wholesalewitness

[wholesalewitness]

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin

French artist born in Paris in 1848, he is considered to be an post-impressionist artist. He spent many years in French Polynesia, and is known for his work with color. He is said to influenced many artists including that of Picasso and Van Gogh. in 1888 he and Vincent spent 9 weeks in each others company at “The Yellow House” where Vincent rented rooms.

He was married to a child bride 1891 during his first trip to Tahiti, at the time wives were given to french colonists during their visits. He was given 3 wives in the times he traveled to Tahiti all under the age of 16.

[wholesalewitness]

Richard Prince

Richard Price, born 1949, lives and works in New York. He is said to be the inventor of “rephotographing taking the works of others and using it and rebranding it as his own. In 2014 he created a whole showcase of images stolen from Instagram and he made a hundred thousand dollars on each one with out the original photographers knowledge.

[wholesalewitness]

Pablo Picasso

Born in Spain October 1881. He lived during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and both World Wars. He was a Spanish citizen living in France, and was denied citizenship to for communist values in 1940.

He then joined the French Communist Party in 1944.

In 1945 he was quoted in an interview saying:

“I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.”

He even received the International Stalin Peace Prize

[wholesalewitness]

Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 into a Dutch Reformed Church family in Groot-Zundert, a Dutch post-impressionist painter is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. He also suffered greatly from mental illness, psychotic episodes and delusions, even to the extent of self mutilation. He spent much of his life in psychiatric hospitals. In fact, his most famous painting, the Starry Night, 1889, was painted within the walls of the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole lunatic asylum.

[wholesalewitness]

Eric Gill was born on the 22nd of February, 1882, in Brighton. He is known for his highly sexualized sculptures and diagrams. He also had two daughters, one of which was the model for the work above, with whom he engaged in acts of sexual abuse multiple times.

[wholesalewitness]

Theodor Seuss "Ted" Geisel, an American children's author, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, screenwriter, and filmmaker, also known as Doctor Seuss is best known for his illustrated children's books and cartoony, surreal art. He was married to Helen Geisel, who struggled with Guillain-Barre syndrome. She committed suicide in 1967 after discovering that Seuss had been having an affair with another married woman for a significant  length of time. He later re married the woman with whom he had committed adultery.

[wholesalewitness]

Edgar Degras- Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, born in Paris in 1834, is known for his oil pastel work of ballerinas He is often called the father of impressionism, and he hated being associated with the term. Triggered by the scandal of the Drefus affair, Edgar’s antisemitism beliefs increased as he cut ties with all his Jewish friends. Publicly he rejected and his previous friends of Jewish heritage and faith, would wouldn’t work with any models that he believed or suspected of being Jewish.

[wholesalewitness]

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, born in Milan in 1571 is considered to be a revolutionary artist of his time he was known for getting in to fights. He has a lengthy police record and even killed a man (Ranuccio Tomassoni). While his friends in high place kept him safe in his past, he wasn’t safe no longer and he fled from Rome to Naples.