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EMILY DICKINSON
(1830–1886)
https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/
Emily Dickinson is one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time. She took definition as her province and challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet’s work. She experimented with expression in order to free it from conventional restraints and she crafted a new type of persona for the first person. The speakers in Dickinson’s poetry, like those in Brontë’s and Browning’s works, are sharp-sighted observers who see the inescapable limitations of their societies as well as their imagined and imaginable escapes. To make the abstract tangible, to define meaning without confining it, to inhabit a house that never became a prison, Dickinson created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized.
Source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
(1849–1903)
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Ernest-Henley
Born in Gloucester, England, poet, editor, and critic William Ernest Henley was educated at Crypt Grammar School, where he studied with the poet T.E. Brown, and the University of St. Andrews. His father was a struggling bookseller who died when Henley was a teenager. At age 12 Henley was diagnosed with tubercular arthritis that necessitated the amputation of one of his legs just below the knee; the other foot was saved only through a radical surgery performed by Joseph Lister. As he healed in the infirmary, Henley began to write poems, including “Invictus,” which concludes with the oft-referenced lines “I am the master of my fate; / I am the captain of my soul.” Henley’s poems often engage themes of inner strength and perseverance. His numerous collections of poetry include A Book of Verses (1888), London Voluntaries (1893), and Hawthorn and Lavender (1899).
Source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
NORMANDI ELLIS
Normandi Ellis is a Spiritualist minister, astrologer, and certified clairvoyant medium through the Indiana Association of Spiritualists. Her 14 published books include the spiritual classic, Awakening Osiris, translations from the hieroglyphs found in the Book of the Dead. She offers clairvoyant circles, metaphysical classes and private consultations (phone or in person). She is a founding partner of Two Ladies Travel Co.
Source : https://normandiellis.com/
Daniela OWERGOOR
https://www.instagram.com/daniela_owergoor_art/
Alexandre DESCHAUMES
https://alexandredeschaumes.com/
Self-taught photographer, Alexandre Deschaumes started his artistic practice in 2002, in order to quench his thirst for experiences and emotions. The many forests, mountains and waterfalls of the Rhône-Alpes region where he lives today, all represent, in his eyes, sources of inspiration for his work and for contemplation. As with music (his other passion), his photographs allow him to develop a perception of the almighty power of nature, a vision that he regularly shares during the photography workshops and conferences that he has been organizing since 2009.
Source: https://www.yellowkorner.com/
Anne BACHELIER
http://annebachelier.blogspot.com/
The Art of Anne Bachelier transcends the narrow categories in which contemporary artists tend to be confined. Bachelier ranges freely over all of art history and captivates her audience with compelling highly imaginative images that are distinct, unique, inventive and immediately recognizable. Her metaphysical, dream-like fantasies evoke feelings simultaneously powerful, peaceful, and protective. This unique “other” world, untouched by time or place, reminds the viewer of the eternal dance of transformation and regeneration.
The drama of her pictures is further heightened by her Goyaesque way with light and shadow. Communicating with symbolic gestures and enigmatic chimerical creatures, Bachelier’s paintings suggest emissaries from some spiritual realm far beyond the scope and grasp of this earthly plane.
Source : https://www.angelakinggallery.com/
Svetlana BOBROVA
https://www.deviantart.com/bobrova
The surreal world, created by Svetlana, is full of strange creatures. In this world everything is possible. Her artworks are full of energy, passion and grotesqueness. Like dreams, they are born from real anxieties and experiences, taking the spectator far into the depths of sub-consciousness. They have a hypnotic internal glow, which penetrates the eyes with tonal transitions of neon, green, yellow and blue.
Her technique is based on photography, but the final result is very far from it. Computer graphics helps the artist to be spontaneous and improvise without losing the idea, to follow emotions and give them more unusual colors. Her original technique makes her works unique and recognizable masterpieces. Svetlana studied art history in St. Petersburg University. Today she has a PhD degree in art history and she is a member of the International Art Fund. Since 2007, she has participated in five exhibitions in prestigious galleries of Moscow.
Source: https://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/
Edgar Allan POE
(1809-1849)
Edgar Allan Poe, (born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland), American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre. His tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His “The Raven” (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in the national literature.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/
Konstantin Fyodorovich YUON
(1875-1958)
https://soviet-art.ru/soviet-artist-konstantin-yuon/
Soviet artist Konstantin Yuon (12 October 1875 – 11 April 1958) was a master of landscapes, portraits, and genre paintings. In addition, he was a theater artist, set designer, and theorist of art. Konstantin Yuon – representative of Symbolism and Art Nouveau, organically continuing traditions in the Soviet era. After the revolution, Yuon was one of the founders of the school of fine arts at the Moscow office of public education.
In 1920 he won first prize for the project of the curtain for the Bolshoi Theater. And a year later he became a full member of the Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences. In addition, he was a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1925). For a short period, in 1938-1939 he headed the personal studio of the Russian Academy of Arts in Leningrad. In 1940, made the sketch of the mosaic design of the Palace of Soviets. In 1943 he received the Stalin Prize, and in 1947 became a member of the USSR Academy of Arts.
Source: https://soviet-art.ru/
Zdzisław BEKSINSKI
(1929-2005)
https://www.shopbeksinski.com/
Zdzisław Beksiński pronounced [ˈzd͡ʑiswaf bɛkˈɕiɲskʲi] (24 February 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Polish painter, photographer and sculptor specializing in the field of dystopian surrealism.
Beksiński made his paintings and drawings in what he called either a Baroque or a Gothic manner. His creations were made mainly in two periods. The first period of work is generally considered to contain expressionistic color, with a strong style of “utopian realism” and surreal architecture, like a doomsday scenario. The second period contained more abstract style, with the main features of formalism.[1]
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/
Oscar WILDE
(1854-1900)
https://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in “one of the first celebrity trials”,[1] imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.
Source: Wikipedia
Oscar Wilde, in full Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, (born October 16, 1854, Dublin, Ireland—died November 30, 1900, Paris, France), Irish wit, poet, and dramatist whose reputation rests on his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). He was a spokesman for the late 19th-century Aesthetic movement in England, which advocated art for art’s sake, and he was the object of celebrated civil and criminal suits involving homosexuality and ending in his imprisonment (1895–97).
Source: https://www.britannica.com/