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Popular artists who art helped push things in that direction included, dattebae, sukieyo, shy-gurl914, hallsth-eien
For #WorldTapirDay here's a 1702 London broadsheet advertising the exhibition of two South American tapirs (called kamas) from Berbice, Guyana (British Museum no. 1914,0520.691)
Oskar Kokoschka, The Supplicant (Die Flehende) (plate 5) from O Eternity - Thou Word of Thunder (Bach Cantata) [O Ewigkeit - Du Donnerwort (Bachkantate)], (1914, published 1916) https://t.co/7yEX4gn4Wq #museumofmodernart #oskarkokoschka
@ValerioLivia @marialves53 @albertopetro2 @migliaccio31 @agustin_gut @DavLucia @AlessandraCicc6 @GerardBigPlus1 @Rebeka80721106 @smarucci461 @scastaldi9 @LunaLeso @martinis2018 @marmelyr @NadiaZanelli1 @dianadep1 @BaroneZaza70 @Biagio960 @angela3nipoti1 @culture_more @giovangelucci @paoloigna1 @albert_cunill @gori_magnani @CaterinaCategio @ANNAMAMARIABIA1 @MariangelaSant8 @EnricoCastrovil @djolavarrieta @rebeccaabdu @ManuelaDora @doritadia @anne_camozzi @ANNAMARIABIASI1 @cmont4560 @fra852 @Make_u2_happy @neblaruz @GiuseppeTurrisi @Titas37 @kapii7 @FriendArt_ Reading man in park, 1914, August Macke
El 31 de marzo de 1914, nace en Ciudad de México, el poeta y ensayista Octavio Paz
Julia de Burgos, quien nació un día como hoy en 1914, es considerada una de las poetas puertorriqueñas y latinoamericanas más influyentes del siglo XX. También fue activista de los derechos civiles de las mujeres y defensora de la independencia de Puerto Rico.
Julia de Burgos, born #OTD in 1914, has come to be considered one of the most influential Puerto Rican and Latin American poets of the twentieth century. She was also a civil rights activist for women and an advocate for Puerto Rican independence. https://t.co/MQXLDvkEY0
#OTD in 1913, The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiated a period of almost four decades of independence. Illustration: East Asia in 1914, showing Tibet as an autonomous region of the Republic of China.
Since its first publication in 1914, Robert Tressell’s socialist masterpiece, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, has been passed around by working people to help their mates and colleagues understand how capitalism works.
Wunderwald created illustrations for the children’s anthology Heim der Jugend in 1905. She also designed book covers, and menu cards for ocean liners. Between 1909 and 1914, she exhibited at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and with the Berlin and Munich Secessions.
➤ “Naturaleza muerta con lámpara”, Fernand Léger, 1914, @museoreinasofia
➤ Léger lleva su estilo cubista casi hasta la abstracción, en una serie de pinturas tituladas genéricamente Contraste de formas, basada en la disparidad visual entre discretos volúmenes geométricos
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🐰😺🎨🖌📖🕯 Alice in Wonderland drawings, The Morgan Library, Sir John Tenniel, 1820-1914, English illustrator, graphic humorist, and political cartoonist.
In January 1914, four years after writing a gloomy New Year entry and a year before serving as Second Lieutenant in World War I where he lost many friends, Tolkien painted "Eeriness", lone figure standing in front of a dark, hostile path, who might be an early version of Gandalf.
In Memoriam by Stephen Todd (41cm x 38cm)
"This image includes the SS Architect which was the ship my mums uncle, Eddie Jones, went to France in Nov 1914, and did not return."
07. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900–1978) was one of the first women to attend Abeokuta Grammar School in 1914, where she would go on to teach. She was associated with some of the most important anti-colonial educational movements in Nigeria and West Africa
Alain-Fournier (Henri-Alban Fournier) #botd. Author of Le Grand Meaulnes, now considered a French classic, he died fighting near Vaux-lès-Palameix in September 1914, aged 27.