The devices Britain used had an affect on life. Andy Warhol was an American Draftsman, Filmmaker, Painter, and Printmaker. He was the third born child to Czechoslovakian immigrants parents named Ondrej and Ulja on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When Andy was only 14 years old his father passed away, but he did leave money for one purpose and that was to be used for higher learning, and the family decided that Andy would benefit the most from having a college education. Warhol moved to New York City shortly after graduating Carnegie Institute to work as a commercial illustrator, where he worked for several well-known magazines.
Tupac Amaru Shakur was an African-American rapper, poet, and record producer during the 1990’s. In his adolescent years, he attended the Baltimore School for the Arts where he took acting and dance classes, like ballet. He was taught radical politics by his mother, which helped him develop ideas about topics he would later use in his many works. At an early age, Tupac had seen the injustices of the real world. His mother was a former Black Panther activist who turned to substance abuse during Tupac’s childhood.
Graffiti spreads all over the United States of America, and then all over the world with the development of the hip-hop culture and rap music. At this point, graffiti was linked to the metropolitan environment: decorating walls and public transportation with beautiful and colorful words and drawings was a way to oppose color to the gray of the big cities. One of the most famous rapper in the world, Africa Bambada, found in 1973 the Zulù Nation, an international community that organize cultural events for youths, such as rap concerts and contests. The symbol of the Zulù Nation, the V sign, is still one of the most painted graffiti on
However, what is known is that he was introduced to art at a very young age by his stepfather, Peter Pelham. Peter Pelham was a highly credentialed graphic art designer in his time. Pelhams’ connections in the art world provided a good base for Copley. In turn, Copley followed in the footsteps of his stepfather for quite a bit of time. Yet, Copley soon discovered skills in the genre of portraiture and, thus, he found his own place in the art realm in colonial America (International Dictionary of Art and Artists).
Andreo J. Mangawang BSA 1-6 ENGL 1013 Five Person You Meet in Heaven, written by Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom, who was born on 23rd of May, 1958 in New Jersey. He grew up as a music lover that give him the reason to teach himself how to play piano. He gained his bachelor's degree in Sociology at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts on 1979. But, he pursued his dream in the world of music, he then worked as a performer for several years in both Europe and America, and he even wrote several songs. However, on his 20's while living in New York he had an interest on journalism and made his way on it by returning to graduate school and was able to earn his Master's Degree in Journalism from Columbia University 's Graduate School of Journalism then followed by MBA on the same university.
This biopic depicts the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat who was a painter and musician that was based in New York. The film showed the development of Basquiat from being a graffiti artist to a famous painter in the world before a drug overdose in 1988 which caused his death. Jean-Michel Basquiat was portayed by Jeffrey Wright and David Bowie played the role of Andy
An Introduction. This chapter presents an historical background of the life, works and conceptions related within natural imagery in selected poems written by the American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963).A Great American poet-Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, where his father, William Prescott Frost Jr., and his mother, Isabelle Moodie, had moved from Pennsylvania shortly after marrying. After the death of his father from tuberculosis when Frost was eleven years old, he moved with his mother and sister, Jeanie, who was two years younger, to Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence. Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel.
Current Trends in Modern Art Modern art can be defined as the work of art culture during the period of the 1960s to 1980s. It basically reveals the style of art and architecture during that period of time. It consists of various artworks and paintings that denote the culture and tradition of the particular era. The name of modern art is given because of the era in which it was started was the beginning of the modern period. The beginning of modern art was done by the great painters like Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Paul Cezanne and Henri Lautrec.
1. Introduction Street art first made its appearance in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s. It was typically found on the subway train cars and walls of derelict buildings in the form of graffiti texts. In 1970s, it was popularised when youths used it as a form of expression. Street art is fundamentally defined as just visual art created in public spaces and it comes in a variety of styles.
Pacita Abad (1946 – 2004), a Filipino-American contemporary painter, was born in Batanes, Philippines. She studied Political Science in the University of the Philippines and moved to the United States to pursue a degree in Law. Abad decided to switch careers and follow her love for painting at the Corcoran School of Art located in Washington, D.C. and The Art Students League in New York City. From then on, she traveled the globe and worked in several continents and in over fifty countries until her death in 2004 due to lung cancer. A great majority of Pacita Abad 's paintings react and reflect on socio-political issues both in her home country, which is the Philippines, and the countries that she would spend time on to explore the culture and the people behind them.