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Behind the brushstrokes. For curious minds and creative souls.
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🎨 Dawn meets dusk in Evelyn de Morgan's stunning Phosphorus and Hesperus (1881). This allegorical masterpiece depicts the Morning Star rising with torch ablaze whilst the Evening Star surrenders to sleep. De Morgan was one of the few Victorian women artists to achieve major success. #FineArt 🖼️
Evelyn de Morgan's oil painting Phosphorus and Hesperus from 1881, depicting two nude male figures with marble-like skin on a sandy beach. The auburn-haired figure of Phosphorus rises upward holding a flaming golden torch aloft, symbolising the Morning Star and dawn. Below him, the dark-haired Hesperus rests his head wearily against his companion's knee, clutching an extinguished silver torch pointed downward, representing the Evening Star and approaching sleep. A calm blue sea and distant mountains fill the background, whilst delicate seashells are scattered in the foreground. The composition reflects classical sculptural influences and the Aesthetic movement style.
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Revenge from beyond the grave! 👻 Katsushika Hokusai's The Phantom of Kohada Koheiji (c.1831) depicts a murdered man returning to haunt his killers. Part of his legendary One Hundred Ghost Stories series, this ukiyo-e masterpiece proves Hokusai was so much more than just The Great Wave. 💀🎨
Japanese woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai titled The Phantom of Kohada Koheiji circa 1831, depicting a ghostly skeletal figure with decaying flesh and wispy hair peering through crimson mosquito netting with claw-like hands, set against a dark teal background, part of the ukiyo-e artist's Hyaku Monogatari One Hundred Ghost Stories series
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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🌸 Before The Great Wave, Hokusai was perfecting botanical brilliance. His Orange Orchids (c.1832-34) from the "Large Flowers" series shows the master's range beyond landscapes, crisp linework, bold colour, sublime negative space. 🎨🇯🇵 #ArtHistory #FineArt
Katsushika Hokusai's Orange Orchids woodblock print from circa 1832-1834, showing delicate orange six-petalled orchid blossoms on curved stems against a pale blue-grey background, with dramatic dark green and blue-grey strappy leaves at the base, featuring the artist's signature seal in red on the right side, exemplifying Edo period ukiyo-e botanical art
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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🌴 Paul Gauguin’s Landscape with Peacocks (Matamoe), 1892, shimmers with tropical colour and quiet tension. A man raises his axe beneath a palm, peacocks wander nearby, and smoke curls into the Tahitian air. 🦚 “Matamoe” means death, but Gauguin paints life in full bloom. 🎨🌺 #ArtHistory #FineArt
A vivid tropical landscape painting by Paul Gauguin. In the foreground, two peacocks stroll across green and ochre ground near bright orange flowers. Behind them, a shirtless man raises an axe near a fire and a small pink hut. Two women stand beneath tall trees, with a lush jungle and glowing yellow hills under a pastel sky in the distance.
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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🩰 Backstage Rebellion: Nicolaas van der Waay's striking 1900s painting captures ballerinas in white tutus confronting their director, a rare glimpse of labour activism in the theatre world. The Dutch master turned rehearsal drama into powerful social commentary. 🎨 🖼️ #ArtHistory #FineArt
Oil painting showing a large group of ballerinas in white tutus standing together on the left facing an authority figure on the right in a dark, atmospheric backstage setting, painted by Dutch artist Nicolaas van der Waay circa 1900s
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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🎨 Beryl Cook's "Date Night" captures the unfiltered joy of British pub culture in glorious detail! Now available as a 1000-piece jigsaw. 🧩🍺 The self-taught Plymouth artist revolutionised figurative painting with her celebration of body confidence & everyday revelry. #ArtHistory #FineArt
Completed 1000-piece Beryl Cook Date Night jigsaw puzzle showing vibrant pub scene with full-figured characters in colourful clothing enjoying drinks, featuring dogs with festive collars, yellow bottles on shelves, and warm burgundy and gold tones throughout the 735mm x 510mm artwork
October 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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📚 The Unbridled Genius of Egon Schiele: TASCHEN's stunning monograph captures a decade of defiance, from provocative self-portraits to haggard, elongated figures that scandalised Vienna. The Expressionist died at just 28, yet his influence spans from Francis Bacon to Tracey Emin. 🎨 #ArtHistory
Egon Schiele The Paintings by Taschen coffee table book cover on white background, featuring expressionist portrait with bold blue, orange and black colours, edited by Tobias G. Natter, luxury art book for collectors Open spread from Egon Schiele Taschen book showing 1914 photograph of the artist alongside Self-Portrait with Peacock Waistcoat 1911 painting with distinctive spotted pattern, high-quality art book interior on white background
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Paul Klee's 'Magdalena Before The Conversion' (1938) is a masterclass in late modernist symbolism. 🎨 Created during exile from Nazi Germany whilst battling scleroderma, Klee transformed personal suffering into vibrant visual poetry. 🖼️ #ArtHistory #FineArt
Paul Klee, Magdalena Before The Conversion, 1938. Gouache on paper showing stylised female figure with oversized head, elongated yellow hair, large earring, and simplified body in bright yellow, pink, light blue blocks. Schematic face features emphatic eyes, visible ear, and red mouth. Decorative dotted and patterned background in pinks, reds, and yellows. Childlike modernist composition with bold colours and hieroglyphic forms typical of Klee's late period.
