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World Of Art By Sue @worldofartbysue.bsky.social · 3d

October's theme: Fabulous Gowns in Art
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (1703 - 1770), “Portrait of Madame de Pompadour”, 1756.
Alte Pinakotek, Munich, Germany.
#arthistory #art #portrait

In this portrait, Madame de Pompadour wears a French style open-front shimmering silk gown with a matching petticoat – the height of Rococo elegance. Both the gown and the petticoat are embellished with copious amounts of small pink roses, probably also made of silk. Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson became the new mistress of King Louis XV in 1745; the king bestowed upon her the title of Madame de Pompadour. By the time of Boucher’s 1756 portrait, she was no longer the king’s mistress but had transitioned to his confidante and advisor. Boucher painted twelve flattering portraits of Pompadour over the course of their collaboration; he presented her as lovely but also as intelligent and loyal (in this portrait, her spaniel pup, Inés, attests to her faithfulness) and always dressed in the latest fashions (look at her fabulous pink shoes!). Boucher paints her as the epitome of elegance and grace. Pompadour’s support of Boucher helped him to become the leading decorative painter of his time.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 9d

Margaret of Austria. When older, she governed the Netherlands for many years, and was also a great collector and patron. Here portrayed at age 10 in 1490 by Jean Hey, whose day is today.

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History Channel @historyachannel.bsky.social · 11d

John Constable exhibited The Hay Wain at the Royal Academy in 1821, elevating rural English landscape into a subject of national pride, influencing plein‑air practice and later European naturalist painters #ArtHistory

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Laura JG @laurajg.bsky.social · 19d

By Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), Women Carrying Sacks of Coal in the Snow, chalk, brush in ink, and opaque and transparent watercolor on wove paper, 12.5x19.6 inches (32x50 cm), Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands. More in ALT. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #labor

Women, hunched over, carry heavy sacks across their shoulders and backs.

Most people don’t know that before he became an artist, Vincent was a missionary to a coal mining region of Belgium. The story of his time there breaks my heart. He arrived to discover the people led lives of back-breaking work and poverty. So he began giving what he had away to the poor, including his fine clothes. He let a poor man live in his nicely furnished flat and went to live in a hovel himself. He went down into the coal mines and saw how harsh that work actually was. He saw little children working there in dangerous conditions instead of being in school. His superiors, aghast at his lack of decorum, withdrew their support and called him back. I try to wrap my mind around this scenario. Giving what he had to the poor, as Jesus taught, disqualified him from the mission field. I have to wonder. If the mission board had supported his actions instead, applauded them, would he have become as Saint Francis? A Mother Teresa? We’ll never know.

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Hagazussa in Glasgow @hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social · 19d

"Wax dolls being given to devil." The History of Witches and Wizards, 1720. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain. Source: wellcomecollection.org/works/ykvvwsqv

#WitchSky #WitchAlt #art #ArtHistory #illustration

A (woodblock?) print depicting four witches, facing a devil in the centre of the composition. The two nearest him are handing him human-shaped poppets. The devil has sharp horns, pointed ears, bat wings, a pointed tail, and clawed feet. Reptilian and giant insect creatures fly in the air above.

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 26d

#mosaicmonday 🏺 Ancient #Greek mosaic depicting Thetis seated on a hippocampus, delivering a spear and the shield of Achilles newly forged by Hephaistos, about 4th c. BC.

🥏 Note the small fins on the sea horse's legs!

#archaeology 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #ancientbluesky

Ancient Greek mosaic depicting Thetis seated on a hippocampus, delivering a spear and the shield of Achilles newly forged by Hephaistos, about 4th c. BC.

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Gilded Histories | Kerigan Pickett - Creative Historian @gildedhistories.bsky.social · 25d

Vasily Kandinsky, Improvisation No. 30 (Canons), 1913. The Art Institute of Chicago. www.artic.edu/artworks/899...
#ArtHistory #Art #History #VasilyKandinsky #Kandinsky #AbstractArt #Paintings
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Hagazussa in Glasgow @hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social · Sep 17

The Spanish "aquelarre" or coven/witches' sabbath, is said to possibly derive from the Basque "akelarre" (aker/male goat + larre/field)

Aquelarre/El gran cabrón (Witches' Sabbath/The Great He-Goat), Francisco de Goya, 1820-23, Museo del Prado, Wikimedia Commons, source ⬇️ #WitchSky #art #ArtHistory

A painting of a crowd of women, sitting huddled together before the silhouette of a dark billy goat with glowing eyes, beard, and long, twisted horns. He is sitting on the ground in a human posture with black drapery over his body and legs.

