by Village Copier | Jun 6, 2016 | Artist Inspiration
Alexander Pushkin (1799–1873) was a Romantic Russian poet, playwright, and novelist who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and founder of modern Russian literature. Born into nobility in Moscow, he published his first poem at the age of 15 and was already...
by Village Copier | May 2, 2016 | Artist Inspiration
Keith Allen Haring (1958–1990) was an American artist and social activist who’s street art in NYC expressed the concepts of birth, death, sexuality, and war. His visual language has become one of the most widely recognized of the 20th century. Raised in...
by Village Copier | Apr 25, 2016 | Artist Inspiration
Edwan Parker “Cy” Twombly, Jr.(1928–2011) was an American painter, sculptor, and photographer who’s contemporaries are Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. His works are generally large-scale graffiti-like paintings on flat backgrounds that are...
by Village Copier | Apr 18, 2016 | Artist Inspiration
Eleanora Fagan (1915–1959), most commonly known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer songwriter. Her career spanned thirty years and had a great influence on jazz music and pop singing. Not formally trained, she pioneered a new way of...
by Village Copier | Apr 11, 2016 | Artist Inspiration
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, was an English poet, playwright, and actor. During his lifetime, he is credited with writing 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and two long narrative poems. His works are translated...
by Village Copier | Apr 4, 2016 | Artist Inspiration
Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958) was a French Painter who is considered one of the principal artists of the Fauve Movement: a modern art form that is characterized by the the intense usage of over-saturated colors. Inspired the Impressionism movement, Vlaminck’s...
