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Thread: Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967) was a Russian painter whose work is charming. Maybe not of the same rank as Valentin Serov or Ilya Repin, but likeable & decorative nonetheless. Self-portrait (1908-9), Self-portrait (1911) & Self-portrait (1911).
Thread: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) was the greatest Italian Rococo Artist. He is perhaps best known for his decorative & stellar church paintings that still amaze today. His was a world of aerial gods & divine saints
Some rather elegant Rococo swirls with #StormAli waiting off the Western Seaboard
Thread: Magnus Enckell (1870-1925) was a Finnish symbolist painter with a deep interest in spirituality & beauty. His work was surprisingly frank in its sensuality & captured the cultural aesthetic of his native Finland
Lucian Freud (1980), Francis Bacon (1980), David Hockney (1980) & Alice Neel (1980)
Thread: Aleksandr Deyneka (1899-1969) was a Soviet Social realist painter. His work is considered some of the finest Russian art of the first half of the 20th C. Although known primarily for propaganda his work goes far deeper than that. Self-portrait (1916)
Famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-54) died OTD. Throughout her life she focused on exploring her own image - as for her, the personal was universal - in understanding herself, her country & the role of woman in society. Here are self-portraits from 1940 & 1939
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945)! She is one of my favourite artists - as for her, art IS emotion. Throughout her life she depicted a series of astonishing self-portraits. She was a master of ink, charcoal, pencil, stone & bronze
Once a botanist, always a botanist. At a party, a friend was asked what she did - ‘botany’. Her questioner shocked exclaimed ‘lobotomy?!’
‘Pretty much’, she said...