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Welsh Art
Welsh art is the traditions in the visual arts associated with Wales and its people. Most art found in, or connected with, Wales is essentially a regional variant of the forms and styles of the rest of the British Isles, a very different situation from that of Welsh literature. The term Art in Wales is often used in the absence of a clear sense of what "Welsh art" is, and to include the very large body of work, especially in landscape art, produced by non-Welsh artists in Wales (or with a Welsh subject) since the later 18th century. Early history Prehistoric Wales has left a number of significant finds: Kendrick's Cave, Llandudno contained the Kendrick's Cave Decorated Horse Jaw, "a decorated horse jaw which is not only the oldest known work of art from Wales but also unique among finds of Ice Age art from Europe", and is now in the British Museum. In 2011 "faint scratchings of a speared reindeer" were found on a cave wall on the Gower Peninsula which probably date to 12,0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bard (1774)
A bard is a minstrel in medieval Scottish, Irish, and Welsh societies; and later re-used by romantic writers. For its wider definition including similar roles in other societies, see List of oral repositories. Bard, BARD, Bård or similar terms may also refer to: People *Bard (surname) *Bård, Norwegian given name and surname "The Bard of..." etc. *William Shakespeare (1564–1616), the Bard of Avon or the Bard *Robert Burns (1759–1796), the Bard of Ayrshire or the Bard *Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), the Bard of Bengal *John Cooper Clarke (born 1949), the Bard of Salford *Richard Llwyd (1752–1835), the Bard of Snowdon *Thomas Rowley (poet) (1721–1796), the Bard of the Green Mountains *Robert W. Service (1874–1958), the Bard of the Yukon *Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair ( 1698–1770), the Great Bard Fictional characters *Bard the Bowman, a character from J. R. R. Tolkien's novel ''The Hobbit'' *Beedle the Bard, an author of fairy tales in the ''Harry Potter'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
