Every Artist Has a Birthday

“You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.” - Annie Leibovitz

This painting of a pregnant woman by Gustav Klimt was deemed too scandalous at the time of it’s creation, leading to it’s removal from one of his retrospectives.

Happy Birthday to James Montgomery Flagg, creator of the famed Uncle Sam WWI Propaganda poster, which was later revived for WWII based on its popularity.

“The female body has always been a construction. Even feminist art of the 1970s fashioned a body in accordance with its own ideas, and in this regard it was a form of manipulation too.“ - VALIE EXPORT

“My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.”

Today would have been Keith Haring’s 57th birthday! <3

Paul Henry, one of Ireland’s most famed painters during his day, was especially known for his nostalgic landscapes.

“I married art…what could I do with any other Husband?”

Rosa Bonheur was a prominent and vocal female artist at a time where women’s artwork was viewed as second-rate compared to men’s work.

Botticelli's Mystical Nativity was hidden for many centuries. Once found, it earned its name from both the unusual Nativity symbolism and Greek inscription at the top.

Boticelli believed he was living through the Tribulation, which is clear in the mysterious inscription:

This picture, at the end of the year 1500, in the troubles of Italy, I Alessandro, in the half-time after the time, painted, according to the eleventh chapter of Saint John, in the second woe of the Apocalypse, during the release of the devil for three-and-a-half years; then he shall be bound in the twelfth chapter and we shall see [him buried] as in this picture.