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Untitled, 1958, Pablo Picasso

Italian Painter Achille Casanova (1861 - 1948)

Konrad Cramer (American, 1888-1983) was born on this day.

Still LIfe with Fish and Pitcher, 1923, Chaim Soutine

Saint Francis, thank you for your favors. I remember when I met Damian he was a very timid boy. I told him that he has a baby-face, but it turned out that he was the same age as me. He was very shy, and when I talked with him he went beet red. One time some University fellows invited us to a party. Most of them brought their girlfriends. Damian asked me why I didn’t bring mine. I told him that I don’t like women. Then he said “What a coincidence, neither do I”. That’s how we became a couple. I thank for having fallen in love.

Blue and Green Music, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1919, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Around 1920 Georgia O’Keeffe painted a number of oils exploring, as she later recalled, “the idea that music could be translated into something for the eye.” In Blue and Green Music, O’Keeffe’s colors and forms simultaneously suggest the natural world and evoke the experience of sound. She was drawn to the theories of the Russian Expressionist painter Vasily Kandinsky, who, in his 1912 text Concerning the Spiritual in Art, argued that visual artists should emulate music in order to achieve pure expression free of literary references. Alfred Stieglitz Collection, gift of Georgia O'Keeffe Size: 58.4 × 48.3 cm (23 × 18 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas

Self-Portrait with the Portrait of Doctor Farill, 1951, Frida Kahlo

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