Two of Salvador Dalí's twelve heliogravures for Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published in a limited edition by Maecenas Press, 1969.
"To be a woman abstract artist in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s was a radical endeavour. With most avenues closed to them, they forged a network of overlapping communities to support one another..."
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Lee Krasner #botd
Still Life, 1938
Tibetan painting from the fifteenth or sixteenth century of a Shat Chakravarti mandala...
"Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue..."
Mary Wollstonecraft
April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797
Noted poet, playwright and art critic, Guillaume Apollinaire #botd was a pivotal avant-garde figure in France, credited with coining the terms cubism and surrealism...his life cut short in the 1918 flu pandemic.
Jean Metzinger, 1910 • Pablo Picasso, 1913
Giselle
Performed by 🇺🇦 The United Ukrainian Ballet
London Coliseum | 13–17 September
All ticket profits go to the DEC Ukraine Appeal and The United Ukrainian Ballet Foundation
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The commission for a new Cathedral in Coventry to replace the one destroyed by the Luftwaffe, made the reputation of architect Basil Spence #botd. He helped secure some of the best craftsmen and artists of the time, including Graham Sutherland and John Piper.
Perspective sketch
William Blake
November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827
Celebrated today as an imaginative and original poet, painter, engraver and mystic, his timeless work has influenced generations...