Paul Cadmus was born in 1904, in the upper west side of Manhattan. Cadmus was born into an artistic family, his mother and father were both artists, not only recreational but professionally. His mother illustrated children's books while his father was a commercial artist. Cadmus’s father had studied alongside Robert Henri. At the young age of 15, Paul dropped out of high school and enrolled at the National Academy Of Design for 6 years where he then later attended the Art Students League Of New York.
Not only did drawing build his outgoing mind,but his curiosity also had a huge part. Geisel was regularly in his father’s workroom playing with his father’s “bicep strengthening machine”(Pease 13). Or any other gadgets he found. As a result, Geisel’s creativity as a child grew only stronger as he grew up. When Geisel made it to college his career only
When he was fourteen years old he came across abstract paintings by Jackson Pollock which was what influenced him to begin his artistic career. He furthered his education at the University of Washington School of Art as well as Yale University School of Art and Architecture. Following his graduation from Yale he received a scholarship to study in Vienna. After studying at the Akademie der Bildenen Künste he moved back to the United States in 1967 to begin his journey. There he started creating his portraits that he is known for which consist of a grid with designs within it.
After Fredrick graduated high school he was enrolled at Victoria College at the University of Toronto, and studied General Art. Sadly, his first year was not successful and by 1912, Fredrick changed his program, and began medical school. However, his passion for the arts had never died, and Fredrick often sketched and painted to relieve stress when he worked. This interest was rekindled in London, Ontario in the summer of 1920 when he walked past a local shop. Through the window, he saw a picture, by an unknown artist, and believed he could re-create it.
Thomas Eakins was born and lived in Philadelphia for most of his life. His father, Benjamin Eakins, was a weaver, and Thomas often observed his father at work. This led him to develop skills in drawing lines, perspective, and the use of a grid, which he later used for his art. Eakins attended Central High School, where he studied applied science and arts, and excelled in mechanical drawing. In 1861, he studied drawing and anatomy at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, specifically the poem The Tiger, is a perfect illustration of these characteristics. The questions that are presented, reach at ideas way greater then himself. He asks: “Tiger Tiger, burning bright, in the forests of the night, what immortal hand or eye, dare frame thy fearful symmetry?” Blake is trying to cope with the idea of god. He articulates the awe and beauty of nature and how something divine is at the forefront of it.
The poet and artist William Blake spoke about the role of Jewish literature in shaping western civilization he states that "the Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art." Northrop Frye, whose Anatomy of Criticism is the third most frequently cited twentieth century work in the humanities and arts, states that in a sense all his critical work, beginning with a study of Blake which was published in 1947, and formulated ten years later in Anatomy of Criticism, has revolved around the Bible." Starting from Dante’s The Divine Comedy to John Milton 's Paradise Lost and Thomas Mann 's Joseph and His Brothers, the Bible has directly or indirectly inspired many of the greatest masterpieces of world literature. The Joseph cycle from the Book
Known as a physician with a hobby of writing, William Carlos Williams, born in 1883, had a particular passion for expression through poetry. Inspired and influenced growing up in Rutherford, New Jersey, Williams dedicated all of his poetry to his grandmother, Emily Dickenson Wellcome. Modernism, the era in which Williams wrote, affected his poetry, as did poets such as Walt Whitman and John Keats. Thanks to imagism and modern painting, he acquired new strategies for verse forms, which he supported from the work of French post impressionists and cubists. He found sight to be his strongest sense, causing him to write many pieces relating to the arts.
Sometimes it takes a change of scenery to start something new. For Tennessee Williams, that came when his family moved from Mississippi to St. Louis, Missouri. The move to Missouri was hard and upsetting for him, so Tennessee turned to writing. He would use his own life experiences as an inspiration of what he was going to writing about. As a result, in order to better understand why he belongs in the literary canon, one needs to know about his life, works, and the common themes.
Was William Blake a radical? Given the time when Blake wrote he certainly would have been considered a radical. He held strong social and political ideas and voiced them indirectly through his works. He was found to be eccentric and part of a group of radical writers and philosophers who were infatuated with the revolution in American and France. Blake lived in an England that despite its perceived views of liberty, enslaved millions of what they deemed socially inferior (Miner).
William Blake, during the 18th Century wrote London a poem that depicts the harsh realities of the English Monarchy during the late 18th Century. William Blake through his work tries to create how the people of London our trapped within themselves and society. One word, manacle, in particular that based on the literal, alternative and obsolete meaning can changed the meaning of the poem. Blake use of word is extraordinary because London is written in such a simplistic manner but the message that is presented is crucial to society. William Blake in his poem, London does an excellent job using diction to depict the realities of the monarchy during the 18th Century.
He drew paintings to pass time. He painted his first masterpiece in 1897, it was called The Dinner Table.
“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.” This quote was considered one of Williams most famous quote during his time as a magazine writer. Williams used this quote during the imagist movement in which many felt he played a big role with his works along with his collegiate friend Ezra Pound. Compared to many poets during his time, William Carlos Williams, was one of the most influential poets in both the imagist and the modernist movements. William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey on September 17, 1883 and died March 4 1963.
His nonconformist views and association with many radicals led him to become the highly acclaimed, poet, artist, and visionary that he is today. William Blake was born in London on November 28, 1757, to James, a hosier, and Catherine Blake. Blake spoke of having visions—at four he saw God "put his head to the window"; around age nine, while walking through the countryside, he saw a tree filled with angels. His parents tried to discourage him from "lying," they did observe that he was different from his peers and did not force him to attend conventional school. William Blake was much different from everyone else from the time he was a young boy, all the way until his death.
In his early college days he dropped out of his regular classes. Jobs explains that his regular classes were not interesting to him and he didn’t believe they would help him succeed in the future, so he took up Calligraphy classes. For the time being Jobs was not
