He tinformed Olga Carlisle that, at the end of The Blind Beauty, he wished to depict " the birth of an enlightened and affluent middle class, open to occidental influences, progressive, intelligent, artistic ..." However, Pasternak fell ill with terminal lung cancer before he could complete the first play of the trilogy.

Active during a period of great artistic innovations and diversification, Ravel benefited from many sources and influences, though his music defies any facile classification.

Hellenistic cultural and artistic influences appear in many of the forms and human depictions ( from amorini to rings with the depiction of Athena and her name inscribed in Greek ), attributable to the existence of the Seleucid empire and Greco-Bactrian kingdom in the same area until around 140 BC, and the continued existence of the Indo-Greek kingdom in the northwestern Indian sub-continent until the beginning of our era.

The collection of works from the 19th century to the present reflect the multicultural heritages and influences of the Taos artistic community.

When asked about his artistic influences he stated that there were none.

Under such influences he came more and more to embrace the ideal of artistic realism and all that it entailed, whether this concerned the responsibility to depict life " as it is truly lived "; the preoccupation with the lower strata of society ; or the rejection of repeating, symmetrical musical forms as insufficiently true to the unrepeating, unpredictable course of " real life ".

Other techniques reflect Allen's artistic influences.

While there are many non-Christian artistic influences in the manuscript, the patterns were used to produce religious motifs and ideas.

145 or 135 BCE – 86 BCE ), author of Shiji, which suggests the caveat that while many works now considered intentional or unintentional speculative fiction existed before the coining of the genre term, its concept in its broadest sense captures both a conscious and unconscious aspect of human psychology in making sense of the world, reacting to it, and creating imaginary, inventive, and artistic expressions, some of which underlie practical progress through interpersonal influences, social and cultural movements, scientific research and advances, and philosophy of science.

After centuries of incorporating artistic and Buddhist influences from China, wabi sabi eventually evolved into a distinctly Japanese ideal.

Persian influences can be seen in the clothes, headgear and the colossal size of the images, while the depiction of their physical features derives from Greek artistic style.

Jordaens's main artistic influences, besides Rubens and the Brueghel family, were northern Italian painters such as Jacopo Bassano, Paolo Veronese, and Caravaggio.

Zen Buddhism played a large role in spreading not only religious but also artistic influences, especially those derived from painting of the Chinese Song ( 960-1279 ), Yuan, and Ming dynasties.

Together with Byron, John Martin seems to have been one of the artistic influences essential to the Brontës ' universe.

Various other Greco-Buddhist artistic influences can be found in the Japanese Buddhist pantheon, the most striking being that of the Japanese wind god Fujin.

In the Sienese school, the influence of classical Roman forms combined with the Byzantine artistic heritage of the region and with northern Gothic influences to form a naturalized painting style that was one of the origins of International Gothic.

As the " barbarian " peoples were Christianized, these influences interacted with the post-classical Mediterranean Christian artistic tradition, and new forms like the illuminated manuscript, and indeed coins, which attempted to emulate Roman provincial coins and Byzantine types.

As for her artistic influences, Thalia's work is mostly influenced by Gloria Estefan, Dead or Alive, Celine Dion, Michael Jackson and Kylie Minogue, while Thalia has stated that she always admired Marilyn Monroe and Madonna.

His essays in the Princeton University Press series of books devoted to composers featured during the annual Bard Music Festival exemplify his efforts to address the complex social, political, and artistic influences and context of his subject.

Among the film's artistic influences included 1940s big band and jazz music and Max Fleischer cartoons of the 1930s ( such as Betty Boop ).

Andreas Franzke gives his primary artistic influences at this time as Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston.

Precision artists considered themselves strictly American and tried to avoid European artistic influences.

Buddhist monasteries were excavated here, and murals and sculptures showed artistic influences form India and Central Asia, with some showing influences from as far as Rome.

Recent artistic projects concentrating on the Cathar element in Provençal and troubador art include commercial recording projects by Thomas Binkley, electric hurdy-gurdy artist Valentin Clastrier and his CD Heresie dedicated to the church at Cathars, La Nef, and Jordi Savall.

He considered ' These phantasies include a great deal of the true constitutional essence of the subject's personality ' and that the energetic man ' is one who succeeds by his efforts in turning his wishful phantasies into reality ', while the artist ' can transform his phantasies into artistic creations instead of into symptoms ... the doom of neurosis '.

