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23rd Venice Biennale
The 23rd Venice Biennale, held in 1942, was an exhibition of international contemporary art, with 11 participating nations. The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy. Winners of the ''Gran Premi'' (Grand Prize) included Hungarian painter Arthur Kampf, Swiss sculptor Charles Otto Bänninger, Swedish etcher Stif Borglind, and Italians painter Alberto Salietti, sculptor Francesco Messina Francesco Messina (15 December 1900 – 13 September 1995) was an Italian sculptor of the 20th century. Biography and career Francesco Messina was born at Linguaglossa in the Province of Catania from a very poor family. Growing up in Genoa, where ..., and etcher Luigi Bartolini. References Bibliography * Further reading * 1942 in art 1942 in Italy Venice Biennale exhibitions {{Art-display-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Exhibition
An art exhibition is traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhibition". In American English, they may be called "exhibit", "exposition" (the French word) or "show". In UK English, they are always called "exhibitions" or "shows", and an individual item in the show is an "exhibit". Such expositions may present pictures, drawings, video, sound, installation, performance, interactive art, new media art or sculptures by individual artists, groups of artists or collections of a specific form of art. The art works may be presented in museums, art halls, art clubs or private art galleries, or at some place the principal business of which is not the display or sale of art, such as a coffeehouse. An important distinction is noted between those exhibits where some or all of the works are for sale, normally in pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1942 In Art
Events from the year 1942 in art. Events * January – Treasures from the new National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. are evacuated by train to the Biltmore Estate at Asheville, North Carolina. *February 15 – Battle of Singapore, Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces. Among the British troops captured is illustrator Ronald Searle. *March 28–29 – Bombing of St. Mary's Church, Lübeck, destroys Adriaen Isenbrandt's Bröhmse triptych, Jacob van Utrecht's Trinity Altar, Friedrich Overbeck's ''Entrance of Christ into Jerusalem'' and Bernt Notke's ''Gregorsmesse'' and replica ''Totentanz'', but reveals medieval frescos. *May 8 – English novelist David Garnett marries painter and writer Angelica Garnett, Angelica Bell, the daughter of painters Duncan Grant (Garnett's lover) and Vanessa Bell. *July 27 – A large amount of "degenerate art" including works by Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Salvador DalÃ, DalÃ, Max Ernst, Ernst, Paul Klee, Klee, Fernand Léger, Léger and Joan Mirà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EBSCOhost
EBSCO Information Services, headquartered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a private company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. EBSCO provides products and services to libraries of very many types around the world. Its products include EBSCONET, a complete e-resource management system, and EBSCO''host'', which supplies a fee-based online research service with 375 full-text databases, a collection of 600,000-plus ebooks, subject indexes, point-of-care medical references, and an array of historical digital archives. In 2010, EBSCO introduced its ''EBSCO Discovery Service'' (EDS) to institutions, which allows searches of a portfolio of journals and magazines. History EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a company founded in 1944 by Elton Bryson Stephens Sr. and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. "EBSCO" is an acronym for Elton B. Stephens Company. EBSCO Industries has annual sales of about $3 billion. It is one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Bartolini
Luigi Bartolini (8 February 1892 – 16 May 1963) was an Italian painter, writer, and poet. He is known for his novel, ''Bicycle Thieves'', upon which the Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica and of the same title was based. He published over 70 books during his lifetime. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca .... Exhibitions and awards * 1928 - First participation in the Venice Biennale * 1932 - Italian engraving exhibition - 1st Prize * 1935 - 1st Rome Quadrienniale - 1st Prize for engraving * 1939 - 2nd Rome Quadrienniale - 1st Prize for engraving * 1942 - XXII Venice Biennale - Personal room and 1st prize for engraving * 1950 - Lugano International Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
