GrumbleKing
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Pug dad, wordsmith, museum goer, cruciverbalist, Mamdani-stan Current audiobook: Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski Current ebook: Trust by Hernan Diaz
BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1893, George Grosz was a German artist known especially for his caricatures of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. This is "Eclipse of the Sun," 1926.
BORN ON THIS DAY in 1862, Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter whose work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe. Controversy erupted when his paintings for the ceiling of the the University of Vienna's Great Hall were criticized as pornographic. This is "Danae."
BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1834, James McNeill Whistler, an American painter active during the American Gilded Age. He eschewed sentimentality and lived by the credo "art for art's sake." His signature took the shape of a stylized butterfly with an added long stinger for a tail. And yes, that's his mother.
BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1907, Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her self-portraits that often documented her physical, mental and spiritual struggles. This is "The Two Fridas."
BORN ON THIS DAY in 1940, Chuck Close was an American painter and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others.
Happy birthday, Gustave Courbet! The father of Realism, whose independence paved the way for the Impressionists, Courbet should also be known for a lifelong dedication to the self portrait that ranks with Rembrandt. Here are three and a loverly 19th century photograph.
Happy 90th birthday to Ralph Steadman, the brilliant cartoonist whose phantasmagoric imagination made the gonzo journalism stories of Hunter S. Thompson irresistibly vivid. Treat yourself to a meander through his website. You'll be glad you did. Link in the comments.
BORN ON THIS DAY in 1828 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, an English poet and painter, he founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with John Everett Millais. He inspired contemporary artists such as William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists.
"The Second of May" by Francisco Goya. It depicts one of the many people's rebellions against the French occupation of Spain that sparked the Peninsular War.
Luigi Russolo, an Italian Futurist painter born on this day in 1885. He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers and constructed a number of noise-generating devices he called Intonarumori.
Wow! Just looked this guy up. An Aussie pre-Fauvist. Great work. Thanks for sharing this!
The genius that was Honoré Daumier! Born on this day in 1808, he is revered as a caricaturist, a serious painter and a sculptor. Visit his Wiki page (link in comments) and scroll through his astonishing legacy.
No one else painted the perils of life at sea so well as Winslow Homer, born on this day in 1836.
"Tu m'aimes," (You love me) painted by José María Cano who was born on this day in 1959.
Behold the Masked Trogan, a resident of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela.
BORN ON THIS DAY in 1889, Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist who married Jean Arp, a leading figure in the Dada movement. Sophie is now considered one of the most important geometric abstractionists of the 20th century.
So many oddities about this man, but isn't it bizarre that we all just carry on as normal despite his daily use of this clownish self image? It's like he's a drunken, crazed, obese football fan who painted his face and beer belly in the home team colors. #globalembarrassment
“Global Warning” by Marta Tereziya, winner of the Tidal Shift Award, a prize for young artists who want to solve our climate crisis. "Seeing wildfires start all over the globe, I felt helpless. As if I was a little bunny, knowing that it will kill everything including me in its sight."
"Rama Duwaji is excited for her husband Zohran Mamdani’s new job. Just don’t call her the mayor’s plus-one." That's how The CUT begins its profile of New York's soon-to-be first lady. The photo shoot is mind-blowing. Get to know this amazing artist. Link to The CUT profile in the comments.