Famous artists

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FRANCE

La LibertĂŠ guidant le peuple, Delacroix (1830)

FRANCE Delacroix was a formidable painter. He was born in 1798. The title of this painting is: Liberty Guiding the People!

This painting commemorates the July Revolution of 1830, which chased away King Charles X of France.

The scene is situated in Paris, as recognized by the Cathedral of Notre Dame’s towers in the background to the right.

The easiest way to understand this painting is by looking at the contrasts. At the bottom of this painting we have those who have fallen for their homeland. Moreover, on the left side we have this dark side the man with guns. However, they are all heading to the same direction, which is to the right towards the right. Delacroix suggests that the people were tired of following this so-called King, and wanted a country where no one would be put down by anyone; a country of solidarity and equality.

In addition, we see the flag of France, with its three colours: blue, white and red, which is connected to the French motto: liberty, equality and fraternity.

A woman is leading the people forward over the fallen bodies and holding the flag up high in the sky. This woman personifies Liberty. Today the figure of Liberty is also viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic, known as Marianne.

To conclude, Delacroix's message was to transform the views of civilization and to bring the French people into the romantic era.

FRENCH GUIANA Lobie COGNAC He was born in Suriname, in May 1964. He is both a painter and a sculptor. And he lives in French Guiana, in Macouria. He studied at the New School of Art, the Academy of Art, and the Nola Hatterman Institution in Paramaribo (Suriname).

He is completely attached to the contemporary Art. His paintings and sculptures are authentic product of a culture descending from African heritage and aesthetic traditions. He has participated in several exhibitions in: Suriname, French Guiana, Europe, the Caribbean, USA, Africa, and China.

Lobie COGNAC made the status of “Marroons of Freedom” located in Cayenne. This status is 5 meters high. He created it in China where he stayed and delivered monumental work of art “ Kabugu Uma” which is the International Parc of sculpture at Changchun.

This work art is the symbol of freedom of marroons. This status represents a couple resisting oppression. The bird symbolizes peace. Marroons were the slaves who escaped plantations.

Angéla Atidong (his niece)

FRENCH GUIANA

GERMANY

GERMANY The band Die Toten Hosen was formed in the year 1982 in Düsseldorf. The most famous member of the band is Campino, the front man and singer. They make punk rock and rock music. Ø The first hit was published in 1988. Its title was Hier kommt Alex. Ø Funny songs are Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder or Zehn kleine Jägermeister. Ø The last hits were An Tagen wie diesen and Altes Fieber.

All these songs were Number one hits in Germany and other European countries. Their last studio album Ballast der Republik was made in 2012. Their latest live album is Krach der Republik. It will be released in April.

The Toten Hosen toured all over the world. They gave concerts in some countries in Europe but also in South America and in Asia.They won the German music awards Echo , some VIVA and MTV awards and many, many, many other awards.

They support their home city Düsseldorf, too, for example the Düsseldorfer EG, the ice hockey team, and Fortuna Düsseldorf, the football team.The band did some advertising contract for the brewery Diebels. They gave the money to the youth of the football club . On 20 October 2012, the musicians became honorary members of Fortuna Düsseldorf. The Toten Hosen gave them money because the club was poor and even bust. But with the help from the band Fortuna Düsseldorf became better than ever and played again in the first football league, the Bundesliga, last year.

GREECE Kwnstadinos Maleas was born in 1879 at Instabul. He was one of the best painters in 20th century and he is known globally as ÂŤfather of the greek artÂť. When he was 23 years old he went to Paris to study architecture but he stayed there and studied painting. After that he traveled in different places in Greece to explore his talent.

GREECE Mikis Theodorakis is one of the most important musicians and he is a composer too. He was born in 29 July 1925 in Chios. He has tried all kinds of music and he has composed the most known Greek rhythm ‘Συρτάκι Ζορμπάς’ ( Zorba the greek’s sirtaki) based on traditional Cretan music. He has cooperated with different artists like Beatles or Edith Piaf.

In 1956 he went with scholarship to Paris where he was very active. His awards are: in a festival in Moscow for playing the piano, Copley Music Prize: for the best Greek composer, and Bafta (1969,1973,1974 for different movies).

ITALY LEONARDO

DA VINCI

Leonardo(1452-1519)was an Italian Renaissance genius. He was good at many things, but was most famous as a painter.

He was also a scientist, a mathematicians,an engineer, an inventor, an anatomist, a sculptor, an architect, a botanist, a musician and a writer. Leonardo was curious about everything in nature. He wanted to Know how everything worked. He was very good at studying, designing and making all sorts of interesting things. Many people think that he was the most talented person ever to have lived.He was born at Vinci a small town near Florence and he spent most of his life working for rich Italian noblemen. He painted the Mona Lisa , The last Supper , The Virgin of the Rocks and many most famous paintings.

