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SENSITIVE VIEWER'S BE ADVISED! SOME OF THE FOOTAGE BELOW IS DISTURBING.The Artist Anna Vivette was born in the city of Chicago. From early on her gift for art and music was recognized and encouraged by those around her. She was instructed classically By her father, artist Stephen F. Condren and attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has traveled Europe playing the Violin with orchestras. Not to mention her performing in productions such as Faust, The Magic Flute, and Solome at the world renown Lyric Opera of Chicago. Currently she is publishing her artwork with Master Printmaker and Artist Shahrokh Rezvani at the Rezvani workshop and Studio where Artists such as Dale Chihuly, Fritz Scholder,Paul jenkins, James Havard, Robert McCall, Gustavo Ramos Rivera, John Battenberg, Arthur Secunda, Lamar Briggs, Rudy Fernandez and Mark Spencer have had and maintained long term publishing relationships with Rezvani. Anna Vivette’s pursuit of the arts has filled her life with accomplishments and a unique sense of self, including a keen awareness of her surroundings, and the people in them. As well as being an accomplished painter, she is also a gifted coloratura Soprano, trained in the Belcanto Method by renown teacher Ruth Dubinbaum. An interest that was developed from her experience at the Lyric Opera. Over the last several years she has found her path in art changing, giving her new meaning to what she has chosen to pursue. Thus pursuing different mediums and subject matter to express herself in, such as monotypes, and pencil sketches of the great revolutionaries from Gandhi to Che Guevara. These works are an accumulation of portraits that she has chosen to create, based upon revolutionary figures in history whether living or dead, who have had a profound effect on her.  Through the research of these characters she has talked with me about the anger, humility, sadness as well as joy, intrigue, pride and respect she has felt for each of them and  the experiences they prevailed and achieved.  Just as a brilliant stone is faceted so are the many sides of Anna Vivette that whether it be her music or her art or her sense of style. Upon meeting Anna Vivette, you will come away with a strange sense of past lives, for if she exists not only in today, there is also an enigmatic sense of the bohemian carried over from the Cafe society that existed in Paris in the 1920’s, where the great artists, writers and poets existed in smoke-filled cafes unaware that they were leaving their mark on the world. Today in her own way Anna Vivette is striving to leave her mark in much the same way as other great creative spirits have in the past, through her art, her music... and her soul.Artist, Dale Terbush..................................................... .............................................. ............................................................ ........................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................. ............................................................ ..............................................Alexsander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn was bourn in kislovodsk, Russia, in 1918. He fought in World War II, and was imprisoned for unfavorable comment on Stalin's conduct of war. On his release, he became a teacher and started to write. His first novel, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich (1962), set in a prison camp , was acclaimed both in the USSR and in the West. He was expelled form the Soviet Writers Union in 1969 and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature. His later books include The Gulag Archipelago, an account of Stalinist terror, for which he was arrested and exiled (1974)...................................................... .................................................... ............................................................ ..............................................Elie Wiesel was born 1928 in Sighet, Romania. He survived his internment at Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna and Buchenwald concentration camps, though tis parents and one sister did not. The first of the many books this Nobel Prize winning author would wright about his experiences, Night, was published in the mid-1950's. He has written prolifically since then........................................................ ................................................... ............................................................ ..............................................Lev TolstoyDespite his misgivings about anarchist violence, Tolstoy took risks to circulate the prohibited publications of anarchist thinkers in Russia, and corrected the proofs of Peter Kropotkin's "Words of a Rebel", illegally published in St Petersburg in 1906. Two years earlier, during the Russo-Japanese War, Tolstoy publicly condemned the war and wrote to the Japanese Buddhist priest Soyen Shaku in a failed attempt to make a joint pacifist statement.A letter Tolstoy wrote in 1908 to an Indian newspaper entitled "Letter to a Hindu" resulted in intense correspondence with Mohandas Gandhi, who was in South Africa at the time and was beginning to become an activist. Reading "The Kingdom of God is Within You" made a strong impression on Gandhi in terms of his public commitment to nonviolent resistance, a