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#artoftheday
"I believe the #truth of fairytales more than I believe the truth in the newspaper"
Lotte Reiniger (1899–1981) #bornonthisday in #Berlin
#art #kunst #artist #artists #fineart #arthistory #germanart #contemporaryart #animation #filmmaking #filmmaker #silhouette #botd
Yorgos Lanthimos #BOTD 1973
Dogtooth
The Lobster
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Favourite
Alps
It’s Pontormo’s birthday (#BOTD in 1494), as good an excuse as any to share his magnificent Deposition, in Florence’s Santa Felicita, and his thirst trap selfie.
#quoteoftheday
"By believing in his #dreams, man turns them into #reality."
Hergé (1907–1983) #bornonthisday in #Brussels
#botd #quotes #quotesoftheday #quotestoliveby #quotesaboutlife #quotesdaily #lifequotes #comics #comicbooks #cartoon #illustrator #illustration #artist #botd
#paintingoftheday
"If you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls."
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) #bornonthisday in what is now #Pittsburgh
#art #arthistory #fineart #americanart #frenchart #painter #painting #paintings #portrait #portraits #portraitpainting #botd
#artoftheday
"If you shake the tree you ought to be around when the fruit falls."
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) #bornonthisday in what is now #Pittsburgh
#art #arthistory #artist #artists #artistoftheday #fineart #modernart #painter #painting #paintings #impressionism #portrait #botd
Happy 222nd #Birthday Mary Anning #BOTD 1799
https://t.co/hCwb4t2diP
Can't wait to celebrate later this year
@SidmouthScience
with
#artist @Jackapod
#palaeontolgist @Emma_Bernard @NHM_FossilFish
#composer Karen Wimhurst
@MaryAnningRocks
#palaeontology #WomenInSTEM
Happy 68th Birthday to Irish Born #JamesBond actor #PierceBrosnan #BOTD in 1953
Here are the Brosnan era Bond Posters from my #bondRedesigned project last year.
#Goldeneye #TomorrowNeverDies #WorldIsNotEnough #DieAnotherDayp
'The Quest, from Historia de Don Quichotte da la Mancha' (1980).
Salvador Dali (11th May 1904 - 23rd January 1989).
#BOTD #SalvadorDali
Salvador Dalí
#botd May 11, 1904
"You could almost reconstruct the inner landscapes of the 20th century from Dali’s painting The Persistence of Memory..."
— J G Ballard
BOTD 1737 Historian Edward Gibbon - Putney, England
Best known for The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire, (6 vol) inspired by observing a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome
Download FREE @gutenberg_org: https://t.co/mcZTcErtL6
#RubinCarter aka "The Hurricane" was #botd .
An extraordinary event occurred when Carter, a boxer, after being arrested and wrongly convicted of murder, was eventually released from prison after #BobDylan wrote a popular song about his plight.
Hurricane https://t.co/1XE5dEB1oW
Frank Auerbach #botd
Self-portrait 1958
To the Studios, 1990–1
https://t.co/5sTGSiDGuT
"No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all." (Camus)
Some of Theodor Kittelsen's (#BOTD 1857) haunting illustrations of Svartedauen (Black Death), featuring Pesta, the personified plague.
#Gothicspring