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October 23, 1885: Canadian painter Lawren Harris is born.

Harris was a member of the famous Group of Seven. He was also the founding member and first president of the Canadian Group of Painters.

In 2016, "Mountain Forms" (1926) sold at auction for a record $11.21 million. 🎨

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2021-10-23

Claude Monet is one of my all time favorite painters. I can still remember that I have written a long thesis on his Water Lilies series during my college studies. One of my dreams is to have a water lilies pond like his and daydream next to it. 🌿🍃🌱

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2021-09-12

'Shelling Peas.' (c1940) Geoffrey Tibble held a number of successful one-man shows in London galleries in the 1930s and 1940s featuring figures in interiors in the manner of Degas and Vuillard. The critic Raymond Mortimer placed him 'in the front rank of living English painters.'

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2021-09-02

Through means I cannot reveal*, I stumbled across a lost trove of cosmic horror by canonical Canadian painters.

Today I tear the veil from Lawren Harris’ Cthulhu.

* rabbit-holed me into the world of AI art.

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2021-08-14

FROM JEWISH PEOPLE, FRANCE & BELARUS: As a budding teenage artist, Chaïm Soutine dreamed to see Paris. He ended up living there and becoming one of the city’s most prominent painters. When Nazis were closing in, he tried, in vain, to flee, but died in the occupied city.

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2021-08-10

Mixing It Up: Painting Today is the Hayward Gallery’s big Autumn exhibition bringing together 31 contemporary painters.
Find out more: https://t.co/5aGceBhXY6

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2021-08-06

Before WWII, Stanley Meltzoff traveled in Italy to study the Renaissance painters. In the midst of war, Meltzoff was eager to find a way to draw, so he volunteered to illustrate poems that soldiers sent in to the military newspaper "Stars and Stripes".

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2021-07-16

An homage to and celebration of two of my favourite painters.

in 1862 was born and in 1939 died.

“Art is a line around your thoughts.”
~Klimt

“Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message.”
~Mucha

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2021-07-14

Pierre-Joseph Redouté born in 1759 was one of the greatest botanical painters.

His work features in 🌸Scent from Nature: Beauty’s botanical origins 🌸 including the Camellia japonica which grew at the Jardin du roi in Paris where Redouté worked

🎥🎟https://t.co/2hIe2JyImK

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2021-07-10

Women, Art & Expression. episode 2. The purpose of this series is to highlight female Egyptian artists, of all types of art, that have all contributed to the expression of the female conditioning.
In this episode, I’ve listed some of my favorite visual artists and painters.

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2021-06-21

Dogen: "Wait Razputin! We're not cavemen! We have technology! *Smacks the paint covered dollar of Loboto's with a computer really hard and angrily and still nothing happens to the dollar*
Based on Spongebob Season 3 Episode Wet Painters. A true classic. wanted it

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2021-05-09

KATYA GRIDNEVA
LIGHT FROM THE STAGE - SOLD
Watercolour and oil on paper
28 x 20 7/8 in
71 x 53 cms
She has exhibited her paintings in the USA, Germany, Moscow, St Petersburg, and London at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and Royal Institute of Oil Painters.

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2021-05-06

Bryan Ferry - Video Art by Keith Breeden 1989 (Born 1956) British graphic designer & portraitist, member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He was the founder of the Design company "Design KB" aka DKB in 1984

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2021-04-29

Still feverishly working on prep for - photography, last minute sculpting and moulding, herding casters, and painters...

Sign up here to be notified on launch :
https://t.co/nzWRvZPOZN

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2021-04-27

Something for s and painters. Using to mimic rocky surfaces, I liked the first result, but it was a bit lifeless so added a mountain lion. It became the first of a series about camouflage

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2021-04-14

in 1974, A.Y. Jackson passes away at the age of 91.
A member of the Group of Seven, his work cemented his legacy as one of Canada's greatest painters.
His career as a war artist from 1917-1919 displayed the devastation of the First World War for Canadians.

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2021-04-06

'The Green Pumpkin.' (1943) Duncan Grant remained for two decades one of England's most celebrated painters. Kenneth Clark linked his name with Matthew Smith, as artists who 'created their own world through the joy of the senses.'

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2021-03-11

Art trade is always changing.

"In the 15th century painting was too important to be left to the painters. The picture trade was a quite different think from that in our own late romantic condition, in which painters paint what they think best and then look round for buyer." 1/2

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2021-02-21