Art And Literature

Henri Matisse was born on 31 December 1869, in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord, France. He was an artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. He was a master draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but excelled primarily as a painter.
Matisse is considered, with Picasso, as the greatest artist of the 20th [...]

Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is an author, poet, critic, essayist, feminist and social campaigner.
Atwood is the second of three children of Margaret Dorothy, a former dietitian and nutritionist, and Carl Edmund Atwood, an entomologist. She was a lover of literature from her very early life, [...]

Sri Chinmoy Ghose was born in 1931 in East Bengal, India— today’s Bangladesh. He was the youngest of seven children. He lost his father to illness in 1943, and his mother a few months later. Orphaned, in 1944 the 12-year-old Ghose joined his brothers and sisters at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, French India, [...]

“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are many — they are few.” (P. B. Shelley)
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 in Horsham, Sussex, England. He was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded among the [...]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 in the rural town of Ottery St Mary, Devon, England. He was a poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher. He with his friend William Wordsworth, founded the Romantic Movement in England. He was also, one of the Lake Poets.
About his childhood, Coleridge suggests that he “took [...]

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) was the arch representative of the Romanticism in English Literature. He along with his contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched the age of Romantic poetry.
Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth, Cumberland. His boyhood was full of adventure among the hills, and he says of himself that he showed “a stiff, moody, and violent temper.” [...]

George Gordon Byron was born on 22 January 1788. His names changed through out his life. he was born to Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon. He was also known as Lord George Gordon Noel Byron and commonly as Lord Byron. Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.
Byron spent his [...]

Geraldine Estelle “Geri” Halliwell was born on 6 August 1972 in Watford, Hertfordshire England U.K. She is an English recording artist, author and philanthropist.
Halliwell was born to Laurence Francis Halliwell, who was of English,Irish/Italian descent, and his wife Ana Mar?a (née Hidalgo), who was of Spanish descent from Huesca, Spain. She grew up on on [...]

Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 in Paris. Claude Monet is also known as Oscar Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet. In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy. His father wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but Monet wanted to become an artist. His mother was a [...]

Quote: “I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” (Kahlo)

Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán near Maxico city. Kahlo being a Mexican painter, painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico and European influences including Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. Most of her [...]