text:
Pennsylvania Impressionist
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
plein-air
impressionist
Springfield, Ohio
Art Academy of Cincinnati
Frank Duveneck
Cresson Traveling Scholarship
Rushland
William Langson Lathrop
New Hope, Pennsylvania
Daniel Garber
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Art Institute of Chicago
Modernism
James A. Michener Art Museum
Woodmere Art Museum
Pennsylvania Impressionism
AskArt.com

categories: 1885 births,20th-century American painters,Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts faculty,American Impressionist painters,American male painters,Art Academy of Cincinnati alumni,1975 deaths,Painters from Pennsylvania,Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni

paragraph: Roy Cleveland Nuse

paragraph: Roy Cleveland Nuse (1885-1975) was a Pennsylvania Impressionist artist and a teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1925 to 1954. For almost 60 years he lived and painted in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, working in a "plein-air", impressionist style. His six children were often the subjects of his paintings, depicted especially in rural, outdoor settings. Working primarily in oils, but also in pastels, Nuse painted landscapes, figures in the landscape, still lifes and portraits.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: A native of Springfield, Ohio, Nuse helped out in his father’s barbershop until his father became ill and Nuse had to drop out of high school. He took a factory job hand-painting lamp shades, where he was recognized for his talent and encouraged to go to art school. His formal art education began at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1905 and he remained there until 1912, studying under Vincent Nowottny and Frank Duveneck. In 1915 he obtained a part-time teaching job at the Beechwood School near Philadelphia, which enabled him to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which was then one of the most renowned art schools in the nation.

paragraph: A student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1915-1918, Nuse won all the major student awards: the Toppan and Thouron Prizes and two Cresson Traveling Scholarships to travel and study art in Europe.

paragraph: During this time he moved his growing family to live on a farm in rural Bucks County. Between 1917 and 1925 he created many large canvasses of figures in the landscape, focusing on farm life of those times and painting his children and extended family mostly in outdoor settings.

paragraph: In 1925, Nuse was offered a teaching position at PAFA, where he taught drawing and painting, life and portrait classes until 1954. That same year the Nuse family moved to Rushland, Bucks County, a small town with a railroad station that permitted Nuse to commute easily to Philadelphia on his teaching days. Three streams converged in the Rushland valley. These streams, along with many nearby farms became the subject matter for many of the landscapes Nuse painted after 1925.

paragraph: Although Roy Nuse lived in Bucks County most of his life, he shied away from being part of the New Hope School, a group of artists who followed the lead of William Langson Lathrop and settled in the scenic area around New Hope, Pennsylvania, a small town on the Delaware River. Nuse knew many of the artists in the group, but preferred to keep to himself and his family. At PAFA, Nuse first was a student of Daniel Garber, after 1925 he became his teaching colleague and the two kept in touch infrequently.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Early in his career, Nuse exhibited works in juried national competitions, and had work accepted in the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. However, by the 1930s, as the popularity of Modernism grew, he was having little success and he stopped applying to shows. He became embittered toward the art world that was not interested in representational artists, but remained determined to continue painting in his Impressionist style. During this period, Nuse became known as a portraitist in the Philadelphia area and received a number of commissions to paint physicians and others.

paragraph: In 1954, Nuse chose to retire from PAFA because of philosophical issues, even though his students begged him not to. He continued to teach privately at his home, and many of his students were devoted to him. Nuse continued to teach and paint, including portrait commissions, into his eighties.

paragraph: When Roy Nuse died in 1975, he left a substantial body of his work to his six children. Although he clearly sold many paintings over the years, he never kept records of sales and there is no way to estimate how many of his works are in private collections. For reasons that are not clear he would not have anything to do with art dealers, preferring to sell his work himself.

paragraph: In 2000, the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania acquired one of Nuse’s masterpieces, “Age of Speed” which depicts five children playing with a wheel in front of a barn. This painting was on display during the retrospective exhibit, “Roy C. Nuse – Figures and Landscapes” at the Michener Museum in 2002.

paragraph: Another painting, “Artist’s Wife with Three Children” is in the permanent collection of the Woodmere Art Museum. Other paintings by Nuse are in the permanent collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Swarthmore College, Moravian College and Thomas Jefferson University.

paragraph: After years of critical and commercial neglect, interest in Pennsylvania Impressionism and the New Hope School began to develop in the 1980s and has continued to gain momentum. The 2002 Michener Museum exhibition and some successful results from sales of Nuse’s work at Freeman’s auction house in Philadelphia have helped to establish his place in art history as a Pennsylvania Impressionist.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- AskArt.com - more paintings, exhibition and biographical information on Roy C. Nuse.

paragraph: BULLET::::- https://www.royclevelandnuse.com/ - official website of Roy Cleveland Nuse

description: American artist

wikidata_label: Roy Cleveland Nuse

wikipedia_title: Roy Cleveland Nuse


text:
French
film actress
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Hantise
Geneviève
Paris
The Imaginary Voyage
Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman
The Chocolate Girl
Le chauffeur de Mademoiselle
Café Elektric
Tingel Tangel
Dolly
Orient
Misled Youth
My Daughter's Tutor
The Wonderful Day
The White Roses of Ravensberg
A Hole in the Wall
Shadows of Paris
Un train dans la nuit
Southern Bar
Dolly Davis

categories: 1896 births,20th-century French actresses,1962 deaths,Actresses from Paris,French silent film actresses,French film actresses

paragraph: Dolly Davis

paragraph: Dolly Davis (30 October 1896 – 3 November 1962) was a French film actress.

paragraph: Born Julienne Alexandrine David in Paris, Davis died in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

paragraph: Section::::Selected filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hantise" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Geneviève" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Paris" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Imaginary Voyage" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Chocolate Girl" (1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le chauffeur de Mademoiselle" (1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Café Elektric" (1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tingel Tangel" (1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dolly" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Orient" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Misled Youth" (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "My Daughter's Tutor" (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Wonderful Day" (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The White Roses of Ravensberg" (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Hole in the Wall" (1930)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Shadows of Paris" (1932)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Un train dans la nuit" (1934)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Southern Bar" (1938)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Powrie, Phil & Rebillard, Éric. "Pierre Batcheff and stardom in 1920s French cinema". Edinburgh University Press, 2009

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dolly Davis at Virtual History

description: French actress

wikidata_label: Dolly Davis

wikipedia_title: Dolly Davis


text: American football

text: nose tackle

text: Detroit Lions

text: National Football League

text: college football

text: William Penn University

text: New York Jets

text: undrafted free agent

text: New York Giants

text: Pro Football Focus

text: run-stop

text: New Iberia, Louisiana

text: Lake Charles Boston High School

text: basketball

text: meniscus

text: Northwest Mississippi Community College

text: Walmart

text: Lake Charles

text: William Penn University

text: Oskaloosa, Iowa

text: NAIA

text: Iowa State's

text: Andy Stokes

text: Warren Loving

text: 2012 NFL Draft

text: New York Jets

text: Sione Pouha

text: Kenrick Ellis

text: New England Patriots

text: Tom Brady

text: New York Giants

text: NFL Top 100 Players of 2017

text: Detroit Lions

text: San Francisco 49ers

text: Laken Tomlinson

text: New York Giants bio

text: New York Jets bio

text: William Penn bio

categories: People from New Iberia, Louisiana,Detroit Lions players,1988 births,People from Washington Township, Bergen County, New Jersey,American football defensive tackles,Players of American football from Louisiana,New York Jets players,New York Giants players,Sportspeople from Lake Charles, Louisiana,Living people

paragraph: Damon Harrison

paragraph: Damon Paul Harrison (born November 29, 1988) is an American football nose tackle for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). Harrison played college football at William Penn University and was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2012. He has also been a member of the New York Giants. According to "Pro Football Focus", he led the league in run-stop percentage between 2013 and 2016.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Harrison was born in New Iberia, Louisiana on November 29, 1988. He attended Lake Charles Boston High School, where he primarily played shooting guard on the school's basketball varsity team. On November 29, 2005, during his junior season, he injured the meniscus in his left knee, and gained "like 40 or 50 pounds" over the next two months. He decided to take on football for his senior year, playing both offensive and defensive line, and was an all-district and all-Southwest Louisiana selection in 2006. He was also named as the team captain and was selected as Lake Charles Boston's Offensive MVP and Defensive MVP along with being selected as the Lake Charles Boston's Offensive Lineman of the Year.

