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“Sento il tempo che dentro mi scorre,
un attimo di vita
che s’accende e si spegne
campi fioriti dai gigli del mare
e dai tristi asfodeli della morte.”

-Eugenio Scalfari-
(L’Ora del blu-2019)

-Alphonse Mucha-
(Madonna dei gigli-1905)

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2019-07-01

“Al ritmo di una melodia sconosciuta. / Una bolla di larve di zanzara / sull’acqua verde”.
Qiu Xiaolong (1953)

👋🏻👋🏻 https://t.co/trZBSnwtUp

“Green Lines” (2016)
DZhang Enli (1965) cinese, che vive e lavora a Shanghai

Tate Modern, Shanghai

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2019-06-27

Woman Combing Her Hair, 1864, Dante Gabriel Rossetti ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ https://t.co/oI0UQLOEIa

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2019-06-15

Composition VI - 1913
Vasili Kandinsky (1866 – 1944)
Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum


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2019-06-15

Sibyls (c1501)

by Bernardino Pinturicchio
(c1454-1513Italian)

Fresco Cappella Baglioni -
Church of Santa Maria Maggiore - Spello - Italy 🇮🇹

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2019-06-14

"Red Rocks Near Pont Aven" is a painting by Irish artist Roderic O'Conor, who spent much of his later career in Paris. He was a friend of Paul Gauguin and his work with contrasting colours is also influenced by Vincent Van Gogh.

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2019-06-09

The Little Mermaid illustration by in a 1914 book of (reprinted in By a Woman’s Hand: Illustrators of the Golden Age).

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2019-06-08

After waiting a year to hear back from a publisher on her new folktale, Julia Donaldson sent it to this artist.

He submitted it to Macmillan. A week later, they had a book deal for, “The Gruffalo”.

This is our post on Axel Scheffler. https://t.co/voBeasgZ2M

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2019-06-05

Our third paper in this panel comes from Krupa Desai from who reconsiders the new visual culture which emerged in post-colonial India in the 1950s as the State embraced visual propaganda photography of newly built dams

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2019-06-04

Born Raoul Dufy witty French Fauvist & with a fashionably colourful decorative style set fashion for ceramics & textile designs + decorative schemes for public buildings Dufy never painted a depressed picture

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2019-06-03

“David che calma i furori di Saul con l’arpa”(1852)

Silvestro Lega(1826-1895)

Galleria dell′Accademia, 🇮🇹

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2019-06-03


"Something about what it means to be a human being is most embodied in an area of paint."
–Mira Schor

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2019-06-01

“Colony Room I (The Colony Room)”

by Michael Andrews 🇬🇧 -( 30 ottobre 1928, Norwich, Regno Unito
- 19 luglio 1995, Londra, Regno Unito)

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2019-05-31

The Genoese Noblewoman (1625-1627) by Anthony Van Dyck reflects dress trends of the early 17th century, particularly in Genoa, such as rich silks ornamented with metallic lace, starched ruffs and the deep "V" shaped bodice.




https://t.co/snwkFjZNjy

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2019-05-30