Edvard Grieg Research Paper

Edvard Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway. His first teacher was his mother. She was a wonderful pianist. Because Edvard was also a very good musician, at the age of 15 he was sent to study at the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany. After that, he traveled to Denmark. There, Grieg met another Norwegian composer who taught him about Norwegian folk music. Grieg began performing as a pianist all over Europe, but every summer he went home to his cottage in Norway to compose. Grieg soon became the leader of a group of artists who wanted Norwegian music, art and theater to become more popular. Many of his songs are written to sound like folk songs from his home country. He also wrote a lot of music for the piano. Grieg is best known for the incidental music he wrote for Henrik Ibsen’s play, Peer Gynt. Incidental music provides background or atmosphere for the action in a play.

Grieg’s use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions put the music of Norway

As Pablo Picasso once said, “Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.” Picasso’s passion for art started at a young age, getting his passion for art from his father. Pablo Picasso is known for the innovative techniques he introduced to the art world. Each being influenced from his life around him, to modifications in the colors he utilized, or transitioning to an unorthodox style of painting, and even practicing printmaking.

The Starry Night, Sunflowers, and Wheatfield with Cypresses. These paintings were all created by someone who would leave a never ending legacy in the art world. A man who only had one ear, a man who was an outcast and eventually shunned by his family, a man who suffered with inner demons which later was known to be Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. This is the legacy of Vincent Van Gogh.

Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist artist who lived from 1853 to 1890. Van Gogh’s work includes over 2,100 artworks, that includes prints, sketches, drawings, watercolors, and oil paintings. Van Gogh was misunderstood and not appreciated during his lifetime but has become one of the most famous painters in history after his death in 1890. He only sold one painting during his life. His art has since captivated millions of people from art enthusiasts to amateurs. Van Gogh had an extremely sad life and many mental breakdown it is believed that he, on July 27, 1890, shot himself in the chest with a revolver. He did not die immediately and was able to go home but died two days later from the infection caused by the gunshot at the age of 37.

Freedom From Want, Freedom From Fear, Freedom Of Speech and Freedom Of Religion. The four freedoms, some of his most famous art didn't become famous overnight. Norman Rockwell’s dream of art started at age 14, when he decided to study at the ‘New York School Of Art’ but he later dropped out and enrolled at the ‘National Academy Of Design’ where he continued his dream of art. After graduation, he started on his first day of his career, as an illustrator for the ‘Boys Life’ magazine. At age 22, he began the 47 year long work for the ‘Saturday Evening Post’, in which he would make 320 more covers. Although his career seemed set, he had a long way to go till he became the artist we know today.

How would it feel to live your life as a failure, but after your death be praised by all? The real Vincent Van Gogh was an artist who had nothing and gave up on life. Many people viewed him as a tenacious and mysterious artist. He died a tragic death feeling like an artistic failure due to a couple of reasons. The first reason was because there were no cures for the mental problems, such as depression, insanity, and epilepsy, that ran in the family. Because of his depression, he felt like an artistic failure, not knowing the fame he would later gain. Van Gogh died as an unknown artist with little money and no cure for an issue that was common throughout his family.

Vincent Van Gogh was considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he was financially poor and was unknown throughout his life.

Many discover life in the paintings of a dead artist in the most miniscule details: the number of colours used in a painting, the size of a flower, or the expression of a model. Looking back, one can remember how middle school art teachers would indulge our imaginations with lectures on the curiously complex intentions behind every colourful stroke of the painters brush. However, letters exchanged between artist reveal the truth behind not only the intentions of an artist but also the tactics used to create the sacrosanct works of art produced by one. Currently there are 844 surviving Vincent van Gogh letters, over 900 paintings, and over 1100 drawings. One man's life has been compiled into a medium sized pile of canvas, wood, and paper,

I chose Vincent Van Gogh because he was not only a great artist, but a tortured soul as well. “The 19th century painter Vincent Van Gogh is almost as famous for his mental instability as for his vivid paintings. “Van Gogh knew how to use the brush just so as to display his feeling for all to see, though it may not have been adequately understood much less well received at the time. Vincent Van Gogh was born in the Netherlands in 1853, a year after his mother had given birth to a stillborn child to which a year later, the same name was given to Vincent. He would pass the grave of his brother with the headstone which bore his name, how’s that for depressing! He felt rejected his entire life of thirty – seven short years, by his mother, his friend

Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born on August 17, 1887, in St Ann’s Bay, a rural town on the north coast of Jamaica. He was the youngest out of eleven children; he and his sister Indiana were the only two who to survived adulthood. His father, Malchus , was a very strict man. His ancestors was from the Maroons, a group of runaway slaves who rebelled against the Spanish and British colonizer of Jamaica ( Caravantes 13)..

Van Gogh created more than 43 self-portraits between 1885 and 1889.[231][note 13] They were usually completed in series, such as those painted in Paris in mid-1887, and continued until shortly before his death.[232] Generally the portraits were studies, created during introspective periods when he was reluctant to mix with others, or when he lacked models, and so painted himself.[222][233]

Gustave Eiffel was one of the most renowned architects and engineers of his time. He is mostly known for his contribution to the French railway network and the famous Eiffel Tower. Eiffel was born on December 15 in the year of 1832 in Dijon, France. Eiffel’s career began to take off when he graduated from the College of Arts and Manufacturing in Paris, France in 1855. Upon graduating at the top of his class, Eiffel began to show interest in metal construction. He ended up becoming very skilled in this specialty that he was later given the nickname of “Magician of Iron”.

Lars-Erik Larsson maintained a busy professional life with active involvement in composition, education, and broadcasting that made him a cornerstone of twentieth century Swedish musical life. Although he did not write a lot, his compositions reflect a wide variety of influences and styles and he composed music for nearly every solo instrument as well as his contributions to symphonic literature and opera.

Another influential musician in Norway, Johan Svendsen, was a composer, conductor, and violinist. Svendsen was known for composing larger scale orchestras and ensembles, while Grieg composed for smaller instrumental ensembles. Svendson’s most famous work is his “Romance” for violin and orchestra. Although Svendsen was extremely popular in Norway and Denmark, winning several awards and honors, these honors did not help his music spread very widely.