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Art, music, books Cinéma, theater💖« Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you. » Pablo Neruda 🌹 French from Strasbourg, living in Paris, psycho sociologist and management consultant

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · Apr 5

Happy Saturday, happy weekend ☀️🌼🌞

"The sun entered my veins and turned everything to gold."
William Turner and 🎨
(1775-1851)

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 2d

Iryna Baliura 🖌️

#artcontemporanea
#coolage

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 1d

"Matisse es uno de aquellos artistas que buscaron trascender las categorías artísticas Exponer a Matisse como escultor es repensar a Matisse;es dirigir una nueva mirada al lugar que ocupa su obra en el arte de la primera mitad del siglo XX de forma especial en la escultura"

A joyful day Brindusa🤗

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 1d

“Helen of Troy” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British) – Oil on panel / 1863 – Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg, Germany) #WomenInArt #Pre-Raphaelite #PortraitofaWoman #AnnieMiller #BlueskyArt #DanteGabrielRossetti #Rosetti #art #artText #artwork #bskyart #HamburgerKunsthalle #BritishArt #BritishArtist

British artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti recasts Helen as both beauty and calamity in an image of desire whose spark topples empires. On the reverse, he inscribed Greek epithets from Aeschylus “destroyer of ships, destroyer of men, destroyer of cities” to make explicit the nexus of eros and ruin that Victorian audiences knew well. He even wrote home in early 1863 asking for stereoscopic views of cities and fleets to help him paint Troy in the background, fusing classical subject with modern visual aids and the Pre-Raphaelite taste for exacting detail.

She faces us at bust length, centered and still, with light skin and wavy copper-gold hair that fans to her shoulders. Her gaze is steady, almost challenging, with heavy eyelids. Her lips are full and soft. A warm, amber garment with patterned trim crosses her chest as a narrow cord gathers the fabric at the neckline. In her hands, she lifts a small flame pendent whose glow seems to kiss her cheek. Along the upper edge, the distant city smolders with dark silhouettes of towers and ramparts against a smoky sky plus hints of ships and conflagration beyond. The palette burns with reds, ochres, and browns. The polished panel surface heightens the dense color and the sculptural modeling of her face. The space is shallow and theatrical with Helen pressing forward while destruction flickers behind her.

The model is Annie Miller, a frequent presence in Pre-Raphaelite circles; her strong features and abundant hair helped Rossetti shape the archetype of the commanding, self-possessed heroine that would culminate in later figures like Lilith and Proserpine. Painted the year after the death of his wife, Elizabeth Siddal, the picture also tracks the artist’s turn from narrative scenes to iconic women, where myth becomes psychology. Shown close and frontal, Helen is not a passive prize but an agent: she grips fire, framed by a city she cannot quite save or disown for a meditation on responsibility, allure, and consequence.

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 2d

“Reilly” by Leah McCann (American) – Oil pastel on paper / 2023 – Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (62nd Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition, Little Rock) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #WomanArtist #WomensArt #BlueskyArt #WomenPaintingWomen #StudentArt #HighSchoolArt #ArkansasMuseumofFineArts

A young woman lies diagonally across a wide meadow dense with tall green grass and spring wildflowers of pale yellows, purples, and soft blues clustering around her hair and shoulders. Most of her body has almost been absorbed by the meadow except her head, shoulders, and parts of her arms. Her pale skin glows in the warm afternoon light as loose strands of brown hair frame a resting face turned to the side, eyes closed as if feeling the sun rather than watching it. Quick pastel strokes suggest both texture and wind movement that disappears in a blur of color, blending figure and landscape. Nothing feels staged: the marks are layered and visible, the texture of oil pastel creating a living surface that catches light differently from each angle with distinct tonal contrast between the figure’s outline and the green meadow around her.

Leah McCann’s “Reilly” captures a moment between consciousness and dream, when identity and environment seemingly dissolve into one another. Created while she was a 10th-grade student at Little Rock Central High School under art educator Jason McCann, the work’s title may reference a friend or self-portrait surrogate. The reclining pose and fusion with nature evoke classical pastoral repose but through a distinctly contemporary, adolescent lens that is honest, unfiltered, and intimate. Her work and pastel’s immediacy mirrors the emotional directness of youth as the field becomes both a sanctuary and likely a metaphor for inner growth.

Reilly stood out in the 62nd Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition for its technical maturity and quiet assurance, reminding viewers that serenity itself can be radical. “When I draw,” McCann noted in a local student-art feature, “I’m trying to hold on to the feeling before it changes.” Her work invites us to pause with her in that fragile, luminous stillness between childhood and becoming an adult.

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Heinz Plomperg @plomperg.bsky.social · 13h

Wien, Detail ...

#WienLiebe #plompergwienliebe

Wasserspeiende Gans am Gänsemädchenbrunnen auf der Rahlstiege

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UliEckert @spatz007.bsky.social · 13h

Guten Morgen Bluesky 🌤☕️
Zum Wochenteiler gibt es nochmal eine Rose aus dem Garten.
Habt einen schönen Tag und grüsst die Sonne von mir, falls Ihr sie seht. 🪄✨️🍀🕊💗☀️🍃🍁🍂✨️

Ein weisse Rose ist aufgeblüht und 3 Knospen umbringen sie.

