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Carole Freeman (artist)
Carole Freeman is a Canadian American Contemporary art, contemporary figurative artist known for portraits and paintings of cultural, social, political, and personal significance. Freeman works in drawing, painting, and photography. Early life and education Freeman was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba in 1954, as the youngest of two brothers and three step-sisters. Between 1973 and 1977, Freeman studied at the University of Manitoba School of Visual Arts in Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, her main mentor being Canadian painter Ivan Eyre. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree Honors. She continued postgraduate studies at the School of Painting, Royal College of Art in London, England, earning a Master of Arts Degree in 1980, which expanded her artistic practice while rubbing shoulders with art world figures such as Roberto Matta, James Rosenquist, Ernst Gombrich, John Golding (artist and writer), John Golding, and tutors Peter de Francia, and Ken Kiff. Freeman later obt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Art
Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, generally referring to art produced from the 1970s onwards. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of Medium (arts), materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century. Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organising principle, ideology, or "-ism". Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality. In English, ''modern'' and ''contemporary'' are synonyms, resulting in some conflation and confusion of the terms ''modern art'' and ''contemporary art'' by non-specialists. Some specialists also consider that the frontier between the two is blurry; for instance, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
