Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Horace Pippin
Born: February 22, 1888
Died: July 6, 1946 (aged 58)
Bio: Horace Pippin was a self-taught African-American painter. The injustice of slavery and American segregation figure prominently in many of his works.
Known for:
- Naïve art
- Expressionism
- Harlem Renaissance
- Social realism