Saint of the Day for Tuesday, May 5th, 2015: St. Hilary of Arles

Saint of the Day for Tuesday, May 5th, 2015

St. Hilary of Arles

Bishop of Arles, France, and friend and relative of St. Honoratus. He was born to a noble family in Lorraine and was successful, although he gave up his secular career to join St. Honoratus at Lerins … continue reading

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St. Hilary of Arles St. Angelo St. Aventinus of Tours St. Brito St. Crescentiana St. Echa Bl. Edmund Ignatius Rice St. Eulogius of Edessa St. Hydroc

Bl. John Haile St. Jovinian St. Jutta St. Maurontus St. Maximus of Jerusalem St. Nectarius St. Nicetius St. Sacerdos St. Theodore of Bologna

‘Book lover’, 1933. Photo by Brassaï — ✍ Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo)

Book lover, 1933. Photo by Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász) pic.twitter.com/xS1fKKKUq5

— ✍ Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) February 1, 2015

Today’s Birthday – December 2: Georges Seurat

Today’s Birthday:  December 2

Georges Seurat
1859–1891, French painter.

He devised the pointillist technique of painting in tiny dots of pure color. His method, called divisionism, was a systematic refinement of the broken color of the impressionists. His major achievements are his Baignade (Tate Gall., London), shown in the Salon des Independants in 1884, and his masterpiece, Un Dimanche à la Grande Jatte (Art Inst., Chicago), completed two years later. He died of pneumonia at 31. Seurat is recognized as one of the most intellectual artists of his time and was a great influence in restoring harmonious and deliberate design and a thorough understanding of color combination to painting at a time when sketching from nature had become the mode. Other examples of Seurat’s work are in the Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pa., and in the Louvre.

Bibliography:

See catalog (ed. by A. Blunt and R. Fry, 1965); drawings (ed. by R. L. Herbert, 1966); complete paintings, ed. by John Rewald and Henri Dorra (1988); biographies by John Russell (1985) and Pierre Courthion (1988).

Also Born on December 2

• Peter Carl Goldmark
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• Maria Callas
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• Alexander Haig
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• Julie Harris
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• Gianni Versace
  fashion designer (1946)
• Lucy Liu
  actor, model (1968)
• Monica Seles
  tennis player (1973)
• Nelly Furtado
  singer (1978)
• Britney Spears
  pop singer (1981)

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quotation: The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

Art, Life, Purpose

today’s birthday: Jean Cocteau (1889)

Jean Cocteau (1889)

Cocteau was a French author and filmmaker who worked in many artistic mediums. In the years when he was addicted to opium, he produced some of his most important works, including the novel Les Enfants Terribles. In addition to the play La Machine Infernale and the film Beauty and the Beast, Cocteau wrote ballet scenarios and librettos for Erik Satie and Igor Stravinsky, and he illustrated numerous books with his vivid drawings. What was his connection to Pablo Picasso? More… Discuss

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ASSEMBLAGE

Assemblage is an artistic process in which a three-dimensional composition is made from combining found objects. In 1961, “The Art of Assemblage” exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art publicized the movement and featured many renowned artists, including Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso, both of whom had been working with found objects for years. The term “assemblage” originated in the early 1950s when Jean Dubuffet created a series of collages of butterfly wings and called it what?More… Discuss

 

A CUP OF BEET JUICE A DAY MAY KEEP THE DOCTOR AWAY

Researchers say drinking 8 ounces (250 ml) of beet juice can reduce high blood pressure by 10mm of mercury within hours. Nitrate drugs are used in the treatment ofangina pectoris—chest pain resulting from insufficient blood supply to the heart—and the nitrate that is naturally present in beets is likely responsible for the edible root’s blood pressure-lowering power. It remains to be seen if regular consumption of nitrate-rich produce like beets improves long-term cardiovascular health. More… Discuss

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