On the 22nd of September 1875, Lithuanian painter, composer and writer Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was born in Senoji Varėna, the Russian Empire. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and ...
https://artlark.org/2022/09/22/the-musical-brush-of-m-k-ciurlionis/
On the 17th of September 1982, American artist Ettore “Ted” De Grazia died in Tucson, Arizona. He was an impressionist, western pop painter, sculptor, and lithographer best known for his past...
https://artlark.org/2022/09/17/ettore-de-grazias-experiments-in-art-and-music/
On the 5th of September 1912, American composer, theorist, writer, and the pioneer of indeterminacy in music John Cage was born in Los Angeles, California. After having studied piano in LA and Pa...
https://artlark.org/2022/09/05/john-cages-music-of-chance-and-change/
On the 27th of August 1521, the Renaissance Netherlandish composer Josquin des Prez died in Condé-sur-l’Escaut, nowadays Northern France. The exact year and place of his birth are still not ...
https://artlark.org/2022/08/27/the-early-music-masters-josquin-des-prez/
On the 1st of August 1949, American poet and punk musician Jim Carroll was born in Manhattan, New York City. Initially a pupil at Catholic schools, in 1964 he won a scholarship to the elite Trini...
On the 19th of July 1868, American amateur operatic soprano Florence Foster Jenkins was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Jenkins had no sense of rhythm or intonation, yet she became highly pop...
https://artlark.org/2022/07/19/florence-foster-jenkins-and-the-un-glory-of-the-human-voice/
On the 15th of July 1937, the American artist Wes Wilson was born in Sacramento, California. He is generally regarded as the pioneer of the psychedelic poster and inventor of the psychedelic font...
https://artlark.org/2022/07/15/lsd-and-the-psychedelic-art-movement/
On the 3rd of July 2001, British composer of electronic music and musique concrète (a form of electroacustic music) Delia Derbyshire died in Northampton, England. Alongside Daphne Oram and Madda...
https://artlark.org/2022/07/03/delia-derbyshire-doctor-who-electronic-music-and-feminism/
On the 5th of June 1918, English composer, arranger and pianist Robert Docker was born in London. The son of a Paddington gas worker, Docker studied piano, viola and composition at the Royal Acad...
https://artlark.org/2022/06/05/robert-docker-and-the-heavy-issue-of-light-music/
On the 1st of June 1942, the Spanish Flamenco composer and guitarist Paco Peña was born in Córdoba, Spain. Regarded as one of the world’s foremost traditional Flamenco players, Peña began hi...
https://artlark.org/2022/06/01/paco-pena-flamenco-and-the-question-of-national-identity-in-spain/