#botd

"Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight."

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📸 Remembering #RobertMapplethorpe, American photographer, who was #BOTD 4 November 1946. #Art #Photography

"This is the wisdom of #art, the knowledge that beauty perhaps is the one undeniably unique attribute of the human."

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/c-k-wi...

📖 Remembering #CKWilliams, American poet, critic, and translator, who was #BOTD 4 November 1936. #Poetry #Literature

🎨 #LuigiLucioni, Italian-American painter, was #BOTD 4 November 1900. #Art #Painting

⚒ #CharlesDespiau, French sculptor, was #BOTD 4 November 1874. #Art #Sculpture

🎨 #GerardVanHonthorst, Dutch Golden Age painter, was #BOTD 4 November 1592. #Art #Painting

🎨 #GuidoReni, Italian Baroque painter, was #BOTD 4 November 1575. #Art #Painting

🎨 Remembering #LoisMailouJones, African American painter and academic, who was #BOTD 3 November 1905. #Art #Painting

"Evans aimed to honestly portray the American vernacular with what he called “the elevated expression, the literate, authoritative and transcendent statement which a photograph allows.”"

📸 American photographer #WalkerEvans was #BOTD 3 November 1903. #Art #Photography

"An art book is a museum without walls."

✒️ #AndréMalraux, French novelist and art historian (La Condition Humaine), was #BOTD 3 November 1901. #Art #Literature

🎨 #AnnibaleCarracci, Italian painter, was #BOTD 3 November 1560. #Art #Painting

"Little beginnings sometimes have great endings."

⚒️ #BenvenutoCellini, Italian Renaissance sculptor (Perseus), goldsmith, and author of an incredible autobiography, was #BOTD 3 November 1500. #Art #Sculpture