And, besides, there are a large number of scholars, artists, composers of music, novelists, poets, essayists, choreographers, lawyers, servants of government, and men of affairs -- hundreds, indeed -- who serve the Foundation well with the advice they give us freely and gratis out of their experience.

Early-twentieth-century artists, poets and composers challenged existing notions of beauty, broadening the scope of art and aesthetics.

Park Place Gallery was a center for musical performances by electronic composers Steve Reich, Philip Glass and other notable performance artists including Joan Jonas.

The library offers e-books and music by Dutch artists and composers that can be downloaded free of charge to a laptop or mobile device.

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

Authors and composers are not commonly referred to as " Orientalist " in the way that artists are, and relatively few specialized in Oriental topics or styles, or are even best known for their works including them.

Among some of the better known polka ( and waltzes ) artists and composers include Happy Louie and Julie, Frankie Yankovic, Walter Ostanek ( Canada ), Verne Meisner, Mike Schneider, Tom Brusky, Walt Groller, Joey Miskulin, Jimmy Sturr, Kyle Redman Polka Band, and ( in combination with more modern styles ) " Weird Al " Yankovic ( no known relation to Frankie Yankovic ) and The Our Gang Orchestra.

For example hip hop artists almost always use stage names, whereas " classical " composers and performers virtually never do ( violinist Hahn-Bin, born in South Korea as Yoo Hanbin, being a rare exception ).

Also another innovative program, " The National Opera Workshop ", was established to enable selected Australian composers to present works in workshop form with artists from the Australian Opera.

He also believed that discussions among working artists, architects and composers would enrich their work.

Bizet, along with other composers and artists, joined the National Guard and began training.

The concept of avant-garde refers primarily to artists, writers, composers and thinkers whose work is opposed to mainstream cultural values and often has a trenchant social or political edge.

The tour, facilitated by Nelson Rockefeller, who had recently been appointed as Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs ( CIAA ), took Disney and a group of roughly twenty composers, artists, technicians, etc.

In addition to providing a place of employment for professional actors, the Fulton Opera House is a complete production facility which employs full-time carpenters, electricians, scenic artists, painters, composers, lighting and sound technicians.

Fluxus — a name taken from a Latin word meaning “ to flow ”— is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s.

" While much is made of the do it yourself approach to art, it is vital to recognize that this idea emerges in music, and such important Fluxus artists as Paik, Higgins, or Corner began as composers, bringing to art the idea that each person can create the work by " doing it.

Many artists, writers, and composers have been associated with Fluxus over the years, including:

Through Cage, he met sculptor Richard Lippold ( who had a studio next door ) and artists Sonia Sekula, Robert Rauschenberg, and others, and composers such as Henry Cowell, Virgil Thomson, and George Antheil.

The precursors that influenced the development of the genre included acts such as electronic group Kraftwerk, experimental rock The Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa, psychedelic rock artists such as Jimi Hendrix, and composers such as John Cage.

The story of Queen Joanna attracted authors, composers and artists of the 19th century romanticist movement, with her qualities of unrequited love and moral fidelity.

Since both sides of a single received equal royalties, some composers deliberately arranged for their songs to be used as the B-sides of singles by popular artists.

Featured participants included Nuria Schoenberg ( daughter of Arnold Schoenberg and widow of Luigi Nono ), musicologist James Harrison, the opera conductor Roberto Abbado, violinist Ivry Gitlis, composers Salvatore Sciarrino, Lorenzo Ferrero, and Andrea Liberovici, poet Edoardo Sanguineti, popular singer-songwriters Teresa De Sio, Gianna Nannini, and Gino Paoli, rock and jazz artists Peppe Servalo and Peppe D ' Argenzio of the Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel, and administrators Anna Cammarano ( director of classical music at RAI Trade ), Gennaro di Benedetto ( superintendent of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa ), and Joseph Hussek ( director of the artistic programme at the Salzburg Festival ).

Part of the problem is that high culture is often mistaken for culture in general, and the lack of recognition historically given to New Zealand's artists, writers and composers is seen as evidence of a lack of culture.

