Born this Day: Tomu Uchida, visionary director of BLOODY SPEAR AT MOUNT FUJI and THE MAD FOX

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Bridget Riley
April 24, 1931

“At the core of colour is a paradox. It is simultaneously one thing and several things — you can never see colour by itself, it is always affected by other colours...”

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Willem de Kooning was 1904 in Rotterdam and in 1926, with help of his friend Leo Cohan, he crossed the ocean as stowaway on a ship to the USA.

The Cliff of the Palisade with Hudson River, Weehawken, New Jersey, 1963 (detail)
Rotterdam, June 2018.

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in 1914 director & producer William Castle, known for the various gimmicks he used to promote his films as much as he is for his films themselves (which are actually quite good).
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Wishing CATHERINE MARY STEWART a very wonderful birthday

& are true favourites in this house but after all these years we still haven’t seen - is it streaming anywhere?

Here’s some CMS style art we made to celebrate!

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The first woman military surgeon in Russia, the first woman professor of surgery, and the first woman to serve as a physician in the Imperial Palace of Russia.

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"I didn’t have any models for my I didn’t need any, having already four or five disasters in the family and six or seven tragic stories."

Carol Rama (1918–2015) in

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George "The Animal" Steele 1937 wrestler, teacher, author, actor
Ed Wood
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Robert Delaunay ~ Portrait of Tristin Tzara, 1923

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German Symbolist artist Carlos Schwabe (1866–1926)


Illustrations for ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ (Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire, Paris, 1900

1) Death
2) Dusk

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German Symbolist artist Carlos Schwabe (1866–1926)


Illustrations for ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ (Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire, Paris, 1900

1) Benediction
2) Damned Women

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Charles Baudelaire (#BOTD in 1821) produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. He was 1 of the 1st translators of Edgar Allan Poe. His book of poetry titled "Les Fleurs du mal" expresses the changing nature of beauty in Paris during the mid-19th century

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Leonora Carrington - Portrait of Max Ernst, 1940

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“I never suffer from I suffer much from the idea that my loneliness might be taken away from me by a lot of mercilessly well-meaning people.”

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) in

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