Artists and more artists:
...Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516), "The Carrying of the Cross", dutch...
...Lucian Freud (1922- ), "After Cezanne", german born-british...
...Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-93), "The Spring", italian...
...William Morris (1834-96), "Compton", english...
...Bror Nordfeldt 1878-1955, "Still Life With Violin", u.s.a.
...Arik Brauer (1929-), "Wie der Ochs", austrian...
...Cuca Romley (1952-), "Large Woman", spain...
...Mmakgabo Mmapula Sebidi, (1943-) "Spirit", africa...
...Emily Balivet, (1973-) "The Tryst", u.s.a.
The Orchestral horn, or French Horn, was developed about 1650 in France and is a large version of the smaller crescent-shaped horns that had been redesigned with circularly coiled tubing.
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American Original:
Charles Ives (1874-1954) He is widely regarded as one of the first American classical composers of international significance. Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives would come to be regarded as an "American Original";[1] Ives combined the American popular and church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, tone clusters, and quarter tones.[2]
Aleksander Pushkin (1799-1837):
A Russian Romantic author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated with Russian literature ever since and greatly influencing later Russian writers.
Pablo Neruda (1904-73):
Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century. Neruda was accomplished in a wide variety of styles, ranging from erotically charged love poems (such as "White Hills"), surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political manifestos. Some of Neruda's most beloved poems are his "Odes to Broken Things," collected in several volumes. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez has called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language". In 1971, Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature, a controversial award because of his political activism.
Charles Bukowski (1920-94):
...poet, novelist, drinker, womanizer, street fighter and most of all- Thinker...
The Sitar:
It uses sympathetic strings along with a long hollow neck and a gourd resonating chamber to produce a very rich sound with complex harmonic resonance. Predominantly used in Hindustani classical, sitar has been ubiquitous in Hindustani classical music since the Middle Ages.
