Art For Death's Sake

[arghton 6,114]

On 16/08/2018 at 01:05, alt obits guy said:

Mary Pratt, an acclaimed Canadian painter known for her depictions of everyday objects, has died.  She was 83.

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/mary-pratt-acclaimed-east-coast-painter-dead-at-83-1.4053795

Christopher Pratt, Canadian painter and printmaker, member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, subject of Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt and former husband (divorced in 2005) of Mary Pratt dead at 86.

 

He also designed the Flag of Newfoundland and Labrador:

[YoungWillz 18,948]

Portuguese born British artist Dame Paulo Rego dead at 87: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/paula-rego-death-artist-age-b2096462.html

 

DDP pick for All Death Is Consolation @gcreptile. Also a Hare's Pool pick I think.

[Sir Creep 7,011]

I guess this is the right thread.

 

The well-known Czech illustrator and graphic designer Pavel Sukdolák has died at the age of 96, the Czech News Agency reported.

Sukdolák was considered one of the main representatives of Czech post-war graphic design. He illustrated several books and was the creator of many of the country’s postage stamps.

His illustrations received both Czech as well as international awards, such as the gold medal at the biennale in Florence in 1969.

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[chel 316]

18.06.2022

Artist and art critic Anatoly Kanushkin died at the age of 82.

Anatoly Kanushkin is a painter, graphic artist, art critic, teacher, member of the Union of Artists since 1977. The main genres of the artist's works were landscape, still life, interior and portrait. Kanushkin's works are in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, museums and private collections in Russia and abroad. During his life he participated in 80 exhibitions.

https://iz.ru/export/google/amp/1351914

 

Individual works can be viewed here:

https://www.nikolskayagallery.com/painters/kanushkin-anatoliy/?lang=eng

[Sir Creep 7,011]

(Quoting @Lafaucheuse fae Ideas & Possibilities 2022)

some French new names : 

• Helene David Weill (1933) : art collector and patron  
• Michel David Weill (1932) : art collector, patron, banker and husband of Helene.

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Michel David-Weill, whose gifts of money and art helped transform the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has died at 89. The Louvre said in its obituary for him that he died on June 17 in New York.

 

This makes Helene an available widow for the Widow thread.
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[arghton 6,114]

On 26/04/2021 at 19:37, arghton said:

(Flag designers, post quoted from deadpool detective work)

Flag of Nigeria: Taiwo Akinkunmi (b. 1936)

Flag of Greenland: Thue Christiansen (b. 1940)

Flag of North Macedonia: Miroslav Grčev (b. 1955)

Flag of Grenada: Anthony C. George (b. 1938)

Flag of the Marshall Islands: Emlain Kabua (b. 1928) also the widow of 1st President Amata Kabua (1928-1996)

Flag of Bangladesh: Shib Narayan Das (b. 1946)

Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Mladen Kolobarić (b. 1933)

Thue Christiansen, Greenlandic Inuit teacher, artist, politician best known for designing the Flag of Greenland, dead at 82.

[Ulitzer95 10,947]

17 hours ago, arghton said:

Thue Christiansen, Greenlandic Inuit teacher, artist, politician best known for designing the Flag of Greenland, dead at 82.

Anthony Drake (wiki), English school teacher who designed the flag of Saskatchewan, dead at 81.

[TomTomTelekom 3,594]

Abstract Expressionist and Lyrical painter and Color Field artist Sam Gilliam,  who was associated with the Washington Color School, dies at 88 years:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sam-gilliam-dead-1234632790/

He conceived the idea of the "unsupported canvas" in 1965 and revolutionized the perception of the blank canvas.

[gcreptile 10,211]

29 minutes ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Abstract Expressionist and Lyrical painter and Color Field artist Sam Gilliam,  who was associated with the Washington Color School, dies at 88 years:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sam-gilliam-dead-1234632790/

He conceived the idea of the "unsupported canvas" in 1965 and revolutionized the perception of the blank canvas.

