Georgia Totto O’Keeffe was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O’Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916. Born: November 15, 1887, Sun Prairie, WI Died: March 6, 1986, Santa Fe, NM Among the great American artists of the 20th-century, Georgia O’Keeffe stands as one of the […]
Norman Perceval Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Born: February 3, 1894, Manhattan, New York City, NY Died: November 8, 1978, Stockbridge, MA Picture a nation of patriotic citizens unencumbered by want or fear, free to
Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Born: December 31, 1869, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France Died: November 3, 1954, Nice, France Henri Matisse worked as a law clerk in Paris before
Johann Pachelbel Born: 1653, Nuremberg, Germany Died: March 3, 1706, Nuremberg, Germany German composer and organist. He was taught by two local musicians, Heinrich Schwemmer and G. C. Wecker. In 1669 he entered the university at Altdorf and was organist of the Lorenzkirche there, but left after less than a year for lack of money
Ludwig van Beethoven Born: December 1770 in Bonn, Germany Died: 26 March 1827 (cirrhosis of the liver, plus dropsy) Ludwig van Beethoven is the most famous classical composer of the western world. Beethoven is remembered for his powerful and stormy compositions, and for continuing to compose and conduct even after he began to go deaf
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was an Italian violinist and composer whose concertos were widely known and influential throughout Europe. Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice on March 4, 1678. His first music teacher was his father, Giovanni Battista Vivaldi. The elder Vivaldi was a well-respected violinist, employed at the church of St. Mark’s. It is possible,
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Born: 7 May 1840 in Votkinsk, Russia Died: 6 November 1893 in St. Petersburg Russian composer Peter (Pyotr) Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most-recognized melodies of classical music, and his ballet The Nutcracker endures as a winter holiday favorite. He began composing in St. Petersburg in the 1860s, while studying and
Ansel Adams (1902-1984) is one of the most celebrated photographers of all time. His images of the American landscape, and especially those of the American West, are familiar to millions. Born and raised in San Francisco, Adams studied music as a youth with the hope of becoming a concert pianist. At age 14, while on
The Book: The Nutcracker and the Mouse King The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a story written in 1816 by E. T. A. Hoffmann in which young Marie Stahlbaum’s favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by
The Yellow Christ (Le Christ jaune) 1889, oil on canvas. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA We Shall Not Go to the Market Today (1892) This picture nicely illustrates Gauguin’s preoccupation with motives of ancient Egyptian art. On display in the Kunstmuseum, Basel. Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are
Thomas Copperthwaite Eakins Painter Born: July 25, 1844, Philadelphia, PA Died: June 25, 1916 Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. “I never knew of but one artist, and this is Tom
Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), the son of a banker in Aix-en-Provence, studied law before devoting himself to painting. He arrived in Paris in 1861 to study at the Académie Suisse, and became involved, with his childhood friend and writer Émile Zola, in the creative revolution directed at the conservative art world. He participated in
The Birth of Venus is a painting by Sandro Botticelli. It depicts the Goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore (Venus Anadyomene motif). The painting is currently in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. This large picture by Botticelli may have been, like the Primavera, painted for
by T. S. Eliot, first published June 1915 Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that
“Paul Revere’s Ride” (1860) is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775, although with significant inaccuracies. It was first published in the January 1861 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. It was later retitled “The Landlord’s Tale” in the collection Tales of
Paintings in color includes paintings by artist: Antoine Watteau, Hubert Robert, Louis Le Nain, Francois Clouet, Sebastien Bourdon and others. 43 pages from 1959 Staple-bound booklet edition of French Painting of the 16th-18th Centuries by Hereward Lester Cooke from The National Gallery of Art Washington DC/ Smithsonian Institution.
Winnie the Pooh is a fictional teddy bear and the title character from the-Pooh series of children’s stories by author A. A. Milne. We all know the delightful story, but have you ponder Pooh bear and Christopher Robin relationship. Christopher loved Pooh very, very much and the affection that Pooh had for Christopher was the
One night in late October, When I was far from sober, Returning with my load with manly pride, My poor feet began to stutter, So I lay down in the gutter, And a pig came near and lay down by my side; Then we sang “It’s all fair weather when good fellows get together”, Till
