Throughout my creative life I was influenced by the most amazing artists, photographers, thinkers, musicians, film makers, dancers, architects. I would like to share their names with you
Photographers
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 – 1879) a British photographer Portrait of Charles Darwin 1868
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon 1820 –1910) a French photographer Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt
Man Ray (1890 –1976) an American in Paris Oeuvres
Bill Brandt (1904 – 1983) a British photographer Nude 1952
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 –2004) a French photographer Madrid, 1933
Irving Penn (1917 – 2009) an American photographer Nicole Kidman, New York, 2003
Guy Burdin, (1928 – 1991) a French fashion photographer
Richard Avedon (1923 – 2004) an American photographer Reverend Martin Cyril D'Arcy, S.J., New York
Don McCullin (1935) a British photographer Soldiers from the Royal Anglian Regiment counter-attack young Catholic stone-throwers in The Bogside, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 1971
Painters
Lascaux (Lascaux Caves) - The caves in the department of Dordogne, France. Their walls are covered by finest Upper Palaeolithic art which is almost 18 thousand years old
Jan van Eyck (c. 1390 –1441) a Flemish painter Portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife
Rogier van der Weyden (1400 –1464) a Flemish painter Portrait of Francesco d'Este
Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 –1516) a Venetian painter Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan
Hieronymus Bosch (1450 –1516) a Netherlandish painter Christ mocked
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 –1519) an Italian painter The Lady with an Ermine (Cecilia Gallerani)
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483 –1520) an Italian painter Portrait of Pope Julius II
Titian (1488/1490 – 1576 ) a Venetian painter Portrait of Charles V 1548
Parmigianino (1503 –1540) an Italian painter The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
Peter Brueghel the Elder (1520 – 1569) a Dutch painter The Adoration of the Magi
El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) (1541-1614) a Greek painter Saint John the Evangelist 1590-1600
Michelangelo Caravaggio (1571? –1610) an Italian painter The Supper at Emmaus
Peter Paul Rubens (1577 –1640) a Flemish painter Portrait of Prince Władysław Vasa
Frans Hals (1582/3 - 1666) a Dutch Painter The Laughing Cavalier
Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) a Spanish painter Pope Innocent X 1650
Rembrandt (1606 –1669) a Dutch painter Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels 1654-6
Johannes Vermeer (1632 –1675) a Dutch painter Woman with a Pearl Necklace 1662/64
Francisco Goya (1746 – 1828) a Spanish painter Portrait of Doña Isabel de Porcel
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755 – 1842) a French painter Self-portrait in a Straw Hat
Édouard Manet (1832 – 1883) a French painter Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets 1872
Edgar Degas (1834-1917) a French painter At the Café 1875/77
Claude Monet (1840 –1926) a French painter Camille Monet on her deathbed 1879
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) a Dutch painter Wheatfield with Crows 1890
Georges Seurat (1859 –1891) a French painter The Circus, 1891
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 –1901) a French painter Au Moulin Rouge 1885
Olga Boznańska (1865 –1940) a Polish painter Self Portrait 1906
Amedeo Modigliani (1884 –1920) an Italian painter Seated Nude (1916)
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (1908 - 2001) a Polish-French painter Katia Lisant
Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) an American painter Oeuvres
Andy Warhol (1928 –1987) an American artist Self-portrait 1986
Draftsmen
Auguste Rodin (1840 –1917 ) a French sculptor and draftsman Sketches of nudes
Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808 – 1879) a French draftsman, painter, sculptor Oeuvres
Sculptors
Nike of Samothrace, 2nd century BC, displayed at the Louvre, Paris
Moissac Abbey, a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery, Tarn-et-Garonne in south-western France, 12th century
Gislebertus, The Cathedral of Saint Lazarus of Autun Burgundy, France 1130 -1135
Annunciation and Visitation at Reims Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Reims), begun 1211
Donatello (1386-1466) an Italian sculptor David (Florence)
Tilman Riemenschneider (1460-1531) a German sculptor Oeuvres
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 – 1564) an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet Rondanini Pietà
David Smith (1906 – 1965) an American sculptor Oeuvres
Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930 –2017) a Polish sculptor Oeuvres
Helaine Blumenfeld an American sculptor working in England & Italy Oeuvres
Dancers
