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Norwegian, 1863 - 1944

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, The Scream, has become one of the iconic images of world art. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family. Travel brought new influences and outlets. In Paris, he learned much from Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, especially their use of colour. In Berlin, he met the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg, whom he painted, as he embarked on his major canon The Frieze of Life, depicting a series of deeply-felt themes such as love, anxiety, jealousy and betrayal, steeped in atmosphere.

More art:
https://artvee.com/artist/edvard-munch/

Japanese, 1786 – 1865

Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国 Sandai Utagawa Toyokuni), was the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.

At the end of the Edo period (1603–1867), Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi and Kunisada were the three best representatives of the Japanese color woodcut in Edo (capital city of Japan, now Tokyo). However, among European and American collectors of Japanese prints, beginning in the late 19th and early 20th century, all three of these artists were actually regarded as rather inferior to the greats of classical ukiyo-e, and therefore as having contributed considerably to the downfall of their art. For this reason, some referred to their works as "decadent".

More art:
https://artvee.com/artist/utagawa-kunisada-toyokuni-iii/

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, exhibited in the 1874 ("exhibition of rejects") initiated by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon.

Monet, Monet, Moooooneeeetttt
https://artvee.com/artist/claude-monet/

Imagine you lived in the 1800s, before radio or TV. How were you entertained? You had theater, and parades, and books. And, once or twice a year, (depending on where you live) a circus would come through your town.

I am endlessly fascinated by the history of the circus, in the US and around the world and just had to share this collection of poster art I came across.

If you were a kid in a small, rural town, how could you not be excited to see these posters go up in your town?

Circuses had all sorts of terrible practices and it's good we've moved on from them mostly now, but looking back, I find this all really interesting.

A growing trend to dictate what journalists write, from the White House to the Washington Post and University of Colorado, poses an existential threat to our democracy

Spot on, imo

Artemis is:

Renee Rosnes, piano

Ingrid Jensen, trumpet

Nicole Glover, tenor sax

Noriko Ueda, bass

Allison Miller, drums

Thanks to Ken Laster's "In the Groove" podcast for turning me on to this.

If you don't like musk....

Guess where and when 5 pictures were taken.

Fong Sai-yuk II (also known as The Legend II and The Legend of Fong Sai-yuk II; released in the Philippines as Once Upon a Time in China-6) is a 1993 Hong Kong martial arts comedy film directed by Corey Yuen, and also produced by and starring Jet Li as Chinese folk hero Fong Sai-yuk. The film is a sequel to Fong Sai-yuk, which was released earlier in the same year. Two former Miss Hong Kong Pageant winners, Michelle Reis and Amy Kwok, portrayed Fong Sai-yuk's wives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fong_Sai-yuk_II

Zack Snyder's Justice League (colloquially referred to as the Snyder Cut) is the 2021 director's cut of the 2017 American superhero film Justice League, the fifth film set within the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) based on the team of the same name appearing in DC publications and the follow-up to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). It is intended to match director Zack Snyder's original vision for the film, prior to his departure from the production and subsequent studio interference. The film follows Batman (Ben Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Cyborg (Ray Fisher), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), the Flash (Ezra Miller), and Superman (Henry Cavill) as they form an alliance to stop the extradimensional New God Steppenwolf (Ciarán Hinds) and his army of Parademons from conquering Earth for his overlord Darkseid (Ray Porter).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_Snyder's_Justice_League