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Raphaella Spence
Raphaella Beatrice Spence (born 1978) is a British photorealist and hyperrealist painter. Biography Spence was born in London, England in 1978. At the age of twelve, she moved to Rome, Italy, with her family, where she completed her studies at St. George's British International School in 1997. Spence initially painted still lifes, but after being influenced by views of the Umbrian countryside, she turned towards a more photorealistic approach, painting landscapes. Her current works consist of high resolution digital camera images combined with freehand cityscape paintings."Honoring the Artist: Raphaella Spence", by Weiss, Marion, Dan’s Papers, 29 April, cover ill. 2011 Exhibitions In 2003, Spence had her first solo exhibition in the United States at the Bernarducci Meisel Gallery in New York.R. Spence, Stolen Dreams, introduction by Roderick Conway Morris, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery Editions, 2003 New York (USA) Since then, many of her works have been displayed at the Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Bernardi
Roberto Bernardi (born 1974 in Todi, Italy) is a photorealist painter who explores the beauty of everyday life though the reflections and transparencies in his still life paintings, using as his main subject plates and glasses, kitchens appliances, dishwashers, fridges and more recently lollypops and candies. Biography Bernardi's first works date back to the early 80's and in 1993 upon graduating from high school, he moved to Rome where he worked as a restorer in the church of San Francesco a Ripa. In 1994 he decided to dedicate himself full-time to the creation of his own paintings and after an initial foray with landscapes and portraits, Bernardi started concentrating on contemporary still life and turned towards a kind of realism closely associated to photorealism. In 1999 Bernardi met Raphaella Spence, also a photorealist artist, with whom he occasionally created series of big sized paintings painted together representing social scenes such as crowds at football stadium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberson Museum Of Arts & Sciences
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Roberson may refer to: *Roberson (surname) *Roberson Wine *Roberson de Arruda Alves, Brazilian footballer See also * Robersonville, NC Robersonville, incorporated in 1872, is a town located in Martin County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,326 at the 2020 census. Robersonville is located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region. It is home to the East Carolina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schwäbisches Tagblatt
The ''Schwäbisches Tagblatt'' is a daily newspaper for Tübingen, in print since 1945, as well as the publishing house that prints it. With 40,820 paid subscriptions in 2012, it is the newspaper with the highest circulation in the district of Tübingen. The Tübingen editorial and local news from field offices in Rottenburg am Neckar (''Rottenburg Post''), Mössingen (''Steinlach-Bote'') and Reutlingen make up only the part of the daily newspaper that reports on the region of Neckar-Alb. For the outer national portion (''Mantel''), Ulm-based Südwest Presse is used, which makes up almost 50 percent of the newspaper. Of all the newspapers that use the same outer "jacket", Schwäbisches Tagblatt's circulation is second only to the Südwest Presse daily newspaper, which covers Ulm, Neu-Ulm, Alb-Donau-Kreis and Landkreis Neu-Ulm. There are about 30 Südwest Presse-associated newspapers, concentrated in Baden-Württemberg, with a small presence in Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuttgarter Zeitung
The ''Stuttgarter Zeitung'' ("Stuttgart newspaper") is a German language, German-language daily newspaper (except Sundays) edited in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with a run of about 200,000 sold copies daily. History and profile It was first edited on 18 September 1945, just a few months after the end of the World War II, Second World War. With northern and central Württemberg being part of the Allied-occupied Germany#American Zone of Occupation, American occupation zone from 1945 to 1949, it was the U.S. Information Control Division that issued the first publishing licence to the editors Josef Eberle, Karl Ackermann and Henry Bernhard during the first years of the paper's existence. Erich Schairer joined them as co-editor in the fall of 1946. After Schairers death, Eberle remained the editor until 1972. Today, its publishing house is Südwestdeutsche Medien Holding. It is mainly read in Baden-Württemberg and therefore has a strong local and regional focus, but al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunsthalle Tübingen
Kunsthalle Tübingen is the most famous art museum of the university town of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was founded (and the erection of its building financed) in 1971 by Paula Zundel and Dr. Margarethe Fischer-Bosch, daughters of the industrialist Robert Bosch (founder of Robert Bosch GmbH) in memory of painter Georg Friedrich Zundel, Paula Zundel's late husband. The building was erected during the big northern expansion of Tübingen in the 1960s and early 1970s, when the Wanne district (a.o.) was built almost from scratch as a residential area on the town's (formerly) rural northern hills. For the first eleven years of its existence, it hosted mainly exhibitions of modern art and contemporary art. From 1982, it could also frequently present the works of painters of the classical modernity, e.g. Cézanne, Degas, Picasso, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec or Henri Rousseau, while keeping up the focus on modern art and contemporary art. The first director of the Kunsth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal Gazette
