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Happy 95th birthday to Alex Katz, born #OnThisDay in 1927, who has devoted his career to crafting a singular painterly vision: Self-Portrait Swimming #2, 1991
"I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate. It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humanity, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high." -Käthe Kollwitz
John Steuart Curry, Circus Clowns at Rest. In the early 1930s, Regionalist painter Curry spent three months traveling with the Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey Circus
I'd like to imagine the scientists were inspired by a picture widely reproduced in the 1980s: Mark Tansey's 1981 "The Innocent Eye Test" @metmuseum. Even though Tansey depicts a bovine rather than avian test subject, a Monet haystack is visible at right, so maybe that's up next?
The investigators helpfully provided a list of the paintings they showed to their avian test subjects, so to all the art historians out there, feel free to use these as compare-&-contrast questions on your own exams
@D1rtclod @APunishedBill He was an incredible creative force, an unrelenting activist, and a visionary. So much work by him that continues to resonate for us today
Kind of grooving on this portrayal of Quasimodo as a bearded, pensive zaddy type, by always quirky 19th-century Belgian painter Antoine Wiertz @FineArtsBelgium https://t.co/LBWleznoYJ
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, "I'm Tired," 1938 @whitneymuseum https://t.co/bUInBnXqBb