The present laureate is Carol Ann Duffy, appointed in May 2009. The United Kingdom also has a Children's poet laureate. William Wordsworth was chosen as the poet laureate after the death of Robert Southey but since he was too old, he became the only laureate to write no official poetry.
Genre: abstract. The creator of the first modern abstract paintings, Wassily Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. In his youth, he studied law and economics at the University of Moscow, and was later hired as a professor of Roman law at the University of Dorpat in Estonia.n 1914, after the beginning of World War I, Kandinsky returned to Moscow, where he did not find much inspiration in the art world.
Belarusian painter Leonid Afremov is one of the most colorful painters youâve never heard of. His skill with a palette knife and oil paint creates vivid scenes and cityscapes full of bright colors and watery reflections.long with Chagall, Malevich and Kandinsky, Leonid Afremov is a member of the famous Vitebsk painting school. Leonid worked a lot and participated in different exhibitions in Vitebsk. The artist has his own unique style. He doesnât use brushes to paint â he uses a palette-knife.