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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 19m

I don't know what it is but I love this picture as well. Did you know that they made around 8000 copies of it?

Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 21h

What do you think is the appeal of Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa? 🌊

🖼️ Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1831. Supported by Vereniging Rembrandt and the Ministerie van Onderwijs, Kunsten en Wetenschappen

👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200134564

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 31m

It's kind of fascinating and pretty impressive on one hand. On the other hand though - I don't know if I personally like it.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/06/jacq...

Jacques Monneraud's Remarkable Ceramic Vessels Meticulously Mimic Corrugated Cardboard

You'd be forgiven for thinking that if any of Jacques Monneraud’s vessels were filled with water, they'd soak right through and split at the seams.

www.thisiscolossal.com

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 2d

Poète maudit: Arthur Rimbaud, influential French symbolist poet, author of Le Bateau Ivre, Les Illuminations, born #OTD 1854; inspired TS Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Nabokov, Camus.
Painted (second from left, beside Verlaine) by Fantin-Latour 1872.
@museeorsay.bsky.social
Rue Ferou, Saint-Germain, Paris

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2d

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 2d

The sense that a subject has been seized from life’s continuum became one of the essential criteria of Edwardian portraits. In this work of 'A Cornish Boy,' (1917) Harold Knight painted his sitter wearing a hat typical of Newlyn fishermen.

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 1d

Great Peacock Moth - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14569

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 1d

Diebe erbeuten Schmuck aus dem Louvre

Sie benötigten nur wenige Minuten: Unbekannte sind in den Pariser Louvre eingedrungen und haben Schmuckstücke aus der Sammlung Napoleons und der Kaiserin gestohlen. Im Museum brach Panik aus.

www.tagesschau.de

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 2d

🎃 Looking to read something truly terrifying?

We asked our #museum employees what sends chills down their spine and wakes them in a cold sweat. 😱

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#MuseumNightmare

A mock up of a tweet from Scott, who works in Paintings Curatorial: A painting arrives for a loan exhibition and the actual frame dimensions are WAY bigger than the dimensions provided by the lender

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 3d

ZU spät, habe ich nicht mitbekommen. Mist.

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 3d

Genau so ist es. Merz hätte nie an die Macht kommen dürfen und die anderen in seinem Dunstkreis hätten direkt harte Konsequenzen ihres Tuns zu spüren bekommen sollen. So aber eskalieren sie jetzt.

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 4d

😂😂😂

a woman in a floral shirt is laughing with the fox logo in the background

ALT: a woman in a floral shirt is laughing with the fox logo in the background

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Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 6d

Portrait of a very good boy.

#art #illustration

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 5d

Honoré Daumier, Horsemeat is a Healthy and Easily Digestible Food, 1856

Drawing: A man lies in bed, just waking up. His glasses have slipped, and he looks horrified and surprised at the horse standing on his chest, staring at him with its mouth wide open.

Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 5d

Until Honoré Daumier entered the scene, the art of caricature was mainly the domain of the Brits. One of his caricatures landed him six months in prison: he drew the king as a gluttonous Gargantua.

Honoré Daumier, Gargantua, 16 December 1831
Gazette Drouot

A very large, fat man, King Louis-Philippe, sits on a chair. On the right-hand side, haggard and hungry-looking citizens deliver his food to him, which is transported directly into his mouth via a conveyor belt. Underneath the chair are the laws and regulations that have been passed, carried away by his ministry officials. Any parallels with today's rulers are purely coincidental.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 5d

'Avenue de la Republique, Paris.' A contemporary writer (this is from 1915) noted of Luigi Loir, ‘One can say of this master that he created a genre: ‘parisianism’...he is, in effect, the painter of Paris par excellence, often momentary and fleeting scenes are no secret to him.’

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

Yayoi Kusama with her artwork Pumpkin, 2010 #womensart

Photo of a Japanese woman with dyed red hair and yellow and black dress sitting on the edge of an art installation with a yellow platform and walls covered in large black dots, on the platform is a large sculpture of a yellow pumpkin with black dots in vertical lines

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 6d

Ich habs versucht, aber darf echt nicht laut schreiben, was ich gerade denke. Und herausgerutscht ist ihm gar nichts. Bah.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 6d

In 1880, Mortimer Menpes befriended James McNeill Whistler, under his influence he began incorporating motifs and techniques of Japanese art into his work. In 1887, he travelled to Japan to witness its culture first-hand and produced many paintings including 'Flower of the Tea.'

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7d

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 7d

Naivität? Man sollte mal einen genauen Blick auf die Finanzen dieser Frau, bzw. Familie werfen, ob die persönlich von dieser Art "Politik" profitieren. Anders ist das nicht mehr zu erklären.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 8d

'Heart of the Dragon, Socotra, Yemen' by photographer Beth Moon on her fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees of the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a close-up of a large ancient living tree in a flat landscape with other trees in the distance, the tree has many branches forming a rounded flat canopy viewed from underneath

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 8d

Man kann sich natürlich, wie die drei Affen, die Hände vor Augen, Ohren und Mund halten. Nix hören, nix sehen, nix sagen. Das ändert die Realität trotzdem nicht. Wir sehen, wie die USA in den Faschismus abgleitet, wollen es aber nicht wahrhaben.

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 8d

"Black is the most essential color" as Odilon Redon once said. Between 1870-1890 he created a series of drawings and lithographs he called "noirs", some of them are really, really strange, touching on the realms of dreams.
Odilon Redon, The Crying Spider, 1881, Private Collection
#Redon #Drawing

Charcoal drawing of a spider with a human face. The face has big eyes and is crying. The background seems to be simple craft paper.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 8d

'Rusty Stream and White Pebbles,' was painted in the late autumn of 1921, a year after Félix Vallotton chose to spend his winter months in Cagnes. Used to the low, grey skies of Normandy, he was struck by the brilliance of the light in this part of France.

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 8d

#Delacroix is one of the most famous painters of 19th-century France. He also produced illustrations – although Delacroix's illustrations were not well received in his homeland, #Goethe greatly appreciated his illustrations for Faust, he found them ‘whimsical’. #Delacroix #Lithography

Image: Delacroix, Mephistopheles Flying over Wittenberg, 1828
Mephistopheles (from Goethe's Faust), a naked devil with angel wings and a mischievous expression, flies over a city at night.