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Given his closeness to life and the increasing violence in society, Patel's paintings in the 1980s and 1990s often featured wounded people and images of the dead. They take a critical look at some of the terrible aspects of human nature and society as a whole with a fearless and neutral perspective.
Two previously-published collections of poetry are included: The Desert Music and Other Poems from 1954 and Journey to Love from 1955. [4] Pieter Brueghel the Elder was a Flemish painter (born c. 1525–1530, died 1569), [5] famous for pictures of peasant life. This book opens with the title cycle of ten poems (the last poem is in three parts ...
John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar.He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry.
His work stems from traditional Quattrocento painting. [4] Del Sarto was revered for his art; some called him Andrea senza errori, the unerring. In his poem, Browning cedes the paintings are free of errors, but that alone does not make a piece of art special or evocative. [5] The poem is based on biographical material by Giorgio Vasari. [6]
It was the only painting he ever dated, and was the first work to garner him official recognition, a second-class medal at the 1853 salon. [ 14 ] In the mid-1850s, Millet produced a small number of etchings of peasant subjects, such as Man with a Wheelbarrow (1855) and Woman Carding Wool (1855–1857).
Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” —Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for the ...
Wang Wei was accomplished in both his poetry and his paintings, on which the Song dynasty literati Su Shi commented: "The quality of Wang Wei’s poems can be summed up as, 'a painting within a poem.' Observing his paintings you see, 'within the painting there is poetry.'" [28] He is especially known for his compositions in the Mountains and ...
Jones was born at Arabin Road, Brockley, Kent, now a suburb of South East London, and later lived in nearby Howson Road.His father, James Jones, was born in Flintshire in north Wales, to a Welsh-speaking family, but he was discouraged from speaking Welsh by his father, who believed that habitual use of the language might hold his child back in a career.