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Many famous personalities, philosophers, artists and poets fought as hoplites.
Especially instrumental in getting Fry the visas he needed for the artists, intellectuals and political dissidents on his list was Hiram Bingham IV, an American Vice Consul in Marseille who fought against State Department anti-Semitism and was personally responsible for issuing thousands of visas, both legal and illegal.
* Nippon Tech — an ultracapitalist nightmare society covering most of Japan where lies and betrayal were as common as breathing, and where martial artists, computer hackers, and yakuza fought to bring down the corporate-controlled government.
Many patriots who fought for independence, presidents, politicians, and artists, like pianist Claudio Arrau and folklorist Violeta Parra, were born here.
He has bested notable martial artists such as Batman and fought Richard Dragon to a standstill.
Janis also took her act on the road, entertaining troops stationed near the front lines-one of the first popular American artists to do so in a war fought on foreign soil.
Official war artists were appointed by governments for information or propaganda purposes and to record events on the battlefield ; but many artists fought as normal soldiers and recorded their experiences at the time and later, including the Germans George Grosz and Otto Dix, who had both fought on the Western Front, and continued to depict the subject for the rest of their careers.
As issues such as politics and religion are being fought through the usage of hip-hop, Israeli rap artists display a wide range of opinions being offered and performed.
The goal of Ovetchkin and the artists who created the panorama was to create a feeling of empathy for the battle that was fought on the site as well as a feeling of authenticity of the events that occurred on 11 September 1877.
Kramer fought against leftwing political bias in art criticism, and what he perceived as the aesthetic nihilism characteristic of many 20th century working artists and art critics.
His father, who had fought in the Napoleonic wars in the army of William I of the Netherlands, was an art collector who owned several watercolors by Eugène Delacroix, among other artists.
Due to his travels overseas, he has fought against many martial artists.

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* Contemporary artists Jutta Koether, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Kenneth Goldsmith, Eline McGeorge and Karl Holmqvist were commissioned to make new installation works in 2009 in response to Kurt Schiwtters as part of the Senses exhibition which took place in Alesund, Norway ( 2009 ) and at Chisenhale Gallery, London ( 2010 ).
Punch authors and artists also contributed to another Bradbury and Evans literary magazine called Once A Week ( est. 1859 ), created in response to Dickens ' departure from Household Words.
British rhythm and blues developed in the early 1960s, largely as a response to the recordings of American artists, often brought over by African American servicemen stationed in Britain during the Cold War, or merchant seamen visiting ports such as London, Liverpool, Newcastle on Tyne and Belfast.
As a member of The Impressions, Mayfield infused a call and response style of group singing that came out of gospel, and influenced many other groups of the era, notably fellow Chicago artists the Radiants.
They were eventually forced off by officials after overrunning their allotted time ; the festival organisers were at that point already annoyed at the band when, in response to their invitation to join other recording artists in signing a Make Poverty History poster which would be auctioned off for charity, lead singer Bobby Gillespie instead altered the poster so that it read " Make Israel History ".
In response to the scarcity of the previous years, this sub-culture, named after the preferred drink of the artists and writers who imbibed it, emphasized escapism, entertainment and decadence.
In response both to televangelist Jimmy Swaggart's June 1987 book Religious Rock ' N ' Roll: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, which had criticized the music of Norman and other Christian rock artists, and Swaggart's February 1988 admission of adultery with a prostitute, Norman wrote the song " Selah ", which had its last verse censored by Benson, which was: " My songs are spiritual fornication ,/ that's what this television preacher said ./ I guess he knows a lot about fornication ,/ I heard he wrote some sermons in a prostitute's bed.
Songs written by Tench and recorded by other artists include " You Little Thief ", a top 5 UK and Australian hit for Feargal Sharkey in 1985, ( written about his affair with Maria McKee, in response to her song " A Good Heart ") and " Never Be You " ( co-written with Petty ), which became a # 1 US Country hit for Rosanne Cash, also in 1985.
In the United States, it marked a return to hard-edged composition and representational art as a response by artists using impersonal, mundane reality, irony and parody to defuse the personal symbolism and " painterly looseness " of Abstract Expressionism.
It was also during this period that Rothko, like many artists, found employment with the Works Progress Administration, a labor relief agency created under Roosevelt ’ s New Deal in response to the economic crisis.
During the song " The Juggla ", Violent J addressed the audience as Juggalos, and the positive response resulted in Bruce and Shaggy 2 Dope using the word thereafter to refer to themselves and their friends, family, and fans, including other Psychopathic Records artists.
One direct response ( a mirror response in a sense ) to Mbeki's call on artists and thinkers to take up his utopian vision, was offered by Andre Venter who published I Ching for the ' African Renaissance ' in 2006.
He did so by presenting President Mbeki's office with a leather bound, hand made copy of the artists ' book — " I Ching for the ' African Renaissance ' - and waits for a response.
Legend has it that, when they screened the film for the group of noted European artists calling themselves " surrealists ," they carried sacks of rocks in their pockets on opening night as self-defense, expecting a negative response from the audience.
A response letter from RIAA President, Stanley Gortikov, stated that: " There are wide variations, company to company, within our industry in respect to artists, contractual relationships, marketing considerations and product services.
The sudden appearance of land art in 1968 can be located as a response by a generation of artists mostly in their late twenties to the heightened political activism of the year and the emerging environmental and women's liberation movements.
To these artists it was essential that their paintings convey an emotional response to the viewer, which was elicited through an emphasis on the atmospheric elements in the picture and by the use of " vague shapes and subdued tonalities … convey a sense of elegiac melancholy.
The song accuses the punk scene of being homophobic, and was written in response to perceived homophobic artists on Hellcat Records.
In response, the NEA, under pressure from Congress, stopped funding individual artists.
Guerrilla Girls formed in 1985 in response to the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition " An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture " which showcased 169 artists ; out of those 169, only 17 were women.
The first Adelaide Fringe, in 1960, came about when a few artists decided to stage their own event in response to the exclusion of many artists from the curated Adelaide Festival of Arts.
In response to a contest from St. Louis area radio station KPNT for a compilation CD of local artists, keyboardist / programmer Doug Firley, guitarist Matt Dudenhoeffer and drummer / bassist Kurt Kerns brought in vocalist Jeff Scheel to record and mix a track in one week during the summer of 1994.