paragraph: Since much of recruiting takes place during a high school player's junior season, Harrison was overlooked by college scouts and wound up without any scholarship offer after his graduation. He enrolled at Northwest Mississippi Community College, but dropped out after the first semester to work as a night stocker at Walmart in Lake Charles. However, he was later recruited to William Penn University, in Oskaloosa, Iowa, by former NMCC assistant coach Steve Miller.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: In his freshman year at William Penn, Harrison finished fifth on the team in tackles. As a sophomore and junior, he was voted second-team all-conference. During his senior season, he was recognized as NAIA All-American and first-team all-conference after posting 3.5 sacks and 8.5 tackles for losses among his team-high 60 tackles. Throughout his college career, he started all 44 games he played at William Penn.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Prior to the draft, Harrison worked out at Iowa State's pro day, and was “considered a late-round prospect in a weak class of nose tackle.” The last player to have been selected from William Penn in the NFL Draft was Andy Stokes in 2005, who was taken by the New England Patriots with the final pick, and their last player to appear in an NFL game was Warren Loving in 1987.

paragraph: After receiving a seventh-round grade by Jeff Bauer, Jets' director of college scouting, Harrison went undrafted in the 2012 NFL Draft. Right after the draft, he was called by twelve NFL teams to join their practice camp squads.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New York Jets.

paragraph: Harrison was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent on April 29, 2012. He appeared in 5 games in 2012 but did not record a single stat that year. Following the departure of Sione Pouha and a preseason injury to Kenrick Ellis, Harrison was named the starting defensive tackle for the 2013 season. On October 20, 2013, Harrison recorded his first career sack when he brought down New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. During the 2013 season, Harrison started all 16 games making 66 tackles, 2 passes defended, and 1 sack. In 2014, Harrison again started all 16 games with 55 tackles. In 2015, Harrison again started all 16 games making 72 tackles, 0.5 sacks, and a forced fumble.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New York Giants.

paragraph: Harrison signed with the New York Giants on March 9, 2016, to a 5-year contract worth $9.25 million per year with $24 million guaranteed and $30 million over the first three years. With the Giants, Harrison was selected to be in the first team All-Pro by the Associated Press on January 6, 2017. He was also ranked 96th on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2017.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Detroit Lions.

paragraph: On October 24, 2018, Harrison was traded to the Detroit Lions for a conditional 2019 fifth-round draft pick. The condition was that the Lions would give either their own 2019 5th round pick or the 5th round pick that was previously acquired from the San Francisco 49ers in a trade for Laken Tomlinson, depending on which is higher. Because he was traded to the Lions before the Giants bye week and after the Lions bye week, Harrison played in 17 games during the 2018 season, the first defensive lineman to accomplish this feat.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Harrison has four children: a son, Damon Jr, and three daughters. He has been a resident of Washington Township, Bergen County, New Jersey.

paragraph: He goes by the nickname "Snacks".

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- New York Giants bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- New York Jets bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Penn bio

alias:
Damon Paul Harrison
Snacks Harrison
Damon Harrison Sr.

description: American football defensive tackle

wikidata_label: Damon Harrison

wikipedia_title: Damon Harrison


text:
Leeds College of Music
blues and rock music
British Blues Awards
Ed Sheeran
Shakira
Kylie Minogue
Corinne Bailey Rae
Livingstone Brown
Official Site

categories: British blues singers,21st-century British singers,1986 births,Alumni of Leeds College of Music,British rock singers,British rock musicians,British blues musicians,Living people,British singer-songwriters

paragraph: Chantel McGregor

paragraph: Chantel Dawn McGregor is a British blues rock guitarist and singer-songwriter.

paragraph: Section::::History.

paragraph: Chantel McGregor attended Leeds College of Music where she achieved a number of awards, including the Leeds College of Music Prize for Outstanding Musicianship. She gained a First Class Honours degree in Popular Music in 2008, and has gone on to develop a career in the UK and international blues and rock music scene, performing solo and with her band.

paragraph: In 2011, she won "Young Artist of the Year" at the British Blues Awards,

paragraph: and in 2012, she won "Best Female Vocalist" at the British Blues Awards. In 2013 she won two categories, "Guitarist Of The Year" and "Best Female Vocalist", at the British Blues Awards. and again won the "Guitarist Of The Year" category in 2014.

paragraph: Her debut album "Like No Other", released in 2011, was produced by Livingstone Brown, who has worked with such artists as Ed Sheeran, Shakira, Kylie Minogue and Corinne Bailey Rae.

paragraph: Her second album "Lose Control", also produced by Livingstone Brown, was released on 9 October 2015.

paragraph: A 3rd album is likely to be released during 2019. One track has been performed live, a long instrumental titled April.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Livingstone Brown

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Site

description: musician

wikidata_label: Chantel McGregor

wikipedia_title: Chantel McGregor


text:
Otto I
Richardis
Otto I
Agnes of Loon
Stavoren
William I
Floris IV
The Hague
Corbie
France
Count of Holland
Otto
Bishop of Utrecht
Rijnsburg
Fifth Crusade
Rijnsburg Abbey

categories: Place of death missing,Year of birth uncertain,House of Wassenberg,Place of birth missing,German countesses,12th-century women of the Holy Roman Empire,Burials at Rijnsburg Abbey,1218 deaths,Countesses of Holland,13th-century women of the Holy Roman Empire

paragraph: Adelaide of Guelders

paragraph: Adelaide of Guelders ( – 1218) was the daughter of Count Otto I of Guelders and his wife, Richardis, the daughter of Duke Otto I of Bavaria and Agnes of Loon. Also known as Adelaide of Bellich or Alice of Guelders.

paragraph: In 1197 in Stavoren, she married Count William I of Holland. They had five children:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Floris IV (24 June 1210 in The Hague–19 July 1234 in Corbie, France), succeeded his father as Count of Holland

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Otto (d. 1249), Regent of Holland in 1238–1239, Bishop of Utrecht

paragraph: BULLET::::3. William (d. 1238), Regent of Holland in 1234–1238.

paragraph: BULLET::::4. Richarda (d. 1262)

paragraph: BULLET::::5. Ada (d. 1258), Abbess at Rijnsburg from 1239 until her death

paragraph: Adelaide died in 1218, while her husband was away on the Fifth Crusade. She was buried in Rijnsburg Abbey.

description: Countess consort of Holland

wikidata_label: Adelaide of Guelders

wikipedia_title: Adelaide of Guelders


text: University of Franeker

text: Petrus Camper

text: holotype

text: Puppigerus

text: Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond

text: J.G.S. van Breda

text: Teylers Museum

text: French Academy of Sciences

text: Antoine Portal

text: Jacques-René Tenon

text: Julien-David Le Roy

text: Jean-Charles de Borda

text: Marquis de Condorcet

text: Benjamin Franklin

text: Royal Institute

text: Google books

categories: Dutch academics,1820 deaths,1759 births,People from Amsterdam,Dutch paleontologists

paragraph: Adriaan Gilles Camper

paragraph: Adriaan Gilles Camper (March 31, 1759 – February 5, 1820) was a 19th-century Dutch mathematics and physics professor at the University of Franeker who took to politics and became a statesman in his later years. He was the son of Petrus Camper is known today primarily for his paleontological work in collaboration with his father, causing several fossil holotypes to be named after him, such as the Puppigerus P. Camperi. The engravings he commissioned on the basis of his father's work were published by Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond. He himself wrote several books on paleontology, including a catalog of his collection of fossils and minerals.

paragraph: His daughter Frederica married one of his pupils in Franeker, the Dutch geologist J.G.S. van Breda (who later became curator of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem). Van Breda wrote a biography of father-in-law, in which he describes him as the home-schooled wunderkind who entered the University of Franeker at age 14 already learned in natural history and modern languages from his close association with his father. Three years later, in 1776, his mother died, and his father was so struck by the loss that he undertook a leave of absence from the university to travel to Paris and the young Adriaan went with him. There due to the fame of his father, they were received with open arms by the various learned societies such as the French Academy of Sciences and consorted with Louis, Antoine Portal, Jacques-René Tenon, Julien-David Le Roy, the Count Jean-Charles de Borda, the Marquis de Condorcet, and Benjamin Franklin ("the American liberator").

paragraph: He became member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands in 1808.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective", edited by Richard Moody, E. Buffetaut, D. Naish, D. M. Martill on Google books

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Histoire naturelle de la montagne de Saint-Pierre de Maestricht", by Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond on Google books

description: Professor and paleontologist

wikidata_label: Adriaan Gilles Camper

wikipedia_title: Adriaan Gilles Camper


text: Moscow

text: archimandrite

text: Simonov Monastery

text: sortition

text: tsar

text: Mikhail Fyodorovich

text: Filaret

text: Valdemar Christian

text: tsarevna

text: Irina Romanova

text: christening

text: Paisius I

text: Patriarch of Jerusalem

text: Church of Elijah the Prophet

text: Zealots of Piety

text: Maundy Thursday

text: relics

text: Dormition Cathedral

categories: 1652 deaths,Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow,17th-century Russian people,17th-century Eastern Orthodox bishops

paragraph: Patriarch Joseph of Moscow

paragraph: Joseph () (died April 15, 1652) was the sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, elected after an unusual one and a half year break.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: The early life of Joseph is unclear. Before the election he was an archimandrite of the Simonov Monastery.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Patriarchate.

