Virginia's "Movie of the Day" is Way Down East (1920), honoring Lowell Sherman (October 11, 1888 - December 28, 1934).

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„L'architettura è un fatto d'arte, un fenomeno che suscita emozione, al di fuori dei problemi di costruzione, al di là di essi. La Costruzione è per tener su: l'Architettura è per commuovere.“

Architetto,pittore.
1887

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Le Corbusier

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Harriet Steinke in 1994: "Contrasting Movements"

by Lindsey Kustusch

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Alain-Fournier (Henri-Alban Fournier) Author of Le Grand Meaulnes, now considered a French classic, he died fighting near Vaux-lès-Palameix in September 1914, aged 27.

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Born on this day, the very talented and charismatic Jack Wild. Digital portrait by me.

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"All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature"

... and my, how he followed. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio 1571

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“…That’s my reward for all the trouble I gave myself not to submit an average piece of work…”

Arch-academic (with early Romantic slips) & Napoleon III's preferred painter Alexandre Cabanel 1823

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“There must be no smiling with Cruikshank. A man who does not laugh outright is a dullard, and has no heart" (Thackeray)

Caricaturist & book illustrator George Cruikshank 1792 in London.

https://t.co/ZFUbAFKM92

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"In Ravenna lives today a girl of eighteen years of age... especially in her portraits as she barely glances at a person that she can portray better than anybody else" (Muzio Manfredi)

Italian painter of the Counter-Reformation Barbara Longhi 1552 in Ravenna

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Adam West was born on Sept 19, 1928. Always the best Batman to draw.

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Did a paper once on this formidable woman. Dared to confront on his theory of sexuality (as being a mere offshoot of masculinity) . The Queen of Neuroses. Dr.

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'So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.'
― Roald Dahl, Matilda in 1916

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“It is impossible to paint the sea in literal movement or to carry to the nostrils the tang of the salt sea brine (…) yet all these are somehow felt in a work of art.”

Marine artist, illustrator and author Frederick Judd "Wizard" Waugh was Bordentown, NJ

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Where were we then? Oh yeah, is he under the rug?
Spot the Dog providing lift the flap fun for 40 years brought to you by Spot's Dad 1927 &

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"#Paintings are not always pleasant or easy. I don't always like it and really when I do them it's a journey."

Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007) in

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"Dreaming" by Amy Beach in 1867.

by Winslow Homer

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