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.
1 He was one of the first major artists to use art as social commentary. 2  Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot-A French landscape painter who moved from Romanticism to Realism. 3  Honore Daumier-A French painter who was more famous for his caricatures of famous people while alive.