Painter Biography Essay Examples

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A Biography of Lee (1081 words, 2 pages)

The intent of this paper is to compare and contrast the ways in which the identities, aspirations, and achievements of two upper class females were affected by the aspects of family, class, gender, and particularly race. Race will be particularly scrutinized because the individual interviewed, Alesha (or Lee), is a ... Read More

A Biography of Otto von Bismarck (785 words, 2 pages)

Bismarck Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schnhausen was a major player in the unification of Germany. This Prussian junker, or aristocrat, was a Prussian nationalist and later a German nationalist. As Chief Minister to Wilhelm I of Prussia, he devised and executed a "klein-deutsch" (excluding Austria) plan to unify Germany. It ... Read More

A Short Biography of a Famous Painter and Sculptor (879 words, 2 pages)

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso A short biography of a famous painter and sculptor A male born in 1881, died in 1973- Pablo Picasso was one of the most famous painters of the 1900's. As the son of a professor of art, Picasso's talent for drawing was recognized at an early ... Read More

A Biography of Nelson Mandela (270 words, 1 pages)

Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, Umtata, Transkei. Nelson Mandela was a South African lawyer and he was also a black nationalist who was the African National Congress fropm March 1990. Mr. Mandela was imprisoned from 1962 to February 1990 because of his poltical activities, and ... Read More

A Biography of Muhammad (2697 words, 4 pages)

Those damned Fundamentalists, Really By Michael Van A long time ago, one man, Muhammad, a.k.a. (Abu Qasim Muhammad ibn Abd Allan ibn abd al Muttalub-Hashim), or Al Amin (the trustworthy one) began what would be a very powerful, populated, and much respected religion called Islam. The Prophet was born in ... Read More

A Biography of Pablo Picasso (1062 words, 2 pages)

Pablo Picasso was probably the most influential modern painters of the 20th century. Born in Spain, he lived in France much of his life painting, sculpting, making ceramics, and doing graphic artwork. His style was quite avant-garde and unique, and he changed it many times during his career. Picasso was ... Read More

A Biography of Oscar Wilde (1250 words, 4 pages)

Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde (real name Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) was born on October 16th, 1854 in Dublin. His father, William Robert Wilde, was an eminent eye doctor, with an interest in myths and folklore. He was the founder of the first eye and ear hospital in Great Britain, ... Read More

My Personal Biography (589 words, 1 pages)

This is my Life Well I guess this is an autobiography about me, written by me, so I will try to make it as boring as I can so you dont get to interested in my overly exiting life. Well, I was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania at approximately 305 in ... Read More

A Biography of Jan Van Eyck the Most Famous and Innovative Flemish Painter (229 words, 1 pages)

Jan van Eyck, the most famous and innovative Flemish painter of the 15th century, is thought to have come from the village of Maaseyck in Limbourg. No record of his birthdate survives, but it is believed to have been about 1390 his career, however, is well documented. He was employed ... Read More

A Biography of Vogadro (596 words, 1 pages)

A vogadro was born on June 9, 1776 in Turin, Italy. He began his career in 1796 by obtaining a doctorate in law and practicing as a lawyer for three years after. In 1800, he began to take private lessons in mathematics and physics and decided to make the natural ... Read More

A Biography of Claude Monet, a Famous French Impressionist Painter (550 words, 1 pages)

Who is Claude Monet? Claude Monet is the Famous French Impressionist painter. In addition to being a great painter Monet was also a great leader, an initiator and a firm advocate of the Impressionist style. The Impressionist style in which he painted would become the reason behind his well known ... Read More

A Biography and life Work of Jan van Eyck, an Early Renaissance Painter (1007 words, 2 pages)

Jan van Eyck is considered to be the founder of the Early Renaissance style in the Northern Renaissance. It is believed that Eyck invented painting with oils. His paint is so transparent that his works have a unique, almost luminous sheen. So outstanding was his skill as an oil painter ... Read More

A Description of Simone Martini an Italian Painter and a Mater of the Sienese School (746 words, 2 pages)

Simone Martini Simone Martini was an Italian painter and a master of the Sienese school. He was active during the 13th and the 14th centuries and is thought of to be a pupil of Duccio. It is known he died August 4, 1344 in Avignon. If we are to believe ... Read More

A Biography of Queen Victoria (607 words, 1 pages)

Queen Victoria was born at Kensington Palace, London, on May 24th, 1819. She was the only child of Edward Duke of Kent. Her father died before Victoria was a year old and was brought up by her strict German mother. She was christened Alexandria Victoria and was not permitted to ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Flemish Painters and the Role of Pieter Brueghel (266 words, 1 pages)

If someone were to think of one of the great Flemish painters, Pieter Brueghel might come to mind. Often referred to as Pieter Brueghel the Elder, he was the most important member of his family and a great painter in the 16th century. Pieter was born around 1525 in what ... Read More

A Report on Terrace at Sainte-Adresse, a Painting by a French Impressionist Painter, Claude Monet (658 words, 1 pages)