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Gilded Histories | Kerigan Pickett - Creative Historian @gildedhistories.bsky.social · Sep 16

Jean Hay, The Annunciation, 1490-95. The Art Institute of Chicago. www.artic.edu/artworks/163...
#ArtHistory #Art #History #Annunciation #JeanHey #NorthernRenaissance #Renaissance #RenaissanceArt #Paintings
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Capucine @capucinep.bsky.social · Sep 12

#FineArtFriday courtesy of Alphonse Mucha - "Summer" from The Seasons series, circa 1896

My favourite Art Nouveau artist, using elegant flowing elements and a palette of soft colours.

#AlphonseMucha #ArtNouveau #SummerArt #ArtHistory #ArtisticElegance #Masterpiece #FineArt #IllustrationArt

A poster style illustration from Alphonse Mucha, showing a beautiful young lady leaning on some vines, relaxing. She has long brown hair, crowned with red and pink flowers, and her feet are dangling in water. She is wrapped in a loose pale cloth dress, and surrounded by some tall grasses and other plants. There is a decorative Art Nouveau border with white roses.

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𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐙𝐀𝐇 𝐋𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇⭑✯⭑𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑 @elizahleighartwrit.bsky.social · Sep 8

"We should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.” ― John Steinbeck

🎨: Procession des Âmes / Procession of Souls, Louis Welden Hawkins (1849 -1910)

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#elizahleighartwriter #louisweldenhawkins #art #arthistory

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Bob @actualbob.art · Aug 28

In 1751, English artist William Hogarth created the companion engraved etchings "Beer Street" and "Gin Lane" in response to the Gin Act of that year. The prints were intended to contrast the positive effects of beer with the deleterious effects of gin.

#arthistory #history #beer #gin

A bustling, prosperous urban street scene. Well-fed citizens, including butchers and fishwives, drink large tankards of beer. A building is being constructed in the background, and a pawnbroker's shop is falling into ruin.

A scene of urban decay and despair. Buildings are dilapidated, and the inhabitants are emaciated and distraught. In the foreground, a woman lets her baby fall to its death while a man beats himself with bellows. The only businesses that appear to be thriving are a distillery and a pawnbroker.

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Gilded Histories | Kerigan Pickett - Creative Historian @gildedhistories.bsky.social · Aug 28

Marie Denise Villers, Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786-1868), 1801. The MET. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#ArtHistory #MarieDeniseVillers #MisidentifiedArtist #LindaNochlin
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Gilded Histories | Kerigan Pickett - Creative Historian @gildedhistories.bsky.social · Aug 22

Paul Cezanne, Gardanne, 1885-86. The MET. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#ArtHistory #PaulCezanne #Cezanne #Paintings #Landscape #19thCentury
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Victory Guy 🇨🇦 @victoryguy.bsky.social · Aug 19

Two heads. One without a hat.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHats
#art #TheBurrellCollectionGlasgow #Portraits #ArtHistory #WomenOfInfluence #Smug

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · Aug 14

'As urgent and relevant today as it ever was': The radical #manifesto hidden in #GeorgesSeurat 's 1884 masterpiece.

#Art #ArtHistory #Painting

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'As urgent and relevant today as it ever was': The radical manifesto hidden in Georges Seurat's 1884 masterpiece

Georges Seurat's once-mocked painting Bathers at Asnières is both an "exquisite distillation of the very essence of summer" and "a modern wonder in the art of seeing".

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · Aug 14

Wallace Polsom, “Firestarter” (03 Jul 2016), paper collage, 17.4 x 24.6 cm | wallacepolsom.com/post/1468662... #papercollage #collage #art #contemporaryart #firestarter #surrealart #arthistory

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Aug 12

Adriaen van de Venne, 1620-1626 (British Museum) A couple dancing. Actually they’re strutting their funky stuff.

