… in Eisenach on March 21, 1685 and died and Leipzig on July 28 1750 at age 65. He was the youngest son of Johann Ambrosius Bach, a town musician, from whom he probably learnt the violin and the rudiments of musical theory. When he was ten he was orphaned…

… city, Penn. His father, Ondrej, came from Czechslovakia in 1912, and sent for mother, Julia Zavacky Warhola in 1921. During teenage years, Andy sufferend from several nervous breakdowns. Overcoming this he graduates from schenley high school in Pittsb…

… is known as one the greatest Florentine painters of the Renaissance. He was born around 1145 in Florence. He discovered his love of painting at a young age and attended the Florentine School. He worked with the artist Antonio Del Pollaiuolo. Botticelli…

… Vincent Willem Van Gogh, son of Theodorus Van Gogh (1822-1885) and Anna Cornelia Nee Carbentus (1819-1907), Born in Groot Zundert a small villiage in Holland, March 30, 1853. Vincent had relatives in the art/artist talent business. A cousin named…

… Norwegian artist whose brooding and anguished paintings and graphic works, based on personal grief and obsessions, were instrumental in the development of expressionism. Edvard Munch grew up in Norway's capital, Oslo, then called Christiania. His father…

… to the wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends in the literature and other arts of the early 20th century. Modernist art is characterized chiefly by a rejection of 19th Century traditions and of their consensus between artist and audience:…

… blues singer of the 1920s was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Her date of birth is uncertain and is variously given as April 15, 1894-6, 1898, and 1900. The first major blues and jazz singer on record and one of the most powerful of all time, Bessie…

… of the 20th century. Some even go as far as saying that he was the greatest American writer ever. What do we really know about him? We know that he was a philandering, macho drunk with a temper, whose new kind of direct prose set him apart from the…

… not. In fact with his teacher, Cimabue, the two are often regarded as the founders of modern painting. The question at hand is found in this very foundation, as Giotto had a sort of "naturalness" in his paintings that others lacked, as Giovanni Boccacc…

… night, April 3rd , 2003. The orchestra group consisted of different age musicians and was conducted by an artistic director Nicholas Armstrong. The concert was held in a Brooklyn College Whitman auditorium. I was very surprised that the concert…