Pablo Picasso was a world-reknown painter, sculptor and contemporary artist – one of the most influential figures of the art world in the 20th century, and founder of the cubist movement. His art ranges from the simplistic to the spectacular, and his peculiar view of the world is captured in this fascinating LIFE magazine...
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Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl (1860-1933) is a Hungarian artist whose mastery in the arts has been unjustly obscured in history, (much like the Korean war) I mean Jesus Christ, he doesn’t even have his own Wikipedia page! Thank God for Empty Kingdom and our mausoleum, as part of our mission is to allow our artists...
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On November 7th 1913 one of the most absurd men took his first breath, the ethical Albert Camus. Personally this author, labeled philosopher, absurdist was one of my biggest influences in a post-modern existentialist era. Celebrating his birth, I’ve laid down a handful of his personal quotes and some from his books.
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(photo credit: Marc West) Hello beautiful people! Last year our impromptu Top 100 mega-post spread like wildfire on the internet, causing both acclamation and controversy (although none of the artists we selected seemed to argue with us) …so you better believe we’re gearing up for another mega-post featuring our top one hundred favorite artists...
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“Find what you love.” -Steve Jobs
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I wonder if Henry purposely waited a day past his birthday to die? In any case Mr. Darger’s story is a strange and interesting one. He was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a custodian in Chicago, Illinois. He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called...
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A new addition to EK’s Collection of the Dead, (and our way of making sure the great live forever) -Lucian Freud (12.08.22 – 07.20.11) was a British painter and a “bohemian of the old school,” who would set up his studios in squalid neighborhoods, developed a Byronic reputation as a rake and gambled recklessly...
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Hello beautiful people around the world, get your resumes and portfolios ready, because Empty Kingdom wants you.
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(Art by: Nam June Paik, 1932 – 2006) In tribute and in honor of the fallen, EMPTY KINGDOM presents The Mausoleum. For the cherished and admired artists who have passed on, we offer them a special place within our empty kingdom to ensure their immortality.
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George Tooker was an American figurative painter whose work was usually identified with Social Realism and Magic (Magical) Realism, which is a little less known outside art circles.
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The late Benoît Mandelbrot (1924 – 2010) was a Franco-American mathematician who is considered the “father of fractal geometry.” What is fractal geometry? That’s exactly what I said.
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Satoshi Kon, the genius Japanese animator, passed away at the tender age of 47.
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Tetsuya Ishida (1973-2005) painted an extensive series of scenes depicting ordinary Japanese life, typically painting himself as the main subject and protagonist in each piece. Ishida died in 2005 after being hit by a train, which is still considered by many as a possible suicide. http://tetsuyaishida.jp
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Not too many people have heard of artist Istvan Sandorfi unfortunately. Originally from Budapest, Hungary, Sandorfi and his family served five years in a Stalinist prison during the Communist regime due to the fact that Sandorfi’s father was the director of an American company in the 1950′s. To escape his violent and painful past,...
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