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El Greco died in Toledo in 1614, aged 73. His work, in characterising dynamic & colour over naturalism, is considered the most mannered of his time & was to have great impact on later artists. Opening of the 5th Seal (1608-14), Fray Hortensio (1609) & Laocoön (1610)

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2020-09-24

Сьогодні святкує день народження талановитий український художник ОЛЕГ ШУПЛЯК.

Як відомо, художник народився 23 вересня 1967 у с. Біще Бережанського району Тернопільської області. Член НСХУ (2000), заслужений художник України (2017). Лауреат премій ім. Михайла Бойчука (2014),...

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2020-09-23

redraw feat. an old oc, michael, surrounded by the turkish dishes of his youth. i drew the first one after seeing the hundred foot journey for the first time (2014), and it's still one of my favorite movies!

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2020-09-19

From 1914 he worked in Paris, Rouen & Versailles. Child Drawing (1914), Anemones in a Green Vase (1915) & White Pegnoir (1916). His work sings with joy & it’s clear that painting soothed him & helped him forget how ill he was.

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2020-09-17

Star Wars comic cover (Dark Horse 2014), by Hugh Fleming

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2020-09-17

When the Great War broke out the couple moved to Switzerland. They split in 1918. Wilna (1914), Sturmwind (1914-5), Ameisenhaufen(c1916) & Fantastic Night (1917). Von Jawlensky had cheated on her & her work seemed to reflect her heightened stress at this time

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2020-09-11

Born in 1677: (1677-1714), Prince of Poland, son of King

Portrait by Circle of (1659-1743), ca. 1696


Muzeum Pałacu Króla Jana III w Wilanowie

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2020-09-09

From 1911-12 he evolved a new more austere style termed his Gothic period. From 1914-19 he was called up for WWI. 1916 saw him illustrate Breton’s Mont de Piete. Martigues (1913), Man with Newspaper (1914), La Verre Noir (1913) & Portrait (1914)

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2020-09-08

Day 25 of !!
I gotta run to work, so here have our Iberia couple draw by no other that amazing Yokoyan.
This art was posted on the previous Yokoyan blog (if im not mistaken was posted in 2014), now this blog doesn't exist anymore

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2020-08-26

Beep beep. It's the birthday of the extraordinary Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), the first fully professional female artist. Get this - she had 11 children, and made her husband stay at home and look after them while she painted! Probably the first female artist to paint a nude!

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2020-08-24

Born in 1752: (1752-1814), daughter of Empress Queen of Naples and Sicily as spouse of

Portrait by (1790-1863), 1814

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2020-08-13

Born in 1560: Countess de Ecsed (1560-1614), Hungarian noblewoman & alleged serial killer

Portrait by an Unknown Artist, 17th century


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2020-08-07

Norman Cornish (1919-2014), best known of the pit men painters of County Durham, became a full-time artist at the age of 47, when a back injury brought to an end 33 years of mining. His subject remained the lives of those who lived and worked in his home town of Spennymoor.

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2020-08-03

Le 20 juillet 1524 s'éteint à Blois Claude de France, duchesse de Bretagne (1514), elle devint reine en 1515 en épousant François Ier.
Fille du roi Louis XII et d'Anne de Bretagne, elle meurt à 24 ans après avoir mis au monde 7 enfants.

Son Livre d'Heures https://t.co/JD2RuGM6gY

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2020-07-20

Henry Frederick (1594–1612), Prince of Wales, with Sir John Harington (1592–1614), in the Hunting Field - Robert Peake the Elder, 1603. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

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2020-07-13

Ophelia was a popular subject for the PRB & Waterhouse painted the doomed maiden at least three times - each stunning. Ophelia (1910), Sketch of Circe (c1911-14), The Charmer (1911) & A Song of Springtime (1913)

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2020-07-13

In our recent episode (14), we went on a tangent about a gem, Battle Fantasia. It still holds up and wanted to take a moment to highlight how great this game was and is.

It is available on Steam here: https://t.co/bSZH4enUDm

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2020-07-13

He was part of the arts scene in St Petersburg after graduating. In a Paris Café (1914), Self-Portrait (nd), Head (1916) & Figure (1917). He chose to paint in a realist manner but there is a strong feeling of surrealism from his work.

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2020-07-11

From 1914 he worked in Paris, Rouen & Versailles. Child Drawing (1914), Anemones in a Green Vase (1915) & White Pegnoir (1916). His work sings with joy & it’s clear that painting soothed him & helped him forget how ill he was.

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2020-07-10

Visual development by Simon Varela for The Book of Life (2014), dir. Jorge R. Gutierrez, Reel FX Creative Studios

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2020-07-10