December 21, 2024
Tag: painters witness
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Painters Witness to Their Time
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Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder, so says the old adage. ‘Tis true, but the artist puts the beauty before the viewer. Kees Van Dongen was an artist with uncanny skills when he painted the eyes of those who posed for him.
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January 31, 2022 4 Comments
If you like to time-travel (of course you do, why else would you read Postcard History) you may like to turn the clock back to the winter of 1913. They haven’t invented television, the nearest library is too far to walk in waist deep snow, so what do you do? Let me introduce you to Frank and Joseph Bily, brothers and fellow farmers who decide to make their own clocks.