Calatrava's family had suffered during the political upheavals of the 1930s in Spain, and they saw an international future as their son's best chance. Therefore, when he was thirteen, his family took advantage of the recent opening of the borders and sent him to Paris as an exchange student. He later travelled and studied in Switzerland. Calatrava was initially interested in becoming an artist so he made plans to attend art school in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts), but he arrived in mid-1968, with the student protests of that year at their height, and found that his classes had been cancelled. As a result, he returned to Valencia and enrolled in the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura, a relatively new institution, where he earned a degree in architecture and took a post-graduate course in urbanism.
What Baird could not accomplish athletically, he made up for in art. According to Baird, the first time that he felt a sense of self- esteem was when he first entered the art room. Baird was about eight years when he discovered that he had a lot of talent in art. His classmates acknowledged this in the art room, where Baird even recalls his teacher giving him a big hug and a pat on the back. At the age of twelve, Baird won the Kansas City Regional Scholastic Art Award.
Lee graduated from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania with a degree in chemical engineering. He married in 1927 to Doris Emrick, a talented painter. During this marriage, Lee was inspired to begin painting and so he enrolled for a course at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco from 1929-1931. Then he joined Arts Student League in New York from 1931-1935. Struggling with painting, he bought a camera as an aid for his work, but soon became interested with photography alone.
In the first year after he established the program, Chihuly received a Fulbright Fellowship and went to work at a very prestigious Venini Fabrica on the island of Murano. Chihuly was the First American glassblower to do this. In 1971, the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington was co-founded by Dale. Ever since he has found this center, Dale has led in the development of glass as a studio art. Dale’s art is very famous.
Settling in Collingwood (Melbourne, Victoria) he worked as a photographer's assistant through the 1870s while studying art at night under Louis Buvelot and befriending others who were to become prominent artists. He returned to England for three years of full-time art study at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881 to 1884. Through the 1880s and 1890s he worked in Victoria, at the famous studio complex of Grosvenor Chambers in Melbourne, and at a number of artists' camps and visits around the colony. He married Elizabeth Williamson in 1896, had a son, Caleb. Many of his most famous paintings come from this period.
Paul Taylor “He’s been dancing since before he could walk!” A saying that lots of proud parents brag about their children. Paul Taylor’s parents however, thought that their son wanted to be a visual artist and had know idea that one day his name would be synonymous with one type of American dance. Today, at 77, Paul Taylor may be the most sought-after choreographer working today, commissioned by leading companies, theaters and presenting organizations the world over. Taylor was born July 20th, 1930, in Edgewood Pennsylvania. After growing up in Depression-era America in and around Washington, D.C., Taylor studied painting at Syracuse University.
During Gibson’s childhood he experienced a sickness. Charles success started when his father taught him how to draw silhouettes. Who knew his success would branch off or start from Gibson becoming sick and just drawing pictures for his amusement. Gibson was so good at making illustrations that he was recognized as a great artist at 12 years old. His drawings became profound.
These seven men created numerous landscape paintings working together from nineteen twenty to nineteen thirty-one. Some famous paintings included Snow clouds, Billboard, Canal du Loing near Episy and Fine Weather, Georgian Bay. In nineteen thirty-one, The Group of Seven, which in its last exhibition welcomed the contributions of twenty-eight other artists. The Group of Seven decided to disband and form a new group that better represented artists from across the country. The Canadian Group of Painters held their first Show in nineteen thirty-three, exhibiting the work of fifty-two artists, including work from The Group of Seven.
Fellini's Autobiographical Approach to Reality in His Trilogy Films Federico Fellini’s first films were a clear response and reflection to his society and culture at the period of his film productions. Fellini developed his debut neo-realist trilogy films based on the uses of his personal experiences and memories from his reality. Federico Fellini was Born in Rimini, Italy on January 20, 1920. Fellini moved to Florence at the age of seventeen and at this period Fellini already demonstrated his special talents in arts, especially in drawing. In Florence, he worked as a street artist until he was offered a position in a vaudeville show.
Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas the third of seven boys. In 1892 the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, which Eisenhower considered as his home town. As a child, he was involved in an accident that cost his younger brother an eye; he later referred to this as an experience teaching him the need to be protective of those under him. Dwight developed a keen and enduring interest in exploring outdoors, hunting and fishing, cooking and card playing, from a man named Bob Davis who lived by the river. And though his mother was against war, it was her collection of history books that first sparked Eisenhower's early and lasting interest in military history.