Is this the most important exhibition of 2018? Take a look at the impressive retrospective of Delacroix at the Louvre The show contains some of the painter's most famous and most outrageous works. "The genius of Delacroix is not debatable, it is not demonstrable, it is something that you feel," wrote the French writer Alexandre Dumas.
When He Was not Making History, Winston Churchill Made Paintings At the age of 40, Sir Winston Churchill found himself at a career low: After the World War I attack he ordered Gallipoli, Turkey, got horrifically awry, he was demoted from his role as Lord of the Admiralty in May 1915. He resigned from his government post and became an officer in the army. Deflated or power and consumed with anxiety, he took up an unexpected new hobby: painting. "Painting came to my rescue in a most trying time," Churchill would write later in the 1920s, in essays that would turn into a small book, Painting as a Pastime.
Prince Albert of Monaco warns of 'irreversible tragedies' against the oceans of the world with up to 500 'dead zones' (share this with your friends) Urgent action is needed to prevent "irreversible tragedies" in the world's oceans due to plastic pollution and climate change. Prince Albert II of Monaco said at a large conference that there are already 500 "dead zones". The Prince told the meeting of academics, senior officials and ministers in Edinburgh that the threats facing the oceans are becoming 'increasingly alarming' and that people have to stop believing that it is possible to do 'everything and anything' in them 'without effects'. His open warning was repeated by Peter Thomson, UN Special Envoy to the Ocean, who compared the situation with all the historic architecture in the capital of Scotland that was swept away by a massive earthquake. He said the world's oceans were in "deep, d...
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