Catégorie : ANGLAIS

One month, one painting – November and Autumn leaves at London’s Tate Modern (video)

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Born in 1887, Georgia O’Keeffe was an American artist who painted nature in a way that showed how it made her feel. Georgia knew from the age of 12 that she wanted to be an artist. Watch some children explore Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings.

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Monday quote by Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

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Thomas Jefferson is best remembered as the person who wrote the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States. Jefferson learned the Spanish language on his transatlantic passage to France in 1784, with a copy of Don Quixote and a Spanish grammar. 

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One month, one painting – October and ‘Aboriginal Sydney in Autumn’

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This painting is called ‘Ken Done’s Aboriginal Sydney in Autumn’. Konstantina (Kate Constantine) is a proud Gadigal woman of the Eora nation and a neo-contemporary Indigenous artist. She is re-imagining the traditions of her peoples’ dot painters and providing a modern narrative for all Australians to better understand First Nations People as part of the fabric of Australia.

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