paragraph: For the first time the patriarch was elected by sortition from candidates offered by "tsar" Mikhail Fyodorovich in coordination with the Council of Bishops. The election was held on March 20, 1642 in Moscow. Joseph came into office on March 27 and was titled "master" and not "sovereign" (as his predecessor Filaret had been).

paragraph: Joseph conducted a fairly conservative policy. When Danish prince Valdemar Christian arrived to Moscow in 1644 Joseph began persuading him to adopt Orthodoxy because Valdemar was married to "tsarevna" Irina Romanova. When Valdemar refused, Joseph opened the debate on June 2, 1644. The debate was limited mainly to the fulfilment of the christening but Orthodox scholars couldn't competently prove their opinion. In 1650 Joseph opened another debate, on Russian and Greek Orthodoxy with Paisius I, the Patriarch of Jerusalem.

paragraph: He took measures to build school in Moscow, which subscribed to the scientists from Kyiv. In 1649, the Moscow printing spravschiki prepared for printing "in learning for children" polemical Brief Catechism Peter Graves. Textbooks presented before a special Psalms, Breviary, alphabet and primers, enriched "grammar" Smotritsky Meletios (1648).

paragraph: He cared about the improvement of the beauty of churches and church services, and participated at the dedication of the Church of Elijah the Prophet in Yaroslavl in 1650, and brought a gift of a new piece of the robe of the Lord Church.

paragraph: Joseph also introduced the so-called adverbial singing instead of deformed "khomovoye".

paragraph: He ordered to publish printed "Instructions" to the priests, lay people and a number of other messages. Joseph's period as Patriarch marked an intense publishing activity and the recovery of church thought (Moscow circle Zealots of Piety). Religious books published under Joseph, were the last to reflect donikonovskie editorial texts and rituals. Therefore, they are highly valued and subsequently were reprinted.

paragraph: Inn early 1649 the patriarch Joseph called Church Council, whose members condemned the opponents polyphony when both were committed in different places different parts of the temple worship. For example, in one spot read the Six Psalms, in another - kathisma, in the third - the canon or any sung verses. However, the initiator of this case was the Metropolitan of Novgorod, Nikon, who in his last years of the patriarch Joseph, great influence in Moscow and managed the affairs of the church. Meanwhile, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich supported his confessor and approved to send him a conciliar act. Moreover, he denied the patriarch in the demand to punish Stephen Vonifateva for public reproach swear words of the patriarch and members of the "consecrated the cathedral."

paragraph: He died on Maundy Thursday, April 15, 1652, before the arrival in Moscow of the relics of Metropolitan Philip of Moscow. Buried in the Moscow Dormition Cathedral next to the tomb of the first patriarch Job, in the place which he pointed out shortly before his death.

paragraph: After the death of the patriarch Joseph left a large sum of cash, which he gathered, wanting to buy land ownership. Testament patriarch Joseph did not leave, and all his savings, according to the king were mainly distributed to monasteries and churches.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Русская Церковь при патриархе Иосифе, часть 1

paragraph: BULLET::::- Русская Церковь при патриархе Иосифе, часть 2

description: sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (1642—1652)

wikidata_label: Patriarch Joseph

wikipedia_title: Patriarch Joseph of Moscow


text: silent film

text: Richfield, Utah

text: Mack Sennett

text: Sennett Bathing Beauties

text: Allan Dwan

text: Pathé

text: Florida

text: pneumonia

text: New York, New York

text: Juanita Hansen

text: The Lamb

text: The Poor Boob

text: This Hero Stuff

text: Spotlight Sadie

text: The Prince and Betty

text: The Scoffer

text: In the Heart of a Fool

text: Leap Year

text: A Broken Doll

text: The Sin of Martha Queed

text: The Green Temptation

text: The Bond Boy

text: Zaza

text: The Tents of Allah

text: Wife in Name Only

text: Does It Pay?

text: The Truth About Women

text: Trouping with Ellen

text: Greater Than Marriage

text: Love of Women

text: For Another Woman

text: Playthings of Desire

text: Back to Life

text: The Mad Marriage

text: The Fool

text: New York Times

text: Oakland, California

text: findagrave

categories: Actresses from Utah,20th-century American actresses,People from Richfield, Utah,1895 births,Deaths from pneumonia,American film actresses,Latter Day Saints from Utah,Infectious disease deaths in New York (state),American silent film actresses,University of Utah alumni,1925 deaths

paragraph: Mary Thurman

paragraph: Mary Thurman (née Christiansen; April 27, 1895 – December 22, 1925) was an American actress of the silent film era.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Mary Christiansen was born in Richfield, Utah on April 27, 1895, one of seven children raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her parents were Christian Christiansen (1858-1904) and Mary Sophia Nielsen Christiansen (1860-1934), who were both Danish, her father having been born in Denmark.

paragraph: She attended the University of Utah and became a teacher before turning to acting.

paragraph: Thurman married her namesake Victor E. Thurman, son of Utah Supreme Court justice Samuel R. Thurman, in 1915. They divorced in 1919.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Thurman's film career began with roles in the comedies of Mack Sennett, as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties, and featured appearances in "Bombs!" (1916) and "The Fool" (1925). Her greatest success came when she was started working with director Allan Dwan. They collaborated on several critically acclaimed films including "The Sin of Martha Queed" (1921) and "A Broken Doll" (1921). In Dwan's still extant 1923 film "Zaza" Thurman is the actress Gloria Swanson fights with. Off screen they were engaged for several years. She appeared in nearly sixty Hollywood films from 1915 up until her death in 1925, frequently in those made by Pathé Studios.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: In 1924 while working on the movie "Down Upon The Suwanee River" in Florida she came down with a serious case of pneumonia. She suffered from the illness and was hospitalized for nearly a year. Thurman died of pneumonia in New York, New York on December 22, 1925 in Flower Hospital. Her best friend, actress Juanita Hansen, was at her side when she died. She was buried in Richfield City Cemetery in her hometown of Richfield, Utah.

paragraph: Section::::Selected filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Lamb" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Poor Boob" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "This Hero Stuff" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Spotlight Sadie" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Prince and Betty" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Scoffer" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "In the Heart of a Fool" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Leap Year" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Broken Doll" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Sin of Martha Queed" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Green Temptation" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Bond Boy" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Zaza" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Tents of Allah" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Wife in Name Only" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Does It Pay?" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Truth About Women" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Trouping with Ellen" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Greater Than Marriage" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Love of Women" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "For Another Woman" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Playthings of Desire" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Back to Life" (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mad Marriage" (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Fool" (1925)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "New York Times", "Mary Thurman Dead", December 24, 1925, Page 13.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Oakland, California Tribune", "From Film Fun To Film Drama", September 19, 1920, Page 53.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Oakland Tribune", "Cupid Captures Mary Thurman", Tuesday Evening, December 26, 1922, Page 8.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mary Thurman gravesite findagrave..and transcript of 1925 Memorial Service,findagrave

description: actress

wikidata_label: Mary Thurman

wikipedia_title: Mary Thurman


text:
journalist
novelist
parapsychologist
The Evening Post
Wellington
Kemsley Newspapers
detective stories
Society for Psychical Research
Hove, East Sussex

wikipedia_title:
Journalist
Novelist
Parapsychology
The Evening Post (New Zealand)
Wellington
Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley
Detective fiction
Society for Psychical Research
Hove

categories: 1911 births,2001 deaths,New Zealand journalists

paragraph: Andrew Carr MacKenzie

paragraph: Andrew Carr MacKenzie (1911–2001) was a journalist, novelist and parapsychologist from New Zealand.

paragraph: He started a journalistic career and worked between 1928 and 1938 for "The Evening Post" of Wellington. He later moved from New Zealand to England where he became a columnist for Kemsley Newspapers.

