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Samuel Johnson was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican, and a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him «arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history». James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson was selected by Johnson biographer Walter Jackson Bate as «the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature».
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan.
Eva Navarro is a Spanish painter living in Madrid, Spain. She has a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her work is considered part of the Spanish New Figurative Art Movement. She mostly exhibits her work in Europe and the United States.
Navarro's work has been described as "vivacious, uncomplicated and energetic, as well as being full of extraordinary colour". Basic elements such as movement, space, action and time, all expressed through the human figure, are reflected in her work.
William Makepeace Thackeray was a British writer of satire and a master of the realist novel.
William was born in Calcutta, and after the death of his father, an administrator for the East India Company, he was sent to England at the age of five. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, studying law and painting, then traveled with adventure, socializing, and gambling, earning a living as a journalist and illustrator.
It was not until the serial publication of his novel Vanity Fair in 1847-1848 that Thackeray gained fame and success, and from then on he became a recognized writer in Britain.
William Thackeray then lectured in the United States, which were published in the collections The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century (1853) and The Four Georges (1860). After 1856 he settled in London, ran unsuccessfully for Parliament the following year, and in 1860 founded the Cornhill Magazine, becoming its editor.
Thackeray's other well-known works are The Story of Henry Esmond, Esquire (1852), The Virginians (1857-1859), The Widower's Trap (1860), and The Adventures of Philip (1861-62). He also wrote exquisite secular poetry, ballads, and parodies. Thackeray was considered by his contemporaries to be Dickens's only possible rival. His works are filled with wit, humor, satire and pathos. In creating them Thackeray relied on his own experience. "Vanity Fair" is still his most interesting and readable work, maintaining its place among the great historical novels in the English language.
Samuel Johnson was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican, and a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him «arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history». James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson was selected by Johnson biographer Walter Jackson Bate as «the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature».
Walter Dexel was a German painter, commercial graphic designer, and transportation planner. He also functioned as an art historian and directed a museum in Braunschweig during the Second World War.
