BELLAS ARTES

Longtime music icon John Mellencamp’s artistic expression has never been limited to song. The acclaimed singer-songwriter John Mellencamp has been an accomplished painter for more than four decades. This definitive survey—curated by Mellencamp himself—of his large-scale oil portraits and mixed-media assemblages documents America’s heart and soul, revealing unsettling but beautiful truths with an antiestablishment frown and a rich sense of narrative.   “Although we may primarily know Mellencamp as a rock star, one of the highest-selling of all time and a Hall of Famer, he is also a great painter, as this book shows. Not a musician who also paints... No, John legitimately belongs in the modern art pantheon,” says Bob Guccione Jr. in his essay that delineates the connection of Mellencamp’s music and art, both imbued with the earnest voice of America’s heartland.

Este diccionario pretende reunir de forma muy concisa pero detallada y efectiva todas las informaciones de interés para el lector sobre todo lo que se refiere al mundo de la ópera, y en especial: - Cantantes y otros intérpretes operísticos - Operas por sus títulos - Arias famosas de óperas - Personajes más destacados de las principales óperas - Compositores que han dejado óperas - Ciudades y teatros por su nombre oficial - Terminología especialmente importante en el campo de la ópera - Organismos.

The impressionists were forever inspired by the sea, which Claude Monet considered “a wonderful teacher for landscape artists.” The movement’s penchant for plein air painting and its characteristic style, with delicate brushstrokes and incomparable color palettes, was perfectly suited to portrayals of the sea and its perpetual movement, from gently rippling waves to raging storms.