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Freshmen Colloquium: Art & Practice midterm 1

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Keith Jarrett
American jazz pianist, composer, and saxophonist considered to be one of the most original and prolific jazz musicians to emerge during the late 20th century. He was also a noted classical pianist, a child prodigy, and he would improvise pieces.
Billie Holiday
Slow yet provocative, real pain felt in her music, pain from her background/childhood, I love my man+ strange fruit: this was about lynching, left white audience in shock, declined her career and canceled shows
George Harrison
British musician, singer, and songwriter, who gained fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles, one of the most important and influential bands in the history of rock music.The youngest of the "Fab Four" and was known as "the quiet Beatle." He later achieved singular success as a songwriter and performer.
Mozart
Austrian composer, widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, who was known for classical NEW STYLE. Child prodigy. Unlike any other composer in musical history, he wrote in all the musical genres of his day and excelled in every one.
Nina Simone
AA singer, Mississippi Goddam- ruined her career. Known for songs like I put a spell on you and Feeling Good. Both broke her white expectations.
Robert Johnson
an American blues musician and songwriter. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as being "the first ever rock star", the Mississippi Delta
Stephen Sondheim
Playwrite, Broadway shows, composer. Reinventing the american musical, continuously just trying and learning and observing and taking in. In craft, cut everything you don't need. Simple and clean is best.
Lucian Freud
British painter, people in stages of discomfort, crazy person, painted people nude and how he saw them and only people he knew
Georgia O'keeffe
Painter, bones, new mexico by herself, modernist
Egon Schiele
Austrian painter who died young, kept creating, artwork of bodies- real depictions, big feet and hands
David Hockney
British, pictures of Palm springs, pools, people in natural form, attention to detail on characters like who they are, what do they do, and dress the way they do
Keith Haring
Free flowing people and squiggly lines, pop cartoon graffiti on subways, gay and growing up in 60s, did art about aids
Alexander Calder
Kinetic Sculpture. Invented the mobile, known for cirque calder, devil fish, and a universe
Alberto Giacometti
A Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. One of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. Made swiss sculptures of long thin clay things.
Edward Hopper
painted realistic-film like frames that have drawn inspiration from movies and inspired movies, Diner scene painting, Dramatic, ark, psychological lighting, MadMen-esque look, deeply influenced cinema for years, was influenced by movies of the 20's and the idea of moving picture, creating a whole scene
Aaron Copland
Composer who wrote uniquely American music, known for Appalachian Spring
Barbara Streisand
"Send in the clowns". Simply sits and stares while singing (takes the space and time). Trying to present something real, but forced to always be the positive
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