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World Of Art By Sue @worldofartbysue.bsky.social · Aug 12

August's theme: photographic selfies
ED VAN DER ELSKEN (1925 - 1990), “Self-Portrait with Ata Kando, Paris”, 1953.
Described as a “difficult red-headed firebrand”, the Danish photographer captured raw street shots filled with love, sex, jazz music & alternative culture.
#arthistory #art #photography

Van der Elsken moved to Paris in 1950 and became a part of the post-World War II ethos found among the disaffected youth there, particularly in the neighborhood of Saint-Germain-de-Prés where he lived. He found a job in the Magnum photo lab printing the work of such photographic luminaries as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and Ernest Haas. It was at Magnum that he met Ata Kando, a fellow photographer who would become his first wife (all three of his wives were professional photographers). This “Self-Portrait with Ata Kando, Paris” from 1953 is full of hazy light and moody atmosphere; it is an intimate, candid photo that was taken the year before they married. Van der Elsken produced multiple photo books and film projects, using his own rather eccentric life experiences as artistic fodder.

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History Channel @historyachannel.bsky.social · Aug 11

In 1917, Georgia O’Keeffe held her first solo exhibition at 291 Gallery in New York. Her bold abstractions and organic forms marked a turning point in American modernism. #ArtHistory

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · Aug 8

Camille Pissarro, Boulevard Montmartreat Night, 1897 National Gallery, London
The "Boulevard Montmatre at Night" is one of a series of 14 Pissarro painted of the street. It is also the only known night painting by Pissarro.
#Pissarro #Montmatre #ArtHistory #PostImpressionism

Painting shows the Boulevard Montmartre at nighttime. We see the buzzling streets, the different lights, it looks wet like it just has rained before.

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · Aug 2

For #caturday quite a contemporary looking #Roman mosaic of a lion, 6th century C.E., made of stone and mortar.

🏛️ Brooklyn Museum (not on view for some mysterious reason...)

🏺 #archaeology 🗃️ #arthistory #history #art #mosaicmonday #cat #cats #catsofbluesky

Roman mosaic of a lion with some flowers and other vegetation, 6th century C.E., made of stone and mortar.

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First Amendment Girl @firstamendmentgirl.bsky.social · Aug 2

Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley by Paul Cézanne, 1882-1985, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, NY)

#ArtHistory #ModernArt #PostImpressionism

Throughout his life, Cézanne painted more then 200 landscapes. One of his favorite subjects was the limestone peak of Mont Sainte-Victoire in Provence in southern France. The artist had a special connection to the landscape, as Mont Sainte-Victoire was located near his hometown, Aix-en-Provence. Cézanne spent significant portions of his adult life in Aix-en-Provence, and he painted the local landscape at different stages of his career. In 1897, he settled permanently in Aix-en-Provence and lived there until he died in 1906. In his landscapes, Cézanne aimed to reveal the inner geometry of nature, saying he wanted “to make of Impressionism something solid and durable, like the art of museums”.

This painting is an early example of the Mont Sainte-Victoire series, which shows the mountain rising above the Arc River Valley. The scene was likely painted from his sister’s property at the top of the hill behind her house. Cézanne included details of the property, as well as the walls, fields, and neighboring farmhouses. Another important element is the railroad viaduct with a moving train on the bridge. Cutting through the landscape, the railroad viaduct resembles a Roman aqueduct and recalls the paintings of Nicolas Poussin, like The Finding of Moses (1638). In a letter, Cézanne wrote to a friend and writer Émile Zola, dated April 14, 1878, he described the train passing through the railway bridge at Arc River Valley as a “beautiful motif.” He included architectural elements to enhance the landscape and to contrast between the natural landscape and the manmade environment.

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History Channel @historyachannel.bsky.social · Aug 2

🖼️ In 1965, Yves Saint Laurent debuted his Mondrian-inspired dresses, blending high fashion with modern art. The bold geometric designs brought Piet Mondrian’s abstract aesthetic to the runway, redefining wearable art. #ArtHistory

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World History Encyclopedia @worldhistory.org · Jul 29

🎨On this day in 1890: Vincent van Gogh dies two days after suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot.

🖼️ Self-portraits by Musée d'Orsay and Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

#VincentvanGogh #Art #Artist #OnThisDay #TodayInHistory #History #ArtHistory

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