Quote of the day
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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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