Mad Kate (1806/7) by Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) …the idea of madness has accumulated around it a mass of prejudices and fears which spring from a desire to keep the social fabric […] intact’. Mad Women in Romantic Writing (1987) by Philip W. Martin

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


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Happy Birthday René Magritte!

Magritte's use of ordinary objects in unfamiliar spaces is joined to his desire to create poetic imagery.

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1890
Jeanne Mammen was in
“I have always wanted to be just a pair of eyes, walking through the world unseen, only to be able to see others.”

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This artist—a member of the Standing Rock Sioux, specifically Lakota—said that we should “see the world with both the curious eyes of the young and the wistful eyes of the elderly”.

Here is our post on S.D. Nelson. https://t.co/t3ya8Jx7pU

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Me as Ana de Mendoza, by an unknown artist. She lost her eye in a childhood accident, was at one point a nun, eventually accused of betraying state secrets and died in prison. What a life

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Amedeo Bocchi 🇮🇹(1883-1976)

“dal Simbolismo allo Jugendstil, dalla leggerezza del Liberty all’impegno della pittura sociale, fu interprete del suo tempo ma con una caratteristica saliente: la malinconia.”

“Autoritratto con Bianca”1932

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In 1925, The New Yorker (just a few months old) hired this artist to deliver social commentary through expressive mark-making.

She went on to create almost 600 illustrations for them.

Here is our post on Barbara Shermund. https://t.co/ADoasev7sd

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Due to anti-Jewish legislation—and the rise of the Nazis—this artist fled to New York.⁣

His emigration was made possible by the sponsorship of George Duplaix—co-founder of Little Golden Books.

Here is our post on Tibor Gergely. https://t.co/SQsHaE19mD

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“La scienza è il futuro, ma l’arte è l’eternità”

•Raffaello Sanzio• (1483–1520)

“Scuola di Atene,”1510 ca.

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Città del Vaticano

Palazzi Vaticani

-Stanza della Segnatura-

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