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"Besides women’s talk, dreams are what hold the world in its orbit. But it is also dreams that crown it with moons, that’s why the sky is the splendour in men’s heads, unless men’s heads are the one and only sky."
~ José Saramago
Chagall, Aleko & Zemphira by
Moonlight. 1942
Dorothea Tanning
(US, 1910-2012)
She was painter, illustrator, sculptor and writer. She also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theater. #surrealism
Birthday, 1942, self-portrait of the artist
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
A few maps from 1942–45 showing the changing situation in Asia and the Pacific. 'The Squeeze' is an especially famous one.
Most of Chapin's maps from the Second World War illustrated the evolving military situation in various theatres of war, and weren't strictly "propagandistic" (at least not at the start).
Here are some from 1942 and 1943 showing Europe, Africa and the Pacific.
➤ “El Barco”, Salvador Dalí, 1942, @TheDali (izquierda)
➤ “El Barco”, Justin Nunnink, 2014 (derecha)
#AnalogíasDeArte
@fernandoplazap
#11月13日、#ロバート・ルイス・スティーヴンソン 誕生(1850、作家、#宝島)、#高橋是清 内閣発足(1921)、#戦艦比叡 沈没(1942、#第二次世界大戦 #第三次ソロモン海戦)、#AK47 開発(1947、#カラシニコフ)
#高橋内閣 は #原敬 首相の暗殺後、蔵相の高橋是清が蔵相兼任で組閣。つづく
#日本海軍
今日、11月13日は
軽巡洋艦「木曾」駆逐艦「曙」「初春」戦没の日ですが
https://t.co/NNebnPmcMy
駆逐艦「暁」「夕立」「比叡」戦没の日でもあります。
昭和17年(1942年)11月13日
第3次ソロモン海戦
また、この日
米軽巡洋艦「アトランタ」「ジュノー」
駆逐艦3隻が戦没。
#艦これ
Jackson Pollock, Untitled (Animals and Figures), 1942 https://t.co/2inhW9Eeyg #museumofmodernart #museumarchive
Marc Chagall, A Fox. Costume design for Scene IV of the ballet Aleko, 1942 https://t.co/dWFgEQv4pU #museumarchive #museumofmodernart
Edward Hopper
Nighthawks , 1942 Detail
Edward Hopper said that Nighthawks was inspired by “a restaurant on New York’s Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet”
Owl on a rocky hollow lane - Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) for a 1938 edition of The Natural History of Selborne
Marc Chagall, A Cat. Costume design for Scene IV of the ballet Aleko, 1942 https://t.co/Nbu6FeUrFg #marcchagall #museumarchive
Vivien Leigh painted and sketched by Augustus John in 1942. Laurence Olivier commissioned the portrait but it remained unfinished
RAF navigator Stan Hope had to bale out of his Mosquito due to engine failure on 8 Dec 1942.
During his time as a POW, Stan spent 114 days in solitary confinement.
More at https://t.co/00ssCmYFtW
#ww2 #RAF #dehavilland #mosquito #POW #solitaryconfinement