The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of the 20th century. It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies; the other is the ''Sherbrooke Record'', which serves the anglophone community in Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships southeast of Montreal. Founded in 1778 by Fleury Mesplet, ''The Gazette'' is Quebec's oldest daily newspaper and Canada's oldest daily newspaper still in publication. The oldest newspaper overall is the English-language '' Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph'', which was established in 1764 and is published weekly. History Fleury Mesplet founded a French-language weekly newspaper called ''La Gazette du commerce et littéraire, pour la ville et district de Montréal'' on June 3, 1778. It was the first entirely French-language newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Office Of The United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and Humanitarian protection, protect refugees, Internally displaced person, forcibly displaced communities, and Statelessness, stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary return, voluntary repatriation, local integration or third country resettlement, resettlement to a third country. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with over 17,300 staff working in 135 countries. Background UNHCR was created in 1950 to address the refugee crisis that resulted from World War II. The 1951 refugee convention, 1951 Refugee Convention established the scope and legal framework of the agency's work, which initially focused on Europeans uprooted by the war. Beginning in the late 1950s, displacement caused by other conflicts, from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Hungarian Uprising to the Decolonisation of Africa, decolonization of Africa and Asia, broadened the scope of UNHCR's ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albemarle Gallery
Albemarle Gallery was an art gallery located in Mayfair, London. The gallery opened in 1986 and featured figurative to hyper-realist artwork by local and international contemporary painters and sculptors. This gallery closed in 1993. History In 1986, Mark Glazebrook, a private art dealer with an interest in modern British painting and drawing opened Albemarle Gallery on Piccadilly Piccadilly () is a road in the City of Westminster, London, to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is part of the A4 road that connects central London to Hammersmith, Earl's Cou .... The gallery featured over 100 artists in its first three and a half years. The gallery closed in 1993. Glazebrook died in 2009. References {{Coord, 51.50805, -0.14110, display=title 1986 establishments in England Art galleries established in 1986 1993 disestablishments in England 1996 establishments in England Art galleries established in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Baker Gallery
Elaine may refer to: * Elaine (legend), name shared by several different female characters in Arthurian legend, especially: ** Elaine of Astolat ** Elaine of Corbenic * "Elaine" (short story), 1945 short story by J. D. Salinger * Elaine (singer), South African singer Business *Elaine's, a New York City restaurant Entertainment * ''The Exploits of Elaine'', 1914 film serial in the genre of ''The Perils of Pauline'' * "Elaine" (song) by ABBA, the B-side of the single ''The Winner Takes It All'' and a bonus track on the CD re-issues of ''Super Trouper'' * "Miss Elaine", song by Run–D.M.C. from the album ''Tougher Than Leather'' * Elaine Marley, heroine of the video series ''Monkey Island'' * ''Elaine'' (opera), composed by Herman Bemberg * Elaine Benes (Seinfeld character) Places * Elaine, Victoria, a town in Australia * Elaine, Arkansas, a US city People * Elaine (given name) Elaine is a given name, a variant of Elaina, Elayne and Helen. It may refer to: Arts and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattanville College
Manhattanville College is a private university in Purchase, New York. Founded in 1841 at 412 Houston Street in lower Manhattan, it was initially known as Academy of the Sacred Heart, then after 1847 as Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart. In 1917, the academy received a charter from the Regents of the State of New York to raise the school officially to a collegiate level granting degrees as the College of the Sacred Heart. In 1952 it moved to its current location in the hamlet of Purchase, New York, a suburb north of New York City. Purchase is inside the town and village of Harrison in Westchester County. Approximately 1,100 undergraduate and 900 graduate students attend Manhattanville, with students coming from 45+ countries and 35+ American states. The architectural and administrative centerpiece of the Manhattanville campus is Reid Hall (1864) which was named after Whitelaw Reid, publisher and owner of the '' New-York Tribune'', one of the leading newspapers in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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