Artist Birthdays in March

 It's artist birthday remembrance for March!

Van Gogh has a birthday coming up March 30 and surely by then I can start thinking if not of Irises just yet, at least of a crocus or two. 

A long before Van Gogh but on the same day,  Francisco de Goya was born in 1746.

March 6 was the birthday of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni ((6 March 1475 – 18 February).

American photographer Diane (Nemerov) Arbus was born on March 14, 1923 and died in 1971, in New York City.

Diane Arbus

Self-Portrait

March 7 was American modernist painter Milton Avery's birthday, born in 1885 in Sand Bank, New York

Self-Portrait

On the Sixth Day of Christmas...

a little spoof to make you smile. What exactly was it my true love gave to me on the sixth day?  ;-)

the original in case you haven't heard of it, which of course you have...but just in case you forgot...not everyone knows everything...I for one, cannot tell a Chevy from a Ford, unless my nose is right up against the letters.  But then again, that could be because I am by now quite blind, except to beauty, for which I have a constant craving.  :-)

Spoofing David and ...

...appreciating David

The Friday Evening Nudes

The Men

Michelangelo
Seated Nude


Jacques Louis David Patrocle

Jean Germain Drouais

Henrick Goltzius
The Fall of Man

Delacroix
Male Academy Figure,probably+ Polonais, standing

Alexandre Cabanel Fallen Angel

Study of a Nude Man

French Painter,Unknown.+c.+1816

Male Nude Seen from Behind
artist unknown

The Friday Evening Nudes

Paul Cadmus

Colored Pencil On Paper
1983

Phillip Pearlstein
Two Models On A Kilim Rug
1966

Delacroix
Male Academy Figure

John Constable
Seated Nude Male Figure

Michelangelo
Eve
Fresco (detail)
Vatican, Rome