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Niccol Paganini (27 October 1782 - 27 May 1840) was a Italian composer and violin player. He is believed to be one of the best violinists who ever lived. He was born in Genoa, Italy and died in Nice, France. Paganini was the perfect virtuoso during his time although many other violinists slowly approach and some appear to be as virtuosic as him too. He was said to be a show off during his time and many wanted to challenge his violin skills. Paganini once broke all of the strings on his violin except the G-string and played a piece just on one string to show how good he was. He was the master of violin technique and invented many new techniques such as ricochet bowing, flying staccatos, left hand pizzicato, etc. His 24 caprices are his most famous compositions. Paganini was good friends with Franz Liszt who was also an equally magnificent virtuoso, only that he played the piano. They both came together and composed the etude La campanella, also known as the clock in English.,Monet joined the French army in Algeria for two years from 1860-1862. When he became ill he left the army to study art at university. He did not like the way art was taught, and joined the painter Charles Gleyre in his studio. He met other artists here, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. They shared their ideas about painting.,Claude Monet (14 November 1840 5 December 1926) was a French painter and artist. One of his most famous paintings was called Water Lilies, which he repeated many times in various conditions. Monet was born in Paris, France.1 His father wanted him to help run the familys grocery business. However, Monet wanted to be an artist. When he was young he met the painter Eugne Boudin who taught him to use oil paints, and encouraged him to paint out of doors.2,In 1866 Monet had a child with Camille Doncieux, who had been his model. They married in 1870. In 1870 he moved to England to escape the Franco-Prussian War, and in 1871 he moved to Argenteuil near Paris where he painted some of his most famous pictures. In 1873 he painted Impression, Sunrise, showing the sea at Le Havre. When this picture was shown in 1874 one critic took its title and called the group of artists “Impressionists“. He intended to make fun of the artists, but the name has stuck and this is what people today call this style of painting.,In 1879 Camille died of tuberculosis. Alice Hosched decided to help Monet by taking care of his children as well as her own. In 1883 they moved to a house in Giverny where Monet planted a large garden. Monet married Alice in 1892. Monet found that his garden inspired him to paint pictures of it, particularly the water lilies. Alice died in 1911, and his son Jean was killed in World War I in 1914. Monet used broad brush strokes to build up his pictures, and painted quite quickly to try and get the idea of the light he could see into his paintings. If you go very close to one of his pictures it is hard to see what it shows, but if you stand back everything becomes clear. His later paintings include series, in which he paints the same subject in different light. For example he painted a series of pictures of haystacks in a field, and another series of pictures of the west front of Rouen Cathedral. Monet died of lung cancer in Giverny.,Gabriel Jos de la Concordia Garca Mrquez, also known as Gabo (March 6, 19271 April 17, 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist. Mrquez was born in a small town in Colombia, Aracataca. He originally studied to become a journalist. He began writing at the age of eighteen. His first books were based on his life. He was best known for his novels One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His books were mainly about satire, solitude, magic realism, realism, and violence. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in December 1982. The reason was “for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continents life and conflicts“. Mrquez wrote his last book in 2004. He retired in May 2008 because of his age and health. Since 2012, Mrquez was sick with Alzheimers disease. He lived with his wife, Mercedes Barcha in Mexico City. Mrquez died in Mexico City from pneumonia. He was 87 years old.2,Frank Owen Gehry (born Frank Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-American architect who won the Pritzker Prize in 1989. He is known for his buildings such as 8 Spruce Street, Dancing House, Port Olmpic, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. He built buildings across the United States and across South America. Gehry was born on February 28, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Polish-Jewish parents.He was raised in Los Angeles, California. He stuided at Los Angeles City College and at the University of Southern California. Gehry now lives in Santa Monica, California. In 1989, Gehry won the Pritzker Prize.,Gehry,Ieoh Ming Pei (born April 26, 1917) is a Chinese American architect. Pei has been an important name in his field, with his buildings built all over the world. When he was a child, he learned basic knowledge about architecture from his father. Pei made innovations in architecture, and won the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal for Architecture. He built the Allied Bank Tower in Dallas, Texas, as well as the Louvre Pyramid, which is the main entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris. In 1983, Pei won the Pritzker Prize.1 “I. M. Pei.“ Notable Asian Americans. Ed. Helen Zia and Susan B. Gall. Detroit: Gale, 1995. Biography in Context. Web. 29 May 2015. “I. M. Pei.“ Newsmakers. Detroit: Gale, 1990. Biography in Context. Web. 29 May 2015.,I. M. Pei.,In Japanese name, the family name is Ando. Tadao Ando is a Japanese architect. He was born in Osaka in 1941. Before he designed buildings, he had many other important experiences in his life. He became a professional boxer as a teenager and spent time in Thailand fighting. He then traveled around the world to learn about buildings. Ando became successful in the 1970s and has built buildings all over the world. In 1995, Ando won the Pritzker Prize in 1995.,Jrn Utzon (born April 9, 1918, died November 29, 2008) was a Danish architect. He was born in Copenhagen and grew up in Aalborg. He is most well known for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. He won a contest for designing the Sydney Opera House in 1957. However, he left Australia in 1966 and never returned and saw his completed work.source? He thought of his design of the Sydney Opera House to be like peeling an orange, as he said putting the shells of the building together would make a perfect sphere. In 2001, he was invited back to restore the building and change it back toward his original designs. In 2003, Utzon won the Pritzker Prize. Utzon died of a heart attack in Copenhagen. Flyvbjerg, Bent (Spring Summer 2005). “Design by Deception: The Politics of Megaproject Approval“ (PDF). Harvard Design 22: p. 55. Retrieved January 1, 2012. Jump up Pritzker Architecture Prize, “Jrn Utzon, 2003 Laureate“; retrieved 2013-3-27.,Antoni Gaudi (25 June 1852 10 June 1926) was a Spanish architect. He was born in Reus, in Catalonia, and became a leader of Catalan modernism. Gaudis works are in his own distinctive style. Most are in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, especially his greatest work, the Sagrada Famlia. He got some ideas from neo-Gothic art, Art Deco and Oriental techniques, and became part of the modernist movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Between 1984 and 2005, seven of his works were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. The seven works were: the Park Gell, the Palau Gell and the Casa Mil; the Nativity facade, the crypt and the apse of the Sagrada Famlia, the Casa Vicens and the Casa Batll in Barcelona, and the crypt of the Colnia Gell in Santa Coloma de Cervell. Gauds Roman Catholic faith intensified during his life and religious images permeate his work. This earned him the nickname “Gods Architect“, and eventually led to his beatification in 2011. His work had an organic style inspired by nature. Gaud rarely drew detailed plans of his works, instead preferring to create them as three-dimensional scale models and molding the details as he was conceiving them. Gaud died on 10 June 1926 in Barcelona, Spain after being hit by a trolley, aged 73.,Isozaki was born in ita.2 He studied with Kenzo Tange, Kisho Kurokawa, and Fumihiko Maki at the University of Tokyo.2 He graduated in 1954.1 Isozaki worked for Kenzo Tange and Khorog, Tajikistan, 20047 2014 Citylife, Milan, Italy11,The “Granship (Shizuoka Convention & Arts Center) 1999,Kenzo Tange (丹下 健三 Tange Kenz?, Septe