Salvador Dali, Surrealist Painter

-known for bizarre images
-highly imaginative
-shot many strange videos

Claude Debussy, French Impressionist Composer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir8snfWIU2M


Claude Debussy has a very distinct impressionist style. Even when I'm not sure of the artist when I hear a Debussy composition I can often take a good guess.

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pianist

Sergei Rachmaninoff is a romantic piano composer known for his, solemn, powerful songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtuMVBLEWJU

Prelude in C Sharp Minor- Rachmaninoff earned the nickname "Mr. C Sharp Minor" because of this composition much to his unliking.

David Hammons

-Mostly known for his works in and around New York in the 70's.
-Much of his work, including Spade with Chains (1973), reflects his commitment to the civil rights and Black Power movements.

Sanford Biggers

-interdisciplinary artist who works in film/video, installation, sculpture, music, and performance.
-Biggers's art frequently references African American ethnography
-Biggers is Affiliate Faculty at the VCU Sculpture and Expanded Media program and was a visiting scholar at Harvard's VES Department in 2009.

Cheri Samba, Congolese painter

His paintings almost always include text in French and Lingala, commenting on life in Africa and the modern world. Chéri Samba lives in Kishasha and Paris.

Fight Against Mosquitoes (Mosquitoes refers to Malara in many French-speaking countries of Africa) This painting was also in the Anderson Gallery.

Nnenna Okore

• inspiration stems from childhood at Nsukka, small university town in southeastern Nigeria.

• was fascinated by the social, natural, and man-made conditions in rural dwellings around the campus.

• works celebrate the transformation of discarded objects into cultural objects.

Trash bags, This particular work is was on display at the Anderson Gallery here at VCU.