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George Ohr: Modern artist ahead of schedule

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A potter who worked between 1880 and 1910, George Ohr's idea of altering wheel-thrown vessels, his spontaneous creativity, and the iconoclastic characteristics of his most advanced essays in form were radical and alien to his time. Ohr's mode of creativity precedes and seems to fortell the concepts and methods of non-representational artists of the 1940s-'60s, in particular abstract expressionists painters who rejected tradition and imagery, and intuitively discovered their work during the creative process.

Author: Ellison, Robert A., Jr.
Publisher: Modernism Magazine
Publication Name: Style 1900
Subject: Humanities
ISSN: 1080-451X
Year: 2006
Potters, Pottery, Ohr, George

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Artist for the ages

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Louis Comfort Tiffany studied painting in New York and Paris, and his inspiration for artistic paintings was nature and Japanese art objects and later was fascinated by stained and iridescent glass and his creation of mosaic glass installed at Chicago Columbian Exposition got him worldwide fame. He introduced glass vessels and vases named 'Favrile' and won international recognition for all his works in glass, pottery, paintings which are displayed for public viewing at various museums.

Author: Johnson, Marilynn A.
Publisher: Modernism Magazine
Publication Name: Style 1900
Subject: Humanities
ISSN: 1080-451X
Year: 2006
Painters, Painters (Artists), Brief biography, Tiffany, Louis Comfort

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A vision realized: Mackintosh's "House for an Art Lover"

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Glasgow's spectacular House for an Art Lover was conceived and designed by Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1901 with the beauty of its luminous white-on-white Music Room. This work of imaginary connoisseur of the arts is a home simultaneously stunning yet inviting, stimulating yet restful, spiritually elevating yet domestic and practical.

Author: Polan, Judy
Publisher: Modernism Magazine
Publication Name: Style 1900
Subject: Humanities
ISSN: 1080-451X
Year: 2006
Design and construction, Architects, Mansions, Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

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