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"La reina Zenobia ante el emperador Aureliano"
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1917. Museo del Prado.
Pintor rococó italiano que moría #taldíacomohoy en 1770.
#Obradeldía
#APOLLINAIRE fue el primero en usar el término #SURREALISMO. Lo creó en 1917 (cuando estrenó su obra de teatro “Les Mamelles de Tirésias” a la que calificó de drama surrealista), para expresar una forma de ver la realidad.
Portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire by Jean Metzinger
Four Modern versions of the Temptation of Saint Anthony.
He must be my favourite Saint as he is the Patron Saint of Lost Things & he inspired so much transgressive art.
Dorothy Tanning (1910-2012)
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
Otto Dix (1891-1969)
Felicien Ropps (1833-1898)
A Happy Gerda Wegener at rue de Lille, Paris, Photo by Lili Elbe c. 1917
and another of her illustrations for Les Delassements dEros published in 1925
#bornonthisday #illustrator #HistoricalHottie #art
#BotanicMonday: Rhododendron discolor is native to many high altitude regions of #China. #SciArt by Matilda Smith for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 143 (1917). Contributed to #BHLib by the Peter H. Raven Library of the @mobotgarden: https://t.co/LT7c3qtv9C
A news report this week in 1917 claimed to have found the modern day Joan of Arc, after a 20 year old woman said she heard divine voices calling on her to take part in the struggle to free France from her enemy. https://t.co/gLcEEMMkQQ
Portrait of Max Halbe (1917) from Lovis Corinth on #artDatabaseApp #ArtIsLife #greatArtwork
RT @TheVisualArt
The Toilet (aka At Capri; aka Alfresco Toilet at Capri),1889
John William Waterhouse RA (6 Apr 1849 – 10 Feb 1917) was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style & for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style & subject matter.
Today's dose of beauty, paintings by English surrealist author & artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) and Spanish surrealist artist Remedios Varo (1906-1963), who were best friends during their Mexico years.
Sleep and his Half-brother Death (1874) by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917). Private collection. #Art #PreRaphaelite
Diogenes (1882) by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917). Art Gallery of NSW. Greek philosopher & a founder of Cynicism. Often slept in a barrel in the marketplace. Sometimes carried a lamp in the day "looking for an honest man". #Art #PreRaphaelite #victorianfebruary #Victorian
Chester County, 1962
Andrew Newell Wyeth (Jul 12, 1917 – Jan 16, 2009) was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century.
Exhibited:
@BranRiverMuseum & @iheartSAM
Sleep and his Half-brother Death (1874) by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917). Private collection. #Art #PreRaphaelite
Diogenes (1882) by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917). Art Gallery of NSW. Greek philosopher & a founder of Cynicism. Often slept in a barrel in the marketplace. Sometimes carried a lamp in the day "looking for an honest man". #Art #PreRaphaelite #victorianfebruary #Victorian
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) was famed for his rustic realist American paintings, but he also created some very strange surreal images that seem like dreams.