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Remembering the fantastic Jean Alexander on her birthday #HildaOgden #classiccorrie #coronationstreet #BOTD #jeanalexander #corrie #hildaogdenart
Virginia's "Movie of the Day" is Way Down East (1920), honoring #botd Lowell Sherman (October 11, 1888 - December 28, 1934). #VirginiasMovieOfTheDay
„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.“
#LeCorbusier
Architetto,pittore.
#6ottobre 1887
#BOTD
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Le Corbusier
#nightmusic
Harriet Steinke #botd in 1994: "Contrasting Movements"
#art by Lindsey Kustusch
https://t.co/Q1nD6q8vv0
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.
Born on this day, the very talented and charismatic Jack Wild. Digital portrait by me. #jackwild #BOTD #artfuldodger #oliver #olivertwist #hrpufnstuf #consideryourself
"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 #BOTD 1571
“…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 #BOTD 1823
“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 #BOTD 1792 in London.
https://t.co/ZFUbAFKM92
"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 #BOTD 1552 in Ravenna
Did a paper once on this formidable woman. Dared to confront #Freud on his theory of #female sexuality (as being a mere offshoot of masculinity) . The Queen of Neuroses. Dr. #KarenHorney #botd.
'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 #BOTD in 1916
“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 #BOTD Bordentown, NJ
#quoteoftheday
"There is no history of #art. There is the history of #artists."
Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938) #botd in #Russia
#artist #arthistory #painter #painting #paintings #fineart #modernart #expressionism #russianart #paintingoftheday #artoftheday #pictureofthday
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 #EricHill #BOTD 1927 & @PuffinBooks
#ArtQuotes
"#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) #botd in #Chicago
#art #artist #arthistory #contemporaryart #fineart #painter #painting #abstractart #expressionism #americanart
#nightmusic 3
"Dreaming" by Amy Beach #botd in 1867.
#art by Winslow Homer
https://t.co/CxgqQIjDuK