The document provides biographies of 6 artists in 3 paragraphs:
Eric Zener is a self-taught American painter known for photorealist paintings of people interacting with water. Francis Bacon was an Irish painter known for his emotionally raw figurative paintings set against flat backgrounds. Pablo Picasso was a highly influential Spanish painter and sculptor who helped develop Cubism. The second paragraph discusses Gustav Klimt, an Austrian symbolist painter known for his erotic paintings. The third paragraph is about Jason deCaires Taylor, a British underwater photographer and sculptor who creates sculptures to install on coral reefs.
1. Eric Zener
Eric Zener born in 1968 in Astoria, Oregon is a self-taught figurative
artist. As of 2004 he had created more than 600 pieces of work. His
paintings, mostly in oil, are in a photorealist or super-realist style
Zener describes as Contemporary Renaissance. Zener became
interested in watching bathers, and began a series of paintings of
water, and of people interacting with water. Many paintings from this
period depict women swimming underwater amidst air bubbles, or
diving into the water.
2. Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon 28 October 1909 was an Irish-born British figurative painter known
for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. Bacon's painterly but
abstracted figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set
against flat, nondescript backgrounds. He began painting during his early 20s
and worked only sporadically until his mid-30s. From the mid-1960s, Bacon
mainly produced portrait heads of friends. He often said in interviews that he
saw images "in series", and his artistic output often saw him focus on single
themes for sustained periods – including his crucifixion, Papal heads and later
single and triptych heads series.
3. Picasso
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (25th October 1881 was a Spanish
painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his
adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th
century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of
constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that
he helped develop and explore.
4. Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian
symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the
Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his
paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt's primary
subject was the female body; his works are marked by a frank
eroticism.
5. Jason deCaires Taylor
Born in 1974 to an English father and Guyanese mother, With over 17 years diving
experience under his belt, Taylor is an award winning underwater
photographer, famous for his dramatic images, which capture the
metamorphosing effects of the ocean on his evolving sculptures. He grew up in
Europe and Asia, where he spent much of his early childhood exploring the coral
reefs of Malaysia.