The compositions of these composers are rendered frequently by artists of today.

Perhaps most notably, Mayfield was among the first of a new wave of mainstream African-American R & B performing artists and composers injecting social commentary into their work.

During the Salon's early years, established artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir threw their support behind the new exhibition and even Auguste Rodin displayed several drawings.

Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.

Having left Germany and Romania during World War I, the artists found themselves in Switzerland, a country recognized for its neutrality.

From a sociological point of view, Danielle Lindemann has noted the " embattled purity regime " in which many pro-dommes emphasise their specialist knowledge and professional skills, while distancing themselves from economic criteria for success, in a way which is comparable to avant-garde artists.

From the 20th century, some glass artists began to class themselves as in effect sculptors working in glass, and as part of the fine arts.

In the early days of computer publishing, many " traditional " graphic designers relied on computer-savvy production artists to produce their ideas from sketches, without needing to learn the computer skills themselves.

Some members of Bauhaus were, themselves, fine art students or active artists.

It was also accepted by the artists themselves, even though they were a diverse group in style and temperament, unified primarily by their spirit of independence and rebellion.

He had already entered an influential circle of artists who called themselves the Mir iskusstva: Alexandre Benois, Walter Nouvel, Konstantin Somov, Dmitry Filosofov, and Léon Bakst.

The art community in New York City in particular was already grappling with Surrealist ideas and several artists like Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, and Roberto Matta, converged closely with the surrealist artists themselves, albeit with some suspicion and reservations.

Many new artists explicitly took up the Surrealist banner for themselves.

Though Vesalius ' work was not the first such work based on actual autopsy, nor even the first work of this era, the production values, highly detailed and intricate plates, and the fact that the artists who produced it were clearly present at the dissections themselves made it into an instant classic.

Many noted writers and artists have judged WotF awards, or have won them themselves.

Around 100 artists of many genres who identified themselves as avant-garde joined the November Group.

German Expressionism had begun before World War I and continued to have a strong influence throughout the 1920s, although artists were increasingly likely to position themselves in opposition to expressionist tendencies as the decade went on.

Occasionally artists make impromptu performances ; for example, in 2010, a troupe of 22 dancers " contort their bodies and cram themselves into the nooks and crannies of the Financial District in Bodies in Urban Spaces " choreographed by Willi Donner.

From the 1930s to the early 1960s, Soho folklore states that the pubs of Soho were packed every night with drunken writers, poets and artists, many of whom never stayed sober long enough to become successful ; and it was also during this period that the Soho pub landlords established themselves.

Britpop groups were defined by being focused on bands rather than solo artists ; having drums / bass / guitar / vocals ( and sometimes keyboards ) line-ups ; writing original material and playing instruments themselves ; singing in regional British accents ; references to British places and culture in lyrics and image ; and fashion consciousness.

Many such artists found themselves at the heart of controversies over lyrics that were seen as glorifying the murder of police officers and other crimes, similar to outcries over violent thuggish lyrics in American gangsta rap.

Some producers also became de facto recording artists, creating records themselves or with anonymous studio musicians and releasing them under a pseudonym.

The gentry distinguished themselves in society through their intellectual and antiquarian pursuits, while the homes of prominent landholders attracted a variety of courtiers including artisans, artists, educational tutors, and entertainers.

Life in the POW camps was recorded at great risk to themselves by artists such as Jack Bridger Chalker, Philip Meninsky, John Mennie, Ashley George Old and Ronald Searle.

Contemporary art is exhibited by commercial contemporary art galleries, private collectors, art auctions, corporations, publicly funded arts organizations, contemporary art museums or by artists themselves in artist-run spaces.

Fursman and Clute's vision was to create a respite where faculty and students could immerse themselves completely in artmaking, surrounded by a supportive community of artists and an inspired landscape of natural dunes, woods and water.

The process of “ stepping out ” of a frame, out of a form of knowing – a prevailing ideology – is analogous to the work of artists as they struggle to give birth to fresh ways of seeing the world, perspectives that allow them to see aspects of the world that no artists, including themselves, have ever seen before.