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akg-images Virtual Watercooler

Week commencing 28th November

27 November 2022

It's the akg-images Virtual Watercooler, with interesting little snippets of information about the week ahead to share with your colleagues who don't care for football.

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28 November: William Blake was born in 1757. The painter, poet and printmaker's work was unrecognised during his lifetime but he is now considered one of the most important figures of the Romantic age. ​ Blake mentioned the ‘doors of perception' in his famous work, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The line influenced Aldous Huxley, whose book on psychedelic drug use was named The Doors of Perception, which in turn inspired the name of the rock group, the Doors. TAP THE IMAGE FOR MORE. (AKG45145. “The Ancient of Days”, 1793, by William Blake. ©akg-images)
28 November: William Blake was born in 1757. The painter, poet and printmaker's work was unrecognised during his lifetime but he is now considered one of the most important figures of the Romantic age. ​ Blake mentioned the ‘doors of perception' in his famous work, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The line influenced Aldous Huxley, whose book on psychedelic drug use was named The Doors of Perception, which in turn inspired the name of the rock group, the Doors. TAP THE IMAGE FOR MORE. (AKG45145. “The Ancient of Days”, 1793, by William Blake. ©akg-images)
29 November 1963: The Beatles released "I Want to Hold Your Hand," which knocked their other hit single "She Loves You", off the number one slot, giving them the number one and two spots on the UK charts. It was also the group's first US number-one hit, signalling the start of the British Invasion of the US music industry. (AKG542655. "The Beatles, photo 1960s". ©akg-images / Album)
29 November 1963: The Beatles released "I Want to Hold Your Hand," which knocked their other hit single "She Loves You", off the number one slot, giving them the number one and two spots on the UK charts. It was also the group's first US number-one hit, signalling the start of the British Invasion of the US music industry. (AKG542655. "The Beatles, photo 1960s". ©akg-images / Album)
30 November: Mark Twain, the American writer and humourist was born in 1835. Many of his works address racism, class barriers, access to education and societal issues that remain relevant today. Twain based his literary character Huckleberry Finn on a real boy that he knew as a child. ​ (AKG257290. "Mark Twain. Photo, c.1900". ©akg-images)
30 November: Mark Twain, the American writer and humourist was born in 1835. Many of his works address racism, class barriers, access to education and societal issues that remain relevant today. Twain based his literary character Huckleberry Finn on a real boy that he knew as a child. ​ (AKG257290. "Mark Twain. Photo, c.1900". ©akg-images)
1 December 1822: Franz Liszt, Hungarian piano virtuoso, debuts at a concert in Vienna at age 11. He would go on to become an accomplished teacher, pianist, and composer. "Lisztomania" was a term coined by poet Heinrich Heine to describe the intense levels of emotion demonstrated by fans toward Liszt during his performances. At the time, the word 'mania' indicated a medical condition rather than a fashion or fad, and there were recommended measures to immunize the public against Lisztomania. (AKG140177. "Franz Liszt," 1839, by Painting, 1839, by Heinrich Lehmann. ©akg-images)
1 December 1822: Franz Liszt, Hungarian piano virtuoso, debuts at a concert in Vienna at age 11. He would go on to become an accomplished teacher, pianist, and composer. "Lisztomania" was a term coined by poet Heinrich Heine to describe the intense levels of emotion demonstrated by fans toward Liszt during his performances. At the time, the word 'mania' indicated a medical condition rather than a fashion or fad, and there were recommended measures to immunize the public against Lisztomania. (AKG140177. "Franz Liszt," 1839, by Painting, 1839, by Heinrich Lehmann. ©akg-images)
2 December: Georges Seurat was born in 1859. The French post-Impressionist painter developed techniques known as chromoluminarism (the separation of colours into individual dots of patches) and pointillism (where small painted dots create an image). For many people, their first experience of Seurat was during Cameron's moment of introspection in a museum in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. ​ (AKG7237804. "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", 1884-86, by Georges Seurat. ©akg-images)
2 December: Georges Seurat was born in 1859. The French post-Impressionist painter developed techniques known as chromoluminarism (the separation of colours into individual dots of patches) and pointillism (where small painted dots create an image). For many people, their first experience of Seurat was during Cameron's moment of introspection in a museum in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. ​ (AKG7237804. "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", 1884-86, by Georges Seurat. ©akg-images)

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