… <Tab/>Analysis of The Old Musician During the time period that France was undergoing a structural rebuilding, by Baron Georges Haussmann, E'douard Manet was painting "The Old Musician", and was unaware of the controversy this…

… City, in her home known as the Blue House.She gave her birthdate as July 7,1910, but her birth certificate shows July 6,1907. This is just one of the many lies Frida told about her life. At age 6, Frida was stricken with polio, which caused her…

… energy pass from gear to gear in a complicated - but perfectly aligned and synchronized individual parts" (Han-Leon, 1997). This description of Johann Sebastian Bach's music captures the essence of the Baroque period, a time when art, music, and…

… on January 27th, 1756. He was the leading composer of the Classical Age. He wrote many different types of music. He was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl. His father, Leopold, was a very successful composer, violinist, and the assistant concertmas…

… father contracted a disease and passed away. Similarly in John Wideman's collection of Homewood stories "Our Time." Wideman's brother Robby had a friend die of a terminal disease. The death of this close relation led both James Baldwin and Roby…

… seem to come to mind? Is it the fact that he was a famous Dutch painter, who gave the world timeless, visual masterpieces such as "The Starry Night" and "The Red Vineyard?" Or that he was a crazed man who sliced his ear lobe? Whatever…

… not truly been acknowledged as art. Never, until Art Spiegelman came along, had anyone won a Guggenheim Fellowship award in order to complete a work of cartoon art. In 1986, Art Spiegelman, hailed by some as the "new Kafka," published Maus: A Survivors…

… engineer, and scientist, probably the supreme example of Renaissance genius. Born in Vinci, Tuscany, he was the illegitimate son of a Florentine notary and a peasant girl. His precocious artistic talent brought him to Verrocchio's workshop in…

… Prairie, Wisconsin to a farming family, the second of seven siblings. Her childhood farm life in the Midwest greatly influenced her art and her later life; she would never be as comfortable living in cities. When O'Keeffe was sixteen, the family…

… an Australian man called Arthur Leslie Benjamin. He was born in Sydney on the 18th of September 1893, to Abraham and Amelia Benjamin. Amelia played the piano, a talent which she passed on to her son. At the age of six he made his first public appearan…