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Milton Glaser

     Milton Glaser was born on June 26, 1929. He is a graphic designer best recognized for his "I Love New York" logo and the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics between 1977 and 2005. He also founded the New York Magizine with Clay Felker in 1968.

     Glaser attended New York City's high school of Music and Art (now named Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts. He graduated from the Cooper Union in 1951.

     In 1954, Milton was a founder and president of the Push Pin Studios formed with several of his Cooper Union classmates. His work is characterized by simplicity and originality and ranges from primitive to avant garde. In 1974 he started his own studio named Milton Glaser, Inc.

     Glaser's work has earned numerous awards from Art Directors clubs, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Society of Illustrators and the Type Directors club.

Frank Gehry



     Frank Gehry was born on February 28, 1929 in Toronto. He is known as one of the most inventive and pioneering architects working today. Gehry is based in Las Angeles where he relocated to with his family in 1947. In 1954 Frank received his undergraduate degree in Architecture at the University of South California.

     After a year of working in Paris for Andre Remondet, Gehry returned to California where he opened his own office in Santa Monica in 1962. Frank incorporated movement into his designs. At this point he was designing exhibitions, furniture, libraries, office buildings, restaurants, schools and visual and performing arts venues.

     In 1989, Frank Gehry was awarded the Prizker Arcitecture Price which expanded his recognition. And with the introduction of sophisticated software in the 1990's has facilitated the construction and engineering of complex building systems and successfully translated the gestural quality of his work from  model to built form.

     Frank O. Gehry and Associates has expanded to over 140 employees and spans through Czech Republic, France, Germany, Japan, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland and the United States.

Hotel Marque de Riscal

Guggenheim Museum

Rococo and Lolita Fashion

   

     The Rococo style originated in France in the early 18th century. It is characterized by playfulness, grace and lightness in contrast to the heavier themes and darker colors of the earlier Baroque period. The word Rococo was formed from the French word rocaille meaning shell and from the Italian barocco meaning Baroque style. There has been debate whether Rococo is a significant point in European art or not. Since the mid 19th century the style has been accepted by art  historians and is recognized as a major developmental point.


The fabrics were lightweight silks and satin. The colors were light pastel colors. Large floral motifs were favored at started of the style. It then changed to smaller flowers and finally stripes sparkled with sprigs. Solid colors were also popular in times.

     Costumes from the Rococo period along with Victorian clothing have influenced the Lolita fashion movement. It is a fashion subculture originating in Japan. The look consists primarily of knee length dresses or skirts, headdresses, blouse, petticoat, knee high socks or stockings, and either horse or high heel platform shoes. The exact origin of the style is uncertain but it is assumed that it may have started in the late 1970's when labels such as Pink House and Milk began selling clothes in the manner of today's Lolita style.

     The style was popularized through the rise of bands, such as Malice Mizer, who wore intricate costumes. Fans began adopting the appearance and made it their every day look. The style started spreading from the Kansai region to Tokyo, where Japanese youth popularized it even more. The look has grown so much that it is now sold in department stores in Japan.


http://fashiontruhistory.blogspot.com/2006/04/rococo-fashion-era.html

Charles Rennie Mackintosh



Charles Rennie Mackintosh

     Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an architect and designer of the Art Nouveau in Scotland. Mackintosh was born in Glasgow in 1868 where he was apprenticed to an architect and attended evening art classes. At this time he met Margaret MacDonald, Frances MacDonald, and Herbert McNair. This group became known as "The Four". They exhibited in Glasgow, London, and Vienna; these exhibitions being the ones which earned Mackintosh his reputation.

     Mackintosh formed a firm of architects in 1889. Here he developed his own style of design. His style consisted of a contrast between strong right angles and floral-inspired decorative motifs with subtle curves.

Glasgow School of Art (1897-1909)

     Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art is what earned his international reputation. Other works of Macintosh include:

North elevation of GSA's Mackintosh buildingHill House, Helensburgh (National Trust for Scotland)
House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
The Mackintosh House (Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow)
Queen's Cross church, Glasgow
Ruchill Church Hall, Glasgow
Holy Trinity Church, Bridge of Allan, Stirling
Scotland Street School, Glasgow
The Willow Rooms, also known as Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms
Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
Craigie Hall, Glasgow
Martyrs' Public School
The Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum, Glasgow
Former Daily Record offices, Glasgow
Former The Herald offices in Mitchell Street
78 Derngate, Northampton (for Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke)
5 The Drive, Northampton (for Basset-Lowke's brother-in-law)

     Mackintosh also worked with metalwork, interior design, furniture and textiles. His work was not very successful outside of the UK and many of his ambitious designs were never built, so he later focused his work on watercolours. Mackintosh painted several landscapes and flower studies. His designs gained more popularity years after his death and his School of Art is regularly recognized by critics as one of the finest buildings in the UK.

http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Mackintosh_Charles_Rennie.html 

Dan Witz

"I believed that the truth could only be found by a violent rejection of the status quo."

     Dan began creating street art in the late 1970's. Witz received his BFA from Cooper Union in New York in 1980. His talent emerged in the 1980's in New York, using walls to send the public a message. One message raising awareness of the heroin epidemic in the early 90's. Witz had many of his friends pass away due to HIV and overdosses so he created one of his favorite works, the headless, sweatshirt hooded grim reapers. He pasted over 75 of these "Hoody's" strategically around the city, primarily at methadone clinics and the lower east side of the village where the trafficking was high.

     Dan Witz not only does street art but he also paints which he exhibits in galleries. In 2005 he worked on a series of 'Night Paintings'. The series included portraits of delis and convenience stores in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. He captures these moments in the night and rain in order to create an aura of mystery and isolation. His paints combine Old Master glazing techniques with 21st century digital technology. He begins with a digital print as an underpainting and then layers oil paints on top in order to regenerate the artifical light and quiet mood. Witz explains, "I am concerned with exploring what oil paint on canvas can uniquely do
that no other visual media can. Above all, I am fascinated by oil
painting’s extraordinary ability to create light – not just evoke light,
but to palpably reproduce the experience of light."

http://www.helium.com/items/464595-dan-witz-street-artist

http://www.dfngallery.com/exhibitions/dan_witz.htm