Sunday 19 May 2013


AUDREY HEPBURN

AUDREY HEPBURN was born in 1929 in ixelles (Bélgica) Hepburn attended the Arnhem Conservatory from 1939 to 1945, where she studied piano and ballet, which she combined with his schooling.

During her youth, Audrey suffered World War II, first in Belgium and then in Holland, Audrey spoke perfect English, French, Dutch and Italian,also spoke a bit of German and a little Spanish. She studied to be a dancer, but the war raged on their constitution, so she continued studying and practicing, Audrey decided to find another profession and became an actress.

In 1945, after the war, Audrey left the Arnhem Conservatory and moved to Amsterdam where she took ballet lessons with Sonia Gaskell. In 1948 she went to London and continued studying ballet, this time from the hand of the renowned Marie Rambert, teacher of Vaslav Nijinsky, one of the greatest dancers of the history of dance.

Her portrayal of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) made ​​her an icon of  American cinema. Hepburn was married twice, first to actor Mel Ferrer, with whom she had a son, Sean.

Her last film appearance was in 1989, from then until his death in 1993, Audrey actively collaborated with UNICEF, becoming a goodwill ambassador. Audrey went down in history as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood..

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Tupac shakur was born in 1971 in EEUU. He was a american rapper and actor who is considered the best rapper of all the times Tupac shakur had a childhood that it was marked for the revolucionary ideas that his mother Afeni shakur and his father Billy Garland gave to him. His parents were active members of the Black panther party  a black revolutionary socialist organization in the United States. During his adolescence Tupac awakened a interest for poetry and theatre. One of his main achievements was when he sold over 75 million albums worldwide in 2010making him one of the best-selling music. Also MTV ranked him at number two on their list of The Greatest MCs of All times and Rolling Stone magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Times. On the night of September 7, 1996, Shakur attended the Mike_Tyson" title="Mike Tyson Bruce_Seldon" boxing match at MGM Grand Las Vegas in Las Vegas. After leaving the match, somebody got close to his car and shouted him. Finally, he died and police never found his murder.

Monday 6 May 2013

Shakira Biography


Shakira was born in 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia.
She is William and Nidia´s daughter. She began to sing when she was 8 years old, and her first song was called "Tus gafas oscuras" in 1996.
One of the her first albums was "Pies descalzos", but in 2001, with Servivio de Lavanderia she reached the internacional hit.
Shakira has won two Grammys awards and eight Grammys Latino awards. She is the third personality in number of followers in Facebook, after Rihanna and Eminem.
Since 2012 se is Pique´s girlsfiend, football player, and the have a baby called, Milan.
Last year she  pulled a colony, called "Shakira"
This person is important because she is well known and very famous because it has released 6 albums, of which three are international (English and Spanish, which helps you to be his songs usually in the 2 major languages​​).

Dani Martín



Dani Martín was born in 1977 in Madrid. When he was child liked imitated to his idols and he dream with have his own group. He don't like the study in a school and start in the school of Dramatic Arts.

When he was fourteen years he presented in TVE a one program it name was ''Ponte las pilas''. He had a own group in 1994 and his name was ''El canto del loco''.

In 2010 the group separated and makes a one disc lonely, his name was ''Pequeño''. Two songs of the disc are dedicated for her sister that die in a accident of car.

Dani Martín too participates in a films or series of TV. He is very famous because he sings and he's a good actor. He is winner a lot of awards of music.

Sunday 5 May 2013

Ivan jrutski

Ivan jrutski , one of the world is most respected and celebrated paintings , was born in Belarusian in the 1980s His first known works are dated 1832. The paintings gradually gathered public and critical acclaim. Chrucki also worked as an interior designer, and became a popular amongst the wealthy home owners. In 1836 he was awarded the Major Silver medal of the Academy for his still-lifes. Chrucki also executed nice genre pictures and portraits. Old Woman Knitting a Sock, brought him the Minor Gold medal of the Academy. In 1839 he was awarded the title of the Academician. Her pieces are sometimes abstract and her work can be found in the best museums around the world.

 Ivan Fomich Khrutsky was born into a family of Polish gentry in the village of Ulka, Vitebsk region. Little is known about his youth. In 1827, Khrutsky came to St. Petersburg and in 1830 entered the Academy of Arts. The first known works are dated 1832. The composition of the works is very simple, but the artist is very precise with details. Already in the late 1830s his compositions become more and more complicated.