artists and through
We recognize that young people through imaginative mind and body training can become athletes, acrobats, dancers, musicians and artists, developing many potentialities.
Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.
His reputation had spread throughout Europe and he was on friendly terms and in communication with most of the major artists including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and — mainly through Lorenzo di Credi — Leonardo da Vinci.
Dürer exerted a huge influence on the artists of succeeding generations, especially in printmaking, the medium through which his contemporaries mostly experienced his art, as his paintings were predominately in private collections located in only a few cities.
His success in spreading his reputation across Europe through prints were undoubtedly an inspiration for major artists such as Raphael, Titian, and Parmigianino, all of whom collaborated with printmakers in order to promote and distribute their work.
" She was one of the greatest pantomime artists I have ever seen ", he said, " it was through watching her that I learned not only how to express emotions with my hands and face, but also how to observe and study people.
His work gained popularity through reproductive engravings of his genre paintings ( made by artists such as F .- B.
The relationship of music to dance serves as the basis for Eurhythmics, devised by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, which was influential to the development of Modern dance and modern ballet through artists such as Marie Rambert.
Plans for a brief tour with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt to promote their 1987 collaboration Trio fell through, due to the three artists ' conflicting schedules, as well as Parton's prior commitment to her 1987-88 ABC TV series.
Many international artists such as Banksy have left their work in Melbourne and in early 2008 a perspex screen was installed to prevent a Banksy stencil art piece from being destroyed, it has survived since 2003 through the respect of local street artists avoiding posting over it, although it has recently had paint tipped over it.
In the early sixties, he attended the Gallerie Carrefour of Marcel Stal and, through his contacts with artists, critics and collectors, he began to buy works from Fontana, Poliakoff and many others.
This interest in the " Arthur of romance " and his associated stories continued through the 19th century and into the 20th, and influenced poets such as William Morris and Pre-Raphaelite artists including Edward Burne-Jones.
Cozy Baker ( d. October 19, 2010 )— founder of The Brewster Kaleidoscope Society — collected kaleidoscopes and wrote books about many of the artists making them in the 1970s through 2001.
The 19th century brought a particular admiration for Leonardo's genius, causing Henry Fuseli to write in 1801: " Such was the dawn of modern art, when Leonardo da Vinci broke forth with a splendour that distanced former excellence: made up of all the elements that constitute the essence of genius ..." This is echoed by A. E. Rio who wrote in 1861: " He towered above all other artists through the strength and the nobility of his talents.
Other parts of Northern Europe did not have the advantage of such intense contact with Italian artists, but the Mannerist style made its presence felt through prints and illustrated books, the purchases of Italian works by rulers, and others, artists ' travels to Italy, and the example of individual Italian artists working in the North is called Northern Mannerism.
Giorgio Vasari's opinions about the art of painting come through in his praise of fellow artists in the great book that lay behind this frontispiece: he believed that excellence in painting demanded refinement, richness of invention ( invenzione ), expressed through virtuoso technique ( maniera ), and wit and study that appeared in the finished work, all criteria that emphasized the artist's intellect and the patron's sensibility.
Every Corner was a Picture: A checklist compiled for the West Cornwall Art Archive of 50 artists from the early Newlyn School painters through to the present.
After YMO disbanded in 1983, he produced more solo records, including collaborations with various international artists, through to the 1990s.
He also wrote " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), which contributed to the development of techno, and the international hit " Behind the Mask " ( 1978 ), a synthpop song for which he sang the vocals through a vocoder and which would later be covered by a number of international artists, including Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton.
His songs are best-known through cover versions by more commercial artists: " Jersey Girl ", performed by Bruce Springsteen, " Ol ' ' 55 ", performed by the Eagles, and " Downtown Train ", performed by Rod Stewart.

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