The Life of an Artist

Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, https://patreon.com/paulpriestleyart many thanks! Learn about the life and painting of artist Hilma af Klint in this Hilma af Klint biography. The Swedish artist Hilma af Klint was born on 26 October 1862, at the Karlberg Palace in Solna, Sweden, the naval academy where her father was based. She was the fourth of five children born to Mathilda and Victor af Klint who were both staunch Protestants. Most of her childhood was spent in the Karlberg Palace, but during the summers, the family would move to Adelso, an island in Lake Malaren, near Stockholm. It was here that Hilma's fascination with nature and organic life began. In 1880 she attended the Technical School, now known as Konstfack, and studied classical portraiture under the supervision of the artist Kerstin Cardon. Around this time, she became a committed vegetarian, usually wore black and began to develop an interest in the spiritual and the occult. At the age of 20 in 1882, Hilma enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. She was one of the first women to do so and spent the next five years studying drawing, portraiture and landscape painting. She graduated with honours and as a result, was awarded a studio in the Academy’s “Atelier Building”, in Stockholm's artist quarter. In 1896 she joined the Edelweiss Society but left soon after with four other like-minded women artists and founded the “Friday Group”, also known as “The Five”. They met for spiritual meetings, meditation and séances. The medium, Sigrid Hedman, one of the five, led exercises in automatic writing. This was decades before the Surrealists would use automatic drawing to generate their ideas. In 1904 Hilma af Klint’s work profoundly changed after an otherworldly experience. During a séance, she claimed to have heard a voice telling her to make paintings 'on an astral plane'. So, in November 1906 at age 44, Hilma af Klint began creating, ‘The Paintings for the Temple,’ which comprised several series of paintings on various themes. The first, preparatory group was called Primordial Chaos and consisted of twenty-six small pictures. They break free entirely from representation, combining geometric shapes such as spirals with dynamic brushstrokes, letters of the alphabet and symbols. Hilma af Klint shared an interest in the spiritual with the other pioneers of abstract art including Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Piet Mondrian. And like Hilma af Klint many were drawn to Theosophy, which opened a route towards a new world of spiritual reality, rather than merely depicting visual impressions of the world around them. Had she not kept her abstract work secret she would surely have held the accolade of producing the world’s first abstract paintings. Instead, Kandinsky’s paintings of 1911 would, until recently, come to be recognised as the first abstract works of art. Her first abstract painting created in 1906, pre-dates Kandinsky’s by five years. Photo credits Av Udo Schröter - Eget arbete, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19998116 Av Holger.Ellgaard - Eget arbete, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51211407 The Hilma af Klint Foundation Interested in DRAWING? Check out my drawing channel: https://youtube.com/paulpriestleyart Would you like me to critique your drawing? Sign up here:- https:patreon.com/paulpriestleyart Want this video in your own language? Check out my video to see how: https://youtu.be/ZnoxutAvyaI For drawing and painting art tutorials designed for beginners - visit my website: - https://paulpriestleyart.com Follow our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/PaulPriestleyArtVideos/ Follow our Twitter page: https://twitter.com/PriestleyonArt

Please subscribe to this channel. Learn about the life of Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka in this Tamara de Lempicka biography. The artist Tamara de Lempicka led an extraordinary life. Imagine Paris in the 1920’s, the Roaring Twenties. It is the height of the jazz age, Paris is the centre of modernism in art and design and after the horrors of the 1st World War, society is changing fast. It is more egalitarian and the French along with everyone else, is ready to party. Enter a young Polish refugee from Russia, a modern woman, a larger-than-life character, a libertine and social climber destined to make her mark. Her paintings, Cubist inspired, combined the traditions of Ingres and Caravaggio with lavish decoration and the style and sophistication of her sitters. This artist, who named herself Tamara de Lempicka, epitomised the glamourous era of Art Deco during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Born in Warsaw in 1898 as Tamara Rozalia Gurwik-Gorska , Tamara de Lempicka painted her most famous work, Autoportrait - Girl in the Green Bugatti in 1927. She died in Mexico in 1980. Interested in DRAWING? Check out my drawing channel: https://youtube.com/paulpriestleyart Would you like me to critique your drawing? Sign up here:- https://patreon.com/paulpriestleyart For drawing and painting art tutorials designed for beginners - visit my website: - https://paulpriestleyart.com Follow our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/PaulPriestleyArtVideos/ Follow our Twitter page: https://twitter.com/PriestleyonArt

Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, https://patreon.com/paulpriestleyart many thanks! Otto Dix was a German artist and printmaker who was active during the first half of the 20th century. His paintings reflect the trauma he suffered during World War I. Born in 1891 in Untermhaus, Germany, Otto Dix was a prolific and versatile painter who produced works in a variety of styles, including Expressionism, New Objectivity, and Surrealism. Despite his early training in academic painting, Dix's paintings often contained a sharp, critical edge that was in stark contrast to the idealized, academic art of the 1930’s in Germany under the Hitler regime. His paintings and prints often depicted the violence and suffering of World War I, as well as the decadence and corruption of German society in the 1920s. Dix's works were banned by the Nazi regime in the 1930s, and he was drafted into the People’s Militia during World War II. After the war, Dix continued to create and exhibit his paintings until his death in 1969. Today, he is considered one of the leading artists of the 20th century and his works can be found in major art museums and collections around the world. Please consider subscribing to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/arthistoryschool?sub_confirmation=1 Interested in DRAWING? Check out my drawing channel: https://youtube.com/paulpriestleyart Would you like me to critique your drawing? Sign up here:- https:patreon.com/paulpriestleyart Want this video in your own language? Check out my video to see how: https://youtu.be/ZnoxutAvyaI For drawing and painting art tutorials designed for beginners - visit my website: - https://paulpriestleyart.com Follow our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/PaulPriestleyArtVideos/ Follow our Twitter page: https://twitter.com/PriestleyonArt

Edvard Munch biography: This video discusses the life and times of the Norwegian expressionist artist Edvard Munch. Death, love and angst are prominent themes he explored through out his life. The famous artist Edvard Munch was born in Loten in Norway, but lost his mother and sister at a young age. Edvard Munch is perhaps most famous for his paintings, The Scream, Death in the Sick Room, but his series of paintings, The Frieze of Life contains many remarkable paintings such as the Dance of Life. Munch suffered from bouts of mental illness and alcoholism, both issues are often reflected in his work. He also did a series of paintings for Oslo University, in Norway and for the Freia Chocolate Factory also in Oslo. The latter years of his life were spent in his estate at Ekely, Norway painting many self portraits which explored the effects of old age. Edvard Munch died in 1944 at the age of 80. This video is designed for students and those wanting an introduction into art history. MUSIC: Provided by YouTube Gymnopedie No 1 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100787 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Gymnopedie No 2 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100786 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Prelude No. 7 by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/preludes/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Follow and Subscribe Above! Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! patreon.com/paulpriestleyart

Gustav Klimt biography: This video covers the life of famous artist Gustav Klimt from his beginnings in Baumgarten in Austria to his worldwide success. He was prodigiously talented even from a young age, as was his brother Ernst, who he would set up an artist's company with. Gustav Klimt was the first president of the Viennese Secession, but his life was not without controversy, the University paintings being a good example. Klimt is best known for his portraits which are painted in a very decorative style often using gold leaf combining geometric decoration with realistic depictions of hands and faces. His most famous painting probably being The Kiss, completed in 1908. His relationship with the fashion designer Emilie Flöge is covered as his Beethoven Frieze. His controversial paintings, Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence which he completed for Vienna University are also discussed. Klimt died in Vienna in 1918 just 55 years old. The video had been created for those wishing to learn the basics of art history. Follow and Subscribe Above! Music: Supplied by YouTube Autumn Day by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100765 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! patreon.com/paulpriestleyart For more art history videos checkout: https://youtube.com/arthistoryschool

You think life is tough now? I wonder what you'll think after watching my video on Laurence Stephen Lowry. English artist L.S Lowry was born on 1st November 1887 in Manchester, in northern England. Lowry was an outsider and a loner who suffered from Asperger Syndrome, a jovial, self-effacing individual, who was often depressed and very lonely. He never married, found relationships almost impossible and the London art establishment never took him very seriously. From childhood Lowry loved drawing and doodling, but as far as his mother was concerned there was simply no question of him being allowed to be an artist. In 1905 he was an evening student at Manchester School of Art and was inspired by the French tutor of drawing, Adolphe Valette. The 1930’s were a struggle, he had no emotional support at home and despite numerous exhibitions in Canada, Paris, Manchester, he sold very few paintings. L S Lowry was 52 when his mother died. He stayed in the same house, alone and lonely for the next 9 years. It was his sanctuary, full of cobwebs and splattered paint. By 1948, he was earning good money as a painter, so he moved house to the affluent village of Mottram-in-Longdendale, near Manchester. In 1976 he was given a one-man exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. This was a major achievement, as very few living artists are given this accolade. But he died on 23 February 1976 six months before the show opened. It was a major success and was one of the most popular Royal Academy shows of the 20th century. He was famous for his ‘matchstick men’ paintings. A large collection of L S Lowry paintings can be seen at The Lowry, in Salford, Manchester. Follow and Subscribe Above! MUSIC: Gymnopedie No 1 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100787 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! patreon.com/paulpriestleyart Check out my art history channel: https://youtube.com/arthistoryschool

