https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl Each one of you is assigned an artist (a composer, a painter etc) Write a short biography for your artist and upload an image, a link or a piece of music. When you finish, read your classmates' bio texts and comment on them. en-us 2020-03-21 16:29:04 UTC 2025-09-30 00:54:24 UTC hello@padlet.com dinamy2 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469048336 https://youtu.be/XNbjnwBZl44]]> 2020-03-21 16:30:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469048336 dinamy2 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469048545 Sofia Laskaridou (February 1876 in Athens - November 13, 1965 Kallithea Attica) was a Greek painter.She was born in Athens in 1876. She was the daughter of Laskaris Laskarides (1820-1899) and Catherine Christomannou (1842-1916), a pioneer educator, growing up with her two other sisters Irene (1882-1958) and Melpomene [4] an environment that encouraged her artistic inclinations. After private painting lessons in Athens, she studied at Académie Julian in Paris with his teachers B. Constant and J. P. Laurens.]]> 2020-03-21 16:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469048545 dinamy2 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469048925 Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI born in 23 November 1955.He is an Italian pianist and composer. He trained in the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, and he began his career as a classical composer. Later incorporating other styles and genre such as pop, rock folk and world music. Furthermore he has composed the scores for a number of films and television productions. ]]> 2020-03-21 16:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469048925 dinamy2 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469049301 PAINTER    She was born in Athens in 1959 to parents from Cephalonia. She studied Painting and Sculpture at the School of Fine Arts. She continued her doctoral studies at the School of Fine Arts in Art History with her thesis entitled: Large-Scale Art Works in the Urban and Natural Spaces. From the 60s to the 21st Century. She has exhibited her artistic work in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.             ]]> 2020-03-21 16:31:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469049301 dinamy2 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469049537 Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. His famous work is the Guernica and proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. He was born on 25 October 1881 and died on8 April 1973 (aged 91). ]]> 2020-03-21 16:31:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469049537 dinamy2 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469049679 Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou^[a] (born 29 March 1943), known professionally as Vangelis (/væŋˈɡɛlɪs/; Greek: Βαγγέλης [vaɲˈɟelis]), is a Greek musician and composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music.^[1] He is best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for composing scores to the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and for the use of his music in the PBS documentary Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.^[1]]]> 2020-03-21 16:31:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469049679 dinamy2 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469049969 Painter and sculptor, G. Gaitis began his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. In 1954 he continued his studies in Paris at the Grande Chaumiere Academy. He worked both in Paris and Athens and was the creator of a personal artistic language. After wandering in the climate of expressionistic tendencies and courtship of the removal came in human form which he adopted as the primary means of expression.   Date of birth:    01-01-1923         Date of death: 01-01-1984                   Art Works 1813]]> 2020-03-21 16:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469049969 dinamy2 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469050161 Anne Geddes  born on 23th September in 1956 and she died in 2019 in 63 years old. Anna Geddes was popular because she know for infant photography.]]> 2020-03-21 16:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469050161 dinamy2 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469050754 Henri Cartier-Bresson {22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004} was a French photographer. He is considered one of the most important  photographer of the 20^th century and one of the “father” of photojournalism. Henri was saying that “painting has been my obsession since my uncle took me to his studio on Christmas holidays at 1913, when I was 5 years old. There I lived in the atmosphere of painting, inhaling the canvas.” Also he studied painting with Jacques Emile Blanche. His interest for contemporary art combined with his admiration for the works of the Renaissance.]]> 2020-03-21 16:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469050754 dinamy2 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469050912 Rembrandt Charmensoon fan Rein (15 July 1606 - 4 October 1669 ), known widely as Rembrandt , was very important Dutch painter and engraver of the 17th century , today one of the leading painters of all time. He was painter,  cartoonist,  engraver and art collector]]> 2020-03-21 16:33:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469050912 dinamy2 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469051044 Piet Mondrian, his real name was Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, he born on 7th March in 1872 and died on 1st February in  1944. He was a Dutch painter and he is known for being pioneers of 20-th century abstract-art. His paintings was Evening; Red Tree (1908-1910), Gray Tree (1911), Composition with Red Blue and Yellow (1930), Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-1943)  and Victory Boogie Woogie (1944)]]> 2020-03-21 16:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469051044 dinamy2 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469060473 Banksy is an anonymous England-based street artist, vandal, political activist, and film director. He was born around 1974 in Bristol.You can see his works on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. His works have a strong social and political meaning.]]> 2020-03-21 16:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469060473 dinamy2 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469445770 born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.^[1] Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist.^[2]]]> 2020-03-22 08:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469445770 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469473597 Paul Klee (German 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory]]> 2020-03-22 09:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/469473597 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/471321987
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci  known as Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, paleontology, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time (despite perhaps only 15 of his paintings having survived).^[b]]]> 2020-03-23 16:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/471321987 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/471349015
Nikos Egonopoulos was a modern Greek painter and poet . He is one of the most important members of Generation of the 30's , as well as a major representative of the surrealist movement in Greece. His work as a writer also includes critique and essays.]]> 2020-03-23 17:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/471349015 anastaschool https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/474254048
Tamara Łempicka  was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.Lempicka decided to become a painter at her sister's suggestion, and studied both at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts and Académie de la Grande Chaumière with Maurice Denis and then with André Lhote, who was to have a greater influence on her style.Her first paintings were still lifes and portraits of her daughter Kizette and her neighbor.In 1927, Lempicka won her first major award, the first prize at the Exposition Internationale des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux, France, for her portrait of Kizette on the Balcony. In 1929, another portrait of Kizette, at her First Communion, won a bronze medal at the international exposition in Poznań, Poland.]]> 2020-03-25 10:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/474254048 gageorgiak https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/475023006 2020-03-25 17:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/475023006 https://padlet.com/dinamy2/6l6gy10t80gl/wish/538436620 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Russian composer and pianist. He is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century, with a unique harmonic language and a historic importance due to his years of work under Stalin. Shostakovich achieved fame in the Soviet Union under the patronage of Soviet chief of staff Mikhail Tukhachevsky, but later had a complex and difficult relationship with the government. Nevertheless, he received accolades and state awards and served in the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1947) and the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (from 1962 until his death).

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