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"My precious."
#OnThisDay in #Film #History 18 December 2002, the 2nd #LordOfTheRings #fantasy epic THE TWO TOWERS, starring Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen and Sir Ian McKellen, was released.
"If TV has taught me anything, it’s that miracles always happen to poor kids at Christmas." #BartSimpson.
📺 #OnThisDay in #TV #History 17 December 1989, #MattGroening's classic #animation THE SIMPSONS premiered on @FOXTV
in the episode "#Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire."
"I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose." 🎶 A very happy 250th birthday to Ludwig van #Beethoven, born #onthisday 1770. #Beethoven250
"Every work of #art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated." 🎨 Russian artist #WassilyKandinsky passed away #onthisday 13 December 1944. #Painting
"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul." 🎨 Norwegian painter #EdvardMunch was born #onthisday 12 December 1863. #Art #Painting
"Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion." ✒ English writer #ThomasDeQuincey, author of "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", the great classic of addiction #literature, passed away #onthisday 8 December 1859.
“The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.” 🎨 German-British painter #LucienFreud was born #onthisday 8 December 1922. #Art #Painting
"Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view." 🎨 Russian painter and #art theorist #WassilyKandinsky was born #onthisday 4 December 1866. #Painting
This week’s @NewYorker cover, “Love Life,” by Adrian Tomine: https://t.co/5hWssfwlWG #Lockdown
If you could use a dose of optimism and tenderness today, this is for you: Artist @MairaKalman's spare visual poems drawn from #DavidByrne's masterpiece of anticynical humanism #AmericanUtopia [https://t.co/mi2pLeiSi1]