14th May
Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker born on this day in 1727 and founder member of the Royal Academy. 
He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. His a light palette and easy strokes became the method from then on. 
He preferred landscapes to portraits, and is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school.
This blog is part of a year long project to discuss an artist born on each day of the year.
If you want to know which Artist was born on your Birthday? A month by month, day by day calendar of famous artists born each day of the year is just HERE!
Salvador Dalí was born on this day in 1904 and was a
prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. What is left to say! Known the world over as an artist who brought the subconscious to us through his adherence to realism.
In 1922 Dalí began studying at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid with a crowd that were to be later distingushed in their own fields, namely Pepín Bello, Luis Buñuel, and Federico García Lorca. Wow what a team!
Konstantinos Parthenis was a distinguished Greek painter born, in Alexandria, on
this day in 1878. His cosmopolitan background (Italy, Vienna, Paris) seems to have played a role in the development of his eclectic style. 
Some much Art I see in galleries is Tamely Framed. All energy is lost and the fight has moved from aesthetics to money. From the gallery to the work all is lost in simple transactions. Do not give in to your being tamed in this way. Let it be free. Let it soar as you intended.
