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The icon so-called “Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech”, popularly known as Salvador Dali was a Spanish popular painter in the early 20th century. He was Born on May 11th, 1904 in Catalonia in Spain by a very humble lawyer named Salvador Dalí i Cusí, although he was influenced by his mother, who stood […]
Leonardo Da Vinci hails from Italy and he is famously known for most of his achievements in anatomy, architecture, engineering, science and art that is sculpting, drawing, and painting. Among the timeless pieces of art, he is popularly known for; The Last Supper, and Mona Lisa. Leonardo’s Early Life He was born in the mid-15th […]
El Greco was a key figure in the Spanish Renaissance whose work would go on to grow beyond his years on Earth. El Greco, which means “The Greek”, Domenikos Theotokopoulos was born in Crete in 1541. At the time Crete was a part of the Republic of Venice, and at some point, in his twenties, […]
Pablo Picasso, born in 1881, was an influential 20th century Spanish painter associated with cubism, an avant garde art movement based around the simplification and reduction of forms into simple shapes. Picasso has gone on to be world renowned with paintings such as The Weeping Woman (1937) and Geurnica (1937) being instantly recognizable. Picasso showed […]
The value of arts and culture to society has long been debated. Arts and culture is known to play an important role in promoting social and economic goals through local regeneration, attracting tourists, the development of talent and innovation, improving health and wellbeing, and delivering essential services. These benefits are ‘instrumental’ because art and culture […]
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