Pina Bausch (1940-2009) a German dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director
Christopher Bruce (born 1945) a British dancer and choreographer -Ghost Dances
Albert van Nierop - a Dutch dancer
Sylvie Guillem - a French ballet dancer
Akram Khan - a British dancer and choreographer with Bangladeshi ancestry
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (born 1976) - a Belgian-Moroccan dancer and choreographer
Musicians
Ida Haendel (1928-2020) a Polish - Canadian violinist
Glenn Gould (1932 –1982) a Canadian pianist The keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach
Ruggiero Ricci (1918 – 2012) an American violinist 24 Caprices for Solo Violin Op. 1 of Niccolò Paganini
John Coltrane (1926-1967) an American jazz saxophonist and composer A Love Supreme
Krystian Zimerman (born 1956) a Polish pianist
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007) a Russian cellist
Anne-Sophie Mutter (born 1963), a German violinist
Ginger Baker (1939-2019), an English Rock drummer Cream, Toad, Royal Albert Hall 1968
Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970), an American guitar player Woodstock, August 1969
Poets and Playwrights
Euripide (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) a Greek playwright
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)- an English playwright and poet – “Sonnets”
Matsuo Bashō (1644 – 1694) born Matsuo Kinsaku - a haiku poet “On Love and Barley”
Cyprian Kamil Norwid (1821 – 1883), a Polish poet “Vademecum”
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 – 1867) - a French poet -“Les Fleurs du mal”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854 – 1891), a French poet “Poésies completes”
Wisława Szymborska (1923 – 2012) a Polish poet Lyrics
Bob Dylan (born 1941) - an American singer-songwriter - Lyrics
Thinkers
Laozi, traditionally the writer of the Tao Te Ching (Taoism) perhaps 5th century BC
Heraclitus (c. 535 BCE–c. 475 BCE), pre-Socratic Greek philosopher ("The Obscure Philosopher")
Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) the 6th or 5th century BC
Socrates (c. 470–399 BC)
Johannes Scotus Eriugena (c. 815–c. 877)
William of Ockham (c. 1287 – 1347)
The Stoics (including Justus Lipsius 1547 – 1606)
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600)
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)
Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (1646 – 1716)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
Alois Riegl (1858– 1905)
William James (1842 - 1910)
Henri Bergson (1859 – 1941)
Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961)
Pierre Janet (1859-1947)
Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)
Janusz Korczak (1878–1942)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
Werner Heisenberg (1901 – 1976)
Jan Kott (1914–2001)
Herbert Marcuse (1898 – 1979)
John Cage (1912 – 1992)
Annette Laming-Empiraire (1917-1977)
Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926 – 2000)
Peter Brook (1925 – 2022)
Designers
Alex Brodovitch (1898 – 1971) a Russian-born designer & an art director of Harper's Bazaar (1938 - 1958)
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) a French poet/printed page designer Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard
Technique
Tesserae mosaic - The Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy, the middle of the 6th century
Grisailles painting - Pieter Bruegel the Elder Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (1565)
Schiacciato (shallow relief) - Donatello (around 1425-1430) Virgin and Child (The Pazzi Madonna)
Architecture
Ictinus (mid 5th century BC) a Greek architect The Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens & the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
The Pantheon in Rome, Italy commissioned by the emperor Hadrian (completed probably AD 126)
King's College Chapel, Cambridge build from 1446 to 1515 architects: Reginald Ely, John Wastell and others
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 – 1564) an Italian sculptor, architect, and poet Piazza del Campidoglio; Rome, Italy
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507 – 1573) an Italian architect Chiesa del Gesù; Rome, Italy
Francesco Borromini ( 1599 – 1667) an Italian architect San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome, Italy
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 – 1969) a German architect The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) Berlin
Louis Kahn (1901 –1974) an Estonian-born American architect Salk Institute in La Jolla, California
Filmmakers
Ingmar Bergman a Swedish film director & Sven Nykvist a Swedish cinematographer Persona
Akira Kurosawa a Japanese film director & Asakazu Nakai a Japanese cinematographer Seven Samurai
Peter Brook a British theatre and film director & David Watkin a British cinematographer Marat/Sade
Jean-Luc Godard a French film director & Raoul Coutard a French cinematographer “A woman is a woman”