paragraph: MacKenzie was a writer of detective stories. He was vice president of the Society for Psychical Research and has been described as a leading researcher in the field of psychical research in the 1970s. He died at his home in Hove, East Sussex in 2001.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: Fiction

paragraph: Police Superintendent series Branigan

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The House at the Estuary" (1948)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Search in the Dark" (1948)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Splash of Red" (1949)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Whisper If You Dare!" (1950)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Man Who Wanted to Die" (1951)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Point of a Gun" (1951)

paragraph: Nicholas Cornish detective series

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Always Fight Back" (1955)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Three Hours to Hang" (1955)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Grave Is Waiting" (1957)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Reaching Hand" (1957)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Shadow of a Spy" (1958)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Man From the Past" (1958)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Missile" (1959)

paragraph: Non-fiction

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Unexplained: Some Strange Cases In Psychical Research" (1966)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Frontiers of The Unknown: The Insights of Psychical Research" (1968)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Apparitions and Ghosts: A Modern Study" (1971)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Gallery of Ghosts: An Anthology of Reported Experience" (1973)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Riddle of The Future: A Study of Modern Precognition" (1974)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dracula Country: Travels and Folk Beliefs in Romania" (1977)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Voting in Local Elections In New Zealand" (1978)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hauntings and Apparitions: An Investigation of The Evidence" (1982)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Romanian Journey" (1983)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The History of Transylvania" (1983)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Concise History of Romania" (1985)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Archaeology in Romania" (1986)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Seen and the Unseen" (1987)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Music in Black Age" (1992)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Adventures in Time: Encounters with The Past" (1997)

alias:
Andrew Carr MacKenzie
Andrew McKenzie

description: New Zealand crime writer

wikidata_label: Andrew MacKenzie

wikipedia_title: Andrew Carr MacKenzie


text: James Ensor

text: Jean Delvin

text: Gravensteen

text: George Minne

text: Valerius de Saedeleer

text: Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

text: Gravensteen

text: Pieter Brueghel the Elder

text: James Ensor

text: Frans Masereel

text: Franz Hellens

text: World War I

text: Emile Claus

text: Valerius de Saedeleer

text: George Minne

text: Charles De Coster

text: Order of Leopold

text: Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp)

text: Frans Masereel

text: Jan Palfyn

text: chiaroscuro

text: Frank Brangwyn

text: Flemish primitives

text: Walter Sickert

categories: 1870 births,Belgian etchers,People from Ghent,Belgian painters,Belgian graphic designers,1945 deaths

paragraph: Jules De Bruycker

paragraph: Jules De Bruycker (29 March 1870 – 5 September 1945) was a Belgian graphic artist, etcher, painter and draughtsman. He is considered one of the foremost Belgian graphic artists after James Ensor and achieved a high level of technical virtuosity. He is best known for his scenes of his home town Ghent, architectural views of cathedrals, war prints and book illustrations.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Jules De Buycker was born in Ghent. His family operated a small upholstery and wallpapering business. As De Bruycker displayed artistic talent from an early age, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent when he was 10. When his father died four years later, he ceased to attend art classes and joined the family business. He continued to hone his artistic skills without formal training. After an interruption of 9 years, De Bruycker enrolled again at the Ghent Academy. His teachers included the painters Théo Canell, Louis Tijtgadt and Jean Delvin.

paragraph: In his early years as an artist (from 1902) De Bruycker took up lodgings at an abandoned Carmelite abbey in the district across from the Gravensteen called the Patershol. This was at the time an impoverished area and it had attracted artists and bohemians who had moved there from about 1900. Many of the artists who would become part of the School of Latem such as Gustave van de Woestijne, George Minne and Valerius de Saedeleer converged on this area and George Minne even maintained a studio there for some time.

paragraph: Even as a member of this bohemian artist community in Ghent, De Bruycker continued to work in the family business during this period. While he made many watercolours and oil on canvas paintings in his early days, he developed an interest in printmaking after discovering in 1905 the etchings of the Ghent artist Albert Baertsoen in the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent. Albert Baertsoen was known for his prints of city views of Ghent. These showed the city bathed in a dreamy atmosphere and a style which was close to symbolism.

paragraph: De Bruycker also made many drawings of scenes in the less privileged quarters of Ghent. An example is the "Around the Gravensteen in Ghent" in which he depicts the area around the Gravensteen in Ghent in images reminiscent of Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Hieronymous Bosch and his contemporary James Ensor.

paragraph: De Bruycker became an accomplished graphic artist and tutored Frans Masereel in graphic techniques before Masereel left Ghent for Paris and Brittany. In 1905, De Bruycker was selected by the writer Franz Hellens as the illustrator of his first novel entitled "En ville morte".

paragraph: With the outbreak of World War I, De Bruycker fled Belgium for England. Many other Belgian artists moved to England and Wales during the war. They included Emile Claus, Valerius de Saedeleer, Hippolyte Daeye, Albert Delstanche, Émile Fabry, Charles Mertens, George Minne, Isidore Opsomer, Gustave-Max Stevens, Gustave van de Woestijne and Albert Baertsoen. Among this community of Belgians in exile De Bruycker met Raphaëlle De Leyn, also a native of Ghent. The two got married. Prohibited from outdoor sketching due to the fear of spies, De Bruycker only produced a few views of London. Instead he worked on a series of large etchings which had as their theme the horrors of the war in Flanders. His work "Death tolls over Flanders again" was exhibited in Rotterdam in 1917 where it was favourably received. An art critic noted the work evoked the images of Bosch and Bruegel, but also the figure of Ulenspiegel from Charles De Coster's "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak".

paragraph: After returning to Belgium following the end of the war in 1919 De Bruycker soon started to receive official recognition for his artistic achievements. He was made a Knight in the Order of Leopold of Belgium in 1921 and had a successful exhibition of 154 works at the Galerie Giroux in Brussels in 1922. In the same year he had exhibitions at the Chicago Art Institute and other places in the United States (including Detroit and Muskegon). He was offered a teaching post at the Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten (Higher Institute of Fine Arts) in Antwerp, a part of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp). He reluctantly accepted this position. Frans van Immerseel was one of his pupils and studied etching with De Bruycker. De Bruycker was named a correspondent of the Royal Academy of Belgium in 1923 and became a full member in 1925. In 1927 he received the national prize for fine art.

paragraph: After his return to Ghent he took up residence in the Dominican Pand and in 1921 he made a series of drawings and etchings of the residents of his neighborhood. During the years 1922-1924 he made few prints but worked on 16 designs for woodcut illustrations for a new edition of Charles De Coster's Ulenspiegel.

paragraph: In 1925 De Bruycker visited his friend Frans Masereel in Paris. Masereel encouraged him to work on architectural views which resulted in a series of prints of cathedrals in France and Belgium. The St Nicholas Church of Ghent was one of his favourite subjects which he depicted in a series of large prints, all varying in slight detail. Around the same time De Bruycker also started producing figure studies including self portraits, models and nudes. In 1934 he participated in the Venice Biennale. He published a series of views of Ghent in 1932.

paragraph: His health gradually started to dwindle, probably as a result of his exposure to acids during the etching process. He concentrated mainly on drawing. When the Germans occupied Belgium again in 1940, he produced a series of prints under the title 'Gens de chez nous – 1942' (People from here - 1942). He also worked on another album called 'Gens pas de chez nous' (People not from here). This latter series depicted the German occupiers. The six etchings in this series were only published after his death not long after the end of the war. During the war German print lovers had visited De Bruycker and even asked him to produce a drawing for propaganda purposes which he refused categorically.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: Jules De Bruycker practiced in various mediums including oil on canvas, watercolor, drawing and etching. He is now mainly remembered for his incisive drawings and prints. He achieved a high degree of technical virtuosity in his prints, which earned him the distinction of being called in his time 'the greatest Belgian etcher after Ensor'.

paragraph: While in his early work De Bruycker adopted the gloomy, dreamy and nocturnal atmosphere he had seen in the print work of Albert Baertsoen, he did not follow the themes of Baertsoen. Baertsoen was an aristocrat who had a preference for city scenes of Ghent almost free of a human presence. De Bruycker, on the other hand, loved to include crowds of people and dramatic light effects in his graphic work. De Bruycker's early etchings, dating from 1906 until the outbreak of the First World War, depict mainly four primary themes: the artist's haunts in and around the Patershol, the open-air flea markets with their rough, lowlife population, the cheap sections of the theater and some historic sites of old Ghent. He typically populated these scenes with a great number of people. His work provided an intimate view of the daily life of the economically deprived residents of his hometown. Some of his representations of the local population border on the caricatural but are never without empathy.

paragraph: In his large plates from before World War I, such as "House of Jan Palfyn, Ghent" and "Placing the Dragon on the Belfry of Ghent" De Bruycker demonstrated the high level of virtuosity he had achieve as an etcher which allowed him to include rich detail and chiaroscuro effects. These works resemble the etchings of the Anglo-Welsh artist Frank Brangwyn, who assisted De Bruycker during the years of his exile in London. Although he produced some city views of London during the war, he mainly worked on large prints, which decried the violence and death that the war had brought to his country. The visual language of these prints drew from the Flemish traditions of Brueghel and Bosch as well as the story of Ulenspiegel. Flemish artists of De Bruycker’s generation had rediscovered the art of the Flemish primitives through the exhibition 'Les Primitifs Flamands' ('The Flemish Primitives') held in Bruges in 1902. Each artist had reacted to this rediscovery in a personal way. Ensor's influence can also be seen in a few of De Bruycker's war prints. The preliminary studies for these etchings demonstrate De Bruycker’s talents as a draughtsman. During his stay in London, De Bruycker met other artists such as Walter Sickert and got to know the work of James Whistler which influenced his work.

