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Robert De Niro-Short Biography and the Best Pictures
ROBERT DE NIRO
Robert Anthony De Niro Jr.
(17 August 1943, New York, New York)
Nationality: United States, Italy
Category: Celebrities
Occupation: Actor, director, producer
Specification: iconic American film actor, two-time Academy Award-winning
Major Genres: drama, comedy, crime
Gender: Male
Height: 5′ 9½” (1.77 m)
Spouse: Grace Hightower (m. 1997), he has 6 children. (daughter Helen Grace Hightower De Niro, b. 23 Dec. 2011)
Home town: Manhattan, New York
Founder of the Tribeca Film Festival
First Major Screen Credit: Greetings (1968)
Career Highlights: Brazil (1985), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990)
Academy Awards: for Best Supporting Actor (1974) for The Godfather Part II, for Best Actor (1981) for Raging Bull
Nominated: Best Actor, Taxi Driver (1976); The Deer Hunter (1978); Awakenings (1990); Cape Fear (1991).
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor: New York, New York (1977), Midnight Run (1988), Analyze This (1999) and Meet the Parents (2000, with Ben Stiller).
Other Major works:
Directed: A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006, starred Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie).
Art by Charles Roka a Hungarian painter
Charles Roka
Róka Károly
(1912, Hungary–1999, Bærum, Norway)
Nationality: Hungary
Category: Art workers
Occupation: Painter
Specification: Hungarian painter
Style: Kitsch, velvet painting, provocative art
Education: Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest
Personal Life: In 1937 he finally settled in Norway, and lived in Bærum, outside Oslo until his death.
Career: In 1950 he painted his first picture of the half-naked Gipsy Girl . Roka had several exhibitions in Madrid, Barcelona, and Lausanne and he was very popular among the average Scandinavian people.
Vicente Romero Redondo – modern Spanish artist
Vicente Romero Redondo
(born on 1956, Madrid, Spane)
Nationality: Spane
Category: Art workers
Occupation: Painter
Specification: He is known for amazing female pastel and oil paintings. “Superb Spanish painter of beauty and light”.
Gender: Male
Style: Figurative, Neo-realism
Subjects: Portraits, seascapes, the nude,
Medium: Pastel, oil.
Major topic: Female and her femininity.
Education: In 1982 he graduated from the art faculty of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid).
Spouse: Silvina Gottero (married in 2008)
Personal Life: He is the eldest of four sons in family. Due to the work of his father, he grew up in many different towns all over Spain.
In 1971 he with his family moved back to Madrid.
He sdudied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Francisco Goya was once one of the academy’s directors, and, its alumni include Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, hwo studied there from 1922-1926. He started his early years in sculpture and later turned into painting.
Since 1987, he lives in the town of Calonge on the Mediterranean coast of Costa Brava (the birthplace of Salvador Dali).
Career: After graduating from the Academy he worked on the street for several years. Since the early 90s Romero’s paintings have been shown in individual expositions in Portugal, Spain France and the USA . In 2001 he moved to Madrid, but he still spends time in the Costa Brava. Since 2002, took part in the fifteen major art exhibitions.
Some galleries have permanent exhibitions of his work: the Euroarte (Lisbon), Masters Gallery (Denver), Masters Gallery (Vail), Aspen Grove Fine Art (Aspen), Galerie Züger (Dallas), Puerta de Alcalá (Madrid), The Little Gallery (Saint-Émilion). Some of his most recent exhibitions: Petleys (Londres,2010),Pizarro (Valencia, 2011), Benedito ( Málaga, 2012), Salon International du pastel en Périgord (2012).
Creative style: He used to work with the classical style, which allows to get most out of oil paints highlighting the colors and shapes. In recent years, he gives preference to the pastels, wich he more spontaneous. The artist himself states that pastel colors allow to have “unrivaled delicacy” and to compose elements with admirable light. Recently, he producing a mutually enriching dialogue between the two techniques.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini – Great Italian sculptor and architect
A self-portrait (c.1665) Royal Coll., Windsor GIAN BERNINI
Gian (Giovanni) Lorenzo Bernini
7 December 1598, Naples, Italy — 28 November 1680, Rome) (aged 81)
Nationality: Italy
Category: Art workers
Occupation: Sculptor, architect, painter.
Specification: Founder of the Baroque style of architecture and sculpture, the greatest sculptor-architect of his time.
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Gian Bernini Quotes:
1. Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.
2. An architect proves his skill by turning the defects of a site into advantages. 3. There are two devices which can help the sculptor to judge his work: one is not to see it for a while. The other… is to look at his work through spectacles which will change its color and magnify or diminish it, so as to disguise it somehow to his eye, and make it look as though it were the work of another…
Creative Vision 
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