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He began painting the water lilies in 1899, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central feature and later in the series of large-scale paintings that was to occupy him continuously for the next 20 years of his life.
“Children grow in secret. They hide themselves in the depths and darker reaches of the house to become wild cats, white birches.
One day when you’re only half-watching the herd as it straggles back in with the afternoon dust, one child, the prettiest of them all, comes close...”
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
Sisley deviated into figure painting only rarely and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs.
Francis Bacon 💎 #BOTD 1909 (d. 1992) was an Irish-born English figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures...
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"Another word for creativity is courage."
"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."
~ Hannah Arendt 💎 #BOTD 1906