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“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
Here, Picasso, Wildlife revealing a woman, Faun, Vollard suite L97, 1936
“Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)”
― René Descartes
Here, Nicolas Poussin, ''Et in Arcadia ego'', 1650, Louvre
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
― Bertold Brecht
Here, Picasso, ''Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe after Manet'', 1960, Musée Picasso, Paris
This day, in 1881, Fernand Léger was born. He was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style.
Here, Alarm clock, 1914
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Complete Works
Here, Picasso, ''The mass grave'', 1945
This day, in 1839, Paul Cézanne was born.
Here, Cézanne, ''Temptation of St Anthony'', 1877, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
This day, in 1863, Edvard Munch was born. Let's celebrate!
Here, ''Death of Marat'', 1907, Oslo, Munchmuseet