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1927
Kenojuak Ashevak was in what is now
"There is no word for [in Inuktitut]. We say it is to transfer something from the real to the unreal."

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2019-10-04

1926
Sonia Gechtoff was in
"I was deliberately introducing the female figure to a lot of things...I was really trying to do forms of self-portraits."

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2019-09-25

Famed abstract expressionist Mark Rothko was born on this day in 1903.
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2019-09-26

🎨 Anselm Feuerbach, "Paolo and Francesca", 1863

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2019-09-13

Mary Shelley was born in 1797 in London. "Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful." ―from THE ORIGINAL FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley

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2019-08-31

Quotable - Jessie Burton, born 17 August 1982. Read more here: https://t.co/MOVXoh7y8x

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2019-08-17

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“...all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude...”
Herman Melville

🖌Paul Bond🇺🇸

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2019-08-01

1908
Claire Falkenstein was in
"The admonition to look within has always kept me going. It's when people are always copying each other that they don't establish their own as an

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2019-07-22

James Abbott McNeil Whistler in 1834 in Lowell Massachusetts, painter of wonderful scenes of Wapping and the Thames in 1861
"I know so little – things do not go quickly!” he wrote at the time

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2019-07-11

1867
Käthe Kollwitz was in what is now
"I want to have an effect on my time, in which humans are so confused and in need of help."

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2019-07-09

1881
Natalia Goncharova was in Russia.
"We have learned much from Western artists, but where do they draw their inspiration if not from the East?"

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2019-07-03

Innovative photographer Julia Margaret Cameron was in 1815
Many of her atmospheric photographs reveal a strong Pre-Raphaelite influence in theme, mood and inspiration

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2019-06-11

Joyeux anniversaire Monsieur Courbet! He was 200 years ago and man, did he have a great beard. Here are two of my favourite paintings, La Rencontre (1854) and Un enterrement à Ornans (1549-50)

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2019-06-11

French Realist Gustave Courbet was 1819. His scandalous Le Somneil 1866 bears an intriguing resemblance to Rossetti's illustration for Goblin Market 1862. Possible 'Sleep' model Joanna Hiffernan was also painted by Courbet in 1855-6 predating Rossetti's Lady Lilith

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2019-06-10