Georges Seurat Died Today, 135 Years Ago. He Proved the Body Is Made of Light.
Georges Seurat died on March 29, 1891. He was thirty-one years old. He had been painting seriously for about a […]
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Edward Steichen Was Born Today, 147 Years Ago. He Made the Camera See the Body the Way Only Painting Could.
Edward Steichen was born today, 147 years ago, in a stone house in the village of Bivange, Luxembourg. He would
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Died Today, 107 Years Ago. He Made the Body an Architecture of Feeling — Then the World Broke Him.
Wilhelm Lehmbruck died on this day in 1919. He was 38 years old. He had just been elected to the
William Morris Was Born Today, 192 Years Ago. He Only Painted One Picture — and Spent His Life Proving the Body Is Where All Design Begins.
William Morris was born on this day in 1834. He died in 1896 at sixty-two, exhausted and furious, having spent
Juan Gris Was Born Today, 139 Years Ago. He Shattered the Body — and Made It Beautiful.
On this day in 1887, José Victoriano González-Pérez was born in Madrid. The world would know him as Juan Gris
Anthony van Dyck Was Born Today, 427 Years Ago. He Made the Body the Foundation of Everything — Then Dressed It Up.
Anthony van Dyck was born on this day in 1599, in Antwerp. He died at forty-two. In between, he became
Hans Hofmann Was Born Today, 146 Years Ago. He Taught America How to See the Body — Then Blew It Apart.
On March 21, 1880, in Weißenburg, Bavaria, a boy was born who would spend his first decades building things: electromagnetic
Albert Pinkham Ryder Was Born Today, 179 Years Ago. His Paintings Are Still Drying.
Albert Pinkham Ryder was born on this day in 1847, in a whaling port on the Massachusetts coast. He would
March 18: The Day Art Disappeared Twice
Two events happened on March 18 — separated by sixteen years and 5,000 miles — that together tell us everything
Mikhail Vrubel Was Born Today, 170 Years Ago. He Made the Body a Cathedral.
One hundred and seventy years ago today — March 17, 1856 — a boy named Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel was born