Keith Haring's 54th birthday Google Doodle

Google doodle today May 04, 2012, come with a theme Keith Haring's 54th birthday. Courtesy of the Keith Haring Foundation.

Google logo appears with the picture as the work of Keith Haring and with a very distinctive look with bright colors.

Keith Haring's 54th birthday. Courtesy of the Keith Haring Foundation

Keith Haring was an American artist and social activist, whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s.

Keith Haring was famous in the 1980s for his art, which was a mixture of graffiti and pop art and used bright colors and simplistic images, as well as social and homoerotic themes.

Biography of Keith Haring

Birth name : Keith Haring
Born : Reading, Pennsylvania, May 4, 1958
Died : New York City, New York, February 16, 1990 (aged 31)
Nationality : USA
Field : Pop art, Graffiti Art
Training : The Ivy School of Professional Art (Pittsburgh), School of Visual Arts (New York)
Influenced by : Dr. Seuss, Walt Disney, Allen Haring (his father), William S. Burroughs, Pierre Alechinsky.

See more detail about Keith Haring: www.haringkids.com, www.haring.com, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Haring

Eadweard J. Muybridge at Google Doodle - Eadweard J. Muybridge's 182nd Birthday

Google Doodle Celebrate Eadweard J. Muybridge's 182nd Birthday

Google doodle page today again changed in accordance with the observed moment. Today is April 9, 2012, coinciding with Eadweard J. Muybridge's 182nd Birthday, google doodle also celebrate.

Eadweard J. Muybridge

Eadweard J. Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was an English photographer of Dutch ancestry who spent much of his life in the United States. He is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip.

Born Edward James Muggeridge, he changed his name several times early in his US career. First he changed his forenames to the Spanish equivalent Eduardo Santiago, perhaps because of the Spanish influence on Californian place names. His surname appears at times as Muggridge and Muygridge (possibly due to misspellings), and Muybridge from the 1860s.

In the 1870s he changed his first name again to Eadweard, to match the spelling of King Edward shown on the plinth of the Kingston coronation stone, which was re-erected in Kingston in 1850. His name remained Eadweard Muybridge for the rest of his career. However, his gravestone bears a further variant, Eadweard Maybridge.

He used the pseudonym Helios (Greek god of the sun) on many of his photographs, and also as the name of his studio and his son's middle name.

Muybridge was born at Kingston upon Thames, England on April 9, 1830. He emigrated to the US, arriving in San Francisco in 1855, where he started a career as a publisher's agent and bookseller. He left San Francisco at the end of the 1850s, and after a stagecoach accident in which he received severe head injuries, returned to England for a few years.

While recuperating back in England, he took up photography seriously sometime between 1861 and 1866, where he learned the wet-collodion process.

He reappeared in San Francisco in 1866 and rapidly became successful in photography, focusing principally on landscape and architectural subjects, although his business cards also advertised his services for portraiture.

His photographs were sold by various photographic entrepreneurs on Montgomery Street (most notably the firm of Bradley & Rulofson), San Francisco's main commercial street, during those years.

Eadweard Muybridge returned to his native England for good in 1894, published two further, popular books of his work, and died on 8 May 1904 in Kingston upon Thames while living at the home of his cousin Catherine Smith, Park View, 2 Liverpool Road. The house has a British Film Institute commemorative plaque on the outside wall which was unveiled in 2004. Muybridge was cremated and his ashes interred at Woking in Surrey.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge

Google Doodle Celebrate Mies van der Rohe's 126th Birthday

Google Doodle Celebrate Mies van der Rohe's 126th Birthday - Today is March 27, 2012, page Google Doodle again changed in accordance with the observed moment, Mies van der Rohe's 126th Birthday.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German architect. He is commonly referred to and addressed as Mies, his surname.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, along with Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, are widely regarded as the pioneering masters of Modern architecture. Mies, like many of his post World War I contemporaries, sought to establish a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He created an influential twentieth century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity.

His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define interior spaces. He strived towards an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of free-flowing open space. He called his buildings "skin and bones" architecture. (Source: Wikipedia)

Google Doodle Celebrate Juan Gris' 125th Birthday

Google Doodle Celebrate Juan Gris' 125th Birthday - Today's google doodle again changed according to the moment which is observed, namely Juan Gris' 125th Birthday.

José Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. His works, which are closely connected to the emergence of an innovative artistic genre—Cubism—are among the movement's most distinctive.