Braemar. The damp, midgy August of 1881. Robert Louis Stevenson, exhausted, spitting blood, was housebound, but, sparked by the detailed vision of a map, he began to write a new book –Treasure Island. Read my essay on this & other piratical matters. https://t.co/2Cg32FLs1Q

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🍓 Wild Strawberries, French poster by Michel Landi, Bibi Andersson

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Este hombre tendría hoy 86. ¡Qué menos que un retratillo!
This guy would be 86 today. The least he deserves is a little portrait!

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Happy birthday, Alain Delon! Here's my painting of Jean-Paul Belmondo and in Jacques Deray's 1970 film BORSALINO to celebrate!

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"Most people don't see the edginess in my work. They think it's all fantasy and whimsy."

Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002) in

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Francis Bacon 💎 1909 (d. 1992) was an Irish-born English figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures...

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Happy birthday, Catherine Deneuve!

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The irreplaceable was in 1929 so we're sharing one of spectacular illustrations for (2018): when 'sea and shore were all the same at last, then the dragon spoke the truth and there was nothing to fear'

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BOTD 1945 Harris Glenn Milstead AKA Divine!

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"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."

~ Hannah Arendt 💎 1906

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"The greatest evil in the world is the one commited by nobodies, by men without motives, without convictions, by human beings who refuse to be persons. It is this phenomenon that I've called "the banality of evil"
https://t.co/hSRoNucg5k

Hannah Arendt

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Some of the films of director Jack Arnold who was in 1916.

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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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