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List Of San Pedro Artists
Works by artists from San Pedro, California, United States, are found in museums and galleries around the world. * Elmer Batters, Elmer Albert Batters (1919–1997): fashion and glamour photographer * Ray Carofano (born 1942): photographer and curator; his work has been exhibited in over 60 galleries and museums, and in photography books and journals in the US and abroad; has lectured and taught workshops at various colleges and universities * Misty Copeland (born 1982): one of the first African-American female soloists with the American Ballet Theatre; has been described as the muse of popular musician Prince (musician), Prince * Eugene L. Daub (born 1942): contemporary figure sculptor; sculptor of the statue of Rosa Parks installed in the US Capitol building in 2013; attended and taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and taught there; instructor at the Scottsdale Artists' School; designer of the first Philadelphia Liberty Medal, awarded every year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmer Batters
Elmer Albert Batters (November 24, 1919 – June 25, 1997) was a pioneer fetish photographer who specialized in capturing artful images of women with an emphasis on Underwear fetishism#Stockings and Pantyhose, stockings, legs, and feet, placing him ahead of his time in popularizing foot fetishism imagery as Adult entertainment, erotic entertainment. Early life Batters was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He enlisted in the United States Navy on December 27, 1941, from Los Angeles, California. He served on the USS Sperry (AS-12) from May 1942 until September 1942 and the USS Silversides (SS-236) from September 1942 to April 1943. He also served on the USS Sunfish (SS-281) from April 1943 until April 1944, and became a Yeoman (United States Navy), Yeoman 1st Class. Career Batters started out publishing his photographs himself. In 1956, he founded and published ''Man's Favorite Pastime'', which was the first leg-art magazine. Since the early 1960s, his work was featured in magazines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Meuser
Jay Meuser (September 28, 1911 — August 19, 1963) was an American abstract expressionist painter. Meuser's style was versatile and his works prolific. In his lifetime he worked as an illustrator, portrait painter and cartoonist for several newspaper editorial pages. Biography He married Dorothy Ellen Morris in 1938. Their only child, Jacqueline Ellen Meuser, married Suren Saroyan, MD, cousin of the famous American Playwright William Saroyan. "I've led a most full life," he said to his wife just before his death. Besides teaching at the Art School of San Francisco, he had been a baseball pitcher, a vaudeville performer, a sailor working around the world twice, and "was more than a fair boxer." He had worn 14 different law enforcement badges. At 31, he was the youngest chief of police in Marin County, California. As a member of the Sheet Metal Workers International, he worked at the Terminal Island Naval Shipyard. There he was awarded the Navy's "Certificate of Award" for a sugge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artists From Los Angeles
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business to refer to actors, musicians, singers, dancers and other performers, in which they are known as ''Artiste'' instead. ''Artiste'' (French) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. The use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts such as critics' reviews; "author" is generally used instead. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older, broader meanings of the word "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry * A follower of a pursuit in which skill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture Of Los Angeles
The culture of Los Angeles is rich with arts and ethnically diverse. The greater Los Angeles metro area has several notable art museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the J. Paul Getty Museum on the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the Pacific, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), and the Hammer Museum. In the 1920s and 1930s Will Durant and Ariel Durant, Arnold Schoenberg and other intellectuals were the representatives of culture, in addition to the movie writers and directors. As the city flourished financially in the middle of the 20th century, culture followed. Boosters such as Dorothy Buffum Chandler and other philanthropists raised funds for the establishment of art museums, music centers and theaters. Today, the Southland cultural scene is as complex, sophisticated and varied as any in the world. Los Angeles is strongly influenced by Mexican American culture due to California formerly being part of Mexico and, previously, the Spanish Empir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teen Titans Go!
