Quote of the day
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Based on quote from Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Act II, scene v: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
Arthur Dove
Born: August 2, 1880
Died: November 23, 1946 (aged 66)
Bio: Arthur Garfield Dove was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter. Dove used a wide range of media, sometimes in unconventional combinations, to produce his abstractions and his abstract landscapes.
Known for:
- Nature Symbolized (1911)
- Me and the Moon (1937)
- Swing Music (Louis Armstrong) (1938)
- Fields of Grain as Seen from Train (1931)
- Based on Leaf Forms and Spaces (1912)
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