At this time the new minister of public education was Jose Vasconcelos. He initiated a national program of popular education which included adding mural art to public buildings. In November of 1921, he offered Rivera an indoor wall at the National Preparatory School (Fabulous life Diego Rivera pg 133). Just before Rivera began working on his first mural, he and other artists traveled to the Yucatan to study Mayan ruins at Uxmal and Chichen Itza. Rivera took many of sketches of the landscape the huts and the underground rivers where he was amazed of such beauty he saw and he made numerous sketches of the indigenous people.
His highly refined drawings and watercolours accompany texts such as Le Reve by Emile Zola While working as a wall paper designer he became familiar with symbolist artists which then lead him to usually painting mythological and allegorical topics. In 1892 he illustrated the book Le reve by the 1900s he essentially had two distinct styles which mainly consisted of the idealism of the symbolic use to conduct in his work. Carlos Schwabe mainly focused on the creativity of women which often was represented as death and suffering or in other areas of his work they represent inspiration and guidance. An example of this was in the death of The Gravediggers Death was produced in 1895 this was the symbolic meaning of a death angel being peacefully transcending it to another world. His inspiration and interests for symbolism increased when one of his good friends died in 1894 when Carlos Schwabe was 28 and also one year later his wife was a role model symbolic use “The Death of the Grave Digger”.
He did not learn to paint on his own, but his father who too was an artist called Giovanni Santi taught him. Raphael went to Florence, to study the works of the other great artists at that time like Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Background of Raphael- Raphael who was the youngest of the three renaissance artists, was not only an Italian artist, but a painter too at the period of High Renaissance and lived for thirty- seven years.His accurate and glamorous paintings and drawings had made him very famous at that time. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he becomes a great master of that period. Raphael was very useful during his
From 1918 to 1923 Lam studied painting at the “la academia de san Alejandro “ where he received classes from Sulroca and meet Leopoldo Romañach and Victor Manuel. His progress let him expose his work at the association of painters and sculptors of Havana. In 1923 he left to Madrid, Spain, where he began to studing arts under Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza, at this point he is passionate by Spanish classical painting. In 1929 he married Eva Piriz, where he got a son, not late in 1931 his wife and son died of tuberculosis. In 1937 Lam meet Helena Holzer and sculptor Manolo Hugue who give Lam a letter for Pablo Picasso.
Andrea del Verrocchio's art embodied the style of the Renaissance because he portrayed realism and humanism, made three-dimensional paintings and sculptures using perspective and other skills. Verrocchio was born as Andrea di Michele di Francesco de’ Cioni on 1435 in Florence, Italy. Before being a painter and a sculptor, he was a goldsmith and took the name from his master he was studying under, Giuliano Verrocchio. It is indicated that he was also trained under Fra Filippo Lippi as a painter. As for his painting career, there is only a few paintings he is fully credited for or recognized as his work.
JEAN DUPAS Jean Dupas was born in Bordeaux, France in 1882 and died in 1964. He was a designer, poster artist, decorator and painter. His paintings are the most closely associated with the Art Deco period. Dupas worked in Rome, Italy in 1910 for two years where he produced ‘Le Danse’ (on the right), a smaller part of a bigger painting ‘Le Pigeons Blanc’ which won a gold medal when it was presented in Salon des Artistes Français in 1922. This work was inspired by Inges “Turkish bath” and it is on eof the first examples of Art Deco painting due to the way the figures have been drawn; arabesque-ish long necks, bent wrists, almost sculptural.
Niccolo Machiavelli first recorded involvement in the fugitive Florantine political scene happened in 1498. This occurred when he helped the political faction that impeached Girolamo Savaralona (an Italian Dominican friar and preacher active in Renaissance Florence), instead of the dominant religious and political figure in Florence. He became a chancellor and secretary of the “Ten of Liberty and Peace” (government agency). Machiavelli was abolished from office, was out in jail and tortured for his well-known republican sentiments and banished to his country. While he was recovering from all of this, he began writing the small body of political writings that protected his literary immorality.
The first painting mentioned, “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer, the speaker made a research on the painting. There was a doubt about the conflicted look on the face of the girl in the painting. There is an intimate look on her face. There were suggestions that she was the daughter or the painter. However, she points out that she was actually the lovely servant of the painter which there is an intimate relationship between both of them.
At an early age Neruda wasn’t only interested in poetry but he was also interested in the troubles of Chile’s poorer class. His father, don José del Carmen Reyes Morales, was a poor railway worker. His mother, Rosa Basoalto de Reyes was a schoolteacher. She died of tuberculosis when Neruda was an infant. Neruda’s father moved with his sons in 1906 to Temuco, and married Trinidad Candia Marvedre.
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.