Quote of the day
One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
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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