MASTERPIECES OF WORLD CULTURE
Culture is one of vivid forms of human’s values. Speaking of culture, first of all, we keep in mind spiritual values of mankind. Regardless of what aspect of culture we examine, its meaning is determined by what influence the culture renders on spiritual world of the individual. By creating a variety world of culture, the person at the same time creates their own spiritual appearance. Genres of art such as poetry, prose, music, painting, and others, retain in themselves unique creations of the human spirit. The most significant sign of culture is its all-penetrating nature into all spheres of the society. Thanks to scientific and technological progress, masterpieces of world culture are actively popularizing all over the world. Today, real revival and the expansion of masterpieces of world culture are closely associated with the Internet. The greatest creations of art and interesting information about life and work of great painters, poets, authors, and composers, whose names are written in golden letters on the glorious pages of world culture history, are found on “Masterpieces of World Culture” website. This website represents spiritual interests and preferences of a wide range of people.
AUTHOR OF THE MONTH:
Jonathan Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His third novel, The Corrections (2001), a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His most recent novel, Freedom, was published in August 2010.
Franzen writes for The New Yorker magazine. He is also known for his 1996 Harper's essay "Perchance to Dream" bemoaning the state of literature, and for the 2001 controversy surrounding the selection of The Corrections for Oprah Winfrey's book club. In 2010, he attracted further attention while on a visit to London when a literary event was stormed and his spectacles were whisked from his face, a ransom note for $100,000 deposited and a polic ... Read More >>
CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS:
Poet
W.Bakhtari
Wasef Bakhtari (Born 1942 in Balkh, Afghanistan) is a renowned Persian poet, literary figure and intellectual.
Wasef Bakhtari holds a BA degree in Persian from Kabul University. He did his graduate studies in the U.S. and received ...
Writer
A.Solzhenitsyn
(1918 - 2008)
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union ...
Composer
G.Benjamin
(1960 - present)
George Benjamin (born 31 January 1960, London, England) is a British composer of classical music. He is also a conductor, pianist and teacher. Benjamin attended Westminster School and then studied with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Cons ...
Artist
A.A.Safi
Ahmed Al Safi was born in Al Diwaniyah, Iraq in 1971. Al Safi studied sculpture at the Fine Arts Academy in Baghdad. He won the Ismail Fatah Al Turk prize for young sculptors 2000.
Al Safi's art reflects the c ...