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Aug 22, 2013 · An author's or artist's important work that shows her potential and reflects later development is often referred to as a seminal work. containing or contributing the seeds of later development : creative, original a seminal book. SUPPLEMENT. An artist's most significant work is often referred to as a chef d'oeuvre
Gauguin’s Volpini suite represented his first foray into printmaking and was meant to be a summary of his work since the last Impressionist exhibition of 1886. However, the zincographs present both reproductions of recent paintings ( 22.82.2[10 ]) and evocative translations of paintings that become unique, independent works themselves ( 22.82.2[4 ]; 22.82.2[9 ]).
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in ...
Sep 25, 2008 · Aristotle. First published Thu Sep 25, 2008; substantive revision Tue Aug 25, 2020. Aristotle (384–322 B.C.E.) numbers among the greatest philosophers of all time. Judged solely in terms of his philosophical influence, only Plato is his peer: Aristotle’s works shaped centuries of philosophy from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance, and ...
Robert Frost. 1874—1963. Photo by Dmitri Kessel/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, but his family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1884 following his father’s death. The move was actually a return, for Frost’s ancestors were originally New Englanders, and Frost became famous for his ...
Langston Hughes was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of black intellectual, literary, and artistic life that took place in the 1920s in a number of American cities, particularly Harlem. A major poet, Hughes also wrote novels, short stories, essays, and plays. He sought to honestly portray the joys and hardships of ...
Man Ray to Katherine Dreier, February 20, 1921; quoted in Dada in the Collection, 228n10. Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal.
