"Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals." ~ Walt Disney, December 5, 1901 🎨♥️🐿️🦢🦌🐇🦝

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“Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.”

Roy Lichtenstein, a leading figure in the Movement, was

[Image: Untitled Hand, 1973. Gift of Robert Rauschenberg]

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"Dog and Priest"
Alex Colville (Canadian, 1920 - 2013)
Date: 1978
Style: Contemporary Realism
Genre: genre painting

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“That’s the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That’s part of their beauty—their impermanence.”
Pamela Moore (1937-1964), Chocolates for Breakfast, 1956, a book by the “American Françoise Sagan” still worth reading.

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Geographer, naturalist and explorer Friedrich Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt was 1769. Scroll through his amazing books: https://t.co/xUacO4CHCs

These illustrations come from 'Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland', botanique III, 1807-1829

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English novelist & poet Emily Jane Brontë was July 30, 1818. Best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), now considered a classic of English literature. Passed in 1848 (age 30) from

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"Thank goodness I was never sent to it would have rubbed off some of the originality."

Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) in London

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"Thank goodness I was never sent to it would have rubbed off some of the originality."

Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) in

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Alex Katz was in 1927. "Night" is the portrait of the artist's wife, Ada, in 1976.
Oil on canvas, 72 1/8 x 96 in. Funded by National Endowment for the Arts and the Contemporary Arts Fund, 1981.13.

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"The admonition to look within has always kept me going. It's when people are copy each other that they don't establish their own as

Claire Falkenstein (1908–1997) in

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