paragraph: In the early 1920s he started to produce many prints of Cathedrals in Belgium and Northern France. His work from the mid 1920s included figure studies, including self-portraits, model drawings and nudes. Many of these works depict the studio environment or fanciful objects such as Buddhist statues, African masks etc. His nudes are particularly sensuous and even provocative and constituted an important new theme in his work.

paragraph: The work of Jules De Bruycker was influential on other artists of his generation. Gustave van de Woestijne was likely citing the incisive portraits by De Bruycker in his early portraits of around 1908.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Website of the stichting Jules De Bruycker

description: Belgian artist, graphic designer and painter (1870-1945)

wikidata_label: Jules De Bruycker

wikipedia_title: Jules De Bruycker


categories: Miyoshi clan,1578 deaths,Samurai,1519 births

paragraph: Iwanari Tomomichi

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "This article is derived from corresponding content on the Japanese Wikipedia"

description: samurai

wikidata_label: Iwanari Tomomichi

wikipedia_title: Iwanari Tomomichi


text:
hurdler
high jump
men's 110 metres hurdles
1928 Summer Olympics
South American record

categories: 1998 deaths,Olympic athletes of Argentina,Argentine male high jumpers,Place of birth missing,Argentine male hurdlers,1906 births,Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics

paragraph: Valerio Vallania

paragraph: Valerio Ángel Vallania (14 July 1906 – 8 October 1998) was an Argentine hurdler and high jumper. He competed in the men's 110 metres hurdles at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He achieved his personal best in high jump at 1.91 metres on 26 March 1932. That was new South American record.

description: Argentinian athletics competitor

wikidata_label: Valerio Vallanía

wikipedia_title: Valerio Vallania


text: Lord Chancellor of England

text: William II

text: Henry I

text: Bishop of Winchester

text: Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville

text: Gerard Flaitel

text: bishop of Winchester

text: Anselm of Canterbury

text: investitures dispute

text: Gerard

text: Archbishop of York

text: Cistercians

text: L'Aumône Abbey

text: Waverley Abbey

text: Winchester Cathedral

text: Taunton

text: Austin

text: Merton Priory

text: cathedral chapter

categories: 1129 deaths,Anglo-Normans,12th-century Roman Catholic bishops,Year of birth missing,Bishops of Winchester,Lord Chancellors of England,11th-century Roman Catholic bishops

paragraph: William Giffard

paragraph: William Giffard (d. 23 January 1129, was the Lord Chancellor of England of William II and Henry I, from 1093 to 1101, and Bishop of Winchester (1100–1129).

paragraph: Giffard was the son of Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville and Ermengarde, daughter of Gerard Flaitel. He also held the office of Dean of Rouen prior to his election as bishop. On 3 August 1100 he became bishop of Winchester by nomination of Henry I. Henry nominated him probably in an attempt to win the support of the clergy in Henry's bid to claim the throne directly after the death of William Rufus. He was one of the bishops elect whom Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury refused to consecrate in 1101 as having been nominated and invested by the lay power.

paragraph: During the investitures dispute Giffard was on friendly terms with Anselm, and drew upon himself a sentence of banishment through declining to accept consecration from Gerard Archbishop of York in 1103. He was, however, one of the bishops who pressed Anselm, in 1106, to give way to the king. He was finally consecrated after the settlement of 1107 on 11 August and became a close friend of Archbishop Anselm. As bishop, William aided the first Cistercians to settle in England, when in 1128 he brought monks from L'Aumône Abbey in France to settle at Waverley Abbey. He also restored Winchester Cathedral with great magnificence.

paragraph: Among Giffard's actions as bishop was the refounding of a religious house at Taunton and the staffing of it with Austin canons. The canons were drawn from Merton Priory. He was known for the close and good relations that he had with the monks of his cathedral chapter, sharing their meals and sleeping with them instead of in his own room.

paragraph: Giffard died shortly before 25 January 1129, the date he was buried.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- British History Online Bishops of Winchester accessed on 2 November 2007

wikidata_label: William Giffard

wikipedia_title: William Giffard


text: Genesis

text: Tony Banks

text: twelve-string guitar

text: Anthony Phillips

text: Steve Hackett

text: ...And Then There Were Three...

text: Follow You Follow Me

text: Turn It On Again

text: Land of Confusion

text: Throwing It All Away

text: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

text: Mike and the Mechanics

text: Ivor Novello Award

text: The Living Years

text: Chertsey

text: Royal Navy

text: Captain

text: Chester

text: Hoylake

text: Charterhouse

text: Godalming

text: Anon

text: Anthony Phillips

text: Genesis

text: Tony Banks

text: Peter Gabriel

text: Chris Stewart

text: Anthony Phillips

text: Steve Hackett

text: Tony Banks

text: Follow You Follow Me

text: Turn It On Again

text: Invisible Touch

text: The Living Years

text: ...And Then There Were Three...

text: bass pedals

text: twelve-string guitar

text: Moog Taurus

text: Supper's Ready

text: Firth of Fifth

text: The Cinema Show

text: Daryl Stuermer

text: Smallcreep's Day

text: Acting Very Strange

text: Mike + The Mechanics

text: All I Need Is a Miracle

text: Word of Mouth

text: The Living Years

text: Silent Running

text: Over My Shoulder

text: Invisible Touch

text: B. A. Robertson

text: Peter Gabriel

text: Phil Collins

text: Against All Odds

text: Brian May

text: David Gilmour

text: Joe Walsh

text: closing ceremony

text: 2012 Summer Olympics

text: Ed Sheeran

text: Nick Mason

text: Wish You Were Here

text: Rickenbacker

text: Shergold

text: Steinberger

text: Roger Giffin

text: Dewtron

text: Moog Taurus

text: Peter Gabriel

text: Gibson

text: Yamaha

text: Eric Clapton

text: Fender

text: Stratocasters

text: Bisley, Surrey

text: Thomas Dunne Books

categories: English rock guitarists,Male bass guitarists,English songwriters,Living people,1950 births,Mike + The Mechanics members,English rock bass guitarists,Lead guitarists,Genesis (band) members,People from Surrey,Progressive rock guitarists,People educated at Charterhouse School

paragraph: Mike Rutherford

paragraph: Michael John Cloete Crawford Rutherford (born 2 October 1950) is an English guitarist, songwriter, and singer who co-founded the rock band Genesis in 1967. He is one of the group's two continuous members along with keyboardist Tony Banks.

paragraph: Initially serving as Genesis's bass guitarist and backing vocalist, Rutherford also performed most of the band's rhythm guitar parts—frequently on twelve-string guitar—in collaboration with successive Genesis lead guitarists Anthony Phillips and Steve Hackett. Following Hackett's departure from Genesis in 1977, Rutherford assumed the additional role of lead guitarist on the band's studio albums (beginning with "...And Then There Were Three..." in 1978). Rutherford was one of the main Genesis songwriters throughout their career and wrote the lyrics for some of the band's biggest international hits, such as "Follow You Follow Me", "Turn It On Again", "Land of Confusion" and "Throwing It All Away". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010.

paragraph: In addition to his work with Genesis, Rutherford released two solo albums in the early 1980s. In 1985, he formed the highly-successful band Mike and the Mechanics, which became a chart-topping act and significant live draw in its own right, and earned Rutherford an Ivor Novello Award for the 1988 single "The Living Years".

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Michael John Cloete Crawford Rutherford was born on 2 October 1950 in Chertsey, Surrey. His father, William Rutherford, was a Royal Navy Captain who became a manager in industry upon his retirement from the service and married his mother Anne. He has an elder sister, Nicolette.

paragraph: Rutherford received his first guitar at the age of 8, and played in his first band, The Chesters, named because by then they lived near Chester, in the following year. He attended The Leas, a preparatory school in Hoylake, Merseyside before he moved to Charterhouse, a private school in Godalming, Surrey in September 1964. He co-formed the school band Anon with guitarist Anthony Phillips in 1965, after which they split and formed Genesis in 1967 with fellow Charterhouse pupils, keyboardist Tony Banks, vocalist Peter Gabriel, and Chris Stewart. Rutherford disliked his time at Charterhouse, and was expelled for instances of minor misconduct.

paragraph: Section::::Playing style.

paragraph: Rutherford's playing style has been shaped by his unorthodox performance requirements within Genesis, which from a fairly early date required frequent shifts between instruments (or shifts of role between instruments). Though his work with bass and guitar has been praised by some critics, he has described his playing as average and said that he considers himself a songwriter first and foremost.

paragraph: Rutherford's bass guitar playing initially involved the use of a pick and a high-treble setting. He would also sometimes employ a relatively harsh, horn-like distortion setting to differentiate the instrument's tone from the rest of the ensemble. In the mid-1970s he would begin to play fretless bass guitar on Genesis songs (in particular on ballads) and would experiment with 8-string bass guitar.

