#art #history: double diaboliques for connoisseurs of french cinema - & particularly simone signoret (born #otd in 1921), who was never afraid of risking her career to stay true to her endeavours in left-wing activism, human rights & social justice. she & her husband, yves montand, often showed solidarity with activists & striking workers by physically turning up to demonstrations to support them. [A SHORT THREAD]
#france #simoneSignoret #solidarity #activism #cinema #illustration
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Founded today, 1994: Mosaic Communications Corporation. You're probably more familiar with their second name, though: Netscape. My first glimpse of the web in 1995.
I was fascinated by that animated N icon. It got to me the way work by Dali and Magritte did: eerie, surreal, kind of haunting, with the glowing horizon and flying meteors during pageload. (90s internet meant seeing those meteors a *lot*).
Here's to yesterday's UI design, and yesterday's web.
Byzantine Ornaments (N° 3)
Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer, John Burley Waring, from "The Grammar of Ornament" by Owen Jones, London: 1868 #illustration #art #design https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/byzantine-3/
'let me fight my monsters.'
#art #history: these words, a plea from teenaged rachel corrie (born #otd in 1979) to her mother. in 2003, she went to #palestine & by the 16th of march, the monsters had killed her.
rachel's death was deemed accidental by an israeli investigation & the soldier who crushed her was exonerated...because of course he was.
brave doesn't touch the sides. read rachel's emails at https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/rachel/emails to fully appreciate her soul.
#rachelCorrie #illustration #ceasefireNow
#art #history: in 1939, billie holiday - born eleanora fagan on this day in 1915 - threw a punch with the release of her recording of 'strange fruit' - &, if she'd not persisted, it may not have been released until much later. columbia refused, at first (‘they won’t buy it in the south’), to let billie include it even though it had been a central & permanent pillar of her repertoire during her tenure at cafe society.
#billieHoliday #music #illustration #philadelphia #antiRacism #strangeFruit
These are screenshots from the video game Sable. Does anyone know how to describe this particular style of art?
象的内容吧…..
就像我关注了#illustration 和#art 天天给我推荐的都是什么丑东西………
French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist Albert Robida was born #OTD in 1848.
One of Robida's most significant contributions to literature and art was his pioneering work in the genre of science fiction. He was a visionary artist who imagined futuristic worlds filled with advanced technology, air travel, space exploration, and other innovations that were ahead of his time.
Books by Albert Robida at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1043
this song has always brought the tears, but especially so now. #francoiseHardy #illustration #music #musique #zardy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oybALMX0kzM&pp=ygUhZnJhbmNvaXNlIGhhcmR5IG1lc3NhZ2UgcGVyc29ubmVs
With the UK #elections coming up, politicians are in full spin (lie) mode. Consequently, misinformation, and its evil twin, disinformation, are rife online.
To save me having to point out each and every time an untrue claim is made, I've created my own lttle response graphic.
"You are wrong again. Check the facts.
Duran Duran's "Rio" came out more than 40 years ago, and people have speculated ever since about who inspired the cover artwork, which was created by illustrator Patrick Nagel. Consequence explains that a Nagel fan finally tracked it down to a Vogue Paris 1981 cover featuring model Marcie Hunt. Here's more — including the reaction of Hunt, who discovered at the same time as the rest of us that her photo had been used.
'i hope i die warmed by the life i tried to live.'
#art #history: please accept this quick scribbled birthday tribute to preeminent poet, essayist & activist, nikki giovanni (born #otd in 1943). as a member of the black arts movement, she became a leading light amongst the black power poets & at least one of her peers proclaimed her the 'poet of the black revolution'. she's also one of the only people i've seen leave james baldwin utterly tongue-tied.
#nikkiGiovanni #literature #illustration