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Silvio Nobre 🍂 @silviocarlos09.bsky.social · 1d

Franz Xaver Winterhalter 🎨

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 13h

Guten Morgen Klaus ☕️🍂🎶👋

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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 15h

Guten Morgen!
Françoise Duparc, * 15.10.1726 in Murcia; † 11.10.1778 in Marseille, war eine französische Genremalerin 🎨 🇫🇷
La marchande de tisane • Die Kräuterteeverkäuferin 🖼️
Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille 🏛️
#OTD #ArtHistory #Genre #Rococo #BskyArt #History #Museum

Die Kräuterteeverkäuferin, bekleidet mit grauem einfachen Überkleid, weißem Fronteinsatz und blauem Schal, sowie weißem Bonnet hält sie in der linken Hand einen Zinnbecher und trägt auf dem Rücken ihre große mobile Verkaufskanne wie einen Rucksack. Der übliche deutsche Titel "Das Kräutermädchen" ist somit unsinnig!

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Robert @roberttropper.bsky.social · 15h

Moin, Bluesky 🦋.
Die Sonne wird erst aufgehen aber der Mond ist durch eine Wolkenlücke zu sehen. Nach der Fütterung des Katzenweckers gibt's Kaffee ☕️.
Schönen Wochenteilung und weiter geht's 🇦🇹👍.

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Lizet Kruyff @lizetkruyff.bsky.social · 15h

Good morning all. A little breakfast would be nice. Have a great day!

Eugenio Zampighi - Prima Colazione

#art #food #breakfast

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 14h

Happy Wednesday 🍁🍂

“My soul, towards your brow where dreams, oh calm sister,
An autumn strewn with freckles,
And towards the wandering sky of your angelic eye
Ascends, as into a melancholy garden"
Stéphane Mallarmé
French poet (1842-1898)

🎨 Antonín Slavíček,
Czech Impressionist (1870-1910)

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 14h

Italo Calvino🌹
*October 15, 1923
+September 19, 1985
Italian writer, associated with Italian realism, and a humorous fabulist.

"Myths and mysteries are made of impalpable grains, like the pollen that remains stuck to the legs of butterflies; only those who understand this can hope for surprise"

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 14h

Friedrich Willem Nietzsche 🌹
Born October 14, 1844 in Prussia
Died August 25, 1900 in Weimar

"I have found more danger among men than among animals."
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885)

youtu.be/KLAtiGDUpTc

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 1d

🙋🏻‍♀️ 🙏🏻🦩💐🌞

Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful sculpture !!!! 😃

Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 1d

Hi dear Brindusa 🎶🌸🍂🍀👋
Rûmî ! Always excellent 🧡
And the beautiful Matisse painting 🖼️
Thank you 🙏🏻 and have a peaceful Tuesday💕🦋💐🌹🪻

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 1d

🌞🕊🌞Peaceful Tuesday🌞🕊🌞

"Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and the soul."
Rumi

Henri Matisse ( 1869-1954 ) L'Écorché, d'après Puget ("The Flayed, after Puget") 1903

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 1d

Um bom dia para todos 🙏🌻🌞🌿☕

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 2d

Boa noite 🌃💫⭐🌜🫶

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 1d

La Virgen Negra” by Alfredo Arreguín (Mexican-American) – Oil on canvas / 2013 – Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (Washington) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #AlfredoArreguín #Arreguín #MexicanAmericanArtist #BlueskyArt #PNWart #ContemporaryArt #ReligiousArt #bskyart #BainbridgeIslandMuseumofArt

At the center of the canvas stands a serene Black Madonna, her rich brown skin softly illuminated against a patterned gold halo. She seems to be in prayer, arms slightly open in quiet welcome, her long robe and mantle dissolving into Arreguín’s signature mosaic of leaves, blossoms, fish, and birds. Hidden within these vivid textures, a slender, spotted wild cat prowls across the lower foreground with its elongated body and curling tail echoing the rhythms of the foliage. The animal’s amber eye catches a glint of divine light, anchoring the Virgin in a living world rather than a celestial one. Every inch of the surface teems with motion: turquoise vines twist into sacred geometry as floral tesserae shimmer like beadwork. The background is a continuous field of repeating organic forms in blues, greens, and golds, with hidden creatures emerging as you look. The Madonna’s presence feels both human and elemental.

Mexican-American artist Alfredo Arreguín’s “La Virgen Negra” fuses Catholic iconography with the artist’s own “pattern painting” style he developed from Mexican folk art and Pacific Northwest ecology. The Black Madonna, venerated across Europe and the Americas, embodies protection, resilience, and inclusion. For Arreguín, she becomes a guardian of an emerald world. By rendering Mary as Black and integrating her into a living mosaic of flora and fauna, Arreguín reframes devotion through cultural memory and biodiversity. The painting’s surface of thousands of small strokes suggests time, prayer, and care as if every motif is a cell in a larger organism.

In 2013, Arreguín was a celebrated elder of Latino art in Seattle, known for portraits (like Frida Kahlo, poets, & community figures) and for transforming memory into pattern. Exhibited in “Alfredo Arreguín—Life Patterns” at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in 2018, “La Virgen Negra” invites us to find, and be found by, the sacred presence in the forest formed from the land and the people it shelters.

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 1d

Guten Morgen Klaus☕️☀️👋🎶

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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 1d

Guten Morgen!
Erik Pauelsen, * 14.10.1749 in Bygom, Nordjütland; † 20.2.1790 in Kopenhagen 🎨 🇩🇰
Blick auf das Herrenhaus Bogstad, Vestre Aker, Oslo, Norwegen, 1789 🖼️
#OTD #ArtHistory #LandscapePainting #BskyArt #Museum #History

Blick auf Bogstad gård in Norwegen.
Bogstad Manor (Bogstad gård) ist ein historisches Herrenhaus und ehemaliges Anwesen im Stadtteil Vestre Aker in Oslo, Norwegen. Es liegt im nordwestlichen Teil von Oslo.

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Tuesday 🍁🌞

"Autumn Evening -
There is also a happiness
In solitude."
— Yosa Buson (1716-1783)

🎨 Muramasa Kudo, (1948)
Bestiary on gold leaf

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