debt Gandhi acknowledged in his autobiography, calling Tolstoy "the greatest apostle of non-violence that the present age has produced". The correspondence between Tolstoy and Gandhi would only last a year, from October 1909 until Tolstoy's death in November 1910, but led Gandhi to give the name the Tolstoy Colony to his second ashram in South Africa. Besides non-violent resistance, the two men shared a common belief in the merits of vegetarianism, the subject of several of Tolstoy's essays (see Christian vegetarianism).Along with his growing idealism, Tolstoy also became a major supporter of the Esperanto movement. Tolstoy was impressed by the pacifist beliefs of the Doukhobors and brought their persecution to the attention of the international community, after they burned their weapons in peaceful protest in 1895. He aided the Doukhobors in migrating to Canada. In 1908, he was also the founding president of the International Union of Vegetarian Esperantists (Internacia Vegetarana Unuiĝo).[7]................................................ ......................................................... ............................................................ .............................................Che GuevaraWas born in Rosario, Argentina, where he studied medicine. In 1956 he joined forces with Fidel Castro and laid seige on General Fulgencio Batista's Cuba for three years in an ultimately successful revolution. He served in a number of capacities in Castro's government before returning to the jungles of Latin America and Africa in order to continue the communist revolution around the world. He was executed on October 9, 1967 by the Bolivian Army and remains to this day a powerful symbol of revolutionary ideals and action...................................................... .................................................... ............................................................ .............................................Frida KahloFor most of the twentieth century, Kahlo's work was not recognized as it is now: often she was popularly remembered only as Diego Rivera's wife. It was not until the early 1980s, when the artistic movement in Mexico known as the Neomexicanismo began, that she became very prominent.[7] This movement recognized the values of contemporary Mexican culture; it was the moment when artists such as Kahlo, Abraham Angel, Angel Zárraga, and others became household names and Helguera's classical calendar paintings achieved fame.[7] During the same decade several other factors helped to establish her success. The movie Frida, Naturaleza Viva (1983), directed by Pablo Leduc with Ofelia Medina as Frida and Juan Jose Gurrola as Diego, was a huge success. For the rest of her life, Medina remained in a sort of perpetual Frida role, still depicting Kahlo even now.[8] Also during the same time Hayden Herrera published a determinant and influential biography: Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo, which became a world-wide bestseller.In addition, Raquel Tibol, the most influential Mexican art critic for the second half of the twentieth century and a personal friend of Frida, wrote Frida Kahlo: una vida abierta. Other works about her included, a biography by Teresa del Conde and texts by other Mexican critics and theorists such as Jorge Alberto Manrique.[7]Fridamania had begun and many artists, particularly the Mexicans, Adolfo Patiño known as 'Adolfrido', Marisa Lara, Arturo Guerrero, Lucia Maya, and Nahum B. Zenil, adopted Frida's imaginings into their own work and transported her interests and obsessions into the 1980s. In 2002 the American film, Frida, introduced later audiences to her work........................................................ .................................................. ............................................................ .............................................Vaclav Havelwas born in Prague in 1936 and became a playwright whose works were banned in Czechoslovakia under the Communist regime. In 1977 Havel banded together with other "dissidents" to write Charter 77, calling for civil and human rights to be respected in Czechoslovakia, and then in 1979 Havel wrote his famous revolutionary essay, "The Power of the Powerless." after the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia, and then elected president of the newly formed Czech Republic in 1993........................................................ .................................................. ............................................................ ..............................................Frederico Garcia Lorcaborn in Fuentevaqueros, Granada, Spain, in 1898, is considered that country's greatest poets and playwrights. Garcia Lorca promoted truth in theater and writing, though he remained on the sidelines of political activism. He was executed during the Spanish Civil war in 1936, and his poetry was banned under General Francisco Franco's regime through the 1950'sAung San Suu Kyi, born in Rangoon, Burma, in 1945 is the daughter of the assassinated General Anug Sun. Educated at Oxford, Suu Kyi returned to Burma in 1988 and formed the National League for Democracy in opposition to the military dictatorship governing her homeland. She was put under house arrest from 1989 to 1995, during which time she won a general election by a landslide, but was not allowed to assume power.