 The abundance of items painted with thoroughness and care roused admiration both in the public and the critics. The artist became very fashionable, everyone wanted his still-lifes to decorate their houses. In 1836, Khrutsky was awarded the Major Silver medal of the Academy for his still-lifes. Though his still-lifes were of abundant success and the artist carried them out in dozens to secure his financial situation, he never dropped landscape painting and also executed nice genre pictures and portraits.Old Woman Knitting a Sock, brought him the Minor Gold medal of the Academy. 

Ivan  is very famous because he create an illusion in the paintings with his paintings of still life then deas her father change your style and want brought him fame wing and represent the hardness of his time in his works.


Francisco de Goya

He was born in 1746, was Spanish painter and printmaker. He studied with J. Luzán and, from 1763, with his future brother J. Bayeu.

Early work are the frescoes of the Pillar of Zaragoza. In 1766-92 conducted over 45 cartoons for tapestries, ("The Crockery", "The Straw", "Blind Man's Buff" ...). Painter to Charles IV in 1789. In 1792, following a serious illness, was deaf. In 1794 he published a series of etchings, "Los Caprichos." From this period are also a number of small tables and one of his major works, "The Burial of the Sardine". 1798 In thousand decorated, tempera and fresco the chapel suburb of San Antonio de la florida.Gran portrait ("Dukes of Osuna", "Alba", "Jovellanos", "Moratinos", "Countess of Chinchon" "Isabel Cobos "), in 1800 he painted the large canvas" the Family of Charles IV ", one of the jewels of the Prado Museum. From about 1802 are the sensual canvases "Clothed Maja" and "Naked Maja".


The Revolutionary War suggested the etchings from the series "Disasters of War" (1810-1813) and paintings "Dos de Mayo" and "Executions of the Third of May" (Prado). In 1815-16 he recorded the series "Bullfighting". Embittered by the absolutísimo of Fernando VII, he retired to his fifth of the Deaf on the outskirts of Madrid (1819), whose walls decorated with so-called "black paintings" passes after the canvas (Prado). He recorded then the collection of "the silly". In 1823 he was exiled to Bordeaux, where he died in 1828.

Biography

Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Málaga born, 1881 - died in Moulins, France, 1973 Spanish Artist. Son of fellow artist José Ruiz Blasco, in 1895 he moved with his family to Barcelona, ​​where the young painter was associated with other painters.

Between 1901 and 1904 Pablo Picasso Was between his home in Madrid, Barcelona and Paris, while his paintings were in big influenced by symbolism. In the spring of 1904, Picasso decided to move permanently to Paris

He painted many pictures but the most famous is the famous Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso, whose title is in memory of the bombing of Guernica, which occurred on April 26 of that year, during the Spanish Civil War.
This picture is of worldwide fame and some teach the horrors of war.


Murio en Mougins Francia, el 8 de abril de 1973, a los 91 años de edad y está enterrado en el parque del castillo de Vauvenargues (Bouches-du-Rhone). Uno de los principales artistas del siglo X X. Fundó, con Georges Braque y Juan Gris, el movimiento cubista. Pintó más de 2000 obras

Miguel Angel

MIGUEL ÁNGEL 


Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in 1475 in Italy. He was an Italian Renaissance architect, sculptor and painter. He is considered as a great artist for his paints and his architectural work. He was the first artist to be published two biographies in life. He was known as “The divine”.


Since he was young, he expressed their artistic skills to the sculpture, a discipline in which he began to shine. He was Domenico  and  Davide di Tomaso di Currado’s Apprentice for a one year. His mother died in 1481, when Michelangelo was six and his father did not has a permanent job. Miguel  Angel wanted to be an artist and this caused problems with his father because he thought that there wasn’t future in art. The artist was homosexual and had relationships with several young people, as Cecchino dei Bracci, for whom he had great affection.

His main achievement was his work of art in “La Basílica de San Pedro del Vaticano.” 
He dies in 1564 when he was 88 years old. He is one of the most important and recognized painter and sculptor in the history because of his great works. 

