One particularly humorous example of such promotional efforts is the Great Comic Strip Switcheroonie, held in 1997 on April Fool's Day, an event in which dozens of prominent artists took over each other's strips.

However, the Great War and its subsequent events were the cataclysmic upheavals that late 19th-century artists such as Brahms had worried about, and avant-gardists had embraced.

This left them with no choice but to adopt more youthful formats, though the Standards format ( also known as the Great American Songbook from the series of albums produced by rocker Rod Stewart ) has undergone something of an off-air revival, with artists such as Stewart, Tony Bennett and Queen Latifah putting their own interpretation on the music.

Rococo plasterwork by immigrant Italian-Swiss artists like Bagutti and Artari is a feature of houses by James Gibbs, and the Franchini brothers working in Ireland equalled anything that was attempted in Great Britain.

Using the remainder of the Rockefeller funds, Williams moved to New Orleans in 1939 to write for the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), a federally funded program begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt which was created to put people back to work and helped many artists, musicians and writers survive during the Great Depression.

In Russia, Viktor Hartmann, Viktor Vasnetsov and other artists associated with Abramtsevo Colony sought to revive the quality of medieval Russian decorative arts quite independently from the movement in Great Britain.

After his death in 1763, many artists and craftsmen migrated to Berlin and Potsdam, to work for King Frederick the Great, because Frederick's successor, Margrave Frederick Christian had little understanding of art.

* Paper Circle: Origami Out of Hand, exhibition by origami artists Tomoko Fuse, Robert J. Lang, and David and Assia Brill of Great Britain

* 1934: A New Deal for Artists " is an exhibition on the artists of the Great Depression at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Great artists performed at the Bobino Nightclub.

Hopper fared better than many other artists during the Great Depression.

A New Deal mural, completed by WPA artists during the Great Depression, depicts the events.

* Restructured in the 14th century, the Chamber of the Great Council was decorated with a fresco by Guariento and later with works by the most famous artists of the period, including Gentile da Fabriano, Pisanello, Alvise Vivarini, Vittore Carpaccio, Giovanni Bellini, Pordenone and Titian.

During the Great Depression, it was a site for display of art produced by artists paid by the Works Progress Administration, and has the largest WPA art collection in the state.

In 1774 a proposal was made through Valentine Green to Sir Joshua Reynolds, Benjamin West, Cipriani, Barry, and other artists to ornament the Great Room of the Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce ( now the Royal Society of Arts ), in London's Adelphi, with historical and allegorical paintings.

He is earning praise for his Gothenburg-based outfit, The Great Deceiver, far removed from his previous work — a product of the Gothenburg melodic death metal scene mixed with influences from artists such as The Cure and Joy Division.

Originally a temporary building designed by Gustave Eiffel for use as a wine rotunda at the Great Exposition of 1900, the structure was dismantled and re-erected as low-cost studios for artists by Alfred Boucher ( 1850 – 1934 ), a fireman and sculptor, who wanted to help young artists by providing them with shared models and with an exhibition space open to all residents.

From time to time popular artists visit The Great Passion Play to perform in the 4, 100-seat amphitheater where the play is performed.

Because of these and other artists, like Amaldus Nielsen and Olaf Isaachsen, the town is sometimes called " The Little Town with the Great Artists ".

** Jerry Douglas & Tut Taylor ( producers ) for The Great Dobro Sessions performed by various artists

Created a baronet by King George I, he was also head of the Kneller Academy of Painting and Drawing 1711-1716 in Great Queen Street, London, which counted such artists as Thomas Gibson amongst its founding directors.

During the 1930's Babbitt rose to become one of Disney's best-paid artists, and enjoyed a lavish lifestyle despite the austerity of the Great Depression:

With both artists hailing from the Great Lakes region of the United States ( Chicago and Detroit, prospectively ), Common and J Dilla established their chemistry early on.

Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

The Greek Revival façade facing Great Russell Street is a characteristic building of Sir Robert Smirke, with 44 columns in the Ionic order high, closely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene in Asia Minor.

The Great Auk was also closely related to the Little Auk ( Dovekie ), which underwent a radically different evolution compared to Pinguinus.

The Great Auk was not closely related to the other extinct genera of flightless alcids, Mancalla, Praemancalla, and Alcodes.

The Great Victoria is the largest desert in Australia and consists of many small sandhills, grassland plains, areas with a closely packed surface of pebbles ( called desert pavement or gibber plains ) and salt lakes.

Working closely with Madison and Jefferson, Bishop Madison helped lead the College through the changes involving separation from both Great Britain and the Church of England.

Although Beria's name is closely identified with the Great Purge because of his activities while deputy head of the NKVD, his leadership of the organisation marked an easing of the repression begun under Yezhov.

In the centuries following the conquest of western Asia by Alexander the Great, each story was retold to more closely resemble the other.

Willkie claimed that he would keep most of FDR's New Deal welfare and regulatory programs, but that he would make them more efficient and effective, and that he would work more closely with business leaders to end the Great Depression.

The Yarra Valley produces the most Burgundian style while Mount Barker in the Great Southern, Western Australia produces Chardonnay that more closely resembles those of Chablis.

On the Great Plains the Cree or Nēhilawē ( who spoke a closely related Central Algonquian language, the plains Cree language ) depended on the vast herds of bison to supply food and many of their other needs.

The council district with the highest rate is Norwich closely followed by Great Yarmouth.

They are most closely identified as among the Great Basin Indians.

It provided many elements of The Great Dictator, and it was repeated viewings of Will that allowed Chaplin to so closely mimic Hitler's mannerisms.

The first-person narrator may be the principal character or one who closely observes the principal character ( see Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights or F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, each narrated by a minor character ).

An anonymous Nahuatl language narrative, Huei tlamahuiçoltica (" The Great Event "), appeared at around the same time, probably written in 1649 by Luis Lasso de la Vega and based on Sánchez's narrative, which it closely mirrors.

Pope Gregory the Great was closely connected to these bishops in exile, for example involving himself the election of Deusdedit.

The two tribes had become closely connected after having been displaced from the Great Lakes region in conflicts with New France and other Native American tribes, particularly after the so-called Fox Wars ended in the 1730s.

Stone sculptures of Xiuhtecuhtli were ritually buried as offerings, and various statuettes have been recovered during excavations at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan with which he was closely associated.

The sun has always been a symbol in Iranian culture and is closely related to the folklore regarding Cyrus the Great himself.

His mother was Lady Anne Grey, fourth daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent and his father was Lord Charles Cavendish, third son of William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire. The family traces its lineage across eight centuries to Norman times and was closely connected to many aristocratic families of Great Britain.

Following the Great Fire in 1666, closely described in his diaries, Evelyn presented one of several plans ( Christopher Wren produced another ) for the rebuilding of London, all of which were roundly ignored by Charles II.

In the southern reaches of its range, the Great Blue sometimes overlaps in range with the closely related and similarly sized Cocoi Heron.