A cultural melting pot, Haiti has given the world some exceptional personalities who have left a lasting impact in their domains. The Caribbean nation is not ...
Also ranks #19 on The Greatest Painters Of All Time Alex Ferguson Age: 82 Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson (born 31 December 1941) is a Scottish former football manager and player who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. He is considered one of the greatest managers of all time and...
Camille Pissarro, “Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather,” 1896 (Photo:Art Gallery of OntarioviaWikimedia Commons, Public domain) As one of the founding members of the Impressionist movement,Camille Pissarroplayed a large role in developing the style and encouraging independent exhibitions of an...
A few years later, when was attending the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, she studied sculpture and are with Arthur Lismer(1885-1969), Frederick Varley (1881-1969), and J. R. H. MacDonald (1873-1932), all of who were members of the famous Group of Seven painters. Becoming ...
When it comes to the most famous 20thcentury painters of the United States, Grandma Moses should be mentioned, although she did not start painting until she was in her late seventies. As she once said to herself , “I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help...
Listed In: Artists & Painters Birthdate: December 12, 1799 Sun Sign: Sagittarius Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia Died: June 11 Karl Briullov was a Russian painter who played an important role in the transition from neoclassicism to romanticism. Nicknamed Karl the Great, Bryullov is best re...
Fernand Leger (1881-1955) Contents •Biography •Training as an Artist •Cubism (and Leger's Tubism) •Contrast of Forms •World War I •Mechanical Art •Socialist Poster-Style Art •America •Legacy •Collections NOTE: For analysis of works by modernist painters like Fernand Le...
FBI agents assembled the ransom money from several Seattle-area banks and Seattle police obtained the parachutes from a local skydiving school. When Cooper claimed his demands were met, he allowed all passengers and some of the crew to exit the airplane. Cooper told the remaining crew to refuel...
Rivers inspired many poets and painters in the past, and now photographers capture their beauty. In this post we present 50 of the longest and largest rivers of the world. A river is defined as "a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another river...
In fact, he inherited (继承) excellent taste in art from his family—both his father and his brother were painters. But he finally settled on literature, particularly drama (戏剧) and poetry. Yeats had strong faith in coming of new artistic movements. He set himself the fresh task in ...