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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky [a] (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art.
Klänge, Wassily Kandinsky, 1912. Klänge (German; Sounds) is a book by the Russian expressionist artist Wassily Kandinsky.Published in an edition of 345 in Munich in late 1912, [1] [2] the work is a famous early example of an artist's book, containing both poems and woodcuts by the artist, forming two parallel strands, each involving a loose progression. [3]
Schoolmaster Robert Cawdrey's A table alphabeticall, conteyning and teaching the true writing, and understanding of hard usually English words, borrowed from the Hebrew, Greek, Latine, or French etc with the interpretation thereof by plaine English words, gathered for the benefit & help of ladies, gentlewomen, or any other unskillful persons, whereby they may the more easily and better ...
[111] Rose-Carol Washton Long wrote that Theosophy convinced Kandinsky that "hidden imagery could be a powerful method" of conveying the spiritual ideas. [112] In his lexicon, Leadbeater's concept of vibration was fixed for life. [113] He used it in his "most famous image" of creativity: Colour is a means of exercising direct influence upon the ...
The statue fragment known as the Younger Memnon in the British Museum. Shelley began writing the poem "Ozymandias" in 1817, upon anticipation of the arrival in Britain of the Younger Memnon, a head-and-torso fragment of a statue of Ramesses II acquired by Italian archeologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni from the Ramesseum, the mortuary temple of Ramesses II at Thebes. [5]
The Dictionary of Old English main workroom, 2011. The dictionary is available in 3 formats: [7] Dictionary of Old English: A to I online This site offers a limited number of free searches per year, then charges apply. Registration is required. Dictionary of Old English: A to H on CD-ROM; Dictionary of Old English: A to G on microfiche
Samuel Johnson (UK, 1709–1784) English general, A Dictionary of the English Language; Alexander Keith Johnston (UK, 1804–1871) English LSP dictionary and atlas; Dafydd Glyn Jones (Wales, born 1941) English and Welsh bilingual; Eliza Grew Jones (US/Burma, 1803–1838) Siamese (Thai) and English bilingual
Several famous English examples mix runes and Roman script, or Old English and Latin, on the same object, including the Franks Casket and St Cuthbert's coffin; in the latter, three of the names of the Four Evangelists are given in Latin written in runes, but "LUKAS" is in Roman script. The coffin is also an example of an object created at the ...