Henri Rousseau Died 116 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude as a Dream.
Henri Rousseau painted jungles he never saw, in a country he never left, from a mind that had never been
Surrealism
Dorothea Tanning Was Born 116 Years Ago Today. She Made the Female Body a Door to Another World.
Dorothea Tanning was born on August 25, 1910, in Galesburg, Illinois. She lived 101 years and spent nearly all of
Art History, Today in Art History
René Magritte Died 59 Years Ago Today. His Surrealist Nudes Made the Body Strange Again.
René Magritte died on August 15, 1967, in Brussels, aged 68. Fifty-nine years later he remains the rare painter whose
Art History, Today in Art History
Frida Kahlo Died 72 Years Ago Today. She Turned the Nude Body Into the Most Honest Autobiography Ever Painted.
On July 13, 1954, Frida Kahlo died in the same blue house in Coyoacán where she had been born 47
Born Today in Art History: Joan Miró and the Surrealist Body (April 20, 1893)
Today in art history, Joan Miró was born on April 20, 1893, and the date still matters because Miró changed