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Cheesy, mostly

[Classic Horror Films @HorrorHammer1]

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[The Internet Fish @TheInternetFish]

"Whats your favourite music genre?"
"It's complicated"

[Maede @Maedeeeeeeeee]

هاکنی تا ۸۸ سالگی عمر کرد و تا آخرین لحظه با دست‌های لرزون و لاغر از نقاشی کشیدن دست نکشید. حالا به جای اینکه از رفتنش غوصه بخوریم، تا هنوز بهاره به شکوفه‌ها و درخت‌ها و سبزی‌ها نگاه کنیم شاید دنیا رو به رنگ اون دیدیم.

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

Most of the obituaries and tributes to David Hockney will, I imagine, focus primarily on his extraordinary craft and brilliance as an artist. Perhaps they might also mention his brilliance as a communicator (he was such a fine writer and speaker).

But there was something else rather unique about him too. He was also strikingly honest about the tricks/techniques artists use and used to paint. His book Secret Knowledge is a rather wonderful detective work into how renaissance and Dutch golden age painters used glass and mirrors to help them master perspective.

It's a pretty compelling case (see this video clip from a BBC doc he made alongside the book👇) though I'm sure some art historians will raise their eyebrows. Many will be aghast at the notion that greats like Vermeer might have been using lenses and camera obscuras to help them draw and paint. As if it were in some way "cheating". But Hockney was so self-evidently brilliant he was one of the few people who could document this without anyone gainsaying his own talent.

There are very few artists, living or dead, who have this degree of self-confidence. Not just to know their craft, but to be bracingly honest about how it works. One other who comes to mind is Paul Simon: not just an extraordinary musician but is also an extraordinary communicator about the tricks and techniques of how to write and perform music.

For many great artists, the temptation is to cloak their crafts in mystery, like a member of the magic circle. Hockney wasn't having any of it. So yes, he was a legend in all the obvious ways. But also in a few other less obvious ways as well. RIP.

[William Gerrard @Bill_Gerrard]

The Onion's "Adults Go Wild Over Latest In Children's Picture Book Series" video is a masterpiece

[Orkney Library @OrkneyLibrary]

You can always tell when A-ha have been in to return their books

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

This is what happiness looks like..🐾😍

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

Shocked to hear David Hockney has died. His huge achievement was to make serious painting look effortless. He carried forward one of the most sustained investigations into vision, space and representation by any post-war artist. British art has lost a giant.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Anything worth reading is not only worth reading twice, but worth reading again and again. If a book is worthwhile, then you will always be able to make new discoveries in it and find things in it that you didn’t notice before, even though you have read it many times.” — Popper

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote: "i want to talk about everything with at least one person the way i talk about things with myself."

[Manoco @Moonlighhy]

He patiently waited for his introduction then sang his song for us 🥹

[Hey look, it's ʀᴇᴘᴏ! @ageingbboys]

Matt Berry's glorious take on the theme from 'Rainbow'. Check out the spectacular psychedelic breakdown that was always withheld from us as kids 😀

Taken from his Television Themes album (2018) with The Maypoles on Acid Jazz. Hugely recommended.

[HerodotusWave @HerodotusWave]

The "Frog House" (Kamienica Pod Żabami) located in Bielsko-Biała, Poland.

[Evelyn Glennie @DameEvelyn]

1/5 Utilising Rhythm Song by Paul Smadbeck, this is our first ever experiment combining Marimba and Tabla. We both feel really positive with this combination, and it has inspired us to continue our creative explorations.

[Twiggy Bigwood @devilscustard]

So lovely to see a Barn Owl hunting over Cley marshes this evening. Watch for the swoop at the end!

[Today In History @historigins]

During their 1964 televised performance in Belgium, the Dave Brubeck Quartet delivered a definitive rendition of “Take Five,” highlighted by Joe Morello’s legendary drum solo. ⁠
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The performance is famous for its perfect synchronization and for the ease with which the band handled the piece’s unconventional 5/4 time signature in a live setting. ⁠

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

The grand staircase of the House of Scientists in Lviv, Ukraine, designed by Viennese architects Fellner & Helmer.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Early women pioneers of climbing such as Lucy Walker, the first woman to summit the notorious Matterhorn mountain in 1871 all wore skirts on their climbs..... #WomensArt

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Leonard Nimoy performing “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" from his 1968 album 'Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy' on the short lived variety show Malibu U, 1967.