“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.” – Frida Kahlo

Wikipedia article of the day is Banksia blechnifolia. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2ESI9HW Summary: Banksia blechnifolia is a species of flowering plant that was first described by Victorian state botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1864. Its leaves are reminiscent of the fern genus Blechnum. B. blechnifolia is one of several closely related species that grow as prostrate […]

“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” – Edward Hopper

Wikipedia article of the day is Tower Hill Memorial. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2g7wbMh Summary: The Tower Hill Memorial is a pair of Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials in Trinity Square, on Tower Hill in London, England. The memorials, one for the First World War and one for the Second, commemorate more than 36,000 men and […]

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Emile Zola

Wikipedia article of the day is Erin Phillips. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3fq1P5n Summary: Erin Phillips (born 1985) is an Australian rules footballer for the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women’s (AFLW) competition and a former professional basketball player. With the launch of the AFLW in 2017, Phillips began her football career at age 31. Despite […]

“My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.” – J. Paul Getty

Wikipedia article of the day is Ealdred (archbishop of York). Check it out: https://ift.tt/2dNJJwH Summary: Ealdred (died 1069) was Abbot of Tavistock, Bishop of Worcester, and Archbishop of York in Anglo-Saxon England. After becoming a monk at the monastery at Winchester, he became abbot around 1027 and a bishop in 1047. Besides his clerical duties, […]

“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” – Jerzy Kosinski

Wikipedia article of the day is Jomo Kenyatta. Check it out: https://ift.tt/VBxTld Summary: Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1897 – 1978) was an anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its prime minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first president from 1964 to his death in 1978. He was the country’s first indigenous head of […]