There DeCarava pursued painting using his brushes to make signs for the Works Progress Administration. After a period in the Army during World War II, he returned to New York and left painting alone for printmaking. He got a job in commercial illustration. DeCarava would become “one of the most important photographers of his generation by chronicling the lives of its ordinary people and its jazz giants.” (Kenndy) Roy DeCarava spent the better half of a century photographing life in Harlem. His rich deeply reminiscent images of life on its streets of struggling families inside well-tended homes of legendary jazz musicians of a bygone era endure as a document of urban life in twentieth century America.
After abandoning his dream of becoming a mathematician Speer began his career in architecture and in 1923 attended the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, finishing his architecture course in 1927. After his graduation from the Institute Speer began to work as his old professors assistant (Professor Tessenow). By 1930 the Nazi movement was becoming more popular with the German people and many of the students at the Institute where Speer worked had begun to support the party. In December of that year Speer was persuaded by his students to attend a Nazi rally where Hitler himself was present. Hitler delivered a charismatic speech where Speer was drawn into each word he spoke and was evidently carried away with the waves of enthusiasm and emotion which would, in later years, attribute to Speer’s defence at the Nuremburg trials claiming he was a ‘follower of Hitler who drew men in with a magnetic force and had not thereafter released me’ – Speer Speer then caught up in the Nazi frenzy joined the NSDAP Party in March 1931.
Continuing on, he went to Rhode Island, which he went to the Rhode Island School of Design. He graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture. While attending this school he established a glass program. Dale Chihuly taught the glass program for over 10 years. 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.
Like his brother, William, he also worked at the family department store, "Milks." After graduating from high school in 1951, Milk joined the U.S. Navy, ultimately serving as a diving instructor at a base in San Diego, California, during the Korean War. Following his discharge in 1955, Milk moved to New York City, where he worked a variety of jobs, including as a public school teacher, production associate for several high-profile Broadway musicals, stock analyst and Wall Street investment banker. He soon tired of finance, though, and befriended gay radicals who frequented Greenwich Village. In late 1972, Milk moved to San Francisco, California.
Coming of Age Facing war at age 18 is a difficult challenge, especially during WWII. A Separate Peace by John Knowles is a book about a group of boys at a boarding high school called Devon School. John Knowles was born in 1926 and raised in West Virginia. He attended two years of high school there and then went to Philips-Exeter in New Hampshire, until graduation in 1944. He then joined the air force after high school, and then went to Yale, eight months later.
Maus II Chapter 1 Art gets a phone call from his father saying that his wife Mala, has stolen money from him and left him. He promptly goes with his wife to his father’s cabin to stay with him for a few days. On the drive there, Art explains to his wife how growing up with his parents idolizing his dead brother Richeu was hard for him. I can relate because I have always felt a sort of sibling rivalry with my older sister, though she is alive and well. The next day they go for a walk and he tells him about how he was lucky at Auschwitz, a polish guard kept him well fed and clothed so that he may learn English from him.
He was the son of Louis Kirstein and was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Kirstein’ first attendance of a ballet performance was at the age of twelve when Anna Pavlova came to Boston in 1920 (“Lincoln Kirstein 1907-1996”). Ballet became Kirstein’s passion. After seeing a musical with his sister and father, he wrote in his journal, “Nothing does [fill the demands of my heart and eye] like the ballet (qtd. from Kristanits).” Kirstein visited London during the summer of his junior year at Harvard and went to a Diaghilev ballet seven times in ten evenings.
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.
‘A View from the Bridge’ was written by Arthur Miller in 1955. This was ten years after the Second World War; the play was set around the same time in Red Hook, New York. Arthur Miller’s family were immigrants but they were legal so he knows what its like to be poor and an immigrant because of the Wall Street crash. A lot of the people who moved to Red Hook were from Sicily, Italy this was because Italy was involved a lot in the war, so the country was poor and had no work so people went to Red Hook looking for work. The work was only Casual Labour; they worked as long shore men, unloading ships.
Architect, artist, and engineer Santiago Calatrava was born on July 28, 1951, in Benimamet, near Valencia, Spain. Calatrava family's hillside home was grand, with large rooms that Calatrava later named as an inspiration for his attraction to major projects and big spaces. He attended primary and secondary school in Valencia. From the age of eight, he also attended the Arts and Crafts School, where he began his formal instruction in drawing and painting. 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.