Vicent Van gogh


Vincent van Gogh A biography of an artist

Vicent van Gogh was born in 1853 in Netherlands He was a famous post-impressionist painter whose work is notable for its beauty , color and emotion.

Van Gogh went to school irregulary sharped because his parents his parents took him to different boarding . He left school when he is 15 years . In his latest boarding he started having hobby of painting. The said that his life is cool , bad and vain . He is famous now because in that moment his brother Theo helped . He suffered a mental illness that led him to cut an ear.

His main achievements were when he had died . He started to have influence in an exhibition in París , followed by several exhibition in Amsterdam , New York and Berlín.

He died in 1890. He was recognized as one of the most important painters of the history.Several of Van Gogh's paintings are among the most expensive paintings in the world

Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet was born in 1840 in Paris, was one of the founders of impressionist painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his work Impression, Sunrise created in 1872.

Between 1851 and 1857 Claude Monet attended high school in Le Havre where he was taught drawing by Jacques-François Ochard. He did not like school discipline and preferred to be on the cliff or by the sea. During his lectures drew caricatures of his teachers and other students who were exposed in the window of the only merchant picture frames from Le Havre. At the age of 15 years Monet was known as a cartoonist in the city and received orders for which charged up to 20 francs.


His early works, up to half of the 1860s, are realistic style. Monet managed to expose some of these works in the Hall of París.En the 1870s was part of the Impressionist exhibitions, his work Impression, Sunrise was part of the 1874 Salon des Refuses.


Monet died in 1926, now is recognized one of the founders of impressionist painting.

Vicent van Gogh


Vicent van Gogh was a painter neerlanes who was born in 1853. From a very young was interested in drawing. His first job was in an art gallery.

In his youth he began working as a pastor and then went as a missionary when he was 26 years old. In those moments he began to draw people from that place.

There he painted his first major work the ``potato eaters´´. The quality of his work was only recognised after his death.

After suffering frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life, led him to suicide in 1890. It had a great influence on the art of the 20th century.

Joan Miró i Ferrà


Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. 

Miró initially went to business school as well as art school. He began his working career when he was a teenager as a clerk, but he abandoned the business world completely for art . His early art, was inspired by Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. 

Some of his works are  Head of a Catalan Peasant ,Catalan Landscape (The Hunter), The Happiness of Loving My Brunette. The most famous is The Farm, that shows  the farmhouse owned by his family in the town of Mont-roig del Camp. Miró describes it as "a summary of my entire life in the countryside" and "the summary of one period of my work, but also the point of departure for what was to follow."

He  is famous for its murals, ceramic sculpture and theater decorations and beacause is one of the most representatives figure of surrealism. 

Salvador Dalí


Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born in the Catalan town of Figueras, Spain, on May 11, 1904. He soon showed skills for drawing, and his father, a notary, sent to Madrid to study at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando, for removal if years later. His early works, such as "Girl at the Window", were within a naturalistic and detailed that produced an ambiguous sense of unreality, which accentuate later.

In 1928, driven by the Catalan painter Joan Miró moved to Paris and joined the Surrealist movement, however, with its exhibition of 1933 met international fame. It was then that he began to lead a full social life and eccentricities povocaciones. This attitude was seen by some as a way to market his paintings and coupled with his lack of political stance, leading to his expulsion from the Surrealist group. During this period implemented its "method of interpretation paranoiac-critical", based on the theories of psychoanalysis, delirious and dreamlike elements associating a realistic pictorial language.

During World War II, he settled in the United States, close to Hollywood, where he worked with some movies. In the late 1940s regrsó to Spain and began a mystical phase compositions from famous as "The Last Supper" on the work of Italian, Leonardo da Vinci. Subsequently alternated painting with jewelry design and book illustration. Meanwhile, the anthology exhibition of his work took place (New York, 1966, Paris, 1979, Madrid, 1982), and, as his public speeches were declining, the controversy gave way to a renewed interest in his painting.

In 1974 it opened in Figueras, his hometown, the Dali Museum. Eight years later he died Gala, his muse, which decrease its activity did artístca.Salvador Dalí was with Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro, one of the great representatives of twentieth-century Spanish painting.

