Verso.October Birthdays 3--Lois Mailou Jones, 1905 4--Frederic Remington, 1861; Jean-Francois Millet millet, common name for several species of grasses cultivated mainly for cereals in the Eastern Hemisphere and for forage and hay in North America. The principal varieties are the foxtail, pearl, and barnyard millets and the proso millet, called also broomcorn millet , 1814 8--Beverly Buchanan, 1940; Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold (born October 8, 1930) is an African-American artist and author. Ringgold was born and raised in Harlem and educated at the City College of New York, where she studied with Robert Gwathmey and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. , 1934 10--Alberto Giacometti, 1901 20--Jackie Winsor, 1941 21--Katsushika Hokusai, 1760 22--Robert Rauschenberg, 1925 25--Pablo Picasso, 1881 27--Roy Lichtenstein, 1923; Lee Krasner, 1923 30--Angelica Kauffman, 1740 31--Johannes Vermeer, 1632 Dearest Friends Last year, we asked readers to share their fifteen dearest friends in the artworld. Here's a list of old friends complied by high school art students at Hinsdale Central High School in suburban Chicago. 1. Whistler's Nocturne nocturne (nŏk`tûrn) [Fr.,=night piece], in music, romantic instrumental piece, free in form and usually reflective or languid in character. John Field wrote the first nocturnes, influencing Chopin in the writing of his 19 nocturnes for piano. in Blue and Green 2. Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on La Grande latte 3. O'Keeffe's White Iris white iris diplarrenamoraea. 4. Klimt's The Kiss 5. Rousseau's The Jungle 6. Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even 7. Raphael's Sistine Madonna 8. Melozzo da Forli's Angel with Lute 9. Michelangelo's Pieta 10. Renoir's Two Circus Girls 11. Delaunay's Little Eiffel Tower 12. Magritte's The Dominion of Light 13. Wood's American Gothic 14. Homer's The Life Line 15. Hopper's Nighthawks This article is about the painting by Edward Hopper. For other uses, see Nighthawks (disambiguation). Nighthawks (1942) is a painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. Future Identities A teacher was trying to persuade her young students to buy a copy of the class picture. "Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, `There's Mary, she's a lawyer,' of `That's John, he's a doctor." From the back of the room, a small voice said, "And there's the teacher. She's dead." Little-Known Facts Did you know that the instructional methods most frequently used by secondary art teachers are class discussion, demonstration, group critiques, and small-group work? --an NAEA NAEA National Association of Estate Agents (UK) NAEA National Art Education Association NAEA National Association of Enrolled Agents NAEA National Abstinence Education Association NAEA National Atomic Energy Agency Factoid fac·toid n. 1. A piece of unverified or inaccurate information that is presented in the press as factual, often as part of a publicity effort, and that is then accepted as true because of frequent repetition: from "Art Teachers in Secondary Schools." A Room with a View Two centuries after being moved into the Louvre Louvre (l  `vrə), foremost French museum of art, located in Paris. The building was a royal fortress and palace built by Philip II in the late 12th cent. and sharing cramped
quarters with other masterpieces, The Mona Lisa is finally getting a
room of her own. The new private gallery that will house the
oil-on-poplar-wood painting will provide more than 2,000 square feet of
viewing space for the museum's top tourist attraction.
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