Nathalie Baye was a French film, television, and stage actress. She began her career in the 1970s. A ten-time César Award nominee, her four wins were for Every Man for Himself, Strange Affair, La Balance, and The Young Lieutenant.
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#RIP #NathalisBaye #France #Hug
Karen Blixen’s aristocratic reserve and tragic depth are a sharp rebuke to today’s “fast-food” literature.
#Pitt #Top #Fright #Art #Starmer
Julie Christie is a British actress. Christie's accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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#Art #Italy #Bird #AU #Day #TheUK
Happy birthday, Samuel Beckett (13.4.1906-22.12.1989).
One of the most influential and widely discussed avant-garde writers of the 20th century. His most famous plays, "Waiting for Godot," "Endgame," and "Happy Days," display his absurdist, anti-realist traditions.
Photo by John Minihan, 1985
Max von Sydow (1929-2020) was a Swedish and French actor. He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema, television, and theater, appearing in more than 150 films and several television series in multiple languages.
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#MaxVonSydow #Melania #Art #Torah
Jacques Brel (1929-1978) was a Belgian singer-songwriter and actor who became famous for his emotional, poetic, and often melancholic songs. His music, which encompassed a wide range of themes, from love & death to social commentary, has influenced many artists.
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Portrait of Agnolo Doni, 1506, by Raffaello Sanzio Raphael Canvas Print—2054-RSA Location: Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy Original Size: 63 × 45 cm Own a museum-grade giclée canvas print of Portrait of Agnolo Doni by Raphael (1506). It is printed with archival pigments on 400 g/m² canvas and hand-varnished with a UV-protective layer. Set your exact proportional size—anything up to 86 × 44.7 cm, with optional framing.
Raphael (1483–1520) was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. People admire his work for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
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#Art #Raphael #ICE #LUFC #Wild
Anthony Perkins was an American actor. Born in Manhattan, he began his acting career as a teenager in summer stock theater and appeared in films prior to his Broadway debut. His first film role was in The Actress.
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#Art #Trial #Geno #South #UConn
Henry Kissinger, Robert Evans, and Ali MacGraw at the premiere of The Godfather, 1972. HULTON ARCHIVEGETTY IMAGES
Ali MacGraw is an American actress. For her role in Goodbye, Columbus, she won a Golden Globe Award. She then starred in Love Story, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
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#Art #Supergirl #ICE
Le streghe, 1967: A collection of five short films, ranging from drama to comedy. They revolve around women and the roles that people feel they play in society.
Teorema, 1968: A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family.
Morte a Venezia by Visconti, 1971: While recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.
Oci ciornie, 1987: An Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks, Romano Patroni leaves his wife to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman. He returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love.
Silvana Mangano was an Italian actress. Raised in poverty during WW II, she trained as a dancer and worked as a model before winning a Miss Rome beauty pageant in 1946. This led to work in films; she achieved success in Bitter Rice and continued working in films for almost four decades.
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Georges Pierre Seurat (1859-1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as "chromoluminarism" and "pointillism" and used conté crayons for drawings on paper with a rough surface.
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#Art #NoKings #Sven #F1 #Hulk
I hope to define my life, whatever is left,
by migrations, south and north with the birds
and far from the metallic fever of clocks,
the self staring at the clock saying, "I must do this."
Jim Harrison
#Art #Nebraska #ICE #TSA
Keira Knightley is an English actress. Known for her work in independent films, particularly period dramas, she has received numerous accolades, including nominations for 2 Academy Awards, 2 British Academy Film Awards, 4 Golden Globes.
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#Art #Zayda #AEW #Hulk #ICE
Simone Signoret was a French actress best known for her performances in films such as "Room at the Top" (1958) and "Ship of Fools" (1965).
Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller, Simone Signoret, and Yves Montand, 1960.
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#Art #Hulk #Eva #Sora #ICE
Jessica Chastain is an American actress and producer. Known for primarily starring in projects with feminist themes, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award.
#Art #Dreams #Ava #Memory #X-Man
From the Venetian lagoon to the sparkling Med, these island getaways offer a welcome change of pace just a short hop from Germany. Sylt in Germany has grassy dunes and 25 miles of white sand. Photograph: Sina Ettmer/Alamy
#Island #Art #Berlin #Hamburg
"Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition."
