Paul Cezanne
Homme assis, 1905 - 1906
Cezanne's supporters and admirers included Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, who referred to him as “the greatest of us all"...
Angela Carter
May 7, 1940 – February 16, 1992
Ranked among the greatest British writers since 1945, Angela Carter wrote novels, short stories, drama and journalism that stood defiantly apart from the work of her contemporaries...
Twenty-two paintings by Paul Cézanne that have never before been seen in the UK will go on show at Tate Modern in the autumn, in an exhibition of around 80 selected works from collections in Europe, Asia, North and South America...
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Bridget Riley
#botd April 24, 1931
“At the core of colour is a paradox. It is simultaneously one thing and several things – you can never see colour by itself, it is always affected by other colours...”
Hans Richter
#botd April 6, 1888
Painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-maker...
Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin first performed his composition for solo piano and jazz band as part of Paul Whiteman’s “An Experiment in Modern Music” concert at New York’s Aeolian Hall #otd in 1924. An American classic was born.
Franz Marc
#botd February 8, 1880
Tiere in einer Landschaft
Oil on canvas, 1914
Édouard Manet
#botd January 23, 1832
Bords de Seine à Argenteuil
Oil on canvas, 1874