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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · Feb 4

🕊Peaceful Tuesday🕊

" ... what thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between underneath places."
Marianne Wiggins

René Groebli b 1927 📷
Rail Magic Series
#PhotographyIsArt
🚂🚃🚃#TrainLovers🚃🚃🚂

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 1m

Thanks Anieska dear 🙏🌞🍁🕊🍁🙋‍♀️

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 19h

“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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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 15h

“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 · 8h

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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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD in 1951
(suburban cowboys and -girls)
Cover of The New Yorker, October 13, 1951
Arthur Getz
#TheNewYorkerCover #ArthurGetz #costumes

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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD in 1962
Cover of The New Yorker, October 13, 1962
Perry Barlow
#TheNewYorkerCover #PerryBarlow #football #footballplayers #footballgame

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 2h

Great comment about Matisse!
Thanks dear Maria 🙏👏👏👏😘🙋‍♀️

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

"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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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 19h

Nighttime loneliness on platform 1 🖼️

Thanks for the prompt @tischeins.bsky.social

#AiArt #PromptShare #AiArtCommunity #cinematicrealism

Professional photography,
A single figure sitting at a train station bench left edge of the picture at night, flickering light,
an express train travels quickly through the second track, motion blur, cigarette butts and smaller paper waste on the floor, in the middle ground is a single beer bottle
cinematic loneliness, perspective from below, Leica 50mm, film grain, highly detailed, 8k

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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 8h

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

Iryna Baliura🖌️

#artcontemporanea
#coolage

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 23h

Iryna Baliura 🖌️

#artcontemporanea
#coolage

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 22h

#aldeiaspreservadas

Trebilhadouro 🇵🇹📷

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 22h

#aldeiaspreservadas

Trebilhadouro 🇵🇹📷

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 18h

Boa noite 🌃💫⭐🌜🫶

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 18h

Signac, colorful harmonies 🖌️
Landscape

| Gazette Drouot

Buenas noches Agustín, hasta mañana 💫⭐🌜🫶

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 5h

Um bom dia para todos 🙏🌻🌞🌿☕

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 8h

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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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 3h

🌞🕊🌞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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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you so much dearest Anieska 🙏😘🌞🕊🌞🙋‍♀️

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 8h

Sorry.. Im late…
Happy Thanksgiving dear Brindusa 🩷

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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 1d

Guten Morgen!
Mariotto Albertinelli, * 13.10.1474 in Florenz; † 5.11.1515 ebd., war ein italienischer Maler 🎨 🇮🇹
Die Heilige Familie: Joseph, Jesus und Maria, ca. 1497 🖼️
Los Angeles County Museum of Art 🏛️
#OTD #ArtHistory #ReligiousPainting #Renaissance #BskyArt #Museum #History

Die Heilige Familie: Joseph, Jesus und Maria, ca. 1497. Die heilige Familie scheint auf diesem Bild auffallend nach links gerückt zu sein, weil Maria den kleinen Jesus auf einem Tuch auf ein Postament gesetzt hat, hinter dem stützend der kahlköpfige Josef steht
Sie sieht versonnen auf den Boden und führt die linke Hand auf ihre Brust, als würde sie Zeugnis ablegen. Durch ihre Position gibt sie den Blick auf eine früh neuzeitliche Stadtansicht frei, im Bildmittelgrund erkennt man eine Gruppe von Franziskanern, die offensichtlich eine Abtei der Benediktiner besucht, dahinter liegt die Stadt an einem Fluss. Im Hintergrund ist der Himmel vom üblichen sfumato mit Bergen und einem einzelnen großen Baum abgegrenzt.

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

🙏👍🫂🕊🌞🕊🙋‍♀️

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

Thanks Maria dear 🙏👏😘🙋‍♀️

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

Here it is, the iconic Thanksgiving turkey🍁!

Norman Rockwell 🖌️

Happy Day my friend 🍁🍁🍁

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