Salvador Dalí


-Salvador Dalí-

Salvador Dalí was born in 1904 in Gerona. By the years he became an internationally popular painter, very famous because he started with the cubism ( way of painting that later will be used by others painters like Federico García Lorca, Pepin Bello...)
In general all his paintings were influenced by many artistic styles from the Classic to the Vanguards, even his paintings are characterized by mixing a lot of styles when he painted.



Dali´s early live was generally marked by bad luck. In 1926 Dalí was expelled from the academy where he studied, and he had to go to Paris where he met Pablo Picasso who was a great friend from him, a few months later he met Elena a girl who fell in love, this will create a lot of  problems with his father who try to opposed  this romance.
During this time he decided to join a new style of painting "the surrealism" and it was with this style when Dalí painted his most famous works in 1931, but when the 2nd world War was revaging Europe he escape to New york where he let the paintings aside and he did other things like writing a novel or desing pictures in books...



Later, when some problems are solved he return to Paris because an exposition of his paintings has revolutionized France and this was the key to his later sucess, by this period he lets fly his imagination, creating optical ilusions who makes everyone stunned.



Dali´s later life was a period of pain because he consumed drugs, that makes him losing artistic ability, after that his wife died, that made Dalí lost the will to live.
In 1989 he died because of numerous problems, in general he was one of the most succesful man painters of the 20th century. Actually all the world knows him for his work and his talent.


Diego Velázquez


Diego Velázquez was born in Seville in 1599 and he died in Madrid in 1660. He was a Baroque painter, considered one of the best painters of Spain and universal master of painting.

He spent his first steps in Seville, and at age 24 he went to Madrid where he was appointed painter to King Philip IV and four years later he was promoted to painter. He dedicated the rest of his life painting portraits of the king and his family.

He painted great works like "La rendición de Breda". This period opened with "Retrato del papa Inocencio X" because he owned his last two masterpieces: "Las Meninas" and "Las hilanderas".

It has about 120 works and is considered one of the best painters in history. The majority of his works are in the Prado museum in Madrid.

Jason Statham - A biography of an actor.

Jason Statham was born in 1967 in Derbyshire, England.Statham is noted for being typecasted in antihero roles. He usually performs his own stage combat and stunts. Before he was an actor was well known for jumping the trampoline and also was an actor when he was offered an opportunity to make a movie of fights with de film director Guy Ritchie with which he has made ​​many movies.

Statham´s early life was very good. From 1978-1983 he initially chose not to follow his father's career working the local market stalls and decided to pursue the arts. He grew up with football player Vinnie Jones, alongside whom he would later go on to act. Jones introduced him to football, and Statham went on to play for the local grammar school. In 1998 when he began making movies and become famous because of their form of paste.

From 1998, Jason continue doing his films and all the world see them and like it. He hasn´t some prize or anything but he is well known by people in his movies so that for he is a huge accomplishment that many can´t indulge in.

Statham still alive and today he is one of the most popular "fighter" in the film world. He affects of many children, teenagers eg. who decided to join paste like him.


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Pablo Alborán

It is a Spanish songwriter has Malaga. It debuted at the Latin Grammy Awards. He debuted with his first release'' Solamente tú'' which reached the top spot for several weeks. Several weeks later launched in Portugal where he also reached the top spot for several weeks. From her singles are two'' Solamente tú'' and'' Perdóname''.

At 12 she wrote her first songs'' ''Amor de Barrio'' and '' and ''Desencuentro'' found on your hard debut.Artistic journey began in the hand of a Flemish family acting in a restaurant in Malaga, who christened him ''El blanco moreno' . This is where first acts alone.

His achievements were to be the first soloist signing a complete album in making début in the highest thing from 1998 in Spain.

Why has achieved many accomplishments in a short time and is loved by many people

Saturday 4 May 2013

Vincent Willem van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh was born in 1853 in Zundert. He was a dutch post-Impressionist painter with 900 pictures (27 self-portraits and 148 watercolors) and 1,600 drawings. His work was then known to only handful of people and appreciated by fewer still. Today is one of the painters most famous in the world.

In the  childhood he went to school way dashed and irregular, as his parents sent him to different boarding schools. The first of the in Zevenbergen, where he studied French and aleman.6  two years later enrolled at the Hannik Instituteand. There was born his interest in painting. About his childhood, Vincent van Gogh said: "my youth was sad, cold and sterile.

