Artists

Best known for his unique style of drip painting – which often found the artist pouring paint directly onto a canvas laid down on the floor – Jackson Pollock was one of the most influential artists of his time. He achieved considerable fame and recognition during his life, but ultimately, his life would begin to mirror the chaotic paintings he created so passionately. Jackson Pollock’s Early life Pollock was born the youngest of five brothers in 1912 and spent most of his youth in Arizona and California. His family encouraged his interest in art from an early age, especially his ... Read more

By the end of the 1800s, Vienna, a strict, stuffy, and traditional city, was changing. A group of artists, architects, musicians, and social scientists tried out new ideas that could change each of their fields. Historical context Vienna was the traditional city of academic art, Johann Strauss, and the Habsburg empire. On the other hand, it was home to radical artists like Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, whose explorations of sexual themes shocked audiences. Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos were challenging the style of the empire, and Gustav Mahler was changing the city’s music scene. And Sigmund Freud was about ... Read more

Edward Hopper was a New York-based American realist painter and printmaker best known for his oil paintings, particularly those involving seascapes and rural landscapes, as well as those depicting scenes of quotidian America life and the people living in it. He largely focused on quiet moments devoid of action, and he was known as an introverted, well-read, conservative man. Many of these quiet moments have at the heart of them the subject of a solitary woman, who often appears ambiguously lonely. Edward Hopper’s formative years Hopper was born in 1882 to a middle-class family in Nyack, New York, just north ... Read more