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ESCOLA TORRE BARONA CASTELLDEFELS
DATE OF BIRTH: May 11th 1904DATE OF DEATH: January 23rd 1989NATIONALITY: Catalonia, SpainPROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY: - Art Painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, writing- Movement Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism
Marquis of Púbol (Figueres, 11 May 1904-23 January 1989) was a painter, decorator, Catalan writer and thinker, one of the leading representatives of surrealism. Usually attributed pictorial skills to influence and admiration for Renaissance art. Dalí had the ability to forge a recognizable personal style. It considered himself better painter and writer who claimed that if you had to go down in history preferred to do as a thinker, humorous attitude, but if on the one hand catapulted to fame ever seen of another seriously hindered the study of philosophy
In painting, one of his best known works is The Persistence of Memory, also called "the soft clocks", which dates from 1931. In writing, it is considered that his work is the capital autobiography "The Secret Life Salvador Dali, "which dates back to 1942 and start saying" six years I wanted to be a cook, seven Napoleon, and my ambition has been growing since then. " His major works, where he worked until the last years of his life were the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres and himself.Although their main means of expression were painting and writing, also made inroads in the fields of film, sculpture, fashion, jewelery, decoration and theater, a discipline in which he worked as a costume designer and set designer.He knew his role public work greatly. His wife and muse, Gala Dalí was one of the leading characters in his biography and economic management,
JOAN MIRÓ i FERRÀ
DATE OF BIRTH: April, 20th 1893DATE OF DEATH: December, 25th 1983 NATIONALITY: Catalonia, Spain PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY: -Painting, drawing, engraving, sculpture, ceramics- Surrealism- Influenced by: Modest Urgell
Joan Miró was a painter, sculptor, engraver and ceramist Catalan, considered one of the leading representatives of surrealism. In his work reflected his interest in the subconscious and his country. His early works show strong influences Fauvist, cubist and expressionist painting evolving towards a more flat, as is his famous painting The house of 1921-1922, which evokes the summer but the family Monroig del Camp.
After his stay in Paris, his work becomes more dreamlike, coinciding with the guidelines of surrealism but without joining formally this movement. In numerous interviews and writings dating from the 1930s, Miró expressed his desire to leave the conventional painting methods, in his own words is based on "kill them, kill them or violate them," to promote a form expression that was contemporary, not wanting to bend to the demands or the aesthetics of these methods, even in its commitments towards the surreal.
JOAN MIRÓ i FERRÀ
DATE OF BIRTH: April, 12th 1933NATIONALITY: Catalonia, Spain PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY: - Soprano singer
She is a Catalan soprano and opera singer. She is one of the greatest opera sopranos in the
second half of the twentieth century. A renowned for his technique and his
interpretations of the great bel canto roles of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti.
INTERNATIONAL SUCCES
The first international success of Caballé was in 1965 when he replaced the indisposed Marilyn Horne in the representation of Lucrezia Borgia in Carnegie Hall in New York.
Its representation sensation and made famous in the opera world, to say the New York Times that his voice was the union of Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi.
The same year she made her debut at Glyndebourne Festival and the Metropolitan Opera as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust. In 1972 La Scala debut in Bellini's Norma and Violetta in La Traviata at the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden in London.
Montserrat Caballé sang over eighty operatic roles, from baroque opera to Verdi, Wagner and Puccini, including works by Richard Strauss. He has also sung popular Spanish songs.
His voice is remarkable for its purity, its precise control and its power. It is less admired by his dramatic instincts and their interpretative skills for his superb technique, vocal nuance and exquisite pianissimos.Caballé has also made forays into pop music and Caballé in duet with rock singer Freddie Mercury, Barcelona, became the unofficial anthem of the Olympic Games of Barcelona 1992.
It was one of the top ten women who seek admission in 2000 to the Cercle del Liceu. [9] Since he retired from the stage, Caballé has been devoted to charitable activities. It's Goodwill Ambassador to UNESCO and has created a foundation for needy children in Barcelona. In July 2008 gave Manifiesto por la lengua support policy role by claiming the Spanish throughout the Spanish territory
DATE OF BIRTH: June, 25th 1852DATE OF DEATH: June, 10th 1926 NATIONALITY: Catalonia, Spain PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY: - Architect
Antoni Gaudí was Catalan architect who has been internationally recognized as one of the most important geniuses of their discipline.
Gaudí moved to studied architecture at the city of Barcelona, where his first works were influenced by various styles such as Gothic, Moorish, Baroque up to the explosion of modernism, in which achieve implement their own style, with the use of its studies on the nature and forms of regulated geometry, the use of all the applied arts for the decoration of their buildings and the recovery for the ornamentation of the ancient mosaic Gaudí transformed into brittle, become a new technique.
His contribution to architecture is unique and is considered one of the greatest exponents of modernism.
From childhood Gaudí was an attentive observer of nature, which are attracted to shapes, colors and geometry.
Despite having made great buildings, which are becoming more monographs, the most fame has given the world is undoubtedly the Sagrada Familia, the work still under construction and, as it stands , its popularity continues to grow and admiration.
DATE OF BIRTH: September, 29th 1547DATE OF DEATH: April, 22nd 1616 NATIONALITY: Spain PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY: - Novelist,
- poet - playwright
He was a Spanish writer, best known for his novel Don Quixote. It is considered one of the most influential writers of literature, and his works have inspired and film adaptations have changed the way we understand the novel, especially in the Hispanic and English.
In prison "begat" The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, says the preface of this work. It is not known if this term meant he started writing while imprisoned, or simply that there came the idea.
In 1605 he published the first part of what would be his main work: The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.