''Teen Titans Go!'' is an American animated television series developed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic for Cartoon Network. It premiered on April 23, 2013, and is based on DC Comics' fictional superhero team the Teen Titans. The series was announced following the popularity of DC Nation's DC Nation Shorts, New Teen Titans shorts. The production companies of the series are DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation, with the animation outsourced to Canada at Copernicus Studios and Bardel Entertainment. Sporting a different animation style, ''Teen Titans Go!'' serves as a comedic standalone Spin-off (media), spin-off with little to no continuity to the original ''Teen Titans (TV series), Teen Titans'' series (although some references are included as comedic fan service) or any other media in the DC Comics franchise. Many DC characters make cameo appearances and are referenced in the background. The original principal voice cast returns to reprise their respective roles. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Jelenic
Michael Christopher Jelenic (born May 12, 1977) is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is best known for co-developing the animated series ''Teen Titans Go!'' (2013–present) alongside Aaron Horvath for Cartoon Network, which lasted episodes, as well as co-writing and co-producing the feature film ''Teen Titans Go! To the Movies'' (2018) and co-directing '' The Super Mario Bros. Movie'' (2023) with Horvath. He also developed '' Batman: The Brave and the Bold'' (2008–2011) with James Tucker and the 2011 TV series ''ThunderCats'' with Ethan Spaulding, which both aired on Cartoon Network and were made by Warner Bros. Animation. Personal life Jelenic has 4 siblings and is of Croatian descent. His father Albert was from the village of Zdrelac and emigrated to the United States in 1965 to study engineering. He is married to Maggie Martin Jelenic, Vice President of Creative Marketing for Film and Television at Sony Music Publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USA Today
''USA Today'' (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth in 1980 and launched on September 14, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in New York City. Its newspaper is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. The paper's dynamic design influenced the style of local, regional, and national newspapers worldwide through its use of concise reports, colorized images, informational graphics, and inclusion of popular culture stories, among other distinct features. As of 2023, ''USA Today'' has the fifth largest print circulation in the United States, with 132,640 print subscribers. It has two million digital subscribers, the fourth-largest online circulation of any U.S. newspaper. ''USA Today'' is distributed in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, and an international edition is distributed in Asia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", a slogan from which its once integrated WGN (AM), WGN radio and WGN-TV, WGN television received their call letters. It is the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region, and the List of newspapers in the United States, sixth-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the then new Republican Party (United States), Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century, under Medill's grandson 'Colonel' Robert R. McCormick, its reputation was that of a crusading newspaper with an outlook that promoted Conservatism in the United States, American conservatism and opposed the New Deal. Its reporting and commenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Stantis
Scott Brian Stantis (born May 2, 1959) is an American editorial cartoonist. Career Stantis is currently the editorial cartoonist for ''The Chicago Tribune''. He began his career with ''The Chicago Tribune'' on September 1, 2009, following the paper's nine-year search to replace Jeff MacNelly, who died in June 2000. Stantis was previously a staff cartoonist for ''The Birmingham News'', ''The Orange County Register'', ''The Commercial Appeal'', ''The Arizona Republic'', and the '' Grand Rapids Press,'' and did weekly cartoons for ''USA Today''. His editorial cartoons are syndicated to over 400 newspapers via Tribune Content Agency. He usually espouses a conservative or libertarian stance in his cartoons, calling himself a "contrarian". He was president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists 2003–2004. He has also created several comic strips: * ''Sydney'' (1985–1986; through United Media) * '' The Buckets'' (1990–present; originally through Tribune Media Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mister Cartoon
Mark Machado, better known as Mister Cartoon or more commonly just Cartoon or Toon, is an American tattoo artist and graffiti artist based in Los Angeles, California. He has been described by the ''New York Times'' as an "instrumental figure in the Los Angeles hip-hop scene" and by the ''BBC'' as "one of the greatest living tattoo artists in the US". Growing up in the Harbor area of Los Angeles County, young Cartoon began doing illustrations and graffiti then going on to airbrushing clothing and lowrider A lowrider or low rider is a customized car with a lowered body that emerged among Mexican American youth in the 1940s. ''Lowrider'' also refers to the driver of the car and their participation in lowrider car clubs, which remain a part of Chi ... custom cars. Machado then moved on to working in the music industry doing album covers, tour merchandise and later tattooing recording artists and other celebrities. Machado's style of art is part of the Chicano art movement and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay McCafferty
Jay McCafferty (February 21, 1948 – March 21, 2021) was a California painter, video artist, and filmmaker. Background McCafferty was a student at the Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, California, for a brief time following high school. He attended Chapman College where he also studied on the World Campus Afloat before attending California State University, Los Angeles, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in art. In 1973 he earned an MFA degree from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he studied with classmates Charles Christopher Hill, John Knight, Richard Newton, and Alexis Smith. McCafferty was an associate professor of art and head of the art department at Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington. He has also worked as a lifeguard for the County of Los Angeles part-time from 1966 through retirement in 1996; he worked at Southern California beaches from Ventura County to San Pedro, California. At UCI McCafferty studied with artists, such as Craig K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Carofano
Ray Carofano (born December 7, 1942) is an American photographer who lives and works in the Los Angeles port town of San Pedro. Life and work Carofano was born on December 7, 1942 in New Haven, Connecticut. Carofano's career in photography spans over fifty years. It was first a hobby, then a passion and finally a profession. His self-education in photography began at an early age when his parents gave him the complete set of ''The Encyclopedia of Photography''. He studied at Quinnipiac College, Southern Connecticut State College and Paier School of Art. In 1969 he started Ray Carofano Photography Inc., specializing in product photography with special effects. When he wasn't shooting ads and brochures for clients he was doing his own personal work. In 1991 he began focusing more on fine art work and less on commercial work. Carofano's early work was mostly street photography - marginalized people on the fringes of society inspired by the sight of railroad "hobos" he had witn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
