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Born This Day 1881 Pablo Picasso iconic Spanish #painter #sculptor #ceramicist #printmaker & #setdesigner1 of 20th-century’s most influential #artists co-founder of #Cubism co-inventor of #collage inventor of constructed sculpture & serial experimenter with radical new art styles
Born This Day (1875) Konstantin Yuon Russian #painter & #setdesigner associated with the Mir Iskusstva & later co-founded Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia & Union of Russian Artists he retained is own distinctive style & designed sets for Moscow Art & Maly Theatres
Born This Day (1620) Aelbert Cuyp a prominent Dutch #painter during their Golden Age specializing in #landscapes he became famous for his masterful detailed large-scale paintings of Dutch riverside scenes capturing shimmering golden rays of early morning or late afternoon light
Born This Day (1854) Oscar Wilde Irish #poet x5 #playwright x9 #author & #shortstory x5 #journalist for Pall Mall Gazette (1885–87) aesthete & all-round literary genius #author of The Picture of Dorian Gray The Happy Prince & Other Stories Poems & Lady Windermere’s Fan
Born #onthisday Raoul Dufy #artoftheday #arthistory witty French Fauvist #painter #printmaker & #textiledesign with a fashionably colourful decorative style set fashion for ceramics & textile designs + decorative schemes for public buildings Dufy never painted a depressed picture
Born This Day Thomas Gainsborough FRSA (1727) English #portraitist & #landscape #painter #draughtsman & #printmaker became dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th-century He painted quickly & his mature works display effortless brushstrokes & a light palette
Born This Day George Braque (1882) major 20th-century French #painter collagist, #draughtsman #printmaker & #sculptor contributed to art history with #fauvism from 1906 co-founded #cubism & serene, meditative still lifes with low-key colour harmonies & use colour line & texture
Born This Day Salvador Dali (1904) #surrealism #artoftheday versatile prolific & media savvy Spanish #artist #sculptor #printmaker & #surrealism icon Salvador Dalí best known for The Persistence of Memory Lobster Telephone (1936) The Mae West Brooch (1949) Crucifixion (1954)