On a Sunday morning I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I saw many amazing, interesting and beautiful paintings and sculptures. As I was walking around, I spotted a painting by Claude Oscar Monet. This painting was called "Terrace at Sainte-Adresse," which is also known as the "Garden at ... Read More

A Biography of Michelangelo Buonarroti, a Sculptor, Architect, Painter and Poet of the Italian High Renaissance (776 words, 2 pages)

Michelangelo Buonarroti was born March 6, 1475 in the small village of Caprese, Italy. A sculptor, architect, painter, and poet that did his work in the Italian high renaissance. Michelangelo's father, Ludovico Buonarroti had connection to the prominent Medici family. He studies at the gardens when he was 15 years ... Read More

A Biography of Max Dupain (865 words, 2 pages)

He has been dubbed the "Godfather" of black and white photography, Australia's answer to Ansell Adams, but Dupain creates a league of his own. Through raw emotional content, and majestic composition, Max Dupain captured and interpreted the rarity and strange beauty of Australia. Dupain was given a Box Brownie Camera ... Read More

A Biography of Pablo Picasso, a French Painter (2295 words, 4 pages)

AR 140 Drawing 1 Term Paper Life and Works of Picasso It takes a long time to become young -Pablo Picasso Picasso was not only an extremely influential artist but was also politically active. He lived to be 92 years old and his life grew to be incredibly famous. He ... Read More

A Biography of Leonardo Da Vinci, an Italian Renaissance Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Engineer, Musician and Scientist (395 words, 1 pages)

1452-1519, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist, probably the supreme example of Renaissance genius. Born in Vinci, Tuscany, he was the illegitimate son of a Florentine notary and a peasant girl. His precocious artistic talent brought him to Verrocchio's workshop in 1466, where he met Botticelli and Ghirlandaio. ... Read More

A Biography of Kurt Gerstein (1429 words, 3 pages)

Kurt Gerstein is a anti Nazi who was born on August 11 1905 in Munster, Germany. When Kurt was young he was taught by his father to follow orders without question. When Kurt grew up he attended college and became involved in Christian Youth. He graduated in 1931 as a ... Read More

A Discussion of Biography (991 words, 2 pages)

Biographies are easy to write. You always know what will happen. The only hard part is to give it a voice. To make it come alive to the reader. To make it sound human and not written by some machine. The other hard part is to figure out where to ... Read More

A Biography of Napoleon Bonaparte (772 words, 1 pages)

Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte, who is also known as the "little Corsican", was born on August 15,1769 in Ajaccio, Corsica. The year before his birth, France had bought Corsica from the Italian city-state of Genoa. Napoleon was the fourth child and second son of Carlo and Letizia Ramolino Buonaparte (later ... Read More

A Biography of Dorothea Dix, a Humanitarian (1441 words, 3 pages)

Born in 1802, Dorothea Dix played an important role in changing the ways people thought about patients who were mentally-ill and handicapped, originally cast-off as being punished by God, as well as the way facilities handled and treated them. She believed that that people of such standing would do better ... Read More

A Biography of Mark Dayton (1781 words, 4 pages)

When Mark Dayton was sworn in as Minnesota's newest U.S. Senator in January 2001, it was the latest stop in a career that has kept public service to Minnesota and to the nation as its top priority. In more than three decades of service, in a variety of capacities, Mark ... Read More

A Biography of Clara Wieck Schumann (1773 words, 3 pages)

The German romantic composer Clara Wieck Schumann (l8l9-l896) was one of the most famous pianists of her time, one of the great stars of 19th-century musical Europe. She premiered new works by Frederic Chopin, Johannes Brahms, and her husband Robert Schumann. While she composed prolifically from the age of nine, ... Read More

A Biography of Carl Gustav Jung (2773 words, 3 pages)

Carl Gustav Jung Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a son of a minister in Switzerland. He was born on July 26, in the small village of Kesswil on Lake Constance. He was named after his grandfather, a professor of medicine at the University of Basel. He was the oldest child ... Read More

A Biography Paper of Israel Lopez (1358 words, 3 pages)

Cachao His name is Israel Lopez, but he is known as Cachao. His real name is music though. Born into a family who were all bass crazy, at least thirty five members of the Cachao clan have played the double bass at one time or another, either with the Havana ... Read More

A Biography of Brian Mulroney (1422 words, 2 pages)

To many Canadians, Brian Mulroney seems an open book a politician of the old school who owes his triumphs more to the opposition's weakness than to his own intrinsic strength. But behind the "jutting jaw, the smile that seems a little too self-satisfied, and the artful rhetoric is a man ... Read More

The Life and Works of William Blake, an English Poet and Painter (1285 words, 2 pages)

William Blake was one of England's great poets. His diversity and insight in human nature is truly masterful, being able to write in the voice of a young child with all the innocence this brings and then in the voice of an adult. Blake did write of dreams and sunny ... Read More