Ah, been on my longlist for some time. He was an insider name who saw a revival in recent years. I thought he had lived longer than could be expected already years ago.

[alt obits guy 3,090]

Margaret Keane, famous for her paintings featuring large, sad eyes, has died. She was 94.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/arts/margaret-keane-dead.html

 

 

[markb4 794]

3 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

Margaret Keane, famous for her paintings featuring large, sad eyes, has died. She was 94.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/arts/margaret-keane-dead.html

 

 

 

Amy Adams portrayed her in Tim Burton's Big Eyes.

[drol 10,031]

After at least five years of hospice care. Talk about staying power!

[Lafaucheuse 3,648]

That’s really weird, I was thinking about her yesterday even though I never thought or her before. Just like Trintignant : the Day he died I thought he couldn’t have much more left… 

 

anyway, +1 for my shadowlist 

[YoungWillz 18,948]

15 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

Margaret Keane, famous for her paintings featuring large, sad eyes, has died. She was 94.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/arts/margaret-keane-dead.html

 

 

Not sure if it has been pointed out @gcreptile, but Margaret Keane BBC Obit for the DDP: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61980385

[Grimgrass 474]

On 22/04/2022 at 17:11, arghton said:

Juhani Palmu hospitalised again (around the fourth time this year) around a week ago with chest pain and kidney failure. He's also been put into a nursing home against his wife's will. Tough guy, he's got atleast 3 or 4 different serious diseases but seems to be indestructible and survives every hospitalisation

 

Palmu turned 78 today. He got some good health news for a change, as his bladder cancer is gone.

 

How is a man who has survived two house fires planning to celebrate his birthday? By smoking a cigar and barbecuing, of course.

[alt obits guy 3,090]

Howard N. Watson, a noted watercolorist, illustrator and teacher, has died. He was 93.

 

https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/howard-watson-obituary-watercolor-painter-philadelphia-woodmere-20220715.html?utm_source=t.co&utm_campaign=edit_social_share_twitter_traffic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=&utm_term=&int_promo=

[YoungWillz 18,948]

Laurence Broderick, UK sculptor notable for creating The Bull in Birmingham, is 87. Worth thinking about as he is being sued by his kids for £5m for cutting them out of his will: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11023901/Sculptor-87-created-iconic-Bull-statue-sued-sons-cutting-will.html

[YoungWillz 18,948]

Claes Oldenburg, long term DDP Pick and famed pop art sculptor, dead at 93: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/claes-oldenburg-dead-1234634394/

 

I'll assume he's a pick this year @gcreptile.

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,201]

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-prison-therapist-who-introduced-27555443

 

Noted Scottish art therapist  Joyce Laing who specialises in art as one method of rehabilitation  for violent prisoners in Scotland, has died in her early nineties. 

[arghton 6,114]

Swiss-American sculptor Emilie Benes Brzezinski, also the widow of Carter's National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, dead at 90:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/22/brzezinski-dies/

[YoungWillz 18,948]

US artist Jennifer Bartlett reportedly dead: 

Combined conceptual art with neo-expressionism it says here....

[Gisooo 2,527]

English-Irish artist Pauline Bewick (Wiki) dead at 86 from cancer

 

[arghton 6,114]

Russian painter Dmitri Vrubel being reported dead at 62 from COVID. Most known for the legendary Berlin Wall graffiti painting My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love (1990):

[Ulitzer95 10,947]

On 21/07/2011 at 21:24, Vinegar Tits said:

Person with famous surname and downright miserable bugger when he used to ring the PA, Lucian Freud's paint has run dry.

Jane McAdam Freud (wiki), daughter of Lucian Freud and famed sculptor in her own right, dead at 64 from undisclosed causes.

Times obit.

[Lafaucheuse 3,648]

French-swiss sculptor Antoine Poncet died at 94 on the 13th of august. A miss for my french list as he was under my radar for a bit now