William Blake's Influence Of The French Revolution

He could read French, Greek, Italian, and Latin as a boy. (“Alexander Pope” Britannica school) In 1700 ALexander moved to Binfield. (“Alexander Pope” Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia) One of Alexander's earliest writings was “Ode on Solitude” and it is said he wrote it at age 12.

From the time of this marriage and after the birth of his 2 children, Butler concentrated on domestic subjects, painted indoors or in his garden, describing the daily life of his family. After dealing with a lingering illness, Butler’s wife died in 1899. Within the next year, he married Suzanna’s sister, Marthe, who cared for Butler’s 2 children. In 1914, Theodore Butler and his family moved to New York when Butler received a commission to paint mural panels for the home of William Paine, an American businessman who co-founded the brokerage firm, Paine Webber.

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets” (insert source here). This was a quote uttered by François-Marie Arouet or more commonly known by his pen name, Voltaire. The quote was used to state the corrupt nobility in France in his time era. During his life, Voltaire had many things that happened to him such as his childhood which influenced what he wrote and in turn caused him to be exiled and jailed. Voltaire’s childhood played a large role into shaping him into the writer he became.

Thomas Cole was originally born in Lancashire, England in 1801. In 1818 he and his parents moved to America. Cole’s father wanted him to be a lawyer. However, Cole self-thought himself in the art where he found his true passion on painting. Cole always found picturesque landscapes for which showed interest at an early age.

Percival Everett’s latest book, So Much Blue, captivates its readers through its unique writing and the different setting in which Everett has chosen to tell a story. Everett’s book interchanges between three different settings to tell artist Kevin Pace’s story: “House” (the present), “Paris” (ten years ago), and “El Salvador” (1979). Each setting has its own different plots and its own different secrets. In “House”, Kevin lives with his wife and two children and he works on his painting that he chooses to keep in away from any eyes but his own. In “Paris” Kevin has an affair with a French lady 25 years younger than him, and in “El Salvador”

Kipling’s parents were John and Alice Kipling. Mr. Kipling was an artist as well as a teacher of architectural sculpting. At age five, “... his parents sent him and his sister [Trix] to England, partly to avoid health problems, but also so they could begin their schooling” (“Rudyard Kipling”, poetryfoundation.org).

For Lisa Hasegawa, letterpress feeds her soul: it offers enriching challenges while also providing feelings of tranquility and raison d’etre. Lisa’s piece is inspired by the last thing her father said to her. The text is based on her father’s handwriting, pieced together from his notes. Lisa has been teaching letterpress at Pratt since 2005 and earned her MFA from the University of the Arts in 2001. Her work has been exhibited nationally and has received several awards; including a Grant for Artist Projects (GAP) from Artist Trust and a Larry Sommers Art Fellowship Merit Award.

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock prints. Before his time the woodblock prints were mostly depicting actors and beautiful women. Hokusai was born in Japan to an artisan family with the name Tokitarō. His father, Nakajima Ise, never accepted him as an heir which suggests that he may have been born to a concubine. Hokusai was interested in drawing at a young age

His name is Edward Estlin Cummings but, he eventually became the famous poet E.E. Cummings. Edward’s mother introduced him to writing at an early age. After that, he began writing poems in high school. Then, in college, “his studies there introduced him to the poetry of avant-garde writers, such as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound,” (Chin). After that, Cummings became inspired by their movement, he decided to be a professional poet and painter.

In his timeless poem, “The World Is Too Much With Us”, William Wordsworth bemoans the state of the world and how people so ignore creation. Wordsworth was an English poet in the in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His childhood was a traumatic time as he moved from one place to another after the tragic death of his mother. As he grew older, so did his passion for poetry and he soon published in a magazine when he was only seventeen. Despite stains on his character, including a relationship out of marriage, he continues to be revered as one of the greatest poets from that period of history.

Eventually, he was familiar with modern painting and decided to paint like that for a long time. That soon ended when he returns to the Midwest, he forgot everything that he had learned about modern art to paint realistic style art. He wanted to paint art that had a cultural and colonial meaning to it. Around august,

George Caleb Bingham was born on March 20 ,1811 in Augusta County , Virginia , VA. He was the second eldest of seven children. Bingham 's parents were Henry Vest and Mary Amend Bingham. Bingham showed a strong interest in art in an early age his family was living in a large farm.

Thomas Cole (1801-1848) was an American artist who was the founder of the Hudson River School of romantic American Landscape painting. Cole was well known for his work a being realistic and had a meticulous depiction of American landscape which featured themes of romanticism. Cole was born in England but at 17 years old his family immigrated to Ohio where Cole learned the foundation of his profession. Landscape art was not Cole’s only skill, he also was known for doing sketches, which produced some very skillful and well known pieces. Cole’s personal life was full and enriched with 5 children one of which passed away at birth, and he was married at 26 years of age to the niece of the studio he worked for in New York.

Kehinde Wiley is an American artist, known for his paintings whose subjects are usually African-American men portrayed in heroic poses. Wiley was born in 1977 in Los Angeles, California. He began to train in art schools at a young age with the encouragement and support of his mother. In 1999, he received his BFA from the San Francisco Institute of Art, and by 2001, Kehinde had received his MFA from Yale University. After his major schooling, Kehinde moved to Harlem to work at the Studio Museum.

Growing up in his uncle’s Boston mansion, Hancock was tutored for a year and then attended Boston Latin School. In his spare time, Hancock learned the fine art of handwriting, and the result of those teachings can be shown in his lavish signature on the Declaration of Independence. After Hancock graduated the Boston Latin School in 1754, he attended Harvard College at the adolescent age of 13. At the time, Hancock was described as noble and refined, at medium height, having delicately prim hair, a charming face, and extravagant clothing.