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Claude Buck
Charles Claude Buck, known as Claude Buck (3 July 1890, New York City – 4 August 1974, Santa Barbara, California) was an American artist. Early life Buck’s parents, William Robert Buck and Grace Buck (née Sargeant), were British immigrants who lived in poverty in the Bronx. His father was a commercial artist, who introduced his son to drawing at the age of four. He quickly showed exceptional talent and the age of eleven was given permission by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to copy classical Greek works in their collection. At fourteen he became the youngest artist ever to study at the National Academy of Design, where he spent eight years creating work mainly inspired by romantic literature. There he studied still life with Emil Carlsen, figure drawing with Francis Coates Jones, and figure painting under George de Forest Brush. At 22 he completed his studies there, after winning eight prizes. He then studied in Munich and immediately began exhibiting his work on his retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Self-Portrait 1983
Self-portraits are Portrait painting, portraits artists make of themselves. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, the practice of self-portraiture only gaining momentum in the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century that artists can be frequently identified depicting themselves as either the main subject, or as important characters in their work. With better and cheaper mirrors, and the advent of the panel painting, panel portrait, many painters, sculptors and printmakers tried some form of self-portraiture. ''Portrait of a Man in a Turban'' by Jan van Eyck of 1433 may well be the earliest known panel self-portrait. He painted a separate portrait of his wife, and he belonged to the social group that had begun to commission portraits, already more common among wealthy Netherlanders than south of the Alps. The genre is venerable, but not until the Renaissance, with increased wealth and interest in the individual as a subject, did it become truly popular. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
