Born Isabel Vargas Lizano in Costa Rica, Chavela Vargas (1919-2012) ran
away to Mexico City in her early teens and began singing in the streets. By the
1950s, she had become a darling of the city's thriving bohemian club scene,
where she challenged mainstream Mexican morals by dressing in men’s clothing
while she sang songs intended for men to woo women with incredible passion – and
refused to change the pronouns. This tequila drinking, cigar smoking, rabble
rouser sang at Elizabeth Taylor's marriage to Mike Todd (and ran off with Ava
Gardner) and lived with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in La Casa Azul for over a
year. (Quoted from www.chavelavargasfilm.com)
Jean-Philippe Léo Smet, known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday (15 June
1943 – 6 December 2017), was a French singer and actor. He was married for 15
years to the Bulgarian-French singer Sylvie Vartan; they were considered a
"golden couple" for 20 years. Hallyday completed 181 tours, had 18 platinum
albums, and sold more than 110 million records worldwide, making him one of the
world's best-selling artists of all time. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900)
was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout
the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early
1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture
of Dorian Gray, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early
death. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American
film actor and military officer, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or
just simply as "The King". Gable began his career as a stage actor and appeared
as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926, and progressed to supporting
roles with a few films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1931. The next year, he landed
his first leading Hollywood role and over the next three decades he became a
leading man in more than 60 motion pictures.
Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He
and Maurice Ravel were the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist
music, though Debussy disliked the term when applied to his compositions. He was
among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers
who followed. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist. He is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.
Erich Fried (6 May 1921 – 22 November 1988) was an Austrian-born poet, writer and translator. He initially became known to a broader public in both Germany and Austria for his political poetry, and later for his love poems. As a writer he mostly wrote plays and short novels. He also translated works by different English writers from English into German, most notably works by William Shakespeare. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish
playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture
and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than
sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion
(1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary
satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his
generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. (Quoted from
Wikipedia.org)
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an
Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist
avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors
of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in
which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary
styles, perhaps most prominently stream of consciousness. (Quoted from
Wikipedia.org)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).
Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian. Recognized as a film and fashion icon, Hepburn was active during Hollywood's Golden Age. She was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend in Golden Age Hollywood and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.
Diego Armando Maradona (born 30 October 1960) is an Argentine retired professional footballer. He has served as a manager and coach at other clubs as well as the national team of Argentina. Many in the sport, including football writers, players, and fans, regard Maradona as the greatest football player of all time. He was joint FIFA Player of the 20th Century with Pelé.
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic
singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and DJ. Over her four-decade
career, she has developed an eclectic musical style that draws on a wide range
of influences and genres spanning electronic, pop, experimental, classical, trip
hop, IDM, and avant-garde styles.
Mariano Rajoy Brey (born 27 March 1955 in Santiago de Compostela) is a Spanish politician and Prime Minister of Spain since 2011, during the X and XII legislatures.
Karel Schwarzenberg (born 10 December 1937) is a Czech politician, former
leader of the TOP 09 Party and its candidate for President of the Czech Republic
in the 2013 election. Currently, he serves as a Member of Parliament for Prague
and as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Chamber of Deputies, the
lower house of the Czech Parliament.
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (21 January 1869 – 30 December 1916) was a
Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar
Nicholas II and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)
Watercolour, gouache and ink on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm
Yanis Varoufakis (born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist, academic and
politician, who served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July
2015, when he resigned.
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.
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