Related topics from BritannicaUnited Artists Corporation
major investor in and distributor of independently produced motion pictures in the United States. The corporation was formed in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, the comedy star; Mary Pickford and her ...
Neue Kunstlervereinigung
exhibiting group founded in Munich, Germany, in 1909 by Wassily Kandinsky, Alexey von Jawlensky, Gabriele Munter, and numerous others who were united by opposition to the official art of Munich ...
Prince
singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, dancer, and performer on keyboards, drums, and bass who was among the most talented American musicians of his generation. Like Stevie Wonder, he was a rare ...
London
Artists have long since been priced out of their traditional quarters in Chelsea and Hampstead. Today the prime areas for the bohemian life are the inner industrial suburbs of Hackney and Tower ...
South Asian arts
Works of art in India were produced by artists at the behest of a patron, who might commission an object to worship for spiritual or material ends, in fulfillment of a vow, for the discharge of ...
pottery
The artist-potter has had an important influence on modern design from the time that Bernard Leach (1887-1979) established the Leach Pottery in St. Ives, Cornwall, in 1920. Leach spent many of his ...
Leonardo
As the 15th century expired, Scholastic doctrines were in decline, and humanistic scholarship was on the rise. Leonardo, however, was part of an intellectual circle that developed a third, ...
art and architecture, Oceanic
In societies whose members are largely self-reliant, some degree of craft skill is practically universal. Men make their own canoes, build their own houses, and carve simple household equipment such ...
Blake, William
While pursuing his career as an engraver, in 1779 Blake enrolled as a student in the newly founded Royal Academy of Arts; he exhibited a few pictures there, in 1780, 1784, 1785, 1799, and 1808. His ...
tragedy
Sophocles' life spanned almost the whole of the 5th century. He is said to have written his last play, Oedipus at Colonus, at the age of 90. Only seven of his plays, of some 125 attributed to him, ...
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