Some commentators have suggested that this incident would influence Kurosawa's later artistic career, as the director was seldom hesitant to confront unpleasant truths in his work.

After leaving school at 17, Ayckbourn's career took several temporary jobs in various places before starting a temporary job at the Scarborough Library Theatre, where he was introduced to the artistic director, Stephen Joseph.

He is known to have been married to Cornelia Bosman in 1658, a date coinciding so directly with the end of his productivity as a painter that it has been accepted that his marriage played some sort of role in the end of his artistic career.

The Târgu Jiu ensemble marks the apex of his artistic career.

Unlike her predecessor Mary Cassatt, who had arrived near the beginning of the Impressionist movement 15 years earlier and who had absorbed it, Beaux's artistic temperament, precise and true to observation, would not align with Impressionism and she remained a realist painter for the rest of her career, even as Cézanne, Matisse, Gauguin, and Picasso were beginning to take art into new directions.

Throughout her career, she retained artistic control over her troupe, which sometimes numbered 60.

In reality, Severn launched his own successful artistic career soon after Keats died, becoming a versatile painter in Rome during the 1820s and 1830s.

Sue Brown's recent biography ( 2009 ) uses this new information to provide a reassessment of Severn's character, his friendship with Keats, and his own subsequent artistic and diplomatic career.

Throughout his lengthy artistic career, Lawrence concentrated on depicting the history and struggles of African Americans.

After studying art at the Dresden Academy alongside Otto Dix and George Grosz, ( although Schwitters seems to have been unaware of their work, or indeed of contemporary Dresden artists Die Brücke ), 1909 – 14, Schwitters returned to Hanover and started his artistic career as a post-impressionist.

Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde's artistic career so far.

Hoping to find work outside the Chicago O-Zell factory, in 1919 Walt moved back to Kansas City to begin his artistic career.

" Unfortunately, his career declined afterward with a dispiriting loss of his artistic independence when he hired on to MGM which fueled a crippling alcoholism that ruined his family life.

His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years ( from 1504 – 1508 ) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.

By 1917, he was back in Vienna, able to focus on his artistic career.

It is canonical to divide the artistic career of Velázquez by his two visits to Italy, with his second grouping of works following the first visit and his third grouping following the second visit.

It displays a concentration of all the art-knowledge Velázquez had gathered during his long artistic career of more than forty years.

This novel offers a wide, cheerful panorama of English life and follows the fortunes of two would-be artists: Nick Dormer, who vacillates between a political career and his efforts to become a painter, and Miriam Rooth, an actress striving for artistic and commercial success.

Troisi started his artistic career as a cabaret showman in 1972, as a member of the comic trio called " I Saraceni " (" The Saracens ") and, later, " La Smorfia " ( from the name of the " book of the numbers " traditionally used in Naples for lottery and tombola, but also meaning " the face ", as in " to make a face ").

At stake was a viable career in music as artistic director of the Russian Musical Society.

Messiaen later said this sequence of poems influenced him deeply and he cited it as prophetic of his future artistic career.

Little has been an exponent of the works of composer Frederick Delius throughout her career, and was the artistic director of " Delius Inspired ", an eight-day festival held in Bradford in July 2006 celebrating his work which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

She started her artistic career at the age of five when she played on the show Plaza Sésamo ( the Mexican version of Sesame Street ).

A pituitary tumour which had caused him to go blind since 1951 ( its growth placing pressure on the optic nerve ), ended his artistic career, though he continued writing until his death in 1957.

His artistic career was interrupted in 1870 when he joined the army to serve in the Franco-Prussian War.

This movement began in Italy in the 14th century and the term, literally meaning rebirth, describes the revival of interest in the artistic achievements of the Classical world.

By the 1880s, Pissarro began to explore new themes and methods of painting in order to break out of what he felt was an artistic “ mire ”.

In this period the word " Art " was mentioned more and more in connection with motion pictures, and as a result of the increasing artistic ambitions of film-makers, poems began to be transposed directly into films.

This view remained general until the 19th century, when artistic movements began to struggle against the establishment institutions of academic art, which continued to adhere to it.

In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, the movement arts ( developing a new artistic form, eurythmy ) and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts.

He also spread his artistic boundaries and began to design furniture, often modeled after Pompeian or Egyptian motifs, illustrations, textiles, and frame making.

Eno's unusual style meshed well with the group's artistic sensibilities, and they began to explore an increasingly diverse range of musical directions, from post-punk to New Wave to psychedelic funk.

Morris began to adopt Ruskin's philosophy of rejecting the tawdry industrial manufacture of decorative arts and architecture in favour of a return to hand-craftsmanship, raising artisans to the status of artists, creating art that should be affordable and hand-made, with no hierarchy of artistic mediums.

* As the century began, Paris was the artistic capital of the world, where both French and foreign writers, composers and visual artists gathered.

But Mercadante's style began to shift with the presentation of I Normanni a Parigi at the Teatro Regio in Turin in 1832: " It was with this score that Mercadante entered on the process of development in his musical dramaturgy which, in some aspects, actually presaged the arrival of Verdi, when he launched, from 1837 on, into master works of his artistic maturity: the so-called " reform operas ".

Cultural life in Belgium had long stagnated but a revival among Walloons began with the new French language literary and artistic review La Jeune Belgique ( 1881 – 97 ).

The use of wax being used as an artistic medium began back with Greek art in a period of time known as the Golden Age.

The literary audience evolved from priests and monks to the laity and general public and literature began to be seen as a vehicle of artistic expression.

By the 1830s, the foundations of Czech literature were laid and authors now began to focus more on the artistic merits of their work and less on developing the idea of Czech literature and culture as a whole.

Coming from an artistic background, she began taking acting lessons during adolescence.

Development for the film began in 1994, when a number of artistic supervisors were sent to China to receive artistic and cultural inspiration.

Development for Mulan began in 1994, after the production team sent a select group of artistic supervisors to China for three weeks to take photographs and drawings of local landmarks for inspiration ; and to soak up local culture.

During the first few years of the SI's founding, avant-garde artistic groups began collaborating with the SI and joining the organization.

When he enrolled in the Ferrer School in the autumn of 1912, he began a period of intense and rapid artistic development.

Once artists began settling and working in Taos, others came, art galleries and museums were opened and the area became an artistic center — though not a formal, funded art colony providing artists with aid, as Yaddo and MacDowell do.

Claudia Benedicta Roth began her artistic work, which she always regarded as also being political, in the 1970s as a trained artistic director at a theatre in Memmingen.

As was traditional in the art schools of the period, Bonheur began her artistic training by copying images from drawing books and by sketching from plaster models.