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Happy 128th Birthday Le Corbusier
Today is the 128th birthday of the architect and designer Le Corbusier. His designs are widely admired and even copied to this day. His true talent was being able to create designs that have...
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Happy 90th Birthday Robert Rauschenberg
Today is the 90th birthday of artist Robert Rauschenberg. Seeing things differently, interpreting them from other views and giving people the ability to do the same is as much an art to me as painting...
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Happy 134th Birthday Pablo Picasso
Today is Picasso’s 134th birthday. He died 42 years ago at the impressive age of 91. A long life only matched by his long long full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de...
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Rear View Mirror – My Week In Review
Since I accidentally pulled the trigger on today’s post last night while I was finalizing it, I decided to make today’s post be a proper Week In Review. My last one was about the death of a wonderful...
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Happy 124th Birthday Carlos Mérida
Today is the 124th birthday of the Guatamalan muralist Carlos Merida. I am a fan of mid-century murals and if they are mosaic murals, even better. The world is a better place because he was in it and...
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Happy 107th Birthday Yousuf Karsh
Today is the 107th birthday of the photographer Yousuf Karsh. NAME: Yousuf Karsh OCCUPATION: Portrait Photographer BIRTH DATE: December 23, 1908 DEATH DATE: July 13, 2002 PLACE OF BIRTH: Mardin,...
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Happy 132nd Birthday Maurice Utrillo
Today is the 132nd birthday of the French artist Maurice Utrillo. His art is most widely recognized due to the reproductions into post cards of the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. The paintings are...
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Happy 146th Birthday Henri Matisse
Today is the 146th birthday of the French artist Henri Matisse. If you have been to IKEA, you have seen his artwork. For good or for bad, his art is recognized and helped to change the path of modern...
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Happy 104th Birthday Jackson Pollock
Today is the 104th birthday of Jackson Pollock. Some of his art pushes some people’s definitions of art because they do not see it as a representation of anything they recognize. Fortunately, the...
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Happy 129th Birthday Juan Gris
Today is the 129th birthday of the artist Juan Gris. When I see his art, I hear the jazz, see the dancers, smell the cigarette smoke and remember Paris in the 20s as I have read about it in Hemingway’s...
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P is for Parker, Powell, Pollock, Peck, The Psychedelic Furs, Poitier, Price...
P is for Perfect. Jackson Pollock “Convergence” (1952) Paul Jackson Pollock, known professionally as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract...
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S is for Stein, Stewart, Scritti Politti, Stanwyck, Siouxsie and the...
S is for Seattle. “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” – Gertrude Stein [1874-1946] Sacred Emily Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, and playwright. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood...
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Happy 112th Birthday Willem de Kooning
Today is the 112th birthday of the artist Willem de Kooning. He is one of the major influencers of abstract expressionism. The world is a better place because he was in it and still feels the loss that...
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Happy 112th Birthday Salvador Dalí
Today is the 112th birthday of the artist Salvador Dali. My very favorite description of one of his pieces is that of the 1940 Painting “Daddy Longlegs of the Evening — Hope!” The painting depicts an...
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Happy 134th Birthday Georges Braque
Today is the 134th birthday of the man who is widely recognized as the co-founder of Cubism: Georges Braque. While his counterpart’s name is much more recognizable, his works in the genre are equal to...
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Happy 136th Birthday André Derain
Today is the 136th birthday of the fauvist painter André Derain. The progression of his work through his lifetime is beautiful, I love looking at them chronologically. He finds his style, perfects it...
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Happy 134th Birthday Edward Hopper
Today is the 134th birthday of the artist Edward Hopper. I was first introduced to his art in that same college library where I read everything by the Lost Generation. His artwork fit into the same...
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Happy 133rd Birthday Coco Chanel
Today is the 133rd birthday of the woman that said, “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is...
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Happy 117th Birthday Brassaï
Today is the 117th birthday of the photographer Brassaï. I learned about him while researching some of his contemporaries on their birthdays and became fixated on his nighttime Paris photos, the thick...
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Happy 113th Birthday Mark Rothko
Today is the 113th birthday of the artist Mark Rothko. His works are inspiring in their pure boldness. Photographs remove the texture and movement. The world is a better place because he was in it and...
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