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Friday, March 30, 2007

the Power of Art

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The power of art. What does it make you think? What does it make you feel? What does it make you want to do?

















St. Lucy painted by Francesco del Cossa C. 1477
























The ARchduke Leopold-Wilhelm's Studio
by David Teniers, the Younger (16-10-1690)










the Naked Maja
Francicso Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828)
























Orpheus by Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)




















Rolla by Henri Gervex (1852-1929)
















A Woman Sweing in an Interior
Vihelm Hamershoi (1864-1916)




















I Am Half Sick of Shadows Said the Lady of Shalott
John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)





Sleep
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)










In The News:
L.A. police to get new flashlights.This is breaking news folks.

Chocolate Jesus show canceled People are just way too sensitive.

Great Pyramid was built inside out, Frenchman says Oh, the Frenchman said it.....

Ricky Martin defends gay musicians. That makes perfect sense to me being that he's.....well, you know.


Today in History:
240 BC - 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1842 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long.
1858 - Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.
1870 - Mississippi is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
1909 - The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens.
1939 - The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets the world airspeed record of 463 mph.
1964 - Merv Griffin's game show Jeopardy! makes its debut on television. Art Fleming hosts the first version, on NBC.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. Hey John.... Jodie Foster still won't go out with you!!! Dumbass.


Happy Birthday:
1853 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d. 1948)
1937 - Warren Beatty, American actor and director
1945 - Eric Clapton, British guitarist/singer
1955 - Randy VanWarmer, American singer, guitarist and songwriter (d. 2004)
1957 - Paul Reiser, American actor
1962 - MC Hammer, American rapper. His real name??? Stanley. That's right StanleyKirk Burrell) No wonder he went by MC Hammer
1964 - Tracy Chapman, American singer
1968 - Celine Dion, Canadian singer
1979 - Norah Jones, American singer and pianist


Deaths on this day:
1986 - James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)





1 Comments:

At 4:25 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm a pretty big fan of that Rolla one.
It makes me feel all funny in side.
No seriously, all of those classic nudes are cool. Remember that one of the girl and the swan that Dr. Roscoe had on the wall?

 

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