Transcript The Jazz Age!

By: Julieta Sanchez
Leslie Velasco
Fernando Araujo
ABOUT HIM:
Edward made four trips to Europe so he
could study emerging art scenes
there. When working as a
commercial artist, Hopper kept
painting with a original goal in
mind but yet not as much as he
hope for. He sold his small pieces
of water color art works to tourist.
As he began to get older hopper
kept painting a while after he died
in his art studio in Washington
Square in New York.
He was born in New York on July 22nd
1882 and died May 15th 1967.
growing up Hopper studied
illustration and painting he
attended the Institute of Art and
Design in New York.
ABOUT THE PAINTING!
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The idea for this painting
happened While he was
observing the restaurants
and the people inside of it
caught his attention. This
painting shows people
dining inside the
restaurant. A man and a
women dining together. A
man facing inwards and the
bartender serving the
couple.
NIGHTHAWKS
“Lady day”
HER
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
April 7, 1915: Eleanora Fagan Gough, a.k.a.
Billie Holiday, was born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania .Billie Holiday was the jazz
singer of her day and along with the most
admired vocalists of the century. Though
her short life was filled with tragedy,
Holiday left an inspiring legacy of
recorded work. In 1933, she was
discovered performing in a Harlem club
called Monette’s by Columbia. Even
though she had a brutal childhood Billie J
holiday made many duos with famous
singers at that time such as duke Ellington
and Louis Armstrong.
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Billie J. Holiday received many honors in 1995
she received an AFI award.
Billie Holiday was awarded the Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Awards.
In 1994, the United States Postal Service
introduced a Billie Holiday postage stamp
She was also ranked #6 on VH1's 100 Greatest
Women in Rock n' Roll in 1999.
she was nominated into the Hall of Fame in
the year 2000.
The King of Jazz
•Armstrong
was born in a very
poor family in New Orleans ,
Louisiana, he was the
grandson of slaves. He spent
his youth in poverty also in a
rough neighborhood of
Uptown New Orleans, known
as “Back of Town "his father.
•He was an African American
famous jazz trumpeter and
singer
•Everyone knew him as a
charismatic, and innovative
performer whose improvised
soloing which was the main
influence for a fundamental
change in jazz .
His Triumph:
•Armstrong
appeared in more than
a dozen Hollywood films, usually
playing a band leader or musician.
His most familiar role was as the
bandleader cum narrator in the
1956 musical, High Society, in which
he sang the title song and
performed a duet with Bing Crosby
on "Now You Has Jazz".
He continued to sing and play jazz
brilliantly into the Fifties and
Sixties, even managing to unseat
the Beatles.
This feat made him the oldest
musician in Billboard history to
have a Number One song.
Armstrong died at age 69 on July 6,
1971.