paragraph: Rutherford's rhythm guitar playing was initially characterised by his use of electric and acoustic 12-string guitars. A distinctive sound of early Genesis recordings was Rutherford's double acoustic 12-string playing intertwined with that of Anthony Phillips or, later, Steve Hackett (keyboard player Tony Banks would occasionally also play 12-string guitar parts to make up a duo or trio). As a rhythm guitar player and writer, Rutherford has favoured melodic, minimalist chords or progressions of single notes, as in Genesis songs "Follow You Follow Me", "Turn It On Again" and "Invisible Touch", or the Mike and the Mechanics song "The Living Years".

paragraph: Rutherford assumed lead guitar duties for Genesis in 1977. Previously he had made occasional lead guitar contributions to Genesis music if they were best played by him (such as the electric sitar parts on "Selling England by the Pound"), but following the departure of Hackett and the band's decision not to replace him with a new guitarist, despite toying with auditioning new guitarists or using a studio guitarist on "...And Then There Were Three...", Rutherford assumed all guitarist roles in the recording studio, having felt confident enough to double up on lead guitar as well as bass. As a lead player he has favoured long, melodic tones, bending the notes into plaintive, almost vocal lines. This results in "singable" solos or the creation of sonic atmospheres rather than showy displays of technical prowess. Post-Hackett, he has also diversified his rhythm guitar approach beyond his initial twelve-string-based approach.

paragraph: From an early date, Rutherford also played bass pedals both live and in the studio, often playing simultaneous twelve-string guitar and bass pedal parts in order to cover rhythm and bass parts at the same time. Initially using a Dewtron "Mister Bassman" bass pedal synthesiser, he had moved onto Moog Taurus bass pedals by the 1976 "Trick of the Tail" Tour. Frequently Rutherford's bass guitar, 12-string guitar, and bass pedal playing have featured in different sections of a single Genesis song, "Supper's Ready", "Firth of Fifth" and "The Cinema Show" being good examples of this. Sometimes Rutherford's bass pedals are used to set up a steady drone as the basis for an individual song (such as "Afterglow").

paragraph: In concerts during the first half of the 1970s, Rutherford often played a double-necked instrument, custom built from a separate Rickenbacker hollowbody 12-string and 4001 bass. Rickenbacker later issued double neck bass/guitar combinations with 4080/6 and 4080/12 models. However, Rutherford assigned the guitar neck to the top position rather than the 4080's stock guitar on bottom. He later had a custom Shergold double-neck made, with the body modified so that each neck could be detached and played as a standard single-neck instrument, or swapped out in favour of alternate halves (allowing the 12-string half to be switched to a 6-string when needed). On post-1977 Genesis live shows, Rutherford would alternate parts with touring band member Daryl Stuermer. Stuermer would typically play all of Hackett's original guitar parts (while Rutherford concentrated on bass, twelve-string guitar and pedals), but play bass guitar on most songs from the post-Hackett era (for which Rutherford would move to guitar).

paragraph: Rutherford also contributed other instrumental work to Genesis, performing occasional cello parts on their early 1970s records and playing the drumkit on live performances of the song "Who Dunnit?" in 1981.

paragraph: Section::::Solo work and Mike and the Mechanics.

paragraph: During breaks in Genesis, Rutherford recorded two solo albums, "Smallcreep's Day" and "Acting Very Strange". However, he was dissatisfied with his solo work and in 1984 he resolved to never record a solo album again, since he felt his creativity was at its peak when working in collaboration. Because of this, he formed the band Mike + The Mechanics during a break from Genesis in 1985.

paragraph: Mike + The Mechanics' biggest hits are "All I Need Is a Miracle", "Word of Mouth", "The Living Years", "Silent Running" and "Over My Shoulder". To help promote "The Living Years", Rutherford and the record label perpetuated the impression that the song was inspired by Rutherford's relationship with his father, who died during Genesis's "Invisible Touch" Tour. In a 2004 interview, Rutherford confessed that the lyrics were in fact written by B. A. Robertson, and based entirely on Robertson's relationship with his father.

paragraph: Rutherford also collaborated with other artists, including associates Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins, on the "Against All Odds" soundtrack, offering the song "Making A Big Mistake".

paragraph: Rutherford played at the Strat Pack Concert in 2004 along with Brian May, David Gilmour, Joe Walsh and many other guitarists, in a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster electric guitar. Rutherford performed in the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics on 12 August 2012 as a guest member of Ed Sheeran's band along with Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, playing the Pink Floyd song "Wish You Were Here".

paragraph: Section::::Instruments.

paragraph: Rutherford played mainly Rickenbacker and Shergold basses. He developed the idea behind the M-Series Steinberger guitar with the help of English luthier Roger Giffin and he used this extensively in the 1980s and during The Invisible Touch Tour with Genesis. He had a double-neck Status built for the Mama and Invisible Touch tours which featured a six string guitar and four string bass placed in a custom body. In the earlier years of Genesis he played a Dewtron Mister Bassman and, starting in 1976, Moog Taurus bass pedal synthesisers.

paragraph: Through the early 1970s live tours, Rutherford often used a custom built Rickenbacker double-neck that combined a 12-string semi-hollow-body guitar with a 4-string bass (now on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum). For The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and the first part of the Trick of the Tail tours, he incorporated a Rickenbacker 12-string solid-body guitar and a 6-string Micro-Frets Signature Baritone, equipped with 6-string short scale bass strings. Later he switched to another 12-string solid body/6-string bass combination built from scratch. All these double-neck guitars were made by luthier Dick Knight. A custom Shergold double-neck was made that had modules for 4, 6 and 12 strings guitars. The retunings required for early Genesis songs led to the development of Peter Gabriel's stories and introductions.

paragraph: For the 2007 tour with Genesis, Rutherford continued to use double-neck instruments when the arrangements demand quick switches between bass and twelve-string guitars. His current double-neck model is a Gibson twelve-string guitar with a Yamaha TRB-4P bass while he prefers Eric Clapton signature model Fender Stratocasters when playing guitar on later pieces.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Rutherford currently lives in Bisley, Surrey, England, with wife Angie. The couple were married on 13 November 1976 and have three children: Kate (b. 1977), Tom (b. 1980), and Harry (b. 1986). The family enjoys equestrian sport such as polo and dressage, in addition to raising horses.

paragraph: In 2009, Philip Beresford, compiler of the "Sunday Times Rich List", estimated Rutherford's fortune at £30 million from past touring activity, future touring income, and the Genesis back catalogue, plus other smaller company assets and accumulated earnings, making him one of the 50 wealthiest residents of Surrey.

paragraph: Section::::Memoir.

paragraph: In 2014, Rutherford published "The Living Years: The First Genesis Memoir" with Thomas Dunne Books. The first book about Rutherford's solo career, called "Silent Runner" by journalist Mario Giammetti, was published in Italy (Edizioni Segno) in 2011.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Biography

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Article about Mike Rutherford's Shergold double neck guitar

paragraph: BULLET::::- World of Genesis.com Mike Rutherford Biography

paragraph: BULLET::::- World of Genesis.com 2004 Mike Rutherford Interview: Genesis of a Mechanic

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mike Rutherford joins the Band du Lac – charity concert 11 June 2005

description: British musician

wikidata_label: Mike Rutherford

wikipedia_title: Mike Rutherford


text: Reform movement

text: rabbi

text: Luxembourg

text: Samuel Hirsch

text: David Einhorn

text: University of Pennsylvania

text: Berlin

text: Har Sinai Congregation

text: Baltimore

text: Louisville, Kentucky

text: Chicago Sinai Congregation

text: University of Chicago

text: Chicago Public Library

text: Republican Party

text: Reform Judaism

text: Jewish Encyclopedia

text: The American Jewess

text: Jesus

text: Paul

text: Greater Grand Crossing

text: Julius Rosenwald

text: Sears, Roebuck & Co.

text: Rosenwald Fund

text: Edward Hirsch Levi

text: Reform Judaism

text: Luxembourgian Jew

text: Luxembourg-American

text: "Chicago Portraits"

text: JewishEncyclopedia

text: Chicago Sinai Congregation

categories: American people of Luxembourgian-Jewish descent,Luxembourgian emigrants to the United States,People from Chicago,Contributors to the Jewish Encyclopedia,Jews and Judaism in Chicago,American Reform rabbis,Luxembourgian Jews,19th-century rabbis,1851 births,1923 deaths,20th-century rabbis

paragraph: Emil G. Hirsch

paragraph: Emil Gustav Hirsch (May 22, 1851 – January 7, 1923) was a major Reform movement rabbi in the United States.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Emil Gustav Hirsch was born in Luxembourg, a son of the rabbi and philosopher Samuel Hirsch on May 22, 1851. He later married the daughter of Rabbi David Einhorn. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1872 went to Berlin for post-graduate work. He was rabbi at Har Sinai Congregation in Baltimore (1877–78), and in Louisville, Kentucky (1878–80). But he did his greatest work in Chicago.

