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Louis Émile Benassit (20 December 1833 – 9 August 1902) was a French artist and raconteur. He cut a colorful figure in the literary and artistic circles of Paris in the 1860s and 1870s, known equally for his satirical drawings and for his barbed wit.
Probably the best-known example of Hoffnung as a humorous speaker is an account of a bricklayer's misfortunes when lowering some bricks in a barrel from the top of a building. It was part of a speech to the Oxford Union on 4 December 1958. [12] The derivation of the story is confused, but it first arises in the 1930s.
Aurore Engelen of Cineuropa wrote, "Buoyed by a super-efficient screenplay, composed of little nothings which result in this impossible encounter, taking a chiaro-scuro path towards a resolution that's as luminous as it is doomed from the outset, A Missing Part explores both a father’s obsession and the irreconcilable otherness of a foreigner ...
The Adobe Illustrator Artwork format is the native Illustrator file format. It is a proprietary file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing single-page vector-based drawings in either the EPS or PDF formats.
Janet Gail Levine was born in 1963, [9] to Lawrence Levine, a native New Yorker who had earned undergraduate and law degrees from Michigan, and his wife Carolyn. At the time he was building an insurance defense practice that grew into the firm of Levine, Orr and Geracioti, [10] led him to become one of the most prominent lawyers in Nashville, and made him socially prominent within the city's ...
John Tenniel, A Conspiracy, oil on panel, August 1850 (Private collection, UK) Tenniel was born in Bayswater, West London, to John Baptist Tenniel, a fencing and dancing master of Huguenot descent, [4] [5] and Eliza Maria Tenniel.
Robert Dennis Crumb (/ k r ĘŚ m /; born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist who often signs his work R. Crumb.His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture.
An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicated concepts or objects that are difficult to describe textually, which is the reason illustrations are often found ...