Giorgio de Chirico: "To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream." What happens when an artist achieves a modest degree … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Photographer, Edgar de Evia
Photo via Wikimedia Commons July 30, 1910 -Edgar de Evia He was born in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. His mother was Pauline Joutard, a French concert pianist who performed under the stage name Miirrha Alhambra. His father was Domingo Fernando Evia y Barbachano, a wealthy … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Artist, Thomas Eakins
Self-Portrait, 1902, National Academy Museum, NY, public domain July 25, 1844– Thomas Cowperthaite Eakins: "I have never discovered that the nude could be studied in any way except the way I have adopted. All the muscles must be pointed out. To do this all the drapery … [Read more...]
#Breaking: Gay Icons Bette Midler and Joni Mitchell to Receive Kennedy Center Honors!
Kennedy Center, via Wikimedia Commons The 44th Kennedy Center Honors, scheduled for December 5, might be delayed until 2022, because of the rise in Covid cases and what could very possibly be another pandemic winter. Or fans could be getting an unprecedented two-Kennedy Center … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Muses Work All Day Long & Then at Night Get Together & Dance…” –Edgar Degas
Self-portrait, 1855, courtesy of the Musée d'Orsay Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917) presented scenes of contemporary life, especially dancers, entertainers and women at their bath. His technique is superb and he experimented with various media. Degas, gone for more than a century, … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Fashion Icon, Charles James
Charles James July 18, 1906 - Charles Wilson Brega James: "A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight." Charles James was a British-born fashion … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Photographer, Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott by Hank O'Neal, 1979 July 17, 1898– Berenice Abbott: "Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past." I have a passion for Photography, whether it is formal portraiture, ads or commercial work, … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Eccentric, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson (Baron Berners)
Via Wikimedia Commons July 14, 1883 - Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson: "There is a good deal to be said for frivolity. Frivolous people, when all is said … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Marcel Proust
Proust working in bed, early 20th-century, photographer unknown, public domain July 10, 1871 - Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust: "Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us." Somehow, the above quote is better in French, but then most things … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Photographer, Minor White
July 9, 1908, Minor Martin White: ''All photographs are self-portraits.'' Minor White is an artists' patron saint in my city, Portland, Oregon. He lived in an era when being openly queer was not a possibility, and he remained in the closet for much of his life, fearful of losing … [Read more...]
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