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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." ~Marcel Proust
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'The Russian Princess,' illustration by Charles Robinson, 1913
December 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Pierre Mignard :
The Marquise de Seignelay
and Two of her Sons, 1691

oil on canvas | 194.5 × 154.4 cm
In this portrait, the recently widowed Catherine-Thérèse, Marquise de Seignelay (1662–1699) and two of her five sons are shown as characters from Greek and Roman mythology. The Marquise is probably meant to be the sea goddess Thetis, but could also be interpreted as Venus, the goddess of love, with her attributes: a scallop shell and strings of pearls. Her sons are painted as Cupid, god of love, and Achilles, a Greek hero of the Trojan War. The children gaze towards a small portrait cameo, which could be of their father, alluding to his death. For Catherine-Thérèse’s sumptuous robe, Mignard used an expensive, high-quality ultramarine blue pigment as a show of her wealth and power. The figures are surrounded by sea and different kinds of shells, references to her husband’s profession in the French royal navy. A volcano smokes in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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'The Can-can,' by Georges Seurat, 1890
December 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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'Portrait of a Lady (Marie Breunig),' by Gustav Klimt, 1894
December 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Art nouveau by Élisabeth Sonrel, 1900
December 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Illustration for 'The Saturday Evening Post' by Albert McGran Jackson, 1930
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' performed by the National Ballet of Canada
December 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Illustration for Robert Louis Stephenson's 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Jessie Willcox Smith, 1895
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.

~Kahlil Gibran
December 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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'First Light,' by Harold Harvey, 1919
December 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Diana and the Stag
Jean Goujon c. 1550-1554
December 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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'Princess Hyacinth,' by Alphonse Mucha, 1911
December 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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'The Library,' by Elizabeth Shippen Green, 1905
December 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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'La Moissonneuse' (The Harvester), by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1868.
December 6, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Winter Bouquet by Louis Icart (1888-1950)
Artwork of a woman wearing a black coat in the snow.
December 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Hasui Kawase (Japanese, 1883–1957)
"Temple at Ikegami", 1931.
Color Woodcut, 36.8 × 24.7 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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'My little girl with strawberries,' Carl Larsson, 1904
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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'The Princess and the Pea,' illustration by Edmund Dulac, 1911
December 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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'L'Eté,' by James Tissot, 1877.
December 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Hans Christian Andersen's, The Snow Queen, 1844
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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'The Crystal Ball,' by John William Waterhouse, 1902
December 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The Quay at Bougival
December 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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“The Round Pond” by Esther Borough Johnson (British) - Oil on canvas / 1934 - Wolverhampton Art Gallery (England) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #EstherBoroughJohnson #WomenArtists #ModernBritishArt #art #ArtText #BritishArt #DogArt #1930sArt #WolverhamptonArtGallery #blueskyArt #WomensArt #BritishArtist
Painted in 1934, this scene of Kensington Gardens captures interwar urban leisure as distinctly feminine, sociable, and modern. Two women settle on the close-cropped grass beside London’s Round Pond, their pale dresses and hats catching the milky summer light. The nearer figure, in a softly patterned gown with a red sash and bow, turns toward us with a composed, knowing half-smile. Behind her, a friend lounges in a bright blue dress and brimmed hat playing with a small white and black terrier who stands upright to beg for food at the edge of a white picnic cloth. A pink teapot, cups, and sliced fruit sit carefully arranged in the foreground. Beyond, the still pond, toy sailing boats, strolling figures, and dense green trees complete a shimmering, open-air London park scene. The women’s relaxed postures, fashionable dress, and companionable dog suggest autonomy and pleasure in public space, while the tea service and play of boats tie domestic ritual to cosmopolitan outdoors. Johnson’s light, broken brushwork and high-keyed palette emphasize movement and reflected light rather than strict detail, aligning her with contemporaries who translated Impressionist-inflected color into British park and garden subjects. The painting invites us into a gentle spectacle of everyday joy at a moment when such calm was historically fragile. Esther Borough Johnson, a British painter trained at Birmingham School of Art, Chelsea Art School, and Hubert von Herkomer’s school at Bushey, built her career with portraits, genre scenes, and floral studies that foregrounded women, children, and cultivated landscapes. A regular exhibitor at major London societies, she negotiated a male-dominated art world while working in close dialogue with her husband, Ernest Borough Johnson, yet maintained a distinct sensibility rooted in observational intimacy and luminous color. Her style was attentive to place, affectionate towards sitters, and quietly highlighted women’s everyday lives and leisure.
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Painting by Samuel Luke Fildes, 1875
December 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM