goloshchuk Flashcards
Romantic artist, works embraced the imagination as “the body of God” or “human existence itself”, mystical elements, deities, universe
William Blake
An English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist {1796 first oil painting}. Imaginative landscapes, turbulent/violent marine paintings. chromatic palette, atmospheric washes of paint. shipwrecks, fires, natural phenomena: sunlight, storm, rain, fog
fascination: power of the sea
Josehp Mallord William Turner
Revolution in religious art – Holy Land – studying archeological evidence – clothing, appearance, etc. – biblical scenes as accurate as possible
William Hunt
love as the most important subject
Rosetti
paintings of landscapes, people, wildlife of Scotland – picture of Scotland for others in the UK – high in demand
Edwin Landseer
Aesthetic Movement
Oscar Wilde, Whistler, Rossetti, Leighton
Classical Revival. medieval themes: Arthurian legend, religious themes
excuse to paint idealized figures/scenes – avoid reflecting the reality of industrial Britain
scenes of Ancient Rome, scenes from Ancient Greece
emphasis on passivity and internal drama
worked primarily in bright colours
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
free schooling for poor children
John Pounds
1970 - more comprehensive schools were established -the Secretary of State for Education in the new Conservative government
Margaret Thatcher
1918 empowered the local authorities to levy a rate (tax) to finance technical colleges
the Fisher Act
a self-selected association of twenty-four public research universities. its members - the UK’s most prestigious universities
Russell Group
provided a theory to explain why species evolved, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859), „survival of the fittest“
Charles Darwin
penicilin
studied influenza (гріпп)
Alexander Fleming
1945 discovered the atomic structure of penicillin
1954 discovered the structure of vitamin B12
revealed the structure of insulin
Dorothy Hodgkin
discovery of images of molecular structures of DNA
Rosalind Franklin