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🎨 #AllanRamsay, Scottish painter, was #BOTD 13 October 1713. #Art #Painting
🎨 #MariottoAlbertinelli, Italian Renaissance painter, was #BOTD 13 October 1474. #Art #Painting
The new @foliosociety edition of #CormacMcCarthy's "Blood Meridian" is a beauty.
[https://t.co/6hqFLMWhDr]
🎨 #WillemMaris, painter (Hague School), #DOTD 10 October 1910. #Art #Painting
🎨 #BenjaminWest, Anglo-American painter, was #BOTD 10 October 1738. #Art #Painting
🎨#OTD in #Art #History 8 October 1779, following his apprenticeship to engraver James Basire from 4 August 1771 - 1778, visionary British artist #WilliamBlake began to study at the #RoyalAcademy in Old Somerset House, proving to be a licentious student under Sir #JoshuaReynolds.
“I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.”
🎨 #RemediosVaro, Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist, #DOTD 8 October 1963. #Art #Painting
#JohnDonne’s Proto-Modernism.
His startlingly intimate love poems fell from favour for centuries, but his drive to see every subject anew makes him seem more contemporary than ever. #Poetry
[https://t.co/m7mfdeo2Zv] via @NewYorker
#JoyceCarolOates Doesn’t Prefer Blondes.
The novelist shares her thoughts on the appeal of underdogs, Andrew Dominik’s film adaptation of her novel, and the mythic masculine and feminine.
[https://t.co/teNdwV8Jh3] via @NewYorker