Unit 8 Section B Ways of Increasing Creativity.docVIP

Unit 8 Section B Ways of Increasing Creativity I. Background Information Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931), a famous America inventor with little formal schooling, developed the worlds first electric power station (1882). His more than 1,000 inventions included: the automatic telegraph system (1862), the incandescent lamp (1879), the mimeograph, the carbon microphone for telephones, the film projector and the phonograph (1877). His early labs led to our modern research labs and his work pioneered the electronic revolution of the 20th Century. Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973), a famous Spanish painter, lived in France from 1904. He dominated art in the first half of the 20th Century with his endless creativity and technical ability. His blue period (1901-1904) focused on the disadvantaged while his happier rose period (1904 -1907) marked the start of cubism with his painting Les Demoiselles dAvignon (1907). His increasingly violent, partly surrealistic paintings in the 1920s and 1930s included Guernica (1937). Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), famous English dramatist and poet, wrote the most influential body of literature in the Western world. His works include 36 plays, 154 sonnets and 2 narrative poems. His are the first modern plays with dramatic personalities who speak in the imaginative, dramatic blank verse he perfected. An actor and writer, Shakespeare did not participate in the printing of his plays. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), one of the greatest German composers, lived in Vienna from 1792. Deaf by 1819, Beethoven is known for orchestral works that included both late classical and early romantic elements and changed the musical forms of symphony, sonata and concerto. Salvador Dali (1904-1991), a famous Spanish painter, lived in Paris, studied the writings of Freud and became known for surrealism. His paintings show dream images in photographic reality on a Spanish desert background. Dali was recognized all over the world by his peculiar appearance especial