• Ivan Constantinovich
    • Russia, Academic Classicism born 1817 - died 1900 At the turn of the 19th century, the Armenian merchant Konstantin (Gevork) Aivazovsky moved to Theodosia from Poland. The Armenian church of the ...
    • The Baroque Era
    • The term Baroque era describes the style or period of European music between the years of 1600 and 1750. The term Baroque was derived from a Portuguese word ...
    • 'The Clearing'
    • 2 July 2004 (StudioBriefing) The critics are also widely divided over The Clearing , starring Robert Redford and Helen Mirren . Up against Spider-Man 2 and a raft of teen-oriented movie fare, the film is described as ...
    • Impressionism
    • French Impressionnisme, a major movement, first in painting and later in music, that developed chiefly in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
    • Elizabeth Spencer
    • Elizabeth Spencer's experiences as a Southerner, a world traveler, and a college-trained educator are expressed throughout her many works ...
    • The Medieval Era
    • Era (800 - 1400 C.E.)      The Medieval Era is the longest and most remote period of musical history. It is important to note that this musical era consists of almost a thousand years worth of ...
    • Léon Joseph Florentin
    • France, Academic Classicism born 20 June 1833 - died 1922 BONNAT, LEON JOSEPH FLORENTIN (1833-1922) , French painter, was born atBayonne onthe 20th of June 1833. He was educated inSpain, under M...
    • Gothic
    • hic The Gothic style began with the architecture of the 12th century, at the height of the Middle Ages, when Europe was putting the memory of the ``Dark Ages'' behind it and moving into a radiant new era of prosperity...
    • SPIDERMAN 2
    • AN 2 Catwoman, Spider-Man 2 and Around the World in 80 Days are just a few of this summer's feature films created using tools from Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK). Major film studios and post-prod...
    • AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
    • AYS Reviews of the latest remake of Around the World in 80 Days are decidedly mixed. On the one hand, Roger Ebert in theChicago Sun-Times is calling it "a jolly comedy made from the wheezy high concept." Ste...
    • Realism
    • In Music and Art As intellectual and artistic movements 19th-Century Realism and Naturalism are both responses to Romanticism but are not really comparable to it in scope or influence. For one thing, "realism&q...
    • Magic Realism
    • sm  Magic Realism was the Style of painting inEurope and the USA mainly from the 1920s to 1940s, with some followers in the 1950s. It occupies a position between Surrealism and Photorealism, whereby the subject is ...
    • William Faulkner
    • er (September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962) William Falkner wrote works of psychological drama and emotional depth, typically with long serpentine prose and high, meticulously-chosen diction. Like most prolific authors, he s...
    • Anthony Hope
    • Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (better known as Anthony Hope )was a British novelist, best remembered today for his short novelThe Prisoner of Zenda (1894), sometimes deemed the first advent...
    • Walther Hermann Nernst
    • le ( May 22 , 1859 - July 7 , 1930 ) Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle best known as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the British author most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are ...
    • Nicholas Rowe (dramatist)
    • t) ( June 20, 1674 - December 6 , 1718 ) Nicholas Rowe , English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, son of John Rowe (d. 1692), barrister and serjeant-at-law, was baptized at Little Barford in Bedfordshi...
    • The Terminal
    • nal The Terminal tells the story of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), a visitor to New York from Eastern Europe, whose homeland erupts in a fiery coup while he is in the air en route to America. Stranded at Kennedy Airport ...
    • Cubism
    • ism Cubism, highly influential visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by the painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The key concept of Cubism is that the e...
    • SHREK 2
    • K 2 21 May 2004 (StudioBriefing) The leading newspaper critics are divided into three more-or-less equal camps over Shrek 2 : those who are delighted with the film; those who believe it fails to generate the charm o...
    • Johnnie Harrison Taylor
    • ylor ( May 5 , 1938 _ May 31 , 2000 ) A vocalist in a wide variety of genres, from gospel , blues and soul to pop , doo-wop and disco . He was born in Crawford, Arkansas on and of a heart attack. He had...
    • Abstract Expressionism
    • nism Abstract Expressionism or abstract expressionism - A painting movement in which artists typically applied paint rapidly, and with force to their huge canvases in an effort to show feelings and emotions, paint...
    • Buddhas Birthday
    • hday There are many Buddhas. Buddha can mean the historical Buddha, who was born Prince Siddhartha Gotama in the foothills of theHimalayas over 2,500 years ago. Or Buddha can mean one who has achieved enlightenment. In...
    • Walter Hyatt
    • att October 25,1949 - May 11, 1996 The other South Carolinian in the group, Walter started out in music as a follower of the 60’s folk boom but began exploring other forms and writing his own songs while in his teens. G...
    • HISTORY OF ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
    • Nimes in Provence was a city of the Celts in the end of B.C.3c and called Nemausus in ancient time.In B.C.27, Nimes belongs to the Rome under the reign of Augustu...
    • GREECE ARCHITECHTURE
    • URE Greece has influenced all the architectural movement through the world: the movement of Renaissance of Italy and the British Greek revival. Many of the architectural masterpieces of the world were influenced by the Gree...
    • Jose Valente Angel
    • gel bornApril 25 1929 diedJuly 18 2000  The Spanish poet José Angel Valente, who has died aged 71, wrote at two removes from the harsh realities of his homeland; firstly, by living in exile during the Franco era,...
    • Chinese Architecture
    • Chinese architecture is fairly distinctive amongst world architectures.  It just looks oriental even if you are not sure. Temple architecture has not changed substantially since the 7th Century or the Tang Dynas...
    • Akira Kurosawa
    • awa ( 23 March 1910 - 6 September 1998 ) Japanese film director, considered with Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujiro Ozu among the greatest of Japanese modern film makers. Kurosawa also collaborated on the scripts of...
    • Stéphane Mallarmé
    • rmé (18 mars 1842-9 septembre1898) Stéphane Mallarmé was a French poet and writer . Mallarmé was a major French symbolist poet and rightly famed for hissalons, occasional gatherings of intellectuals a...
    • Art History
    • ory Ancient Art Egypt Architecture The Sphinx The Sphinx is one of the best known monuments of Ancient Egyptian Architecture. Unusual to the form of most Egyptian pyramid structures, it stands as a sy...
    • John Steinbeck
    • nbeck (Febryary27,1902-December20,1968)         John Ernst Steinbeck ( February 27 , 1902 - December 20 , 1968 ) was one of the most famous American novelists of the 20th centu...
    • Irwin Shaw
    • Shaw (February27, 1913-May16, 1984) Irwin Shaw (1913-1984), born and educated in New York City, where he received a B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1934, Shaw began his career as a scriptwriter for popular radio prog...
    • Edna St. Vincet Millay
    • illay   (February22, 1892-October19, 1950)   Millay, Edna St. Vincent, American poet, One of the most popular poets of her era, Millay was admired as much for the bohemian freedom of her youthful li...
    • W. H. Auden
    • en February21, 1907-September29, 1973)) Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh Auden),1907–73, Anglo-American poet, b.York, England, educated at Oxford. A versatile, vigorous, and technically skilled poet, Auden ranks among the m...
    • Victor Hugo
    • Hugo ( February26,1802-May22,1885) Novelist, poet, and dramatist, the most important of French Romantic writers. In his preface to his historical play CROMWELL (1827) Hugo wrote that romanticism is the liberalism of...