Salvador Dalí
#botd May 11, 1904
"You could almost reconstruct the inner landscapes of the 20th century from Dali’s painting The Persistence of Memory..."
— J G Ballard
This day in 1940, John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath. The novel would be cited prominently when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
Frank Auerbach #botd
Self-portrait 1958
To the Studios, 1990–1
https://t.co/5sTGSiDGuT
Guernica
Pablo Picasso
Oil on canvas, May 1-June 4, 1937
Painted by Picasso in response to the aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica #otd in 1937
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
https://t.co/Ia3bxJnxgQ
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...”
https://t.co/3ZpYEB7CwS
Hans Richter
Blauer Mann, 1917
Rhythmus 21
Considered by many to be the first completely abstract film (1921)
https://t.co/XmYl1TLBYg
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Richard Condon #botd
March 18, 1915 – April 9, 1996
"In April 1959, Condon’s second novel The Manchurian Candidate was loosed into a world beset by McCarthyism and Cold War paranoia..."
https://t.co/d8FwBSnaCe
The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and was cited prominently when John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.