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his work, including the Medal of the Belgian Government in 1878 and a bronze medal in 1889 at the
Worlds Fair in Paris, followed by silver in 1900.
Will is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, and was
elected to membership with the Knickerbocker Artists of New York in 1986. Will has exhibited twice with
the National Academy of Design in New York. In 2007 he received the Mario Copper and Dale Myers
Medal from the American Watercolor Society for his contributions to watercolor.
Will resides and creates, with his wife Claudia, in Carmel Valley, California just across the meadow from
his son, who is also an artist, daughter-in-law and grandchildren.
Although he is well-versed in classical methods of painting he likes to paint in tune with the spirit of great
Russian avant-garde artists. The influences of Chagall, Kandinsky, and Malevich that inspired his art is
complemented by the diverse imagery, harmonious compositions, and intense colors. Leon enjoys
experimentational art, and is continually expanding and developing his style and creative vision.
(1907)
Georges Chicotot (1868-1921)-The first attempt to treat cancer with Xrays
Jusepe de Ribera, La Mujer Barbuda (The Bearded Woman), 1631, oil on canvas. Hospital de Tavera,
Toledo, Spain
This painting is also known by its Spanish name, La Mujer Barbuda. Certainly one of the strangest, most
foreboding images in the history of art, Ribera's painting is the portrait of the fifty-two-year-old Magdalena
Ventura from Abruzzi with her husband and a newborn baby.
This is one case where pictures certainly speak louder than words, because as anyone can tell at a
glance, Magdalena Ventura was far from a typical wife and mother: the unfortunate woman sports a beard
even longer and more luxurious than that of her husband, who gazes forlornly at the viewer from the
murky, shadowy background.
The stone tablet at the right of the picture bears a Latin inscription which tells us more about this unlikely
trio: the inscription describes the "The Bearded lady of Abruzzi" as "a great wonder of nature" who bore
her husband three sons before sprouting a bushy, undeniably masculine beard at the age of thirty-seven.
As the inscription helpfully points out, Magdalena's shock of facial hair"seems more like that of any
bearded master than that of a woman who has borne three sons. "
This odd painting was commissioned in 1631 by the Duke of Alcal, the Viceroy of Naples and one of
Ribera's most faithful patrons. The Duke's painting collection reveals that the collector was rather fond of
paintings of unusual subjects and especially of bizarre figures engaged in even stranger behaviors, and
given Ribera's oeuvre, the painter had the same strange proclivities.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is generally regarded as the first cubist painting. Under the influence of
Czanne, Iberian sculpture, and African sculpture (which Picasso first saw in Paris in 1907) the artist
launched a pictorial style more radical than anything he had produced up to that date. The human figures
and their surrounding space are reduced to a series of broad, intersecting planes which align themselves
with the picture surface and imply a multiple, dissected view of the visible world. The faces of the figures
are seen simultaneously from frontal and profile positions, and their bodies are likewise forced to submit
to Picasso's new and radically abstract pictorial language.
Paradoxically, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was not exhibited in public until 1937. Very possibly the picture
was as problematic for Picasso as it was for his circle of friends and fellow artists, who were shocked when
they viewed it in his Bateau Lavoir studio. Even Georges Braque, who by 1908 had become Picasso's
closest colleague in the cubist enterprise, at first said that "to paint in such a way was as bad as drinking
petrol in the hope of spitting fire." Nevertheless, Picasso relentlessly pursued the implications of his own
revolutionary invention. Between 1907 and 1911 he continued to dissect the visible world into increasingly
small facets of monochromatic planes of space. In doing so, his works became more and more abstract;
that is, representation gradually vanished from the painting medium, which correspondingly became an
end in itselffor the first time in the history of Western art.
In order to be a better doctor, you have to see yourself through a looking glass, to view yourself and
your practice in a whole other light to understand who you are and what you do.
Salvador Dal (1904-1989), The Bleeding Roses [Las rosas ensangrentadas], 1930, oil on canvas, 61 x
50 cm. La Corua, Collecin Caixa Galicia.
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali Domenech, 1st Marques de Dali de Pubol (May 11, 1904 - January
23, 1989), known as Salvador Dali, was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,
Spain. Dali was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work.
His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.His best-known work, The
Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dali's expansive artistic repertoire included film,
sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. Dali attributed his
"love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to
an "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors. Dali was highly
imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and
attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those
who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritation of his critics
blood keeps dripping on her white dress and she is in danger of bleeding to death. The stormy sky filled
with agitated clouds may reflect Frida's inner turmoil.