Play Music – Share Audio – Biography_ Arthur Ashe_ 1943… I’m Barbara Klein. And I’m Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the life of tennis champion Arthur Ashe. He was an athlete and a social activist who died before he was fifty. He was honored for his […]
Upload Music Files – Share Audio – Biography – Winslow Homer_ A… I’m Steve Ember. And I’m Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Winslow Homer, considered to be the greatest American artist of the nineteenth century. Homer created pictures that showed the relationship between humans and nature. […]
Listen Music – Download Audio – Biography – Robert Rauschenb… I’m Steve Ember. And I’m Faith Lapidus with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Robert Rauschenberg. He is widely considered one of the most influential artists of the past half-century. Throughout his long career, Rauschenberg explored painting, sculpture, printmaking and […]
Download Music – Play Audio – Nam June Paik 1932-2006_ One… I’m Shirley Griffith. And I’m Mario Ritter with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Nam June Paik is widely considered one of the first video artists. Today, video art is a rich and popular field in modern art. But in the 1960s, the use of […]
Music File Hosting – Upload Audio Files – Biography – Mary Cassatt_ 18… I’m Bob Doughty. And I’m Faith Lapidus with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the nineteenth century artist Mary Cassatt. She was best known for her beautifully expressive paintings of women and children. Cassatt spent her life working to […]
Listen Music Files – Download Audio – Leonardo da Vinci_ 1452-1519… I’m Steve Ember. And I’m Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about one of the greatest thinkers in the world, Leonardo da Vinci. He began his career as an artist. But his interest in the world around him drove […]
Music File Hosting – Listen Audio – Biography_ Jackson Pollock_ … I’m Faith Lapidus. And I’m Bob Doughty with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about the famous artist Jackson Pollock who helped redefine modern art in the United States. Pollock invented a new kind of painting that changed the way […]
Share Music – Free Audio – Biography – Isabella Stewart… I’m Steve Ember. And I’m Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the art collector and cultural supporter, Isabella Stewart Gardner. During the late nineteenth century, she traveled around the world to learn about foreign cultures and improve […]
Embed Music Files – Share Audio – Biography – Georgia O_Keefe_… I’m Gwen Outen. And I’m Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, Georgia O’Keeffe. America has produced many great painters in the past one hundred years. Georgia O’Keeffe […]
Music File Hosting – Free Audio – Biography – George Catlin Pa… This is Mary Tillotson. And this is Steve Ember with the Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we present the second part of our program about American artist George Catlin and his paintings of Native Americans. Last week, we told how George Catlin had […]