Joan Miró (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)
Pío Leyva (May 5, 1917 – March 22, 2006) was a Cuban singer and the author of the well-known guaracha El Mentiroso ("The Liar"). Leyva was part of the Buena Vista Social Club, and composed some of Cuba’s best known standards.
(June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (* 24. November 1864 in Albi; † 9. September 1901
auf Schloss Malromé, Gironde) war ein französischer Maler und Grafiker des
Post-Impressionismus im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert. Berühmt geworden ist er
besonders durch die Plakate, die er unter anderem für das Pariser Varieté Moulin
Rouge am Montmartre anfertigte. (Zitiert aus Wikipedia.org)
Pierre Corneille (Rouen, 6 June 1606 – Paris, 1 October
1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great
seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Jean Racine.
(Quoted from Wikipedia.org)
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor,
graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the
Dada movement and Surrealism.
Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.
(September 12, 1944 – July 4, 2003), was an American singer, songwriter and
composer.
A three-time Grammy Award–winner known for his distinctive bass-baritone
voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo
singer and with The Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring soul, funk,
and disco songs such as his two biggest hits, "You're the First, the Last, My
Everything" and "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe".
José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal (born April 2, 1975), known professionally as Pedro Pascal, is a Chilean-born American actor. He is best known for portraying the roles of Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones and Javier Peña in the Netflix series Narcos. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)
Sanford Meisner (August 31, 1905 – February 2, 1997), also known as Sandy, was an American actor and acting teacher who developed an approach to acting instruction that is now known as the Meisner technique. While Meisner was exposed to method acting at the Group Theatre, his approach differed markedly in that he completely abandoned the use of affective memory, a distinct characteristic of method acting. Meisner maintained an emphasis on "the reality of doing," which was the foundation of his approach. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)
JOHNNY HALLYDAY (stage name of Jean-Philippe Smet, born 15 June 1943) is a French singer and actor. He has been called "the French Elvis". He was married for 15 years to popular Bulgarian-French singer Sylvie Vartan and the two were considered a "golden couple" for 20 years. Hallyday has completed 181 tours, had 18 platinum albums, and has sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)
(born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer and former actor. He came to prominence as a director and screenwriter during La Movida Madrileña, a cultural renaissance that followed the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. His first few films characterised the sense of sexual and political freedom of the period. In 1986, he established his own film production company, “El Deseo”, with his younger brother Agustín Almodóvar, responsible for producing all of his films since Law of Desire (1987). (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)
Federico Fellini (20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film
director and screenwriter. Known for his distinct style that blends fantasy and
baroque images with earthiness, he is recognized as one of the greatest and most
influential filmmakers of all time.
I was born in Valenciennes (Northern France) in 1974 to a French mother and an Austrian father. I live near Innsbruck in Austria where I work as a freelance illustrator. Some of my works (caricatures, cartoons and illustrations) have been published in books (Ernst Klett Verlag, dtv Verlag, Oebv, riva Verlag, Westermann Gruppe) and printed on posters and T-shirts (www.vesteesquerda.com.br). I regularly participate in international cartoon and caricature contests where my drawings were shown in many catalogues and exhibitions.
Drawing insects
-
Every year I teach a course in scientific illustration at work, and one of
the assignments that my students have is to draw an insect from close
observation,…
Cancellation
-
It is with regret that I have had to cancel my forthcoming Amuse Bouche
solo exhibition at the Town House gallery in Spitalfields, scheduled for
later this...
White House Hiring
-
[image: White House Hiring, Nate Beeler,The Columbus Dispatch, OH,white
house, president, donald trump, sycophant, hiring, cabinet, advisor, aide,
resign, ...