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| First Name | Frances |
| Last Name | Boyd |
| Born | 1947-10-21 |
| Country | United States |
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| Since the age of 12 Boyd had wanted to attend art school,but life had other ideas. She became a mother at 17,divorced at 21and struggled with drugs and alcohol until her mid-40's. Boyd suffered a brain aneurism at 47; during her recovery she promised herself that she would find something more meaningful to do in her life besides work.She remembered that the only thing she had ever wanted to do was to paint.A friend began bringing her newspaper clippings about art classes and she eventually started attending. Boyd has been painting regularly ever since. |
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| Style Representational |
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| Artwork that purports to represent what is seen; also called objective art. |
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| Style Realism |
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| A style of painting which depicts subject matter (form, color, space) as it appears in actuality or ordinary visual experience without distortion or stylization. In a general sense, refers to objective representation. More specifically, a nineteenth century movement, especially in France, that rejected idealized academic styles in favor of everyday subjects. Daumier, Millet, and Courbet were realists. |
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| Style Impressionism |
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| An art movement founded in France in the last third of the 19th century. Impressionist art... |
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| Style Magic Realism |
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| Magic Realism is deeply rooted in everyday reality, but has overtones of fantasy or wonder... |
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