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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 1d

José Clemente Orozco
- Barricade, 1931
- Zapatistas, 1931

“Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them in the moment of speaking.”
#mexicanartists #mexicanmuralism #socialrealism #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 4d

Pierre Bonnard

- Nude Against the Light, 1908
- Nude on the Chair, 1935-1938
- Nude in the Bath and Small Dog, 1941-1946

“One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.”

#nabigroup #lesnabis #postimpressionism #intimism #arthistory

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 8d

A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings

No historical figure better fits the definition of “Renaissance man” than Leonardo da Vinci, but that term has become so overused as to become misleading. We use it to express mild surprise that one p...

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 9d

Mäda Gertrude Primavesi
Gustav Klimt, 1912

"No part of life is so small and insignificant that it does not offer space for artistic aspirations.”

#viennasecession #artnouveau #symbolism #portraiture #austrianartists #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 10d

George Washington (The
Lansdowne Portrait)
Gilbert Stuart, 1796

- Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

- Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

- Honesty is the best policy.

#americanmasters #americanportraiture #rococo #romanticism #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 12d

Group I (Concourse)
Barbara Hepworth, 1951

“I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.”

#unitone #abstractcreation #abstractsculpture #modernism #womenartists #modernart #arthistory

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Thea Euryphaessa @theaeuryphaessa.bsky.social · 13d

Jungian, Edward Whitmont on the relationship between ego and Self.

The drama of life seems to develop like a dialectical play between the initial one-sided starting position of ego-orientation—that which we find we 'are' when we have come to the first awareness of ourselves and the later opposing claims of the Self which pull in a new direction with the demand that we become what we are 'meant to be'. The pull of the Self toward rearrangement of the established pattern of the ego reaching out of a frame of reference which is quite at variance with it, is bound to be disturbing; it may even appear to be an inimical intrusion or a temptation and betrayal ("... and lead us not into temptation"). Jung's description is a vivid one:

As a totality, the self is by definition always a complexio oppositorum, and the more consciousness insists on its own luminous nature and lays claim to moral authority, the more the self will appear as something dark and menacing".

By Jungian, Edward C. Whitmont from his book, 'The Symbolic Quest'.

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 15d

New Jersey Landscape
George Inness, 1891

“You must suggest to me reality-you can never show me reality.”

#hudsonriverschool #barbizonschool #landscapepainters #americanmasters #arthistory

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 16d

If a single individual devotes himself to individuation, he frequently has a positive contagious effect on people around him. It is as if a spark leaps from one to another and usually occurs when one has no intention of influencing others and often when one uses no words.~Marie-Louise von Franz

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 16d

M-Maybe
Roy Lichtenstein, 1965

“I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.”

#popart #modernart #americanartists #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 17d

Parts of the Body: French Vocabulary Lesson

Larry Rivers, 1961-2

"Not one day of my life have I wasted on searching for the truth.”

#abstractexpressionism #popart #modernart #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 18d

Leather Boots
Marlene Dumas, 2000

"Painting has to show its method, how it becomes what it is; [it should] move back and forth from the 'illusion' to the 'gesture'".

#neoexpressionism #figurativeart
#contemporaryart #womenartists #arthistory

Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 19d

Richard Diebenkorn

Berkeley No. 8, 1954
A Day at the Race, 1953
Interior with Book, 1959

“My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.”

#abstractexpressionism #bayareafigurative #modernart #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 21d

William H. Johnson

- Man in a Vest, 1939-40
- Café, 1939-1940

“To express a feeling on canvas one must first feel it.”

#expressionism #harlemrenaissance #blackartists #americanartists #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 23d

Four outsider artists:

Carlo Zinelli
Untitled, 1961

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
No. 858, 1960

Augustin Lesage
Composition Symboliste, 1927-1930

Henry Darger
Untitled, date unknown

#artbrut #rawart #outsiderart #outsiderartists #arthistory #selftaughtartists

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 24d

L'art est inutile, rentrez chez vous.
(Art is useless, go home.)

Ben Vautier, 1971

"Le jour où je m'arrêterai de mentir, je ne ferai plus d'art".
(The day I stop lying I will no longer make art.)

#fluxusfrançais #frenchfluxus #figurationlibre #modernart #arthistory #frenchartists

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 25d

Hurrah, die Butter ist alle!
John Heartfield, 1935

“I found out how you can fool people with photos, really fool them… You can lie and tell the truth by putting the wrong title or wrong captions under them.”

#photomontage #politicalsatire #antinaziart #berlindada #germanartists #arthistory

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · Oct 1

Kicking off October the only way we know how… with a howl! 🐺🍂 #ambassadorwolf #spookyseasonishere

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · Sep 27

Mademoiselle Victorine in the Costume of an Espada
Edouard Manet, 1862

“You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.”
#frenchrealism #modernism #arthistory

Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · Sep 21

Cecilia Beaux

Ernesta, 1894
Ernesta, 1914
Dorothea and Francesca, 1898
Sita and Sarita, 1893-1894

“I predict an hour when the term Women In Art will be as strange sounding a topic as the title Men In Art would be now.”

#americanmasters #arthistory #womenartists #theplasticclub #postimpressionism

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · Sep 19

Approaching Thunder Storm
Martin Johnson Heade, 1859

“Heade's calm is unsteady, storm-stirred... His weather is interior…and he perhaps was the first to portray a modern mood, an ambivalent mood tinged with dread and yet imbued with a certain lightness.”
~ John Updike

#luminism #arthistory

Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · Sep 18

Gas
Edward Hopper, 1940

“I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.”

#americanrealism #americana #realism #americanmasters #arthistory

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · Sep 10

Frederick Kiesler, Totem for All Religions, 1947 #artbots #moma
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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · Sep 6

Merzbau
Kurt Schwitters, 1923-1937

“Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork.”

#sitespecificart #installationart #dada #germanartists #arthistory #merzart #merz

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚨 Wolves need your voice! Right now, Congress is considering spending bills that could strip federal protections from gray wolves in 44 states.

Removing these protections would leave wolves vulnerable to hunting, trapping, and persecution.

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