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Austrailan Mirka Mora was in Paris.
"#Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t choose the they choose me."

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2019-03-18

1918
Elaine de Kooning was in
"A to me is primarily a verb, not a noun - an event first and only secondarily an image."

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2019-03-12



Elaine Marie Catherine Fried
aka Elaine de Kooning
NOT just de Kooning's wife
"I was a lot of fun...I mean a LOT of fun."

Self Portraits:
- c.1942
- 1946
- 1968
Portrayed by Willem de Kooning,1940

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2019-03-12

Happy birthday Guy Maddin

(MY WINNIPEG, 2007)

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2019-03-01


"Throw your into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new a new country."
—Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) in

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2019-02-22

It’s Lee Marvin’s Birthday. Have some damn fun.

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2019-02-20

Kihachi Okamoto 岡本喜八 (February 17, 1924 – February 19, 2005)

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2019-02-17

1921
Esther Bubley was in
"I have found the human race. It is like finding one's family at last."

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2019-02-17

Jackson Pollock earned his nickname ‘Jack the Dripper’ by his unique method of painting: he splashed painting on a canvas, typical for his dynamic and unpredictable personality.

‘The Water Bull’ is now on display in Stedelijk BASE. Jackson Pollock was in 1912.

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2019-01-29

1929
Evelyn Jane Williams was in London.
"It’s lovely the shapes that people form when they’re trying to express something to another person."

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2019-01-21