He suffered frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life, which led him to produce a bullet wound that ended his life at the age of 37.

Leonardo da Vinci


Leonardo da Vinci was born in Florence, the 15th of April in 1452, he was also a painter of the Renaissance, architect, anatomist, botanist, scientist, sculptor, philosopher ... Leonardo died at 67 years, accompanied by francesco Melzi who leave their projects, designs and paintings.

His father was a wealthy man, chancellor, and ambassador, so that da vinci was raised in a good family. The first important works were created in Milan, also he working in Rome, Bologna, Venice
Leonardo is described as a great sculptor and universal genius. He was persecuted by the Holy Inquisition for his book "Tratado de la pintura", where hablababa of human anatomy.

This artist is mostly known for works such as "La Gioconda" and "The Last Supper" and "Vitruvian Man" was the inventor of things far ahead of his time as the helipcotero, the submarine and the car.

He is remembered for his famous works, and for being a revolutionary painter. But fame da vinci is the mystery that hide their works like the mona lisa.
was dedicated to dissecting human bodies, but was forbidden.
one of the most eccentric and mysterious artists.

Rihanna - A biography of a singer.

Rihanna was born in 1989 in Colorado . She Became an international popular singer, famous for her sentimental songs, her look and her boyfriends. Her songs were influenced by her family and her past - His early life was marked by a difficult childhood, She came from a poor family that lived in the neighborhood poor of Colorado. During this time, Rihanna began to be known by simple neighborhood songs. A few years later, she was discovered by a successful music producer. - Rihanna gradually began to be known in the same habit, until in 2006 rose to fame with her song "Umbrella". This was the decisive step to be a pop star. - It is a world renowned artist who has managed to collaborate with many singers.

BIOGRAPHY

Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Málaga. He´s considered one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century for her brilliants masterpieces. Her real name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.

Picasso´s early life was by her family. It was born in 1881 in Málaga in a middle class family. Her parents were José Ruiz y Blasco y María Picasso López, and her sisters were Dolores and Concepción. The 1895 was a year very important in the life of Picasso, first , in january , her sister Concepción died , and in September his father obtained a chair in a Market, School of Arts and Crafts in Barcelona, where young Paul was admitted as a student and studied for two years, where he began to draw importants pictures.

In 1908, Picasso draw Demoiselles d'Avignon, was started to create cubism. The Cubism was a radical turning point in the history of art that inspired the rest of vanguards. The Guernica was painted in 1937 and is the most famous Picasso´s painting.

In 1973 Picasso died. He´s buried in the park of the castle of Vauvenargues.

Wednesday 1 May 2013

ANTONI GAUDÍ



ANTONI GAUDÍ-





  • Antoni Gaudi was born in1852. Gaudi’s works was marked by his big passion in life: architecture. He was very perfectionist because he had to study every detail of his creations. He starts using: ceramics, stained glass, carpentry, and he introduced new techniques such as trencandís, made of waste ceramic pieces.

  •  When he was young suffered from poor heath, including rheumatism, this may have contributed to his reticent and reserved characters, so for this reason he adopted the idea to be a vegetarian early in his life. Gaudi attended a nursery school run by Francesc Berenguer, whose son, also called Francesc, and later became one of Gaudi’s main assistants. In 1868 he moved to Barcelona to study teaching. In his adolescent years he became interest in utopian socialism, he and his fellow planned a restorations of the “Poblet monastery” that would have transformed it into a Utopian phalanstère. .

  •   During his studies he design some projects, among which the following stand out: a commentary gate, a monumental fountain, the university assembly hall. After his graduation as an architect in 1878, his first work was a set of a lamppost.  Gaudí’s collaboration with Martorell was a determining factor in Gaudí’s recommendation for the Sagrada Familia. One of Gaudí’s largest and most striking works is the Casa Batllo (1904–1906). Another of Gaudí’s major projects and one of his most admired works is the Casa Milà, better known as La Pedrera (1906–1910).
  • Gaudí died on 10 June 1926 at the age of 73 and was buried two days later. Today, his work finds admirers among architects and the general public alike. His masterpiece, the still-uncompleted Sagrada Família, is one of the most visited monuments in Spain. 

 PATRICIA SIMÓN FUENTES