Showing posts with label figure painter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label figure painter. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Denis W. Reed - Figurative Artist

Here's something you don't see every day paintings and drawings by a talented yet nearly unknown artist who worked hard and had talent but didn't have a professional career because he was confined to a psychiatric hospital. Denis W. Reed was confined to Glenside Psychiatric Hospital in Bristol, United Kingdom in the 1950s and 1960s.

The works are for sale on Ebay.

The seller provides links to an article in the British Journal of Psychiatry which show additional drawings by Mr. Reed. Untitled pictures (date unknown) by Denis Reed (1917–1979) - psychiatry in pictures by Christopher Ramsey, Peter Carpenter and Allan Beveridge




Mental Health, Psychiatry and the Arts: A Teaching Handbook (Masterpass S.) Introduction to Art Therapy: Sources & Resources Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Masterworks of Art and Film
Mental Health, Psychiatry and the Arts: A Teaching Handbook (Masterpass S.)

Introduction to Art Therapy: Sources & Resources

Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Masterworks of Art and Film

Art and mental health: An exhibition of paintings, clay models and ceramics by psychiatric and subnormal patients and maladjusted children ... at the Commonwealth Institute

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Arnost Hofbauer - Czech Figurative Artist


MÄDCHEN MIT SEEROSEN, EIN FARBENSPIEL which is translated as Girl with Water Lilies, A Color Game by Arnost Hofbauer

The print is for sale on Ebay.

Cover design for Volné Směry, 1898, from A Polar Bear's Tale.

Biography from ArtPlus.cz:
Arnošt Hofbauer ( 26 April 1869 Prague - 11 January 1944 Prague) Czech painter and graphic artist. He studied at a school of applied arts in Prague and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. His teachers were Vojtěch Hynais, Maxmilián Pirner and František Ženíšek. In 1897 he went to Wienna. His work is significant for his applied graphic art connecting the Art Nouveau biomorph ornaments with geometrical shapes. He was one of the founding members of SVU Mánes for which he created numerous posters.