Salvador Dalí, born Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domenech, May 11, 1904, in Figueras, Spain, is the Surrealist painter and printmaker, influential for his explorations of subconscious imagery.As an art student in Madrid and Barcelona, Dalí assimilated a vast number of artistic styles and displayed unusual technical facility as a painter. It was not until… Continue reading The Life You Give: Salvador Dalí *1904
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The Live You Give: Gerhard Richter *February 9 1932
I am a simple man but for decades have understood my many privileges. Amongst many others, I have had the privilege of undergoing a second formative period, one with a level of intensity which has consistently allowed me to live life on a different plane than that of an average animal. Formative because well over… Continue reading The Live You Give: Gerhard Richter *February 9 1932
Happy Birthday, Claude Monet! 1840
Happy Birthday, Francis Bacon! 1909
Happy Birthday, Alberto Giacometti! 1901
Happy Birthday, Caspar David Friedrich! 1774
Happy Birthday, Hermann Nitsch! 1938
Happy Birthday, Marcel Duchamp! (1887)
Mexicans tenors to celebrate Frida Kahlo — July 6 1907
Frida Kahlo “The Classic” (Black and White) 1939. Photograph by Nickolas Muray (American, born in Hungary, 1892–1965). Gelatin silver print. Because Frida Kahlo loved music, I will be sharing some music, interpreted by some of the important Mexican tenors that have been on the best opera stages for the last couple of decades. Today, July… Continue reading Mexicans tenors to celebrate Frida Kahlo — July 6 1907
Happy Birthday, Frida Kahlo!
Celebrate with us the life of who remains a popular and impressive figure, appreciated for her presence, as woman, as artist, even today — seven decades after her death. The painter Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, on July 6 1907, in Coyoacán, Mexico. Join us in celebration of her wonderful… Continue reading Happy Birthday, Frida Kahlo!
Happy Birthday, lieber Herr Gerhard Richter!
If the Abstract Pictures show my reality, then the landscapes and the still lives show my yearning. Gerhard Richter *February 9 1932 / painter