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"...worthy of Aivazovsky's brush..." (Anton Chekhov)
Russo-Armenian Romantic artist and celebrated marine painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was born #OTD 1817 in Feodosia
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“The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together"
Art Nouveau midwife & figurehead Alphonse Mucha #BOTD 1860 in Ivančice, Moravia.
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"I have always been convinced that both genre and historical pictures, and fairy-tales, songs, folk epics and dramas, all reflect the whole inner and outer make-up of a nation"
Russian painter V. M. Vasnetsov died #OTD 1926
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"True art is practicing unreality."
Known for his ability to drink copious amounts of champagne and wine, ranked among the crème of the German art scene & for his synthesis of Impressionism and Expressionism, Lovis Corinth died #OTD 1925.
@watchsnapper @writingben They did indeed... and I do like McBride's idea to use Dark Ages weapons and armour for his MERP illustrations :-)
@GreenProphet68 @GanferHaarFinn She did indeed, the greasing I mean, but that's not really sadism... well, it's not meant to be, really, isn't - part of training little Night Furies, actually. Boosts their endurance and resolve. They do that in Berk since... ages
"Within this body is imprisoned a soul like a half-starved tiger in an iron cage, bellowing out its dreadful passions. All men seem mean and petty to me, ingloriously lewd, travelling salesmen with their second-rate eroticism!”
Belgian Symbolist artist Félicien Rops #BOTD 1833
@cdngirl2015 @LoreCurious @chazrunner It's Lovecraft, actually (pun intended) :-)