These works were made famous because of Leonardo’s understanding Linear Perspective, his integration of light and shadow, and his superb understanding of anatomy. He used linear perspective in all of his paintings to make them more life -like and three -dimensional. DaVinci’ s paintings were different than most others painted during the same time. The majority of the paintings of the renaissance period was flat, and two dimensional, and never very proportional. Leonardo changed all of this with his new and revolutionary methods. With all of his new painting methods, he changed paintings of the time from flat, and disproportionate to impossibly graphic and real. Although he was a painting phenomenon , he rarely, finished his works, only managing to complete a few. Even so, his impact in the field of art was immense.

THE VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS While Leonardo was working for Duke Ludovico, he had two important painting commissions. One was to do an oil painting to go in a big altarpiece for the confraternity of the Imaculate Conception. Leonardo did the painting twice . He left one with the monks in Milan and took the other painting to France where it’s now in the Louvre Museum.

They both show a scene of the Virgin Mary and the child Jesus in a rocky misterious landscape . Mary and Jesus are meeting with John the Baptist. The Virgin of the rocks celebrates the mistery of Incarnation. For the first time , these holy figures, bathed in a gentle light, are set in a rocky landscape. The many contemporary copies of the pictures attest to the immense popularity of this new vision of the theme. A totally inoovative composition.

ITALY

POLAND

POLAND Wojciech Kossak Wojciech Kossak was a Polish painter and member of the celebrated Kossak family. He was born on 31 December 1856 in Paris, France. He died on 29 July 1942 in Kraków, Poland. Kossak belonged to a new generation of Polish battle-scene artists influenced by the work of his father Juliusz. He is known for depicting the history of Polish armed struggle and notable Polish battles of Central and Eastern Europe against foreign oppressors. Among his most famous paintings is The Racławice Panorama.

Wojciech Kossak began his artistic career from his father’s paintings’ reproductions. It started with the Hunting trip in Gödöllö in 1887. Just after that he started a series of historical and patriotic paintings. He drew a first version of Olszynka Grochowska, one of the most popular historical paintings. The greatest Kossak’s work, created together with Jan Styka, is Panorama Raclawicka. This enormous work of art (15 m high and 150 m wide) met with great interest and appreciation. It shows the battle of Raclawice (1794) under the leadership of Tadeusz Kosciuszko against the Russian army. Panorama Raclawicka was displayed in the rotunda in Lwów, specially erected for this. The painting survived World War II but was heavily damaged. In 1946 Poland asked the Soviet Union to return the painting and, successfully it went to Wroclaw where it was exposed in 1980 and it can be admired today.

SLOVAKIA

SLOVAKIA Martin Benka was born on 21st September 1888 in Kiripolce (today's Kostolište) and he died 28th June 1971 in Malacky. He is buried in the National Slovak Cemetery in Martin. He was a Slovak painter, illustrator, art pedagogue and Esperanto teacher. His nicknames were Marko Betýn and Janko Synevin.

Family: He was born to Jozef Benka and Eva Benková as the sixth child. His father was a carpenter. He grew up in a poor family, so he had a hard and sad life. After his mother died in 1923, he didn`t have any other relatives in Slovakia.

Education: 1894 - 1902 he attended The Folk School in Kostolište and Public Hungarian School in Malacky. He attended a private music school for a short time, where he learned to play the violin.

1903 - 1906 he learned to be a painter in vocational school in Hodonín.

1907 - 1908 he attended a private art school in Vienna, where the Czech journalist and writer Ján J. Langer noticed his talent and advised him for professional art course by the famous Czech painter Alois Kalvoda.

1909 - 1914 he attended a private Art School in Prague, during the study there he took part in some art journeys to Šumava, Krivoklát He was the founder of 20th century Slovak modernist painting and drawing. He dedicated his life to tapestry creation, scenic art design, music and violin playing. Benka's ornamental style was influenced by folk art. Together with the painters Karol Ondreičik, Emil Makovický and with the sculptor Fraňo Štefunko, he established art society, called Tripleshield, in 1945 in Martin. It had a conservative character and its purpose was to unified team-work of different kinds of art. Benka created a lot of amazing experimental fonts and designed books, which were influenced by cubism. The letter fonts which were made up by Benka were not often used. Martin Benka created also a lot of covers for books. He is also author of some private, unmarketable bibles. Together with Fulla and Galanda, he belongs to the founders of Slovak bible illustration. Martin Benka also created some violins, he created some extraordinary cubist violins, from 1945 - 1963. He created thirteen violins by himself, which are now in the museum (The Martin Benka`s Museum).

In his paintings he honestly showed love, respect and glory of the Slovak Republic, its nature and people. And he used traditions and folk culture in his masterpieces. He was not inspired only by the country, but also by the shape and the colourful beauty of folk art display.

The most of his masterpieces show us the Slovak nature, high clouds and wide horizons, meadows and corn fields. He liked painting people on fields, meadows or i n Works from 20th and 30th years of 20th century present the top of his creativity.

