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French poet Charles Baudelaire, born on this day.
#BOTD
Joan Pope ~ Les Fleurs du Mal - La Vie antérieure
"As shadows gently fall,
Behold! Life sleeps, and all
Lies bathed in warmth and evening light.
There all is order,
naught amiss: Comfort and beauty, calm and bliss."
Picasso ~ Guernica (etude] La femme qui pleure, 1937
(Weeping Woman - Studies for Guernica)
Pablo Picasso ~ Mother and Dead Child (IV), 1937 (Study for Guernica)
(Real hair, Graphite, gouache, collage, and color stick on tracing cloth)
Paul Jenkins was an American abstract artist and member of the New York School. His innovative practice was to avoid the paintbrush altogether, instead allowing pigment to roll across the surface of his canvases to create fluid fields of color.
Phenomena Anderson (1972).
Vaslav Nijinsky in 1911 as Petrouchka, a ballet and orchestral concert work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1911 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company.
French artist and illustrator Valentine Hugo.
Illustrations from Contes Bizarres by Achim d’Arnim, 1933
French artist and illustrator Valentine Hugo. An active participant with the French Surrealists between 1930 and 1936, she was the illustrator of books of many of the artists that influenced them, including Arthur Rimbaud, Les Poètes de sept ans, from 1939.
French artist and illustrator Valentine Hugo. An active participant with the French Surrealists between 1930 and 1936, she was the illustrator of books of many of the artists that influenced them, including Arthur Rimbaud, Les Poètes de sept ans, from 1939.
Cover Illustration
@p_l_white I love Toyen. She's so criminally unrecognized. Here's one I really like from 1950
"Ils se lèvent à la pointe du jour', it was the cover of Phillip Lamantia's re-issued Touch of the Marvelous and looked good in b/w too.