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@JohnLee90252472 Sonia Delaunay (November 14, 1885 – December 5, 1979) was a Ukrainian-born French artistSonia_Delaunay,_1914,_Prismes_électriques,_oil_on_canvas,_250_x_250_cm,_Musée_National_d'Art_Moderne
"Self Portrait As Soldier"
"Self-portrait with a Gunner's Helmet"
Both in 1914, and then in 1915
"Self-portrait as Mars"
➤ “Naturaleza muerta con lámpara”, Fernand Léger, 1914, @museoreinasofia©
➤ Léger lleva su estilo cubista casi hasta la abstracción, en una serie de pinturas tituladas genéricamente Contraste de formas, basada en la disparidad visual entre discretos volúmenes geométricos
🧶/FIN
Coelogyne annamensis, 1914, by #AliceJacob (Irish, 1862-1921) who was born #otd (Jan 26). Courtesy of @NBGGlasnevin, https://t.co/hhnRw7fKKm #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory
On 6 January 1914, #Tolkien began working on "The Book of Ishness", a sketchbook capturing abstract ideas through art. Early Silmarillion artworks inside were gloomy "Eeriness" and "The Shores of Faery"; the citadel of Elven city Kôr.
Image from "Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth".
ALEXANDER BOGOMAZOV. Sharpening Saws,1927. He was a Ukrainian painter, known artist & modern art theoretician of the Russian Avant-garde. In 1914, Alexander wrote his treatise: The Art of Painting and the Elements. He mastered several art styles: Cubo-Futurism and Spectralism.
"Caricature Map of Europe 1914, Keith Thompson, Pencil on paper, 2009" posted by /u/k2rk3dk4a: https://t.co/bCDiE37V6Y
Dr Laura Forster (1858–1917) was a British colonial neurologist & surgeon. In 1914, she joined the British Red Cross & carried out the first surgical operation by a woman in the war. The extreme demands (20-hour days) & unrelenting war exhausted her: she died from this and flu.
Oskar Kokoschka, The Supplicant (Die Flehende) (plate 5) from O Eternity - Thou Word of Thunder (Bach Cantata) [O Ewigkeit - Du Donnerwort (Bachkantate)], (1914, published 1916) #oskarkokoschka #museumofmodernart https://t.co/7yEX4gnCLY
Lansdowne's letter was prompted, in part, by Passchendaele.
The Battle is a stain upon all of humanity. As is war generally.
Lansdowne himself lost a son, in 1914, during the 'Great War'.
#OTD, in the evening of 25 August 1914, British II Corps under Gen Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien arrived in Le Cateau, after withdrawing from Mons.
They set up defensive positions in & around the town, to deliver a "stopping blow" to the German 2nd Army. They will fight on the morrow
Electric prisms, 1914, by pioneering Ukranian-French artist Sonia Delaunay #WomensArt
Photographe non identifié, Modèle de prothèse de jambe photographiée dans un studio de portrait, tirage argentique vers 1914, collection personnelle