October 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Meet the original art world satirist. 🐵 Shibata Zeshin's 1835 masterpiece "Monkey Posing as a Collector" shows a fashionably draped monkey scrutinising collectibles with a magnifying glass, a cheeky 19th-century commentary on connoisseurship that still resonates today. 🎨 #ArtHistory #FineArt
19th century Japanese painting by Shibata Zeshin showing a monkey wrapped in red and yellow patterned silk robes examining a small decorative object through a magnifying glass, surrounded by collector's items including a lacquered book, measuring sticks, an inrō case and netsuke toggle against a golden yellow silk background, ink and colour on silk circa 1835
October 4, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Before manga, there was Kuniyoshi. ⚔️ This stunning 1830 ukiyo-e print depicts Fujinoe—a legendary female warrior defending Takadachi Castle in 1189. Kuniyoshi was ahead of his time, repeatedly portraying strong, complex women with agency & martial prowess. 💪🎨 #FineArt #ArtHistory
Utagawa Kuniyoshi ukiyo-e woodblock print from circa 1830 depicting Fujinoe, a female warrior in elaborate blue and yellow patterned kimono with coral accents, wielding both a sword and naginata whilst dynamically deflecting multiple arrows in mid-flight. Her long black hair flows dramatically as she battles two armoured samurai warriors below her. The composition features bold diagonal lines, vibrant traditional Japanese colours, and Japanese text columns in the upper right. Part of Kuniyoshi's "Eight Hundred Heroes of Our Country's Suikoden" series, showcasing Edo-period artistry and progressive female representation.
October 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Franz von Stuck's "Lucifer" (1890) is a masterclass in psychological Symbolism. 👁️🖤 The fallen angel isn't monstrous, he's heroic, melancholic, trapped in eternal reflection. Those luminous eyes? Haunting. Stuck often modelled his gods & demons on himself. #FineArt #ArtHistory
Franz von Stuck's Lucifer (1890), oil on canvas showing a muscular, seated fallen angel with luminous green eyes emerging from darkness, one hand reaching back to touch his black wing, with a faint crescent of light behind him, exemplifying German Symbolist painting
October 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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🎨 Paul Klee's 'Resting Ships' (1927) is a geometric gem from his Bauhaus years! The Swiss modernist transforms moored vessels into a mosaic of interlocking colour planes, vibrant oranges, deep blues & that striking red orb. 🚢 Klee reduces sails to triangles & hulls to curves, proving less is more.
Paul Klee, Resting Ships (Ruhende Schiffe), 1927, oil and tempera on cardboard - geometric abstract painting featuring stylised boats with curved orange hulls, triangular sails in multiple colours, modular blue background rectangles, and bright red circular sun or moon in upper right, housed at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
September 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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🌊 Hokusai was in his 70s when he created this masterpiece from the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series. "Tago Bay near Ejiri" showcases fishermen battling turbulent currents in that revolutionary Prussian blue, a pigment newly imported to Japan that transformed ukiyo-e printmaking forever. 🗻
Hokusai's Tago Bay near Ejiri on the Tōkaidō woodblock print from circa 1830-1832, showing two large fishing boats with curved hulls navigating Prussian blue waves in the foreground, coastal village and shoreline in the middle ground, and Mount Fuji's snow-capped peak rising majestically in the background against a peachy sky, from the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series
September 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Paul Klee's "Strong Dream" (1929) distils nocturnal mystery into pure visual poetry. 🌙 A luminous yellow crescent & vibrant red disc hover above a sleeping figure, Bauhaus minimalism meets symbolic dreamscape. Created during his legendary teaching years, it's magic in miniature. #FineArt #ArtHistory
Paul Klee's Strong Dream painting from 1929 showing a large black circular void containing a bright yellow crescent moon on the left and a coral-red circular disc on the right, with a small abstracted reclining figure decorated in yellow, red and blue patterns at the bottom, all set against a dark brown textured background with visible brushstrokes, gouache and watercolour on paper
September 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Juan Gris' "Portrait of Maurice Raynal" (c.1911-12) captures the brilliant mind who championed Cubism itself! 🧠 This geometric masterpiece shows the Spanish artist's signature precision, notice how he fragments Raynal's face into angular planes whilst maintaining those subtle colour harmonies. 🖼️
Juan Gris' Portrait of Maurice Raynal oil painting showing a Cubist portrait with fragmented facial features rendered in geometric planes using muted pink, grey and brown tones against a neutral background, demonstrating early Analytical Cubism techniques from 1911-1912
September 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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🌊 Hokusai's "Kajikazawa in Kai Province" remains one of art history's most captivating masterpieces. The fisherman's curved pose deliberately mirrors the rolling waves and rocky contours, creating visual harmony that influenced countless Impressionist masters decades later. 🖼️ #FineArt #ArtHistory
Hokusai's Kajikazawa in Kai Province woodblock print showing a fisherman in traditional dress casting multiple fishing lines from a green rocky promontory into dramatic blue waves of the Fuji River, with Mount Fuji's iconic triangular silhouette rising peacefully in the background under a pale sky, demonstrating the master's use of Prussian blue pigment and bokashi gradation technique
