Tag Archives: A-Z Challenge 2017
V is for Remedios Varo – anarchist, philosopher, feminist, para-surrealist painter! #AtoZ Challenge
. Remedios Varo was born in 1908 in the small town of Angles in Spain, and developed a style of painting that was a wonderful para-surrealist excursion into her imagination. Surrealism is a a style of art and literature which started around 1924, after the first world war. Surrealist painting often contains images that are non-rational; …
S is for Murasaki Shikibu, author of first novel ever in 1021 #AtoZ Challenge
Amazingly, this is part of the original manuscript of the first novel EVER to be written, in 1021. It was written by Japanese noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu. The story contains 400 characters, whose lives are followed as they grow older, without an actual plot but with events, rather like a modern soap opera, showing the …
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