Art Institute of Chicago

born Marija Mickevicius in Chicago. Marija Mickevicius study at Casimir Academy, DePaul University graduating with a Ph.B. degree. Later on she attended Rosary, Alverno, and Cardinal Stritch Colleges to study art. Sister Mercedes also, studied at the Catholic University in D.C and the Art institute of Chicago where she received her Master degree for Fine Arts in painting and drawing. In 1969 over 40 of Sister Mercedes art work was held at a major exhibit called the 69 Art Gallery. Her work has…

O'keefe is known as the Mother of American Modernism. She was one of the first American artists to practice abstract art. O'Keefe created hundreds of paintings throughout her life and was a forerunner to modernism. O'Keeffe was born in 1887 in Wisconsin. When she was 16, however, she moved to Virginia with her family. In 1907 she began studying at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Sadly, soon after she began college, her father went bankrupt, and her mother began to suffer…

because with technology, a competitor could easily overtake them and get their idea to market first. A Chicago resident, Lefkofsky is active in his community; he sits on the boards of the the Art Institute of Chicago, the Children's Memorial Hospital and The Museum of Science and Industry. Adjunct Professor Eric Lefkofsky also teaches a course on entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. If anyone knows about entrepreneurship, it is Lefkofsky, who co-founded…

yrus Defeats Spargapises The art institute of Chicago is home to thousands of priceless pieces of artwork that people from all around the world come travel to see. All cultures come together to critique these pieces of artwork. The best part of this experience is the fact that an opinion isn’t wrong, everyone sees something different in their own unique way. While most stop in sublime at La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat, many people walk past it to get to the weapons section. Just a big…

an independent artist who began his career in the field of art in the early 1930’s and also continued into the late 1950’s. 2. Cornell worked with in several different types of works. He first began building his collage boxes; he built three dimensional sculptures, and he also painted murals using fresco styles of paints. 3. 4. He had four different styles, he used abstraction, he was a modernist, a surrealist and also he used the pop-art style in some of his works. The media that he used in…

Art therapy is a relatively new field in therapeutic counseling. It is defined as an expressive therapy “through which we many draw on inner feelings and the unconscious to produce a tangible product…that allows clients to explore their deepest and often hidden feelings, and to use symbols to represent their inner feelings and conflicts” (Degges-White, p. 1). While there are a number of theoretical approaches, this paper focuses on Adlerian art therapy, which incorporates a framework based off…

December 5, 1901, in Chicago, Illinois. After Walt’s birth, his parents, Elias Disney and Flora Disney moved their family to Marceline, Missouri. While growing up there, young Walt developed a love for nature and wildlife. He would often sketch plants and animals he saw around him. In 1911, the Disney family moved to Kansas City but soon Disney found himself back in Chicago where he attended McKinley High School but he also enrolled in the…

Wyatt Didier Caitlin Luetger March 1, 2015 Humanities 1101 Art Analysis 1 The painting “The Old Guitarist” by Pablo Picasso is a masterpiece that gives great insight into the artist’s troubled life. Picasso used oil on canvas, and painted this work of art in 1903 while working in Barcelona. “The Old Guitarist” was one of Picasso’s most prominent pieces of his “Blue Period”, which lasted from 1901-1904, and was caused by the death of his good friend, Carlos Casagemas. In this “Blue Period”,…

attempting to seduce Shiva. Uma did much to earn Shiva’s gaze (The Art Institute of Chicago), “…who waited for Shiva to court her, singing and dancing and making herself beautiful”. Uma did not get Shiva’s attention at first, and instead of continuing down the fruitless path she was on, she then decided to live just as ascetic life as he. Uma worked for his affection so diligently her devotion changed her appearance (The Art Institute of Chicago), “She was so committed to this path that she…

girl and making carvings out of the soap. Even though Ormes’s high school did not offer art classes she drew cartoons for the yearbook and later became the art editor. Ormes did not receive formal training as an artist, except in the early 1940’s she took a few drawing classes when she moved to Chicago at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Jackie drew a comic parody of her experience telling the art professor, she has been told she is a natural. After looking about the class, the…