Examples of hobbies include collecting, creative and artistic pursuits, making, tinkering, sports and adult education.

Micronations of the third type include stand-alone artistic projects, deliberate exercises in creative online fiction, and artistamp creations.

Important widely recognized types of property include real property ( the combination of land and any improvements to or on the land ), personal property ( physical possessions belonging to a person ), private property ( property owned by legal persons or business entities ), public property ( state owned or publicly owned and available possessions ) and intellectual property ( exclusive rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.

Following this, the school curriculum has gradually broadened to include literacy in the vernacular language as well as technical, artistic, scientific and practical subjects.

In one book, the dress in Botticelli ’ s Judith provokes a reflection on drapery as a major artistic theme as it allows painters to include the abstract in representational art, to create mood, and also to represent the mystery of pure being.

Major tourist destinations in the region include the historic, cultural and artistic cities of Milan ( which is Italy's second top tourist destination ), Brescia, Mantua, Pavia, Como, Cremona, Bergamo, Sondrio, Lecco, Lodi, Varese, Monza, and the lakes of Garda, Como, Maggiore, and Iseo.

Examples include science fiction clubs, ham radio, Model Railroading, collecting, creative and artistic pursuits, making, tinkering, sports and adult education.

These include Alonzo King and his company, Alonzo King's Lines Ballet ; Complexions Contemporary Ballet, under the direction of Dwight Rhoden ; Nacho Duato's Compañia Nacional de Danza ; William Forsythe, who has worked extensively with the Frankfurt Ballet and today runs The Forsythe Company ; and Jiří Kylián, currently the artistic director of the Nederlands Dans Theater.

The core subjects ( which occupy around one-third of total teaching time in both vocational and academic programmes ) include English, artistic activities, physical education and health, mathematics, natural science, social studies, Swedish or Swedish as a second language, and religious studies.

For example, an artistic collage work may include newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or hand-made papers, photographs, etc., glued to a solid support or canvas.

Floors may include mosaic or other artistic expression.

Such subcultures include the " Bohemians " of the mid-nineteenth century, the Impressionists, artistic circles of the Belle époque ( around such artists as Picasso and Alfred Jarry ), the Dadaists, Surrealists, the " Lost Generation " ( Hemingway, Gertrude Stein ) and the post-war " intellectuals " associated with Montparnasse ( Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir ).

Chamber works from the 1970s include the Third Piano Sonata, first performed by Paul Crossley at the 1973 Bath Festival ( Tippett was artistic director of the festival from 1969 – 1974 ) and the Fourth String Quartet, premiered by the Lindsay String Quartet at Bath in 1979.

The numerous later artistic depictions of the parable include those of Rembrandt, Jan Wijnants, Vincent van Gogh, Aimé Morot, Domenico Fetti, Johann Carl Loth, George Frederic Watts, and Giacomo Conti.

Influences from the Sassanian artistic tradition include the image of the king as a warrior and the lion as a symbol of nobility and virility.

The domains may include spiritual, artistic ( Kalā कल ा such as music or dance ) or educational.

Some kamaboko include artistic patterns, such as the pink spiral on each slice of narutomaki, named after the well-known tidal whirlpool near the Japanese city of Naruto.

Many artistic settings are still made by using test cards or test patterns in conjunction with devices like waveform monitors and vectorscopes ( most modern waveform monitors include vectorscope capability ), and while digital transmission eliminates many of the " analogue " effects associated with analogue television, digital broadcasting has its own set of issues.

There are several characteristics which lend art to being postmodern ; these include bricolage, the use of words prominently as the central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, performance art, the recycling of past styles and themes in a modern-day context, as well as the break-up of the barrier between fine and high arts and low art and popular culture.

Cultural organisations situated near to the South Bank include The Old Vic Theatre which has been under the artistic direction of Kevin Spacey since 2003, the Old Vic Tunnels which operates under the artistic direction of Hamish Jenkinson, and the Young Vic which specialises in giving opportunities to young actors and directors.

Other characters include Sally Hope ( Darrell's level-headed best friend ), Felicity Rivers ( Darrell's younger sister ), Gwendoline Mary Lacey ( the form's spoilt martyr ), Alicia Johns ( sharp tongued, competitive, class joker and intelligent ), Mary-Lou ( small and timid, but very kind hearted ), Irene ( scatterbrained music genius ), Belinda ( scatterbrained artistic genius ), Jean ( shrewd and straightforward ) and Wilhelmina ' Bill ' ( completely horse-mad ).