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Talking #colour and light tonight online @LondonArtSalon Who knows the wonderful Algerian artist Baya? In 1947, at the age of 16, she had her first solo show in Paris, inspiring Picasso, Matisse, and Dubuffet. https://t.co/kLDJikBjgM
@JesseMLocker @rfirbanksy I'd have probably passed on Picasso too. I mean great radical painting etc. but portrait...
How do storms get their names? Is storm #Chiara named after Santa Chiara of Assisi, founder of the Poor Clares?
[Ps here in Umbria, the sun's out, the sky's blue and there's not even a breeze!] Here she is saving a boy from a wolf.
Happy Birthday #PaulaModersohnBecker (1876-1907) who died aged 31. Trained in England and Germany, she was inspired by the work of Cézanne and Gauguin she'd seen in Paris in 1903. When she got engaged, her family sent her to a Berlin cooking school for 2 months.
Great posts by @JANUSZCZAK and @MrEwanMorrison today on Swiss Romantic artist #HenryFuseli whose most successful work was 'The Nightmare' #Freud gave a print of it to Marie Bonaparte; it also inspired myriad artists including the disturbing #Balthus (right: 'The Room' 1953)
Blame an interdisciplinary arts education but being immersed in @LauraSRobinson #BloodandSugar after watching #Taboo (set 30 yrs later and tackling similar villains) and visiting @Tate #Britain 1780-1810 display and @WallaceMuseum #ForgottenMasters is pretty much perfect.
My morning started with me smashing a bottle of Chloe perfume on my bathroom floor. Now the whole house is sweet as a #Fragonard painting
Did you know that Bologna trained #Baroque artist #Domenichino was far more influential than #Caravaggio in his day?