After the Deluge is an oil painting by English artist George Frederic Watts. Completed in 1891, it shows a scene from the story of Noah's Flood, in which Noah opens the window of his Ark to see that after 40 days the rain has stopped. The Symbolist painting is a stylised seascape, dominated by a bright sunburst breaking through clouds. Watts intended to evoke a monotheistic God in the act of creation, without depicting the Creator directly. The unfinished painting was exhibited at a church in Whitechapel in 1886, under the intentionally simplified title of The Sun. The completed version was shown for the first time at the New Gallery in 1891 and was admired by Watts's fellow artists. It influenced many painters who worked in the two decades following. Between 1902 and 1906 the painting was exhibited around the United Kingdom. It is now in the collection of the Watts Gallery in Compton, Guildford, Surrey.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1650:
Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Covenanter forces defeated the Royalists at the Battle of Carbisdale near the village of Culrain, Scotland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carbisdale
1945:
World War II: The photograph Raising the Flag on the Three- Country Cairn was taken after German troops withdrew to Norway at the end of the Lapland War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_the_Three-Country_Cairn
1965:
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation: British forces repelled a surprise Indonesian attack on a base at Plaman Mapu in Sarawak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Plaman_Mapu
2005:
The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner, made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
floaty: 1. Tending to float on a liquid or to rise in air or a gas; buoyant. 2. (nautical, archaic) Of a ship: having a shallow draft (“the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull”), and thus drawing less (that is, floating higher in) water. 3. (figurative) 4. Of music: light and relaxing. 5. Of an object: light and flimsy or soft; specifically, of a dress: lightweight, so as to rise away from the body when the wearer is moving. 6. Of a person: feeling calm, dreamy, happy, etc., as if floating in the air. 7. Of speech or writing: overly complicated or elaborate; flowery, grandiloquent. 8. A particle of food, etc., found floating in liquid. 9. (chiefly US) 10. A lilo (“inflatable air mattress”) or similar object that floats on water and can be lain or sat on. 11. (swimming) Chiefly in the plural: synonym of armband (“one of a pair of inflatable plastic bands, normally worn on the upper arms, to help the wearer (often a child) float in water and learn to swim”) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/floaty
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