PRAGMATISM
Obnoxious
Noxious
Raucous
Boisterous
Senselessness
Carelessness
Meanness
Genus
Separate but equal
Never fear the sequel
Freedom less freedom
Love at a game of living
Wait
Acerbate
Alternate
Huge cake take the hake
Only in only out
Many Egypts
Many spouts
Many mishaps many frights
Sever the rest
Even at best
Usually nonsense
conceptually fuzzy
That’s
How
It
Does.
DIRECTION
Direction
Interception
Mode of
Corruption
House of
Rapture
What a
Combustion
Counted
Passion
Mode of
Action
Direction
Completion
Reaction
Decomposition.
Teresa Lakier ©.
Vincent Van Gogh
Self-portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin(1888)
Clear examples of Van Gogh’s wide influence can be seen throughout art history.
The Fauves and the German Expressionists worked immediately after Van Gogh and adopted his subjective and spiritually inspired use of color.
The Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th century made use of Van Gogh’s technique of sweeping, expressive brushstrokes to indicate the artist’s psychological and emotional state. Even the Neo-Expressionists of the 1980s, like Julian Schnabel and Eric Fischl, owe a debt to Van Gogh’s expressive palette and brushwork.
In popular culture, his life has inspired music and numerous films, including Vincente Minelli’s Lust for Life (1956), which explores Van Gogh and Gauguin’s volatile relationship. In his lifetime, Van Gogh created 900 paintings and made 1,100 drawings and sketches, but only sold one painting during his career.
With no children of his own, most of Van Gogh’s works were left to brother Theo.
For more information, please visit: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-van-gogh-vincent.htm
THE EYE
It’s hard
The eye
Of fervor
Deceptive
Accept
The delusionary
Compulsive
Legendary
Reminder
Of confounding
Misery
Clouds above
Accept
Above where you are
Where you belong
Where of where becoming
There is acceptance
Accept that maybe
Misery has gone
And that we must have
Love
Love of
Love for
You
Hopefully
Sound the sound
Let it ring
Dream if you will
Till you become
You who you are
That your
Eye has no doubt
Or recount
Shall it not allow
That to become what you will
What it is you will dream
Dream as a hunger still
That is a quenched recognizance
You
As the one who will become
The dream you see
See
See
See
2018 ©
Nadine Gordimer
Born: 20 November 1923, Springs, South Africa
Died: 13 July 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa
Residence at the time of the award: South Africa
Prize motivation: “who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity”
Field: prose
Language: English
Awards:
Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, South Africa. Her parents were Jewish immigrants; her father was from Latvia and her mother was from England. Nadine began writing at the age of nine, and was just 15 years old when her first work was published. The novel entitled The Conservationist (1974) gave her international breakthrough. Nadine Gordimer was involved in the anti-apartheid movement early on and several of her books were banned by the apartheid regime. She has lived and worked in Johannesburg, South Africa, since 1948.
Nadine Gordimer’s works include novels, short stories, and essays. During the 1960s and 1970s she wrote a number of novels set against the backdrop of the emerging resistance movement against apartheid, while the liberated South Africa provides the backdrop for her later works, written in the 1990s. The stories of individuals are always at the center of her narratives, in relation to external limitations and frameworks. As a whole, Nadine Gordimer’s literary works create rich imagery of South Africa’s historical development.
Henri Matisse
BORN: Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse
(1869-12-31)31 December 1869
Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord, France
DIED: 3 November 1954(1954-11-03) (aged 84)
Nice, Alpes-Martimes, France
NATIONALITY: French
EDUCATION: Académie Julian, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Gustave Moreau
NOTABLE WORK: Woman with a Hat (1905)
The Joy of Life (1906)
Nu bleu (1907)
La Danse (1909)
L’Atelier Rouge (1911)
MOVEMENT: Fauvism, Modernism, Post-Impressionism
QUOTES:
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
Exactitude is not truth.
Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor’s direct carving.
Seek the strongest color effect possible… the content is of no importance.
In modern art, it is undoubtedly to Cézanne that I owe the most.
LEGACY:
The first painting of Matisse acquired by a public collection was Still Life with Geraniums (1910), exhibited in the Pinakothek der Moderne.[59]
His The Plum Blossoms (1948) was purchased on 8 September 2005 for the Museum of Modern Art by Henry Kravis and the new president of the museum, Marie-Josée Drouin. Estimated price was US$25 million. Previously, it had not been seen by the public since 1970.[60] In 2002, a Matisse sculpture, Reclining Nude I (Dawn), sold for US$9.2 million, a record for a sculpture by the artist.
Matisse’s daughter Marguerite often aided Matisse scholars with insights about his working methods and his works. She died in 1982 while compiling a catalogue of her father’s work.[61]
Matisse’s son Pierre Matisse (1900–1989) opened a modern art gallery in New York City during the 1930s. The Pierre Matisse Gallery, which was active from 1931 until 1989, represented and exhibited many European artists and a few Americans and Canadians in New York often for the first time. He exhibited Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, André Derain, Yves Tanguy, Le Corbusier, Paul Delvaux, Wifredo Lam, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Balthus, Leonora Carrington, Zao Wou Ki, Sam Francis, sculptors Theodore Roszak, Raymond Mason, and Reg Butler, and several other important artists, including the work of Henri Matisse.[62][63]
Henri Matisse’s grandson Paul Matisse is an artist and inventor living in Massachusetts. Matisse’s great-granddaughter Sophie Matisse is active as an artist. Les Heritiers Matisse functions as his official Estate. The U.S. copyright representative for Les Heritiers Matisse is the Artists Rights Society.[64]
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Golda Meir
May 03, 1898 – Dec 08, 1978 (age 80)
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