After 1906, the Fauvist work of the slightly older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists, who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art.Picasso's work is often categorized into ...
won him the title of"Renaissance Master". Leonardo is renowned primarily as a painter.Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the best known and The Last Supper the most reproduced religious painting of all time. What make Leonardo's drawings unique are mainly his innovative techniques and acute sc...
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His one-act operaSalome, which premiered in 1905, shocked the classical music establishment with its erotic and murderous themes, set against a religious context, and got itself banned through censorship for a time. His other big works include the orchestral worksAlso Sprach ZarathustraandDon Quixo...
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songdrew inspirationfrom the 1993 Waco siege — during which more than 80 members of the Branch Davidian religious cult were killed by law enforcement in Texas — but Flynn’s lyrics about violent catharsis are general enough to apply to almost any scenario of rising above oppression. —H.S....
His discipline and determination were unsurpassed, as was his devout religious faith; he was a born-again Christian. I remember Carter once insisting, because of his faith in God, that his campaign plane take off despite turbulent weather; we reporters onboard hoped that God would le...
“they had a huge library of preachers, evangelists, people in trances, African tribes, Japanese religious sects.” Some of the footage ended up in the video, while Byrne — wearing a suit, a bow tie, and a layer of flop-sweat — channeled the anxiety of a man in peak midlife ...
reign. Despite waging war against the Assyrian emperor Ishme-Dagan I, the beginning of Hammurabi’s reign was fairly peaceful, and he concentrated his energies on public works and strengthening the state’s defenses. He was devoutly religious and re-built many damaged temples and established new...
written by physicist Mark Boslough under the pseudonym April Holiday, was a prank. It suggested that Alabama’s government, under pressure from powerful conservative religious groups, was on the verge of declaring that from then on, pi would have the value of 3.0 instead of 3.14, in order ...