Tuesday, 6 March 2007

Beauty goes Avant-Guarde 1 - meet the Brian Eno spider!

Today we celebrate...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a writer, born in Aracataca, Colombia in 1928.
Polish film director Andrzej Wajda born in Suwalki in 1926.

Michelangelo born in 1475 in Arezzo, Caprese, Toscana, Italia. A contender for the title of being the archetypal Renaissance man! Along with his fellow and rival Leonardo da Vinci of course.

My dream car

A 1957 Karmann Ghia! I just love these chubby, small, noisy cars which are nevertheless so slick and stylish!

Monday, 5 March 2007

Guess who? - Mugshot 6

Rosa Luxemburg born today in 1870

Radical Rosa, a marxist revolutionary and theoritician was instrumental in the movement. She was murdered in 1919 at the age of 49.

This is for Mary



Some more beautiful Pat de Groot paintings!

Joseph Stalin


Stalin died today in 1953.