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...creating an archive of preparatory drawings for the lithographs before her death was not adequately recognized.

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2021-04-05


"Art & shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another."

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) in

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2021-04-03

I wonder if artists like Van Gogh imagined if their works would be world renowned🤔 Who's your favorite artist (past or contemporary)🖌

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2021-03-31

in 1897, the sale of bibliophile Baron Jérôme Pichon’s collection began. Lasting 2 weeks, it brought in 576,945 Francs.

On this first day, paintings by the likes of and were sold.

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2021-03-30

My favorite painting currently. Painted in 1937 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. A year later the Nazi party confiscated pretty much all his work and as a result he committed suicide. To me, this artist was revolutionary and im extremely thankful for his vision.

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2021-03-29

This Caldecott-winner said, “disgracefully incompetent” book reviewers would either:

• lavish “wild acclaim on a piece of artistic trash”

or

• destroy an illustrator’s career

This is our post on Trina Schart Hyman.
https://t.co/TbJaJVb5WO

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2021-03-29

In the late 1960’s, this artist submitted art of a blue bonnet-wearing girl to American Greetings.

Her art launched a decades-long phenomenon.

Here is our post on Denise Holly Ulinskas, better known as… Holly Hobbie. https://t.co/8gBSyVFOIQ

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2021-03-24

New style application experiments, who would be up for a Football Fauvism book or abstract as campaign?

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2021-03-22

At 9, this artist was a refugee.
At 17, she helped England fight the Nazis.
At 45, she published her first children’s book.
At 95, she published her last children’s book.

This is our post on Judith Kerr. https://t.co/HwEE4kELqy

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2021-03-22