paragraph: For forty-two years (1880–1923), Hirsch served as the rabbi of Chicago Sinai Congregation, one of the oldest synagogues in the Midwest. At this post, he became well known for an emphasis on social justice. From Chicago Sinai's pulpit, he delivered rousing sermons on the social ills of the day and many Chicagoans, Jew and gentile alike, were in attendance.

paragraph: Appointed professor of rabbinical literature and philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1892, Hirsch also served on the Chicago Public Library board from 1885 to 1897. He took some part in politics as a member of the Republican Party.

paragraph: He was an influential exponent of advanced thought and Reform Judaism. He edited "Der Zeitgeist" (Milwaukee, 1880–82) and the "Reform Advocate" (1891–1923). He also edited the Department of the Bible of the "Jewish Encyclopedia" and contributed feminist articles to "The American Jewess". He also wrote studies of the historical relationship of Judaism and Christianity, including appreciations of its founding figures Jesus and Paul.

paragraph: Hirsch is the namesake of the Emil G. Hirsch Metropolitan High School of Communications, located in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood in Chicago. In keeping with his interest in education, Hirsch advised a wealthy congregant, Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co., to use part of his wealth to help build public schools for black students in the segregated South; their facilities were consistently underfunded. The rural school building program, based on the use of matching funds from local communities, was one of the largest programs, but not the only, administered by the Rosenwald Fund.

paragraph: He was the grandfather of U.S. Attorney General Edward Hirsch Levi.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Reform Judaism

paragraph: BULLET::::- Luxembourgian Jew

paragraph: BULLET::::- Luxembourg-American

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chicago Portraits"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- JewishEncyclopedia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chicago Sinai Congregation

description: American rabbi

wikidata_label: Emil G. Hirsch

wikipedia_title: Emil G. Hirsch


text: Georgian

text: Joseph Haydn

text: Bluestocking

text: John Hunter

text: Hunterian Museum

text: Greenlaw Castle

text: John Hunter

text: Everard Home

text: social literary parties

text: Bluestockings

text: Elizabeth Carter

text: Mary Delany

text: Joanna Baillie

text: Maxwell Garthshore

text: Sir James Campbell of Inverneill

text: William

text: Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery

text: The Lark

text: Lord-chief-baron Macdonald

text: British Critic

text: Pleyel

text: John Milton

text: Paradise Lost

text: Anne Hunter

text: Anne Hunter: Poet, Songwriter, Wife

categories: 1821 deaths,Scottish women poets,18th-century Scottish poets,19th-century Scottish poets,1742 births,19th-century British women writers,19th-century British writers,People from Berwickshire

paragraph: Anne Hunter

paragraph: Anne Hunter (née Home) (1742–1821) was a and poet in Georgian London. She is mostly remembered now for writing the texts to at least nine of Joseph Haydn's 14 songs in English. She entertained the leading Bluestockings at their house.

paragraph: She was the wife of surgeon John Hunter and his anatomical collections in their marital home eventually formed the basis for the Hunterian Museum.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Hunter was the eldest daughter of surgeon Robert Boyne Home of Greenlaw Castle, Berwickshire..

paragraph: In July 1771 she married John Hunter, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. Her brother Everard Home

paragraph: apprenticed to her husband as surgeon.

paragraph: Her social literary parties were among the most enjoyable of her time, though not always to her husband's taste. The Bluestockings Elizabeth Carter and Mary Delany were her attached friends. Her husband's sister was widowed in 1778, which led indirectly to Dorothea and her children moving to London a few years later. Anne Hunter proved an inspiration to the young Joanna Baillie, who devoted herself seriously to writing poetry and drama.

paragraph: On John Hunter's death in 1793, his widow was left ill provided for. For some time she was indebted for a maintenance partly to the queen's bounty and to the generosity of Dr. Maxwell Garthshore, and partly to the sale of her husband's furniture, library, and curiosities. Her son-in-law, Sir James Campbell of Inverneill, provided her with a small annuity, and in 1799 Parliament voted to give her ₤15,000 for her husband's collections, which finally placed her in fair circumstances. (This became The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons in London; when his anatomist brother to William died in 1783, he bequeathed his collection to Glasgow, where it became the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery.)

paragraph: Anne Hunter had four children, of whom two, a son and a daughter, survived her. She lived in retirement in London till her death on 7 January 1821.

paragraph: Section::::Poetry and songs.

paragraph: As a young woman she had gained some note as a lyrical poet, her "Flower of the Forest" appearing in "The Lark," an Edinburgh periodical, in 1765. Thirty-two years later she wrote "Sports of the Genii" to a set of graceful drawings by Susan Macdonald (d. 1803), eldest daughter of Lord-chief-baron Macdonald; these display humour and fancy. She published a volume of poems in 1802 which ran to a second edition the following year. The conservative magazine "British Critic" suggests that her poems show no depth of thought, but have a natural feeling and simplicity of expression, which make many of them worth reading.

paragraph: Haydn set a number of her songs to music, including "My Mother bids me bind my Hair," originally written to an air of Pleyel's. Her relationship with Haydn is ambiguous, though at the time of his visit she was a widow. Songs by Haydn on her texts include The Mermaid's Song, Fidelity, Pleasing Pain, and The Spirit's Song and a libretto for "The Creation", which was based on John Milton's "Paradise Lost".

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Anne Hunter at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Anne Hunter: Poet, Songwriter, Wife

paragraph: BULLET::::- Poems. Hunter, Anne Home (Mrs. John), 1742-1821

description: British poet

wikidata_label: Anne Hunter

wikipedia_title: Anne Hunter


text: Valbona, Aragon

text: Madrid

text: Spanish

text: Francisco Franco

text: Spanish National Research Council

text: Popular Action

text: Spanish Civil War

text: Fernán González of Castile

text: Latin America

text: Minister of Education

text: Pedro Sainz Rodríguez

text: Roman Catholic Church

text: Josemaría Escrivá

text: Opus Dei

text: José María Albareda

text: Chile

text: Madrid

text: Second World War

text: Axis powers

text: Nazi

text: Portugal

categories: 1896 births,Spanish Ministers of Education,1969 deaths,Spanish Roman Catholics,Spanish monarchists

paragraph: José Ibáñez Martín

paragraph: José Ibáñez Martín (18 December 1896 in Valbona, Aragon – 21 December 1969 in Madrid) was a Spanish politician who was a long-serving member of the Cabinet of Francisco Franco. From 1939 to 1967 he also served as President of the Spanish National Research Council.

paragraph: A supporter of Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella in his youth, Ibáñez Martín served as a deputy for the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (CEDA). He was a leading member of the "Asociación Católica Nacional de Propagandistas" (ANCP), the propaganda movement that formed the basis for the Catholic monarchist party Popular Action. Thrwoing his lot in with the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War, he became staunchly loyal to Francisco Franco, to the point where critics accused him of sycophancy, and he even compared Franco to Fernán González of Castile due to "El Caudillo" founding a "new Spain". However Ibáñez Martín spent most of the civil war out of the country as Franco had despatched him to Latin America with a mission to promote the Nationalist cause amongst the Spanish-speaking people there.

paragraph: Appointed as Minister of Education in succession to Pedro Sainz Rodríguez in 1939, a post he held until 1951, Ibáñez Martín oversaw the dismantling of the republican education system and its replacement with one based largely on the values and ideas of the Roman Catholic Church. Highly reactionary in his Catholicism, Ibáñez Martín was impressed by Josemaría Escrivá and as Minister of Education in the early 1940s he ensured that members of Opus Dei would no longer be hindered in the efforts to obtain teaching posts at universities, a move that helped the organisation grow considerably in power. Although not a member of Opus Dei Ibáñez Martín felt a bond to the movement due to his close friendship with José María Albareda, the two having met during the civil war whilst sheltering in the Chilean embassy in Madrid.

paragraph: He enjoyed a growth in influence in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War as Franco sought to trim his cabinet of anybody who had declared support for the Axis powers. As a result, Ibáñez Martín was given control over the press as well as retaining his role as Education Minister. His decision to rejoin to the ANCP in 1944, at the time somewhat controversial, had thus in fact helped his prospects as there had been little common ground between the monarchists and the pro-Nazi wings of Franco's movement.

paragraph: Ibáñez Martín was the Spanish ambassador to Portugal from 1958 to 1969.

