Reading Vocab-o-log

• Diego Rivera: a Mexican painter and muralist born in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato. Perhaps his finest surviving work in the United States are the 27 fresco panels entitled Detroit Industry on the walls of an inner court at the Detroit Institute of Arts that he painted in 1932. (December 8, 1886 - November 24, 1957)
• José Clemente Orozco: a Mexican social realist painter who specialized in bold murals. Orozco was fond of the theme of the human versus the mechanical. He was also a genre painter and lithographer. (November 23, 1883 - September 7, 1949)
• David Alfaro Siqueiros: a Mexican painter and muralist known for his social realism work. (December 29, 1896 - January 6, 1974)
• Sebastião Salgado: a Brazilian documentary photographer and photojournalist. (born February 8, 1944)
• Diane Arbus: an American photographer, noted for her portraits of people on the fringes of society. (March 14, 1923 - July 26, 1971)
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: a French Neoclassical painter. Although he thought of himself as a painter of history, by the end of his life it was his portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy. (August 29, 1780 - January 14, 1867)
• "the interior torture of a Bacon" - don't know which artist Bacon this refers to.
• Presentiment: a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition
• Polyphemus: a character in Greek mythology, is a Cyclops, the one-eyed son of Poseidon and Thoosa. Polyphemus plays a pivotal role in Homer's Odyssey.
• Leica: the name of several cameras produced by a German company of the same name.
• Nascent: coming or having recently come into existence
• Buenos Aires: the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port. It is located on the southern shore of the Río de la Plata (also known as the River Plate), on the southeastern coast of the American continent.
• Río: the Portuguese and Spanish word for "river". OR Río de Janeiro: a major city in southeastern Brazil and the capital of the state of Río de Janeiro. The city was once the capital of Brazil and of the Portuguese Empire. Commonly known as just Río, the city is also nicknamed A Cidade Maravilhosa - "The Marvelous City".
• Caracas: the capital and largest city of Venezuela. It is located in the north of the country, following the contours of a narrow mountain valley located on the Venezuelan coastal range (Cordillera de la Costa). The valley is close to the Caribbean Sea, separated from the coast by a steep mountain range (Cerro Ávila); to the south lies further hills and mountains.
• Lima: the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers; on a coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It forms a contiguous urban area with the seaport of Callao.
• Bogotá: officially named Bogotá, D.C. (D.C. for "Distrito Capital"), also called Santa Fe de Bogotá, is the capital of Colombia as well as the largest and by far the most populous city in the country.
• Santiago: officially Santiago de Chile, is the capital of the Chile and its largest city when viewed as a conurbation (Greater Santiago). It is situated in the country's central valley.
• Pompier OR L'art pompier: literally "Fireman Art", is a derisory late nineteenth century French term for large "official" academic art paintings of the time, especially historical or allegorical ones. It derives from the fancy helmets, with horse-hair tails, worn by French firemen - now only for parades. Pompier art was seen by those who used the term as the epitome of the values of the bourgeoisie, and as insincere and overblown.
• Gladiolas OR Gladiolus: a genus of flowering plants in the iris family (Iridaceae). Sometimes called the sword lily, the most widely-used English common name for these plants is simply gladiolus (plural gladioli or gladioluses).