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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

just the best to ever do it

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The European nobility of the 17th & 18th centuries tried to literally wipe their African slaves out of the history books by having them painted in the shadows.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Roman Wall Paintings from Pompeii.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

Roman Helmets.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

ps. The character played by Merle Oberon was an incredibly popular 19th century female French novelist and journalist who went by the pen name "George Sands". She was a passionate feminist who was famous for wearing men's clothes even without an official "permit", which was required at the time.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

ps. Here's a quote on Laura Knight's coastal paintings from Sarah Reynolds: "The works depict solitary women looking out across the calm blue expanse of the ocean towards France. There are no men in them because they are all fighting and dying in the trenches. These are deeply psychological works."

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Photographer John Rawlings for Vogue, 1947.

A beautiful model lying on sandstone paving wearing a 1940s beach suit with blue silk shorts.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

The actor, manager and anti-slavery campaigner Ira Aldridge (1807–1867), the first black actor to play Othello.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

The Great American Shakespearean Actor Edwin Booth (the older brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth).

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

ps. Anthony Quinn was creating art and architectural designs long before he became an actor. In fact, it was one of his art teachers who first recommended he take acting lessons – as a form of speech therapy after an operation.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

#RIPDavidHockney I think his collages are some of his best work into how we process what we see.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Victorians of Colour.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

German women in love with their cars in the late 1920s.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Anti-Stalin and Anti-Hitler Cartoons from 1930s/40s.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

Collage Art from the 1930s/40s by the Czech artist Karel Teige.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

A brilliant poster for the Museum of International Propaganda.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Poster Art for Sarah Bernhardt by Alphonse Mucha.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

Poster Art by Mikhail Kalmanson.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

Poster Art for Fritz Lang's "Metropolis".

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

The great Hachikō. An Akita dog who waited 9 years at the Tokyo Shibuya train station for his dead master to return, and finally died there in 1935. There's a memorial to his loyalty and love outside the modern station.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

The Great Tenor Enrico Caruso in 1918 (pictured with a customised 'Victrola Phonograph' that was given to him as a wedding gift – possibly containing one of his many bestselling records?)

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

The Great Swedish Tenor Jussi Björling.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

The Great Austrian Tenor Richard Tauber.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The great Romanian and Austro-Hungarian opera tenor Josef Schmidt. He became a radio and film star in Germany's Weimer Republic, but was eventually forced to flee after the Nazis seized total power. He died as a refugee in a Swiss internment camp in 1942 at the age of 38.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Beniamino Gigli singing the "Lamento di Frederico" in a recital in Buenos Aires in 1950. [🔊 Listen to the end!]

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Beniamino Gigli - Lamento di Federico (Buenos Aires, 1950)

YouTube video by Dead Tenors' Society

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

Women at the Cornish Coast by Laura Knight. (The artist painted a number of these scenes around 1917. There are never any men in them, because all their men had gone off to war. Once you know that, it gives the initial romaticism a thought-provoking subtext.)

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

"Pervitin" was a form of crystal meth used by the German army during WW2. Tens of millions of tablets were taken to enhance military performance, and it's said that without them, the Blitzkrieg against Poland and France wouldn't have been possible. Hitler is also said to have been a Pervitin addict.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

"The Grail Boat" by Greg Tricker (2010). A small oak boat in the shape a cup brings a group of early Christians from Palestine to Southern France after the crucifixion. Joseph of Arimathea holds the grail, with Mary Magdalene behind him on the right.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

A translation of the artistic manifesto of the "Brücke" group of German expressionists formed in 1905. Like so many artistic movements before and since, it champions the right of young people to go their own way in both their work and lifestyle. The poster and woodcut are by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Flapper* covers of Life magazine from the 1920s. ... *"Flappers" was the name given to a generation of strong, emancipated young women who refused to return to their traditional roles at the end of World War One, after having previously taken over the civilian jobs of the men who were away fighting.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Teresa Stratas in the full finale of "Salome" from Richard Strauss (from the beheading of John the Baptist to the end), conducted by Karl Böhm 1975.

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"Es ist kein Laut zu vernehmen" - Salomé, final (Richard Strauss) - Teresa Stratas, Karl Böhm

YouTube video by narciso machuca

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

London Underground Art from the 1930s by Cyril Power.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

Romy Schneider photographed by Eva Sereny in Rome (1971).

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Bessie Coleman, the first African-American person (male or female) to hold an international and American pilot license. As there were no flight training opportunities for blacks in the USA, she saved up and travelled to France to learn there.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Colour Field Art by Kenneth Noland.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Black American Women in the 1920s.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

Landscapes & Roadscapes by David Hockney.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

David Hockney

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Collage Art by David Hockney.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Art by David Hockney

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Art by David Hockney (vs Real Life)

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

I'll always remember Hockney on British TV talk show about 'TV' when I was about 11. They obviously invited him on to talk about "we need more art on TV". But instead, he slagged off the fundamental essence of TV because he thought the picture was so bad. The presenters had no idea how to respond! 😄

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Katharine Hepburn on stage as Cleopatra in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" (1960).

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Katharine Hepburn by Cecil Beaton, 1934/35.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Katharine Hepburn.

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Ferryoons @ferryoons.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Here’s a watercolour of Stravinsky conducting Rite of Spring. We found it in an antique shop in Kent and priced as a print. Our lucky day.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

ps. 'Samuel Coleridge Taylor' the composer isn't to be confused with 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge' the poet. The composer (who added the hyphen later) was given the middle name 'Coleridge' by his mother, who was a fan of the poet's work.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

The British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Germans and Poles were very close allies in their fight for democracy during the 19th century. So much so that the Polish flag flew alongside the new *black, red, gold* flag of the German democrats at the Hambacher Fest of 1832.

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