description: Spanish politician

wikidata_label: José Ibáñez Martín

wikipedia_title: José Ibáñez Martín


text:
Greek
naturalist
Trieste
Austrian
Greek
Hellenic Navy
Hellenic Naval Academy
Hellenic Coast Guard
Dimitris Horn

categories: Hellenic Coast Guard admirals,People from Trieste,Greek dramatists and playwrights,1881 births,20th-century dramatists and playwrights,Greek people of Austrian descent,Theatre in Greece,1941 deaths

image: 512px-ΠΑΝΤΕΛΗΣ_ΧΟΡΝ.JPG

paragraph: Pantelis Horn

paragraph: Pantelis Horn (; 1 January 1881–1 November 1941) was a Greek naval officer and playwright, one of the few Greek writers of the early 20th century who devoted themselves solely to theatre. He produced works in the naturalist style.

paragraph: Horn was born in Trieste to immigrants, an Austrian father and a Greek mother. Horn also served as an officer in the Hellenic Navy, graduating in 1899 from the Hellenic Naval Academy. As a commander, he was one of the first Navy officers to be transferred to the newly constituted Hellenic Coast Guard, where he remained for the rest of his career, retiring on 28 October 1926 with the rank of Rear Admiral.

paragraph: His son Dimitris Horn would go on to become a well-known actor.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Horn wrote more than thirty plays during his career, including:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Outsider" (1906)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Petroharides" ("The Stonecutters"; 1908), Horn's performance debut

paragraph: BULLET::::- "To Fintanaki" ("The Sapling" or "The Young Plant"; 1921), a "considerable hit"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Flantro" (1935), about an aristocratic widow

description: Greek playwright and admiral

wikidata_label: Pantelis Horn

wikipedia_title: Pantelis Horn


text:
Prime Minister
Morocco
Tangier
socialist
working class
Casablanca
France
National Union of Popular Forces
Paris
Socialist Union of Popular Forces
King Hassan II
Casablanca
North-South Prize

categories: People from Tangier,Prime Ministers of Morocco,National Union of Popular Forces politicians,Socialist Union of Popular Forces politicians,Moroccan exiles,1924 births,Living people

paragraph: Abderrahmane Youssoufi

paragraph: Abderrahmane Youssoufi ( ; ; born 8 March 1924) is a Moroccan politician who served as the Prime Minister of Morocco from 1998 to 2002. He was a human rights lawyer.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and education.

paragraph: Born in Tangier, Youssoufi was a socialist from a young age, dedicating himself to organizing the working class of Casablanca as early as 1944. In 1949 Youssoufi began also to fight for the rights of emigrant Moroccan workers in France. He also studied law, practicing in Tangier from 1952 to 1960.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: In 1959 Youssoufi joined the National Union of Popular Forces, a left-wing political party. He was arrested for his involvement in 1959 and again in 1963, the latter arrest leading to a prison sentence of two years. Following his release, Youssoufi went into self-imposed exile in Paris for a period of fifteen years. Later he returned to Morocco. Meanwhile, the National Union of Popular Forces became the Socialist Union of Popular Forces. In 1980 Youssoufi returned to join the new party, becoming the party secretary in 1992 after the death of Bouabid.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.:Prime Minister.

paragraph: On 4 February 1998 King Hassan II named Youssoufi the Prime Minister of Morocco, a post he held until October 2002. He formed a left-center government. His government provided greater freedoms for the people and media. In 2003, Youssoufi announced his retirement from politics. He began to live in Casablanca after his retirement. On 15 October 2016, Youssoufi was hospitalized for pneumonia and King Mohammed VI visited him in hospital.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: In 1999 he was one of the two winners of the North-South Prize.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "This article is based in part on the in the French Wikipedia, accessed 1 October 2005."

description: Prime Minister of Morocco

wikidata_label: Abderrahmane Youssoufi

wikipedia_title: Abderrahmane Youssoufi


text: Futurism

text: Turin

text: Piedmont

text: Italy

text: lithograph

text: University of Turin

text: Venice Biennale

text: Salon d'Automne

text: Divisionist

text: Umberto Boccioni

text: Gino Severini

text: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

text: Futurism

text: Futurist Manifesto

text: Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

text: Abstract Speed + Sound

text: World War I

text: documenta 1

text: The Street Light

text: Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

text: chronophotography

text: Étienne-Jules Marey

text: The Hand of the Violinist

text: Eadweard Muybridge

text: Iridescent Interpenetration

text: Abstract Speed + Sound

text: triptych

text: Mercury Passing Before the Sun

text: documenta

text: modern art

text: contemporary art

text: Kassel

text: Giovanni Lista

text: Guide to Balla's paintings

categories: 20th-century Italian composers,1871 births,Italian male painters,Futurist sculptors,Italian fascists,People from Turin,Italian Futurism,Italian male composers,20th-century Italian painters,Modern painters,Abstract painters,19th-century Italian painters,Italian Futurist painters,Futurist composers,20th-century male musicians,1958 deaths,19th-century Italian composers

paragraph: Giacomo Balla

paragraph: Giacomo Balla (18 July 1871 – 1 March 1958) was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his paintings he depicted light, movement and speed.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Giacomo Balla was born in Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy. He was the son of a photographer and as a child studied music.

paragraph: At age nine, after the death of his father, he gave up music and began working in a lithograph print shop. By age 20, his interest in visual art had developed to such a level that he decided to study painting at local academies, and several of his early works were shown at exhibitions. Following academic studies at the University of Turin, Balla moved to Rome in 1895, where he met and later married Elisa Marcucci. For several years he worked in Rome as an illustrator, caricaturist and portrait painter. In 1899, his work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale, and in the ensuing years his art was shown at major exhibitions in Rome and Venice, as well as in Munich, Berlin and Düsseldorf, at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, and at galleries in Rotterdam.

paragraph: Around 1902, he taught Divisionist techniques to Umberto Boccioni and Gino Severini. Influenced by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Giacomo Balla adopted the Futurism style, creating a pictorial depiction of light, movement and speed. He was a signatory of the Futurist Manifesto in 1910. Typical for his new style of painting is "Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash" (1912) and his 1914 work "Abstract Speed + Sound" (Velocità astratta + rumore). In 1914, he began to design Futurist furniture, as well as so-called Futurist "antineutral" clothing. Balla also began working as a sculptor, creating, in 1915, the well-known work titled "Boccioni's Fist", based on 'lines of force' (Linee di forza del pugno di Boccioni).

paragraph: During World War I, Balla's studio became a meeting place for young artists.

paragraph: In 1935, he was made a member of Rome's Accademia di San Luca.

paragraph: In 1955, Balla participated in the documenta 1 in Kassel.

paragraph: He died on 1 March 1958.

paragraph: Section::::Notable works.

paragraph: Balla's 1909 painting "The Street Light" typifies his exploration of light, atmosphere, and motion.

paragraph: Balla's most famous works, such as his 1912 "Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash" where efforts to express movement – and thus the passage of time – through the medium of painting. One of Balla's main inspirations was the chronophotography of Étienne-Jules Marey.

paragraph: Balla's 1912 "The Hand of the Violinist" depicts the frenetic motion of a musician playing, and draws on inspiration from Cubism and the photographic experiments of Marey and Eadweard Muybridge.

paragraph: In his abstract 1912–1914 series "Iridescent Interpenetration", Balla attempts to separate the experience of light from the perception of objects as such.

paragraph: "Abstract Speed + Sound" (1913–14) is a study of speed symbolised by the automobile. Originally, it may have been part of a triptych.

paragraph: Balla's 1914 series "Mercury Passing Before the Sun" depicts the November 17, 1914 transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun. Balla created at least a dozen versions and studies of this work.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: In 1987, some of his artworks were exhibited at "documenta 8", an exhibition of modern art and contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Maurizio Fagiolo Dell'Arco, "Balla: The Futurist (1988)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vivien Greene (ed.): Italian Futurism 1909 - 1944. Reconstructing the Universe, Guggenheim Museum 2014,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Giovanni Lista, "Balla", catalogue général de l’œuvre, vol. I, Edizioni della Galleria Fonte d’Abisso, Modène, 1982 ; vol. II, L’Age d’Homme, Lausanne, 1984

paragraph: BULLET::::- Giovanni Lista,"Le Futurisme : création et avant-garde", Éditions L’Amateur, Paris, 2001

paragraph: BULLET::::- Giovanni Lista, "Balla, la modernità futurista", Edizioni Skira, Milan, 2008

paragraph: BULLET::::- Giovanni Lista, "Giacomo Balla: futurismo e neofuturismo", Mudima, Milano, 2009.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Giacomo Balla, "Scritti futuristi", raccolti e curati da Giovanni Lista, Abscondita, Milan, 2010.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Guide to Balla's paintings, at Artcyclopedia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Abstract Speed + Sound" by Giacomo Balla, Guggenheim Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Giacomo Balla's Biography- Guggenheim Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Article on Italian Futurism exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum

description: Italian artist

enwikiquote_title: Giacomo Balla

wikidata_label: Giacomo Balla

wikipedia_title: Giacomo Balla