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Manchester Academy of Fine Arts

Index Manchester Academy of Fine Arts

The Manchester Academy of Fine Arts (MAFA) is a society established in 1859 to organise annual open exhibitions in Manchester City Art Gallery, formerly the Manchester Institution. [1]

20 relations: Alfred Waterhouse, Art exhibition, Art museum, Caldecott Medal, Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer, Drawing, Ford Madox Brown, Käthe Schuftan, L. S. Lowry, Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Cathedral, Norman Adams (British artist), North West England, Painting, Printmaking, Randolph Caldecott, Robert Crozier (artist), Sculpture, William Knight Keeling.

Alfred Waterhouse

Alfred Waterhouse (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture.

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Art exhibition

An art exhibition is traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience.

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Art museum

An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.

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Caldecott Medal

The Randolph Caldecott Medal annually recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children", beginning with 1937 publications.

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Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer

Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer (1916–2011) was a lawyer, Rotary District Governor for Puerto Rico, a war veteran, and a retired major general in the Puerto Rico National Guard.

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Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person uses various drawing instruments to mark paper or another two-dimensional medium.

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Ford Madox Brown

Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was a French-born British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style.

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Käthe Schuftan

Käthe Fanny Schuftan (12 January 1899 – 21 February 1958) was a German Jewish artist whose paintings and drawings expressed both human suffering and the aspiration of spirit, in the mid 20th century. Josef Paul Hodin wrote that she "worked in an Expressionist style reminiscent of Käthe Kollwitz' social pathos".Josef Paul Hodin, "John Milne: sculptor, life and work", London: Latimer New Dimensions 1977, Section 2, Page 5 An artist at the time of the Weimar culture, she was tortured and imprisoned by the Nazis in the early 1930s, and her work was destroyed. She escaped in 1939, arriving in Manchester, England, not long before the outbreak of the World War II; she lived and worked there until her death in 1958.Obituary, by Margo Ingham, The Manchester Guardian, 24 February 1958.

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L. S. Lowry

Laurence Stephen Lowry (1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre.

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Manchester Cathedral

Manchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, in Manchester, England, is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the city's parish church.

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Norman Adams (British artist)

Norman Edward Albert Adams RA (9 February 1927 - 9 March 2005) was a British artist, and professor of painting at the Royal Academy Schools.

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North West England

North West England, one of nine official regions of England, consists of the five counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.

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Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base).

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Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper.

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Randolph Caldecott

Randolph Caldecott (22 March 1846 – 12 February 1886) was an English artist and illustrator, born in Chester.

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Robert Crozier (artist)

Robert Crozier (1815–1891) was an English portrait artist, based in Manchester.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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William Knight Keeling

William Knight Keeling (1807–1886) was a British (Victorian) artist, an illustrator of Walter Scott's novels and Shakespeare's plays, a founder member and the third President of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Academy_of_Fine_Arts

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