Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher, was born in Leeuarden (Netherlands) on June 17, 1898 and he died on March 27, 1972 with 73 years. He was the youngest son of George Arnold Escher and his second wife, Sara Gleichman.

When he was young he had bad marks except in drawing. In 1919, he attended the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts.  

In 1922 he travelled to Spain and Italy where he met his wife, Jetta Umiker. Of all his trips, Escher remained very impressed by the Alhambra (one of his sources of inspiration).

Though he didn’t have a mathematics education, he could fuse the artistic drawing with the mathematics. His works had a strong mathematical component and he was drawing impossible objects as Necker cube and the Penrose Triangle.

I have chosen Escher because he could fuse two areas that for many people are unamicable. In addition he changed totally the way of seeing the art.

 

 Laia Coma

Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel was born in 1883, in France, in an orphanage, and her real name was Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel.

Her family was very poor, without economics means. She lives in a precarious situation in the beginning of her life. She had a very difficult childhood because, her mother died when she’d twelve years old and her father abandoned her when she was younger.

She transformed the fashion world and she was a revolutionary woman with a strong and tough character due at her infancy. She was a pioneering French fashion designer and makes her an important figure in 20^th century to nowadays.

In 1909, she started in the fashion world, designing clothes and hats in Paris.

Also, one year later, in 1910, with the financial support of her lover, Boy Capel, Coco opens her first clothing store: Fashion Clothing Chanel.

She converts precarious, old and simple clothes in a new trend with luxury and elegance, which nowadays we still use. She was the founder of the famous fashion brand Chanel.

Rich and famous women, bought her products, complements and clothes, and Coco can make her own fortune.

Coco Chanel changed and revolutionized the way of the dress of women in the XX century, becoming an important and fashion symbol. She died in 1971, in Paris, France.

Sandra Fillet

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison:

Thomas Alva Edison born on February 11, 1847 and dies on October 18, 1931 at the age of 84. He was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb.

Edison became a telegraph operator after saving a 13 years old boy from the rails. The father of this young boy trained Edison as a telegraph operator. He was married at the age of 24 with Mary Stilwell , a 16-year-old girl, whom he had met txo months earlier. He began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices, but his first important invention was the phonograph in 1877. Edison was active in business right up to the end. Just months before his death in 1931, the Lackawanna Railroad implemented electric trains in suburban service from Hoboken to Gladstone, Montclair and Dover in New Jersey. Finally Thomas Edison died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931, in his home.

We have choosed Thomas Edison, because we think that he’s an interesting person because he had patented a lot of invents like the bulb, invents that nowadays are simple but thanks to the invents of those people we are so technologically advanced. Also we have chosen Edison because he has around 1500 patents, that are a lot of patents, that means he had passed a lot of time estuding and innoving.

Nico Fernandez and Oriol Gresa

2nC.B

Elvis

Elvis Aaron Presley, also known as the “King of Rock and Roll” was born January 8th, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi. His twin brother was stillborn, so Elvis grew up as an only child. In 1948, at the age of 13, he moved with his family to Memphis and graduated from High School in 1953.

Elvis’ music influences were a combination of the pop and country music of the time, the music he heard in church and the music he heard as a teenager in Memphis. In 1954, he began singing with the Sun Records company in Memphis. One year later, in 1955, his contract was sold to RCA Victor. Another year later, in 1956, he was international. With his new style of music, he reached to people from all over, no matter the age, the sex or the colour. He became a symbol for America’s music and culture.

Elvis also starred in 33 films like “Love me tender”, appeared on television and made many live concerts in Las Vegas. In his hole career he has sold over one billion records (more than any other artist) and received many awards such as the “Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award”, at age of 36.

His talent, good looks and sensuality and also his humility and goodness made him earn millions. Elvis died at his house in Memphis, Graceland, on August 16, 1977. He's remembered as one of the most important people of 20^th century popular culture.

Michael P.

*Elvis Presley*

Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, and he died on August 16, 1977 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was a very good singer and guitar player, often named “King of the Rock and Roll” or “the King”.

His first performance was in Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show, October 3, 1945, dressed as a cowboy and had 10 years. He began his career in 1954 in Memphis and he became the icon of the twentieth century popular music. During his career, he starred in 31 films, many of which were devoted to their songs. Recorded a total of 150 albums and won 14 Grammy nominations to the National Academy of arts and sciences. And he has led for many years, the list of highest grossing dead artists for their products.

We chose Elvis Presley because we think that he is a genius because he revolutionised the whole music world with his cool music. He was the spark that changed popular music an entire generation with his famous toupee, his singing style, his aggressive moves on stage, his charisma, and other qualities is what is currently allowed to be one of the greatest musical figures of history in other words, a genius.


Pere Baró i Clara Font  :D
2nCB

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519), was an Italian polymath. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention.

Leonardo was and is renowned primarily as a painter. Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are the most famous, most reproduced and most parodied portrait and religious paintings of all time.

I chose Leonardo da Vinci because I think he was a complete man because he wan painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Finally he was a complete genius

Adrià González

2nC B

Mojinos Escozíos

The band of Mojinos Escozios is composed by five mans; two of them are Catalan origin and the three others are Andaluces. The name of the components is Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Juan Ramón Artero, Vidal Barja Jr., Juan Carlos Barja and Vidal Barja.  They are a group with a special sarcasm that characterizes them.  Years ago they performed in Barcelona and the police forced them to stop the show because neighbors’ complaint. One day, the producer Esteve Coll sees them in a show and they all decided to work together.                         
This band birth after that, but is in 1996 when they released their first album called: Mojinos Escozios.  After these recognitions as a music band, they came quickly famous and they sold many records. I would highlight the name they use for their albums, because they are curios and hilarious. Their discography is:
Mojinos Escozíos (1996); Demasiao perro pa trabajá, demasiao carvo pal rocanró (1998);
En un cortijo grande el que es tonto se muere de hambre (2000); Las margaritas son flores del campo (2001); Más de 8 millones de discos vendidos (2002); Ópera Rock Triunfo (2003); Semos unos monstruos (2004); Con cuernos y a lo loco (2005); Diez años escozíos (2006); Pa pito el mío (2007)
Los novios que las madres nunca quisieron para sus hijas y el novio que las hijas nunca quisieron para sus madres (2008); La leyenda de los hombres más guapos del mundo (2010). I have chosen them to do this work because they are idols to me. Their sarcasm, the way they take life, the absence of the ridiculous’ sense that makes them even bigger than they are.               
And finally their very particular humor, which is what I like. One of the most fun of this particular group is the great majority of their albums, is based on others singers or movies or other known phenomena, ridiculing them.                                                                                                                   For all these reasons and many more, I think that Mojinos Escozios are genius because one of my dreams was to be witness one of their concerts, and when I arrived I realized nobody would laugh so much in so little time with a music band. Because they are more than unique, they are; “El Sevilla”, “El Chicho”, “El Vidalita”, “El Zippy” and “El puto”, they are the Mojinos Escozios.

Berta Juncosa