Frida Kahlo was an amazing artist. Her work explores issues that affected her personally with honesty and integrity, which is why her paintings are held in such high regard. She was born in Coyoacan, Mexico City in 1907 and died in 1954 aged just 47. She contracted polio when a toddler and was involved in a major traffic accident when in her teens. Both events had a profound effect on her life and work. Follow and Subscribe Above! Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! patreon.com/paulpriestleyart My art history channel: https://youtube.com/arthistoryschool

The British artist Francis Bacon explores adult themes and subjects in his wildly inventive and tortured paintings. His work reflects a life lived to extravagant extremes. He didn’t take up painting seriously until he was in his 30’s but then developed a unique style of painting the human condition. His painting, ‘Three Studies of Lucien Freud’ sold at auction in 2013 for the world record price of $142.4 million. Follow and Subscribe Above! Do you enjoy my videos? Why not become a patron and receive cool rewards in return. Checkout my Patreon site for details: https://patreon.com/paulpriestleyart My art history channel: https://youtube.com/arthistoryschool

Marc Chagall, an orthodox Jew, was born in Vitebsk, Russia on the 7th of July 1887 as Moshe Segal. Known as the painter of love, he married the love of his life, Bella in 1915. She appears in many of his paintings. He also produced amazing designs for stain glass windows for churches and even the Israeli Knesset. He died in 1985 in Vence in France. Follow and Subscribe Above! Do you enjoy my videos? Why not become a patron and receive cool rewards in return. Checkout my Patreon site for details: https://patreon.com/paulpriestleyart My art history channel: https://youtube.com/arthistoryschool

Paul Cézanne was born in Aix-en-Provence in France in 1839. His early work was crude but after meeting his mentor Camille Pissarro in the early 1870’s, black disappeared from his palette. Cézanne rejected the Impressionist theories of light, his goal was to make things look permanent and solid, he achieved this by creating a balanced composition, the result of careful calculation, reflection and logic. He died in 1906. Follow and Subscribe Above! Do you enjoy my videos? Why not become a patron and receive cool rewards in return. Checkout my Patreon site for details: https://patreon.com/paulpriestleyart For drawing and painting art tutorials designed for beginners - visit my website My art history channel: https://youtube.com/arthistoryschool

Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City, USA on the 7th September 1917. One of the most important American artists of the 20th century, Jacob Lawrence was widely renowned for his modernist depictions of everyday life, as well as epic narratives of African American history and historical figures. Although, born into a poor family his rise to artistic prominence was rapid. Follow and Subscribe Above! Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! patreon.com/paulpriestleyart My art history channel: https://youtube.com/arthistoryschool

Toulouse Lautrec was small in stature but a giant of an artist. Famous for his humanistic portrayals of sex workers that reveal an uncommon sensitivity, perhaps motivated by a sense of identification with the socially marginalized, due to his own physical issues. And also, for his highly individualized poster portrayals of Montmartre entertainers, cabaret dancers and singers. He was one of the most influential post-impressionist artists of the late 19th century. Follow and Subscribe Above! Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! patreon.com/paulpriestleyart My art history channel: https://youtube.com/arthistoryschool For drawing and painting art tutorials designed for beginners - visit my website: https://art-tutorialsonline.com

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American artist born in Allegheny City now part of Pittsburgh, USA on 22 May 1844. She came from a wealthy family and her mother Katherine was a strong believer in educating women to be knowledgeable and socially active. Mary Cassatt depicted the 19th century New Woman from the woman’s perspective and is most famous for her paintings of Mother and Child. Follow and Subscribe Above! Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! patreon.com/paulpriestleyart My art history channel: https://youtube.com/arthistoryschool For drawing and painting art tutorials designed for beginners - visit my website: https://art-tutorialsonline.com