W.H. Auden was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content.
#Auden #Art #Music
Until no one’s worth is rendered By the race, gender, class, or identity They were born. This morn let it be sworn That we are one one human kin, Grounded not just by the griefs We bear, but by the good we begin.
Thus may our crisis be our cry, our crossroad,
The oldest ode we owe each other.
We chime it, for the climate,
For our communities.
We shall respect and protect
Every part of this planet,
Hand it to every heart on this earth,
#AmandaGorman #Art #Maxx #F1
Georges Prosper Remi, a Belgian cartoonist. Some of Remi's works include "Jo, Zette and Jocko," "Quick & Flupke," and "The Adventures of Totor," but he is best known for creating "The Adventures of Tintin."
As one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century.
#Tintin #Hergé #Art
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
#Antarctic #Shackleton #Explorer #Endurance
In his Workers series, he reveals the grandeur and tragedy of industrial labor; in Migrations, the pain of mass displacement; and in Genesis, the fragile beauty of nature and traditional life. As John Berger emphasized, Salgado's photographs focus not on suffering, but on resistance to suffering and human dignity. He presents workers, refugees, and indigenous peoples not as anonymous victims, but with their individual identities and resilience. His photographs go beyond specific events, addressing global and historical issues such as capitalism, exploitation, migration, and environmental destruction through a metaphorical language. With the gold miners of Serra Pelada, he reveals not only 1980s Brazil but also humanity's helpless relationship with greed and hope.
Despite Susan Sontag's criticism of “aestheticization,” Salgado's powerful use of composition and light captures the viewer's attention, encouraging a deeper examination of the subject. Salgado continues the tradition of 19th-century social documentarians (Riis, Hine) and 20th-century humanist photographers (Smith, Lange), using photography as an archive and a tool for memory. However, his projects are not so much interventions in a single social issue as they are works that document humanity's industrial and ecological journey in a holistic manner and have a philosophical dimension.
Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025) transformed photography into an epic narrative of the global human condition. His black-and-white photographs form a powerful bridge between aesthetic perfection and social documentary.
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#Salgado #Art #Photography
Charlotte Rampling is an English actress. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model. She was cast in the role of Meredith in the 1966 film Georgy Girl, which starred Lynn Redgrave.
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#Stars #CharlotteRampling #Sky #Art
Richard Alan Beirach (1947-2026) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
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#MyFunnyValentine
Robert Doisneau was a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and, with Henri Cartier-Bresson, a pioneer of photojournalism.
#DigitalArt #Doisneau #Paris #Marvel #Thor
The characters experience the fear and hope of forming new bonds while living with the weight of the past. Their relationships are not passionate escapes, but slow-developing, anxious, and realistic approaches. One of the film's most striking features is the interweaving of color and black-and-white sequences. These transitions symbolize moods, memories, and emotional intensity.
Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant
A Man and a Woman by Claude Lelouch, 1966 ‧ Romance/Drama ‧ 1h 42m: A man and a woman cross paths at the boarding school where their children study. They begin to love each other, but the woman struggles with her affection for her dead husband.
#Art #DigitalArt #ClaudeLelouch
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (1869-1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
#DigitalArt #RedFish #GoldMark #Cat
Howard Hughes was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was one of the richest and most influential people in the world during his lifetime.
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#TWA #Aviation #Hughes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an English actor and director. Recognised for his work on stage and screen, has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for 3 Academy Awards, 7 Golden Globe Awards.
#Art #christmas #booksky #oc
His most famous work, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, depicts the battle between good and evil within the individual. This theme is not only universal but also deeply connected to Calvinist Scottish theology and moral understanding. The Calvinist doctrine prevalent in Scotland emphasizes the sinfulness of human nature and internal conflict. Stevenson transformed this religious/moral heritage into a psychological thriller masterpiece by combining it with Victorian hypocrisy. Stevenson spent most of his life outside Scotland due to his chronic illness (tuberculosis), living in Switzerland, America, and finally in the South Pacific (Samoa). This state of "exile" fuelled themes of alienation, longing for home, and the search for belonging, which are frequently explored in his works. As a Scot, the experience of being "far from home" permeated the spirit of his characters and stories.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped, and the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses.
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#Art #Stevenson
