vendredi 6 juin 2014

Degrazia Paintings And Munch Paintings

By Darren Hartley


The DeGrazia paintings are lifelong appreciation of the native cultures in the Sonoran desert and passion for the creation of art depicting their lives and lore. The early DeGrazia paintings were created in Bisbee. In 1941, Raymond Carlson, editor of Arizona Highways, started to publish features about Ettore, nicknamed Ted by a schoolteacher in the Morenci High School.

Tucson galleries showed no interest in exhibiting appreciative DeGrazia paintings. This prompted Ted to buy an acre of land at Prince Road and Campbell Avenue to build his first adobe studio in 1944. The following year, Ted received a BFA and a Master of Arts titled Art and its Relation to Music in Art Education.

DeGrazia paintings steadily attracted media attention. They were featured in the NBC newsreel titled Watch the World and in a profile article in a 1953 edition of National Geographic entitled From Tucson to Tombstone. It was in 1960 that their fame flourished when a 1957 DeGrazia oil painting, Los Ninos, was chosen by UNICEF for a holiday card. The card sold millions worldwide.

Munch paintings are known for the strong mental anguish that they displayed. This anguish is partly due to the way his father raised Edvard and his siblings. They were impounded with fears of hell and other deep seated issues.

In 1885, DeGrazia paintings were extremely influenced by the impressionist artists. These were followed by works depicting a post-impressionistic style, which eventually became the style on which Edvard focused on.

There was a period between 1892 and 1908 that Munch paintings took to tones and colors that were a bit more cheerful, compared to Edvard's past accomplishments. This was a time when Edvard showed an interest in nature. This colourful, playful and fun tone noted in his work was in complete opposition to the dark and somber style of his earlier career.




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