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Piotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a distinguished Russian composer who scripted many symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, and chamber music, which became an esteemed part of the classical library. At the educational front, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant due to uncertainly in the field of music in those Russian days. -
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Hector Guimard
Hector Guimard was a French architect, who is now the best-known representative of the Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Guimard's critical reputation has risen since the 1960s, as many art historians have praised his architectural and decorative work, the best of it done during a relatively brief fifteen years of prolific creative activity. -
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Hans Pfitzner
Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. -
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Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwɑ matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. -
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
The Brooding Russian Virtuoso. Sergei Rachmaninoff was a titan of early 20th century piano music, creating finger-breakingly difficult pieces and heart-meltingly dark, romantic music. He was equally famous as a pianist and as a composer. -
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Maurice Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 - December 28, 1937) was a French composer and pianist, best known for his orchestral work, Bolã©ro, and his famous 1922 orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. He himself had described Bolã©ro as 'a piece for orchestra without music'. -
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Pablo Picasso
Picasso repeated publicly that the aim of his art was to fight like a revolutionary and be a weapon in a political struggle. After the WWII in 1955, Picasso moved to the large villa “La Californie” that was situated near Cannes where he wanted to live till the end of his life. -
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel Coco's radical ideas. She wants to democratize women's fashion; he wants to redefine musical taste. Coco attends the scandalous first performance of The Rite in a chic white dress. -
jukebox
The first jukebox ever made! Louis Glass and William S. Arnold invented the earliest jukebox machine in 1889. They called it, “Automatic Coin-Operated Phonograph”. The term jukebox was coined during the 1930s. -
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Max Ernst
Max Ernst German-born Max Ernst was a provocateur, a shocking and innovative artist who mined his unconscious for dreamlike imagery that mocked social conventions. A soldier in World War I, Ernst emerged deeply traumatized and highly critical of western culture. -
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was born in 1899 in Washington, DC and was considered one of the world?s greatest composers, arrangers and bandleaders that jazz has ever known. He was nicknamed "Duke" by a boyhood friend who admired his regal air. -
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Aaron Copeland
Aaron Copland was born on November 14, 1900, in Brooklyn, New York, going on to study piano and composition and studying in Europe for some time. He became one of the century’s foremost composers with highly influential music that had a distinctive blend of classical, folk and jazz idioms. -
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Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956), was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. -
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Jacob Lawrence
Achieving success early in his career, Jacob Lawrence combined Social Realism, modern abstraction, pared down composition, and bold color to create compelling stories of African American experiences and the history of the United States. Drawing on his own life and what he witnessed in his Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Lawrence strove to communicate human struggles and aspirations that resonated with diverse viewers. -
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Andy Warhol
When he was eighteen years old,Andy leaves Pennsylvania for New York and lives the typical starving artist life in an apartment crowded with other young people trying to make there way in the big city. Before long,Andy lands a job at Harper's Bazaar magazine,which is his entrée into commercial art.Andy Warhol was a legendary man and the artist who turned the world of modern art upside down. His works and the artistic heritage is highly appreciated by critics and masters of art all over the world
