4 April

Born in 1780 – Edward Hicks, American minister and painter.

Above: The Cornell Farm (1848), National Gallery of Art.

Also, born 1932, Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, who said: “The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.”