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"The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope while the left eye peers into the microscope."

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) in

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2021-04-07


"The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope while the left eye peers into the microscope."

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) in

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2021-04-07

...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

Fellow Kristan M. Hanson studies pelargoniums in like these and their relation to gender, race, and colonialism.

More on pelargoniums in from our Lab: https://t.co/lJkqpbkPJk

🎨: https://t.co/x2G2xviZsx
🎨: https://t.co/Tcmyxu57Dr

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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

“I want to tell my story of the times—what I’ve lived through; what we’re going through. Often, people don’t want to see that… but I don’t do what people want to see; I do what I can.”⁣

Here is our post on Faith Ringgold. https://t.co/CnVno7tk8B

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2021-03-27