Here are five more artists in my Top 10 inspirational artists. Use them to inspire your students! They all suffered a disability and continued to create art!
- Claude Monet gradually
lost his eyesight to cataracts. His vision was restricted to mainly the blue
range. He continued to paint in a more predominately blue palette.
- Toulouse-Lautrec
had short, deformed legs as a result of riding accidents in his youth. His
disability restricted his mobility, but he still continue to paint despite the
challenges.
- Frida Kahlo wore
a body brace due to childhood polio and a horrible bus accident when she was
eighteen. Many of her paintings reflect
the physical pain she suffered through most of her life.
- Chuck Close, an
American painter who was paralyzed in 1988 is a quadriplegic.
- Dorthea Lange an American photographer who walked with a
limp due to contracting polio at the age of seven. She spent her life
traveling the world photographing mostly the disenfranchised.
- Al Capp an
American cartoonist (L’il Abner) suffered a leg amputation at the age of nine.
Can you add to my list? Do you know of any others artists who have
faced a disability? Would they be an inspiration to others?
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