Art Lovers discussion

In high school, _____________learned freehand drawing, drafting and other basic techniques of architecture and engineering. He also excelled in his art class. Though he hated the special attention from his art teacher, he still frequented art museums and studied the works of the old masters on his own. Such self-motivation from the early age proved to be a solid grounding for the versatility he showed throughout his artistic career. Upon graduating from high school, he turned down a scholarship to study architecture, and began pursuing his career as an artist.

In his studio at his parents' house, he worked hard towards becoming a painter while taking odd jobs as a commercial artist. He familiarized himself with the world of art by frequenting art galleries and museums and became attracted to contemporary avant-garde art from Europe.

His first solo show featured thirty paintings and a few drawings. The paintings were a mixture of semi-representational landscapes and abstract paintings of "Arrangements of Forms"; these abstract works showed his developing interest in analytical and cerebral method of working. By this time, he had more inventory of works in his studio than he could keep track of. He started photographing his paintings as documentation and experimenting with the camera as an artistic tool.

_______________ lived for the next 18 years in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris where he met important thinkers and artists...

___________ had his first retrospective at the Pasadena Art Institute, showcasing his paintings, drawings, watercolors and photographs from his thirty-year span as an artist. He had a successful career as a photographer while in Hollywood, but he felt the city lacked stimulus and the kind of appreciation he desired.

___________ thought American critics could not understand him, believing his ability to go from one medium to another and his success in commercial photography confused them.

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Man ray?

Geoffrey wrote: "Man ray?"

You got it! Great job! You all are getting too good for this! At first you said they were too difficult and now I can't even make them last more than a few hours until someone gets it!

And I somehow knew it would be you Geoffrey that got this one. :)

Just a lucky guess, I guess.I knew that MR was pretty versatile with media and that he lived in France. I didn`t know that he went Hollywood side.

That’s what I like about these bios, you learn (well I do) facts about artists are that i didn’t know.