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Entertainment industry people are people who work in the entertainment industry (also informally known as show business or show biz), which includes artists, such as actors, musicians and screenwriters, as well as businesspeople, such as agents, producers, and managers. Notable entertainment industry people For a complete list, please see: Entertainment industry people Profiles . Subproje...
Authors of great literature that teaches, elevates, inspires and ennobles mankind. Authors - alphabetical index, wikisource This project is on History Link Selected authors by activity period: BCE Homer, Ὅμηρος Homēros (8th Century BCE ) Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey ; revered as the greatest an...
This project is designed to capture artists (painters) other than Contemporary Artists, New and Modern Masters, and Old Masters that are included in other geni.com projects: Contemporary Artists New and Modern Masters Old Masters Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a bru...
Siia projekti soovime Genist kokku koguda tuntumaid Eesti kunstnikke, karikaturiste, kunstiajaloolasi, -kriitikuid, -teadlasi, -kogujaid ja ka kunsti restauraatoreid läbi kõigi ajajärkude. Hakatuseks wikipediast Eesti kunstnike kategooria Viide Wikipediasse Eesti kunstnike loend (need kelle kohta on lugu Wikipedias, sealses järjestused) A Mari Aakre R...
Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that was most popular during 1890–1910. English uses the French name "Art Nouveau" ("new art"), but the style has many different names in other countries. A reaction to academic art of the 19th century, it was inspired by natural forms and structures, not...
Sculptors A sculptor follows the art or practice of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, as by chiseling marble, modeling clay, or casting in metal. [Middle English, from Latin sculptūra, from sculptus, past participle of sculpere, to carve; see skel- in Indo-European roots.] This is a Geni occupations project. Please add Geni profiles of practicing sculpto...
British Artists Image right - L S Lowry - Huddersfield, 1965, Oil on canvas The object of this project is to compile a list British artists and to link them to GENi profiles where possible. Some artists who were not born in the United Kingdom may have worked in Britain and are included if appropriate. An artist is a person engaged in one or more of a broad spectrum of activiti...
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame established in 1986 and located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential musicians, bands, producers, and others that have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in the area of rock and roll. Originally, there were four categories of induction: performers, non-per...
Child Prodigies Child prodigy is defined as person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert performer. This project aims to list all child prodigies and to create their family-trees. The list of child prodigies is divided in different categories, feel free to add names or more categories. ...
Nobel Prize in Literature On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes, the Nobel Prizes. As described in Nobel's will one part was dedicated to 'the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction'. Introduction Since 1901, the Nobel Prize for L...
Royal Academy of Arts The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. It has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects; its purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate. Purpose Identify members...
The great sculptors through the ages Classical Greek Sculpture • V - I centuries BCE Myron (mid 5th-century BCE ) One of the greatest sculptors of Early Classical Greek sculpture. Famous sculpture: the disc thrower known as Discobolus (c.425 BCE). Phidias (488-431 BCE ). One of the greatest sculptors of Classical Antiquity, and the greatest carver of High Classical Greek sculpt...
Notable Huguenots or people from Huguenot descent United States Arts & Entertainment James Agee , American screenwriter and Pulitzer prize winning author Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo cowboy, artist, and sculptor William Christopher, American actor Joan Crawford , American actress Davy Crockett , American folk hero Johnny Depp , American actor Philip Morin Freneau...
Rhythm and Blues (R&B) singers and groups since 1965 and 1970, many of which started in the United States. Wikipedia We have to give props to the musicians that made all this possible! Standing in the Shadows of Motown -- The Funk Brothers , Motown -- The Funk Brothers -- Film Documentary Soundtrack. In 1959, Berry Gordy gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues s...
Welcome to Geni's Artists Plaza pick your table and read through this special menu full of Personal CV ingredients from Artists , active on Geni from all over the Big Geni World Tree. Bon Appetit! Join the The Artists Plaza Studio Chat Here you can find mutual interests, kindred spirits, collegues exchanging thoughts and ideas, related projects, collaborate etc. Unite on this Plaza to...
The purpose of this project is to explore the ancestry of the four core members of the Beatles ( Ringo Starr --a.k.a. Richard Starkey), as well as their wives and close associates. If you are interested in joining this project, please contact one of the project collaborators. Discussions about Project . Current priorities: Extending the lineage of the core four members, hopefully ...
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The three founders were soon joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form a seven-member "brotherhood". This project will also...
Bauhaus Artists Pictured Right: The Bauhaus Museum - Tel Aviv Bauhaus , was an art school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicised and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term About this sound Bauhaus (help·info)—literally "construction house"—was understood as meaning "Sch...
The Arts & Crafts Movement Pictured right: Detail from a season ticket for The Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society, by Walter Crane, England, UK, 1890. Museum no. E.4164-1915. The Arts and Crafts Movement was one of the most influential, profound and far-reaching design movements of modern times. It began in Britain around 1880 and quickly spread across America and Europe before emerging final...
Hertford House - The Wallace Collection, London, England Herford House - The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries. It was established in 1897 from the priva...
-2011-11-23-12:11+GMT-winter-jMu-UNDER CONSTRUCTIONS- projectleader: Lúcia Pilla African-Americans in Arts EN: here you can add URL on the internet where we can find people who would be nice to find in geni too and to add to this project. .. PO or ES: Lucia, please do some translations, ok? introduction-etc. Hello Lucia, here you can write whatever you like to introduce yo...
“The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men,” lyrics by Fran Landesman Sing a song of sad young men / Glasses full of rye / All the news is bad again so / Kiss your dreams goodbye All the sad young men sitting in the bars / Knowing neon nights. missing all the stars / All the sad young men drifting through the town / Drinking up the night trying not to drown All the sad you...
The Photo-Secession was an early-20th-century movement that promoted photography as a fine art in general and photographic pictorialism in particular. A group of photographers, led by Alfred Stieglitz and F. Holland Day in the early 1900s, held the then controversial viewpoint that what was significant about a photograph was not what was in front of the camera but the manipulation of the image ...
A National Artist of the Philippines is a title given to a Filipino who has been given the highest recognition for having made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts. Such Filipinos are announced, by virtue of a Presidential Proclamation, as National Artist or in Filipino, Gawad Pambansang Alagad ng Sining. They are then conferred membership in the Order of National Art...