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Happy 136th Birthday Pablo Picasso
Today is Picasso’s 136th 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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Happy 94th Birthday Roy Lichtenstein
Today is the 94th birthday of the pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. I am drawn to the purity of his subject matters and saturation of colors. His influence helped recognize everyday graphic art as high...
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Happy 134th Birthday José Clemente Orozco
Today is the 134th birthday of the revolutionary Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco. How can your not immediately love a muralist? So much narrative, and the scale? It required hours of...
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Happy 109th Birthday Yousuf Karsh
Today is the 109th birthday of the photographer Yousuf Karsh. The world is a better place because he was in it and still feels the loss that he has left. NAME: Yousuf Karsh OCCUPATION: Portrait...
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Happy 134th Birthday Maurice Utrillo
Today is the 134th 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 148th Birthday Henri Matisse
Today is the 148th birthday of the French artist Henri Matisse. If you have ever been to IKEA, you have seen his artwork. For good or for bad, his art is recognized and helped to change the path of...
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Happy 106th Birthday Jackson Pollock
Today is the 106th 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 131st Birthday Juan Gris
Today is the 131st 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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Happy 114th Birthday Willem de Kooning
Today is the 114th 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 114th Birthday Salvador Dalí
Today is the 114th 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 136th Birthday Georges Braque
Today is the 136th 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 Edward Hopper
Today is the 136th 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 137th Birthday Pablo Picasso
Today is Picasso’s 137th birthday. He died 45 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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Happy 135th Birthday Sara Sherman Wiborg Murphy
Today is the 135th birthday of Sara Sherman Wiborg Murphy, one half of an amazing Jazz Age Lost Generation couple. I think that I first ‘discovered’ Gerald and Sara Murphy when I was reading a...
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Pablo Picasso – Words To Live By
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. – Pablo Picasso
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Happy 137th Birthday André Derain
Today is the 137th 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 138th Birthday Pablo Picasso
Today is Picasso’s 138th birthday. He died 45+ 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...
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Happy 136th Birthday Sara Sherman Wiborg Murphy
Today is the 136th birthday of Sara Sherman Wiborg Murphy, one half of an amazing Jazz Age Lost Generation couple. I think that I first ‘discovered’ Gerald and Sara Murphy when I was reading a...
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Pablo Picasso – Words To Live By
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. – Pablo Picasso
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Happy 114th Birthday Willem de Kooning
Today is the 114th 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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