Roy Lichtenstein

Claude Monet played an essential role in the development of Impressionism. He created many paintings by capturing the art of nature from the world around him. He was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France. Later, his family moved to Le Havre, Normandy, France because of his father’s business. Claude Monet did drawings of nature in Normandy and time spent along the beaches, observing nature. As a child, his father had always wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but he found…

Illustration in Disney In this essay I am going to be talking about illustration in Disney. I am mainly going to be writing about Carl Barks (the creator of Disney’s Scrooge McDuck) and Paul Murry (a co-creator of Goofy (along with Walt Disney and Art Babbitt) Both of these artists created famous Disney classic characters and they also are both Disney comic artists. I have chosen these two artists because I am very interested in the field of illustration, Disney and these specific characters.…

Walter Elias Disney was often described as “The great American motion-picture and television producer and showman, famous as a pioneer of cartoon films and as the creator of Disneyland” (Walt Disney Biography). Disney was very successful in his life time and still is to this day cherished and looked up to by so many young kids and adults alike. Walt has been my top motivation for quite a while, not only because he is one of the most successful animators in history, but because no matter what…

Edwin Catmull’s entire life has been based around his love for animation. As a little kid, Ed would wait for Walt Disney to come appear on Sundays on his black and white 12” television. He called it the, “Disney Magic”. Walt Disney was on of Catmull’s boyhood idols. The other idol that he had as a child was Albert Einstein. He explained, in his autobiography, the reason he probably looked up to these two men. He felt that they both represented creativity, just in different ways. Disney…

Similarities and differences Between Disney and Fox Walt Disney and Twenty-First Century Fox are the most famous companies and they have a competitive relationship in the movie areas. In the newest of Fortune 500 companies, Disney and Fox also belong to the list of entertainment because they make same products in the same areas. That is the reason why some media always compare Disney and Fox. However, when we pay attention to their similarities, we should know they also have some differences.…

Week 3 compost Karl Singletary I am proud to call Karl Singletary uncle (Bird) this is a nick name my grandfather gave him because as a little boy he wanted to fly. My grandparents didn't approve of Karl dancing, so he left home at a very young age, he danced ballet in Europe and across the USA as a young man after training for decades under the world’s greatest Russian classicists. According to PAUL A. BARRA Karl Singletary was the first African American to receive a scholarship…

(12) Unfortunately, the business failed, but Walter wasn’t ready to give up on his dream. (13) He decided to partner with his older brother Roy, and start another company. (14) Walter spent hours at the drawing board and eventually developed a cartoon character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. (15) People liked the character, but it didn’t bring Walter fame or fortune. (16) Determined to become…

Have you ever heard of George Herriman? He was a famous cartoonist. What Is it he was famous for, you might ask. Well, he was famous for making the world wide loved comic strip Krazy Katz. It was a story about a cat named Krazy who had many adventures with his friends. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 22nd in 1880. He grew up in New Orleans until he was a teenager. When he was a teenager his family and him moved to Los Angeles to get away from Jim Crow Laws. Growing up he…

Have you ever heard of the famous painter of light? This man is Thomas Kinkade. Kinkade grew up in Placerville, California. Always admiring and sketching the mountains, his family knew he could draw well by the age of four; Before he was sixteen, Kinkade was under an apprenticeship of the famous artist Glen Wessels. As Kinkade grew older and finished school at the University of California at Berkeley; He and his friend, James Gurney, traveled from California to New York to sketch different areas…

I was 15 when my father, and uncle Maffeo came back, and found out that Clement IV, the pope, had died. They stayed for two years. Waiting to see who the new pope would be, but we haven’t heard yet, so they decided to leave for the Mongol court, and they took me with them, and before we left, Teobaldo, a friend gave us letters to give to the Mongol emperor. A few days after being on our expedition, we heard that Teobaldo was elected pope as Gregory X. We went down to Acre to receive credentials,…