United States in 1981, where he soon established himself as a prominent painter, illustrator and designer. Olbinski's work is very similar to the work of the famous Belgian surrealist"
"Tomshinsky travelled a lot, and exhibited his works in Paris, Milan, Vienna, Zurich, Düsseldorf, Brussels, London, and Rome. Stanley Tomshinsky Stanley Tomshinsky (1935–2004) was an American artist. Stanley was born in New York City in 1935 in a Jewish family of Lettonian origin. After graduation he moved to Europe, choosing Paris as his destination. His first passion was sculpture, and he created abstract, surreal and Symbolic pieces, using mostly welded copper and iron. In 1966 he moved to Milan and decided to explore other media, turning to painting, oil and acrylic. Totems, figures, mythological creatures become the symbolic expression of"