... known for his Disney paintings which we are all familiar with. A true Renaissance man, DuBois has merged his love of art, poetry, and music into an interesting and diverse career. He is an illustrator as well as a fine artist, poet, singer, and storyteller. He is truly an artist in every sense of the word. Tom often appears at gallery signings with his acoustic guitar and sings to ... now and selling later, an illustrator produces work on commission. During WWI, the Navy refused young Norman's enlistment request for being 8 pounds underweight. After a night of gorging himself on bananas,...

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... old man projecting into the picture at the right. The Rue Transnonain was a street in Paris inhabited by workers who were suspected of participation in the disorders of the Republican Revolt in 1834. When it was fired on from an apartment, the civil guard broke in and shot the inhabitants, innocent or guilty. Unlike Neoclassicist painters such as David who would have idealized the figures in the scene as much as possible, Daumier shows the grossness of the ... of detail in the background figures. The low viewpoint emphasises the monumentality of the grouping. Daumier uses many layers of...

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... one playing the saxophone and the other playing a trombone. The last person is a woman leaning out of the window. Beside the picture it stated that the man playing the piano was the famous Duke Ellington and by including the other musicians he was hoping to suggest the tone of Ellington's music to those familiar with it. Also, the woman leaning out the window was film star of the time Veronica ... was the artist of June Morning as soon as I first took a glimpse of the portrait. From the class discussions and his use of lines I could tell that this was a Benton. Even though it is not a li...

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... older siblings, and one younger than him was considered the weakling of the family. As a young boy Francis suffered from severe asthma and was thought of as ugly by both his mother and father. He had lack of parental affection and therefore kept to himself most of the time. As he got older, Francis became aware of his homosexuality. Once his dad heard the news he disowned his son and kicked him out ... paint? Many people look at Francis Bacon's paintings and seem to be left with the question, why. Why did he paint paintings such as the Crucification, and Portrait of Pope Innocent X, whic...

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