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Mónica Weiss
Mónica Weiss (born 1956) is an Argentine people, Argentine illustrator, artist, writer and architect (University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires University). She has illustrated more than 140 books and has actively worked for the rights of illustrators and to show the importance of illustration in Argentina. Early life and education Mónica Weiss was born in Adrogué, province of Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires. Since she was 5 years old she studied painting and engraving with Nelia Licenziato and piano with Susana Agrest and classical dance with Marta de Lourenço. She studied architecture at Buenos Aires University and graduated in 1982. She remained at the university as a Design teacher in the same career. She worked as an architect for twelve years until she was asked to illustrate which would be her first editorial work ''Historieta de amor'' by writer Graciela Cabal for the Editorial Sudamericana. Work Her work in the illustration field includes the illustration of childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentine People
Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Argentine. Argentina is a multiethnic society, home to people of various ethnic, racial, religious, denomination, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. As a result, Argentines do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to Argentina. Aside from the indigenous population, nearly all Argentines or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries. Among countries in the world that have received the most immigrants in modern history, Argentina, with 6.6 million, ranks second to the United States (27 million), and ahead of other immigrant destinations such as Canada, Brazil and Australia. Ethnic groups Overvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Villapol
Fernando Villapol Parapar (born 26 February 1953 in San Tirso de Abres, Asturias Spain) is a museum curator and art critic, most famous as a contemporary Galician sculptor. He currently lives and works in the town of Bretoña (Lugo) located in Galicia. He is also the founder of the Ethnographic-Pedagogic Museum in Bretoña. He studied at the College of Applied Arts in Lugo, Spain, although can be considered an autodidact, attributing most of his knowledge and acquired skills through his self-funded travels and investigations of sculpture across the globe (e.g. Africa, Cuba, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden). Materials of choice Villapol's sculptures embody a wide variety of materials, including but not limited to: *metal (iron, bronze) *wood ( Galician common yew, oak, Spanish box tree, chestnut tree) *stone (marble, granite). Artistic style Critics of Villapol's work often define his sculptures as one or combination of: realism, abstract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1956 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Waorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine (region), Palestine. * January 25–January 26, 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet Union, Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 2 – Austria and Israel establish diplomatic Austria–Israel relations, relations. * February 11 – British Espionage, spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (spy), Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Nine
Carlos Nine (21 February 1944 – 16 July 2016) was an Argentine cartoonist, painter, and sculptor. Biography Between 1983 and 1990 Nine drew several covers for the magazine ''Humor'', directed by his colleague Andrés Cascioli. He made illustrations for the magazines '' Fierro'', ''L'Écho des Savanes'', ''Il Grifo'', Co & Co, '' Notícias'' and for the American, Argentine and Italian editions of ''Playboy''. His drawings appeared regularly in the daily newspapers Clarín and ''Le Monde.'' Nine illustrated the first editions of the ''Chronicles of the Grey Angel'' and ''The book of the ghost'', of Alejandro Dolina. In France edited, among others, the books ''Crimes and Punishments'' (1991) and ''Fantagas'' (1995), with texts and own drawings. In 2005 ''he made'' an adaptation of the chapter 16 of the first part of Don Quijote in the collective work'' Lanza en astillero.'' In 2012 Carlos Nine received the Platinum Konex Award as best illustrator of the decade in Argentina. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina
Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA; ) is a Jewish Community Center, Jewish Community Centre located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Established as ''Jevrá Kedushá'' in 1894, its mission was conceived to promote the well-being and development of History of the Jews in Argentina, Jewish life in Argentina and to secure the continuity and values of the Jews, Jewish community. The association established one of Buenos Aires' first Jewish cemetery, Jewish cemeteries, and later founded the Tzedakah, Tsedaká Foundation for charity. Serving the largest Jewish community in Latin America by the 1920s, AMIA inaugurated a new headquarters in Balvanera, a Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires, neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, in 1945; AMIA also became the headquarters of the Federation of Jewish Argentine Communities. It grew to provide and sponsor a variety of formal and informal educational, recreational, and cultural activities, as well as a healthcare cooperative. It became a centre for part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago De Compostela
Santiago de Compostela, simply Santiago, or Compostela, in the province of Province of A Coruña, A Coruña, is the capital of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St. James, a leading Catholic pilgrimage route since the 9th century. In 1985, the city's Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Santiago de Compostela has a very mild climate for its latitude with heavy winter rainfall courtesy of its relative proximity to the prevailing winds from Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic low-pressure systems. Toponym According to Richard A. Fletcher, scholars now agree that the origin of the name Compostela comes from the Latin ''compositum tella'', meaning a well-ordered burial ground, possibly referring to an ancient burial ground on the site of the Church of Santiago de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carme Solé Vendrell
Carme Solé Vendrell (born 1944 in Barcelona) is a Spanish illustrator and writer, mainly of children's books. Since 1968, she has illustrated more than a hundred books. She has also worked on television series such as ''Víctor y María''. She was a Premio Nacional de Cultura laureate in 1979 and 2012. Between 2012 and 2015 her collection was deposited in the Biblioteca de Catalunya, consisting of about 400 drawings. Awards * 1979: "Premio Nacional de Cultura" * 1993: "Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Literatura Infantil i Juvenil" for her illustrations in ''Brrrrrgg!'' by Jaume Escala * 2006: Creu de Sant Jordi Award The Creu de Sant Jordi (, in English 'St George's Cross') is one of the highest civil distinctions awarded in Catalonia (Spain), surpassed only in protocol by the Gold Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya. It was established by the Generalit ... * 2012: "Premi Nacional de Cultura" Selected works * ''Raspall'' (1981) * ''La lluna d'en Joan'' (1982) * ''Jo les ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Odriozola
Elena Odriozola, born in Donostia – San Sebastián is an illustrator of books for children and young adults. For her lasting contribution to children's literature she received the Golden Apple of the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (2015) for her work illustrating in 2013 ''Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus''. Biography Elena Odriozola was born in San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, Spain. Painting is her passion. Elena Odriozola inherited his grandfather's and father's love for painting . She studied Art and Decoration, and worked in an advertising agency first. In 1995 she published the first children book with the basque author Jesus Mari Olaizola "Txiliku". '' Agure jakagorria'' by ''Elkar'' basque editor. In 1997 she started to work as an illustrator, mainly of books, and she is now a successful illustrator of children's and young people's books. Her creations are translated into several languages and she is often selected to take part in prestigious illustration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Buenos Aires
The University of Buenos Aires (, UBA) is a public university, public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the second-oldest university in the country, and the largest university of the country by enrollment. Established in 1821, the UBA has educated 17 President of Argentina, Argentine presidents, produced four of the country's five Nobel Prize laureates, and is responsible for approximately 40% of the country's research output. The university's academic strength and regional leadership make it attractive to many international students, especially at the postgraduate level. Just over 4 percent of undergraduates are foreigners, while 15 percent of postgraduate students come from abroad. The Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Economic Sciences has the highest rate of international postgraduate students at 30 percent, in line with its reputation as a "top business school with significant international influence." The University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
