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Day 1585 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Dripsey Castle” undated. Diarmuid Ó Ceallacháin. Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
Ó Ceallacháin was an Irish artist known for his landscape and figurative work. Born in West Cork, he grew up in Cork city. He enrolled as a full-time day student at the Crawford Art School in 1937
Day 1584 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Interrupted Reading” (1870) Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The Art Institute of Chicago. Corot was born on this day in 1796. This is one of his late figure paintings. He rarely exhibited these works, preferring instead to publicise the landscapes that were his specialty.
Day 1583 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Self Portrait with Two Circles” (1669) Rembrandt. Kenwood House. Rembrandt was born on this day in 1606. This painting was one of his last. This self-portrait is celebrated for its technical brilliance and ruthless honesty, a distinctive image of the artist. #Rembrandt
Day 1582 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Portrait of a Lady” (1917) Gustav Klimt. Galleria d'arte moderna Ricci Oddi Piacenza. Klimt was born on this day in 1862. This canvas is one of three works in Italy by Klimt and the only one to have been acquired by a private collector, namely Giuseppe Ricci Oddi.
Day 1581 #ArtKicksCovid19 “It Was Yellow and Pink III” (1960) Georgia O'Keeffe. Art Institute Chicago. With its sinuous lines of yellow against a pink backdrop, this can be seen as purely abstract, without any reference to the natural world. But it was inspired by the artist’s views from airplanes.
Day 1580 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Alice” (1918) Amedeo Modigliani. National Gallery of Denmark. Modigliani was born on this day in 1884. He worked almost exclusively with the human figure and is known for his portraits. When he painted this his characteristic style of rendering figures was fully formed.
Day 1579 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl" (1865) James Abbott McNeil Whistler. Tate Britain. Whistler was born on this day in 1834. His lover, the artist Joanna Hiffernan was the model for this artwork and it was painted at Whistler’s house in Chelsea, London.
Day 1578 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Le Boulevard de Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps" (1897) Camille Pissarro. Private Collection. Pissarro was born on this day in 1830. Between February and April 1897, he painted 14 canvasses of Boulevard Montmartre from his room at the Grand Hotel de Russie on Rue Druot.
Day 1577 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Explosion lyrique n°8” (1918) Alberto Magnelli. Centre Pompidou. Magnelli was an Italian artist and a significant figure in the post war Concrete art movement. Despite lacking formal art education, by 1909 he was established enough to be included in the Venice Biennale.
Day 1576 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Susanna and the Elders” (1610) Artemisia Gentileschi. Schloss Weissenstein, Germany. Artemisia Gentileschi was born on this day in 1593. This is her first known work and tells the Bible story of a young Hebrew girl Susanna who is spied on while bathing by lecherous elders.
Day 1575 #ArtKicksCovid19 “The Blue Circus” (1950) Marc Chagall. Tate. Born on this day in 1887, Chagall often drew inspiration from the theme of the circus. As a child in Russia, he had been fascinated by the travelling acrobats he saw at village fairs. In Paris, he regularly went to the circus.
THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Netherlands vs Turkey
🇳🇱 A slang Dutch name for a wimp or a coward is papkindje, or “porridge kid”
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🇹🇷 A Turkish equivalent is muhallebi çocuğu. It means “child of pudding.” Or, if you prefer, you could translate it as “custard boy”
Day 1574 #ArtKicksCovid19 “The Frame” (1938) Frida Kahlo. Centre Pompidou. Kahlo was born on this day in 1907. This painting is notable as the first work by a 20th-century Mexican artist to be purchased by an international museum, when it was bought by the Louvre. It is now in the Centre Pompidou.
🇪🇸 A Spanish way of saying “you’re beating around the bush” translates to “you’re getting the partridge dizzy”
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🇩🇪 A German equivalent is “you’re doing the egg dance”
🇪🇸 A Spanish version of “all talk and no action” translates to “all noise and few walnuts”
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🇩🇪 A similar phrase from German (specifically Berlin dialect) is “no hair on your head, but a comb in your pocket”
THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Portugal vs France
🇵🇹 The Portuguese version of “I’m on cloud nine” translates to “I’m on my seven farms”
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🇫🇷 A French was of saying you are well or happy is “I have the potato”
🇵🇹 A Portuguese way of saying “it’s raining cats and dogs” translates to “it’s raining toads’ beards”
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🇫🇷 A French expression about heavy rain is “it’s raining like a pissing cow”
THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Spain vs Germany
🇪🇸 A Spanish way of saying “nobody asked you” translates to “who gave you a candle for this vigil?”
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🇩🇪 An equivalent phrase from German is “no pig is interested in that”
Day 1573 #ArtKicksCovid19 “The Beach at Trouville” (1870) Claude Monet. National Gallery, London. Monet’s earlier paintings of the Normandy coast had emphasised it as a working seascape. But this painting shows it as a holiday destination, with wide sandy beaches and impressive seaside architecture.
Day 1572 #ArtKicksCovid19 “The Burning of the Houses of Parliament” (1835) Joseph Mallord William Turner. Tate. Today is election day over in the UK so I thought this artwork was rather appropriate. Turner witnessed the fire which destroyed the Houses of Commons and Lords on 16-17 October 1834.
Day 1571 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Wrapped Oranges” (1889) William J. McCloskey. Amon Carter Museum. McCloskey trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins, who encouraged his students to make still-life paintings of fruit to better understand relationships of colour and light.
THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Germany vs Denmark
🇩🇪 A German way of saying OMG, from the 1980s, is Ich glaub mein Hamster bohnert! It means “I think my hamster is waxing the floor!”
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🇩🇰 My favourite Danish equivalent translates to “take a whole vacation!”
THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: England vs Slovakia
🏴 If someone comes into the house and leaves the front door open, an English dad might say “were you born in a barn?”
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🇸🇰 A Slovak dad is more likely to say “were you born with a yoke up your ass?”
THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: France vs Belgium
🇫🇷 A French phrase for being down in the dumps is “I’m sad like a meal without cheese”
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🇧🇪 A Flemish way of saying “this will make you feel better” translates to “this will frog you up”
THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Portugal vs Slovenia
🇵🇹 In Portuguese, a rollercoaster is called montanha-russa, or “Russian mountain”
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🇸🇮 In Slovene, a rollercoaster is more commonly known as vlakec smrti, which means “little train of death”
THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Romania vs Netherlands
🇷🇴 A slang Romanian version of “every cloud has a silver lining” translates to “a kick in the ass, a step forward”
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🇳🇱 A very old (16th century) way of saying “it is what it is” in Dutch is “who knows why the geese go barefoot?”
Day 1570 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Ginevra de' Benci” (1478) Leonardo da Vinci. National Gallery of Art. Flawless chalk-white skin and a reserved, impenetrable expression reflect the refinement of this 16-year-old. Like most portrait subjects of the Renaissance, she was educated and from a wealthy family.
Day 1569 #ArtKicksCovid19 Madaraneko (’Tabby Cat’) (1924) Takeuchi Seihō. Yamatane Museum. A cat sits almost in the centre of a blank background. The artist’s signature appears on the other end of the diagonal axis that runs through the cat’s extended leg, a carefully considered compositional ploy.