He is the painter of different horizons and that we have chosen his masterpieces to be added in this presentation. Each his painting shows us endless horizons which we want to reach in the course of this project. Have a look and explore the beauty of PEACEFUL HORIZONS. Enjoy it.

SPAIN

SPAIN Rafael Nadal: He is a professional tennis player and the current world number one. He has won 13 Grand Slam titles (Wimbledon, Roland Garros, The US Open and the Australian Open).

Enrique Iglesias: He is a songwriter and singer. He has sold over 60 million albums and 40 million songs in English and in Spanish.

Miguel de Cervantes: He was a novelist who wrote the first modern European novel, Don Quixote.

Antonio GaudĂ­: He was a famous architect, the figurehead of Catalan Modernism. He had a distinctive style, reflected in the Sagrada Familia.

Pablo Picasso: He was the creator of cubism, and one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

SWEDEN

SWEDEN Avicii •Avicii is a Swedish disc jockey and music producer. Avicii's real name is Tim Bergling, and he was born in September 8 in 1989, Stockholm. 2006 Tim Bergling began to make house music as a hobby. Two years later, he began a collaboration with the club organizer Arash Pour Nouri. Avicii's earliest songs were distributed free by great blogs on internet, In the middle of the year 2000.

•At the moment Tim/Avicii live in Los Angeles, and his most popular song is called "Levels".The song "Levels" became a worldhit. The single was released October 28, 2011, that song was nominated for a Grammy.

Avicii's most popular song during 2013 was "You make me" and "Hey brother"

• Avicii collaborated whit David Guetta in 2011. They made a song called "Sunshine", and that song was also nominated for a Grammy. Typical for Avicii is that he produces music that people love to dance to. https://www.youtube. com/user/AviciiOfficialVEVO

TURKEY

TURKEY Aşık Veysel is an icon of the Turkish folk music, particularly the "Aşık" tradition and is one of the most respected figures of the 20th century Turkish folk music tradition. Aşık Veysel was born in 1894.

He caught smallpox at the age of seven and unfortunately lost his left eye. After an accident, he lost his right eye as well. This is when he started playing saz with his father's encouragement.

Many of his lyrics are poems written by himself and are known by heart by the older generation.

His song themes are about death, life, and, finding a meaning in the monotony of everyday life. His songs are still popular among young generation of Turkish pop and rock singers and they make covers of his songs.

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Register France: Delacroix - painter French Guiana: Lobie Cognac - painter and sculptor Germany: Die Toten Hosen - music band Greece: Kwnstadinos Maleas -painter, Mikis Theodorakis - musician and composer Italy: Leonardo da Vinci - painter Poland: Wojciech Kossak - painter Slovakia: Martin Benka - painter Spain: Rafael Nadal, Enrique Iglesias, Miguel de Cervantes, Antonio Gaudí, Pablo Picasso artists Sweden: Avicii - disc jockey Turkey: Aşık Veysel - folk music

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„Peaceful Horizons: Come over – make a project attempt to social solidarity (C.O.M.P.A. S.S)“ is a Comenius project that joined 10 European countries in an attempt to fight against stereotypes, xenophobia and its aim is developing a better knowledge of our different cultural heritages, raising awareness of cultural identity in a local, national and European context. Encouraging, through ongoing contact with other people and cultures, a positive view of European citizenship. Encouraging solidarity and open-mindedness among the different cultures, including the opportunity to make friends with people from other countries and cultures.

Mrs.Sandrine BOITIERE KILANI, Magali RAVEL and Annette SOKOLOWSKI - Lycée Henri Bergson, Paris, FRANCE Mrs. Sandra MACABRE - Collège La Canopée, Matoury, FRENCH GUIANA Ms. Birgit DRUBE-BLOCK - Haupt- und Realschule Grasberg/Worpswede mit Standort Worpswede, GERMANY Mrs. Athanasia KRIKONI- 1o Gymnasio Palamas, Palamas Karditsa, GREECE Mrs. Giuseppa PICCOTTI - Scuola Secondaria I Grado "Mastro Giorgio", Gubbio, ITALY Mrs. Katarzyna ŁASTAWIECKA - Fundacja Szkolna, Warszawa, POLAND Mrs. Gabriela KRÍŽOVSKÁ - Základná škola s materskou školou, Jarná ulica 3168/13, Poprad, SLOVAKIA Miss Carmen LOZANO ACEDO - Colegio Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Badajoz, SPAIN Mrs. Zenita NORDBERG - Brattebergsskolan Öckerö kommun, Öckerö, SWEDEN Mr. Yasin SEVIM - Hasan Zeki Boz Anadolu Lisesi, Uşak, TURKEY The work presented in this document is supported by the European Union. The content of this document is the sole responsibility of the author and it does not represent the opinion of the European Union and the European Union is not responsible or liable for any use that might be made of information contained herein.

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