Bridget Riley
April 24, 1931

“At the core of colour is a paradox. It is simultaneously one thing and several things – you can never see colour by itself, it is always affected by other colours...”

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It's good that this year William Shakespeare's birthday ties in with he was 1564. Obviously his plays & poetry are world-renown but I'd like to celebrate their movie adaptations.

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BOTD 1947 - ....who shares his birthday with my twin girls Amelia Kitten and Embeth Pixie...wonder if he'll wish them a happy birthday? 😁😄

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Bedroom window,
Wynn Bullock in 1902

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1922 - Sam Youd AKA John Christopher, author of The Tripods trilogy, The Death of Grass and The Possessors among others and - alongside Terrance Dicks - the writer who made me fall in love with reading as a kid.

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Many happy returns to master artist former and author of & so many more magical tales. Raising a glass to you today sir! 13 April

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The magical realist world of Tirzah Garwood (#BOTD 1908) is inhabited by horses, butterflies + bees. Looming larger than life, they illustrate the natural, subversive surrealism of the countryside

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The great Irv Novick, who never gets any love but really was one of the top Batman artists, and will always be 'my' Flash artist. Plus he looks like he could take any three of us in a fight.

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Birthday wishes to Lisa Stansfield, born on this day April 11th, 1966.

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Ha inventato i mattoncini della LEGO
Ole Kirk
1891


"I bambini sono il nostro modello. Abbracciano la scoperta e la meraviglia. Apprendono in modo naturale. Queste sono qualità che dovrebbero essere stimolate per tutta la vita."
Ole Kirk Christiansen

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“Here is a terrible giant who loves a beautiful nymph.”—from Ovid’s Metamorphoses which tells of the unrequited love of Polyphemus for Galatea.

The painting is Gustave Moreau’s 2nd depiction of Galatea and his swan song, finishing it 2 days before he died
Moreau in 1826.

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Hans Richter
April 6, 1888

Painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-maker...

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It's Jean-Honoré Fragonard's birthday in 1732. 'The Swing' was a commission handed to Fragonard by another artist who thought the subject was indecent. It's now his most celebrated painting and viewed as a masterpiece of the rococo style.

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Happy Birthday to Hans Christian Andersen, in 1805, & best remembered for his consisting of 156 tales. 🪄 A few of his famous stories include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Princess & the Pea", "The Snow Queen", & "The Ugly Duckling".

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To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.

Hans Christian Andersen, 
2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875
The Fairy Tale of My Life:
An Autobiography
🎨 Jan Marcin Szancer

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Ferruccio Busoni in 1866: Nocturne Symphonique

by Umberto Boccioni, Twilight

https://t.co/a3OMvfPt3p

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BOTD.
“I’m not disturbed. I pay my bills. I’ve been married for 55 years. I live in the country, I exercise and try to take care of myself.”
https://t.co/VB3MAPNQ81

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