FJ de Goya, V van Gogh, M Klein

Posted by Tel Asiado Mar 30, 2008

Great Thinkers Datebook: March 30

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (March 30, 1746 - April 16, 1828), Aragonese Spanish painter and printmaker. Regarded as the last of the old masters and as the first of the moderns, Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a history chronicler. He provided a work model for the later generations of artists in his handling of paint and in his own kind of subjective and subversive art.

The full article ... Francisco Jose de Goya, Artist

Melanie Klein (March 30, 1882 - September 22, 1960), Austrian-born British psychoanalyst. She devised a new therapeutic techniques for children that had significant impact on child psychology and psychoanalysis.

The full article ... Melanie Klein, Beyond Freud

Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. He paintings and drawings are some of the world's best known, also most popular and expensive. Van Gogh's early working life was spent for a firm of dealers in art. He was a also a teacher and a missionary worker in a poor mining region. He made art his career at 27, initially working with sombre colours. It was in Paris that he encountered Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism. Eventually, he started using brighter colours and a unique recognizable style of painting uniquely his own.

The full article ... Vincent van Gogh