September 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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When One Genius Painted Another: Juan Gris's "Portrait of Pablo Picasso" (1912). This analytical cubism painting shows Gris's signature crystalline precision as he fragments Picasso (palette in hand) into geometric brilliance. Notice how Gris inscribed "Hommage à Pablo Picasso". 🖼️ #ArtHistory
Juan Gris Portrait of Pablo Picasso 1912 oil painting showing analytical cubist style with fragmented geometric planes depicting Picasso holding artist palette, rendered in muted blues greys and browns with crystalline composition typical of Gris cubist technique
September 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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🐅 Katayama Yōkoku's "Tiger Emerging from Bamboo" (c. late 18th century) showcases the Edo master's revolutionary "fur-line" technique. Each individual hair stroke creates a breathing, dynamic presence that seems to leap from the canvas. 🎨 #ArtHistory #FineArt
Close-up painting of a tiger's head and upper body emerging from bamboo stalks, featuring intricate golden-orange fur with black stripes rendered in meticulous individual brushstrokes, piercing yellow-green eyes with white whisker highlights, and dramatic foreshortening that makes the tiger appear to leap forward from aged paper background - masterwork by Japanese artist Katayama Yōkoku from the late 18th century Edo period
September 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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James Ensor's haunting "Masks" (1925) reveals the Belgian master's fascination with carnival grotesquery and mortality. 🎭💀 This theatrical tableau of painted faces and masks explores the thin line between performance and authenticity, a motif that influenced both Expressionism and Surrealism. 🎨
James Ensor's 1925 oil painting "Masks" showing a cluster of theatrical carnival faces including painted masks, human visages, and a central skull figure rendered in vibrant reds, pinks, and blues against a green-teal background, demonstrating the Belgian Expressionist's signature grotesque and theatrical style.
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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🌊 Monet's "The Green Wave" (c. 1866-67) captures the raw power of the Normandy coast with revolutionary technique. This early masterpiece bridges Romantic drama with emerging Impressionism. 🎨 Critics noted strong Manet influences in its bold composition and high horizon line. #ArtHistory #FineArt
Claude Monet's oil painting "The Green Wave" showing dramatic emerald-green ocean waves with white foam crashing around a tilted fishing boat with grey sails, painted in bold brushstrokes characteristic of early Impressionist technique, circa 1866-67
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🍎 Giuseppe Arcimboldo's "Vertumnus" (1590) is pure Renaissance genius. This mind-bending portrait of Emperor Rudolf II is composed ENTIRELY of fruits, vegetables & flowers 🍇 From afar: regal emperor. Up close: botanical wonderland! The ultimate optical illusion that predates Photoshop by 400+ years.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo's Vertumnus oil painting from 1590 showing a composite portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II created entirely from fruits, vegetables, flowers and grains - Renaissance masterpiece featuring pears for cheeks, grapes for hair, corn and wheat stalks, with roses and other seasonal produce forming clothing against dark background
September 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Hokusai's "Hanging-Cloud Bridge at Mount Gyōdō" (c.1831-34) perfectly captures the master's genius for blending reality with pure imagination! This dramatic woodblock print from his bridges series shows a fantastical wooden bridge suspended in swirling mountain mists – part topography, part dream.
Hokusai's "The Hanging-Cloud Bridge at Mount Gyōdō near Ashikaga" woodblock print showing a narrow wooden bridge spanning a deep, mist-filled mountain gorge with jagged cliffs, small shrine structures, and tiny human figures emphasising the dramatic vertical scale and mystical atmosphere of this 1830s Japanese ukiyo-e masterpiece
September 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Hokusai's breathtaking Yahagi Bridge at Okazaki (c.1833) showcases the master's genius for balancing monumental architecture with human drama. Part of his legendary "Remarkable Views of Bridges" series, this ukiyo-e masterpiece captures daily life along Japan's historic Tōkaidō route. 🎨 #ArtHistory
Japanese woodblock print by Hokusai showing the dramatic curved Yahagi Bridge at Okazaki with numerous pedestrians crossing the wooden arch structure, archers practising with targets in the riverbed below, traditional buildings and trees in the foreground, and Mount Fuji visible in the background under a blue gradient sky, exemplifying Edo period ukiyo-e landscape art
September 17, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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🥊🔥 Marsden Hartley's raw, powerful "Madawaska Acadian Light-Heavy" (1940) captures French-Canadian boxer Lionel Daigle with stunning intimacy. The artist's own words: "His body is so fine and dear I could work almost without end from him" 💪 A masterclass in frontal monumentality! 🎨 #QueerArt
Oil painting by Marsden Hartley showing muscular shirtless male boxer with dark hair against vibrant red background, painted in modernist style with simplified facial planes and bold brushstrokes, wearing minimal dark briefs, demonstrating the artist's late figurative period from 1940
September 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM