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“Selbstbildnis (Self-portrait), 1897” by Paula Modersohn-Becker (German) - Gouache on paper / 1897 - Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum (Bremen, Germany) #WomenInArt #PaulaModersohnBecker #ModersohnBecker #artText #art #BlueskyArt #SelfPortrait #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #PaulaModersohn-Becker
Painted when German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker was about 21, soon after her studies in Berlin and first visits to the Worpswede artists’ colony, this small gouache work already shows her refusal to idealize herself. Her frontal pose echoes academic portrait rules, yet the blunt contours, thinly painted skin, and dark, indeterminate backdrop point toward the Expressionist styles that would define her later work. Her very close-up self-portrait fills the frame from the base of the neck to the top of the head. At the center is a young white woman with an elongated oval face, straight nose, and wide brown eyes that look directly at us. Her skin is pale, modeled with blue-grey shadows along cheeks, nose, and chin so the face seems to glow against the dark background. Reddish-brown hair is brushed back and loosely gathered, parted by a vertical streak of light paint at the middle of her head. Her small, closed mouth is softly outlined in muted plum, neither smiling nor frowning. Behind her a mottled field of olive and brown brushstrokes suggests foliage or shadow without a clear setting, letting the steady, searching gaze dominate the image. Shown without jewelry, costume, or props, she tests the idea of a modern woman artist in 1897 whose authority rests in her gaze and hand. Now in the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen, the first museum devoted to a woman painter, the image introduces an oeuvre that, in barely a decade, helped reimagine how women and children could appear in modern art. Modersohn-Becker helped pioneer early Expressionism and modern self-portraiture by women. Painting in Worpswede and Paris, she showed everyday women, children, and herself with radical honesty, influencing later modernists even though full recognition came only long after her early death on November 20, 1907, at the age of 31, just days after giving birth to her daughter Mathilde Modersohn (often called “Tille”).
November 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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#weekend

🖌 Félix Vallotton

"La Route d'Honfleur"
August 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Lissie - Go Your Own Way

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📷 Kevin Nkruma
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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© Torbjörn Zetterholm.
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Deborah Brown, "Noooo” (oil on canvas, 2021)
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Screaming into the void.
November 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Rural Ireland 2024… #photography #documentary #leica #Ireland
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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© Debra Tate-Sears.
'Break Out,' 2023.
Egg Tempera on True Gesso Paper on Panel.
16 × 12 inches.
November 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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#StandingStoneSunday
November 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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trees
#naturephoto #mist #blackandwhite
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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inari krohn
#art #painting #etching #xmastree
November 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Fairfield Porter (1907-1975), “The Cliffs of Isle Au Haut” (1974), oil on canvas, 182.9 x 157.5 cm.
November 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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zehn meter bis zum mond.
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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At White Sands…
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Woman on Floral Sofa, 2004
📷 by Rodney Smith

#photography #RodneySmith #art
August 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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“If we can create
portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.”

August Sander
German Photographer, (1876–1964)
A black and white photo of people as they walk across the snow covered Deutz Bridge, the town of Cologne can be seen across the Rhine through its girders. August Sander (German, 1876-1964) Deutz Bridge, Rhine in winter (1937) Gelatin silver print Lothar Schirmer Collection, Munich © The Photographic Collection, SK Stiftung Kultur – August Sander Archive, Cologne, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014.
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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The girl with freckles

📷 Sára Saudková (The Bubbles)
#monochrome #bnwphoto #noiretblanc #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhitephoto #BWPhotography #blackandwhitephotography #noir #portrait #sensualart #sensual #conceptual
November 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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I love Mary Fedden (British | 1915 - 2012). Sheep in the Snow (1984, watercolour and gouache on paper).
November 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Josefa Sanromán Castillo (1829-1889​) was a Mexican painter who made a name for herself at a time when women were not allowed in the Art Academy.
This is her occupational self-portrait, Interior de Estudio de una artista, ca. 1849.
#WomensArt
We see the interior of a studio with a very high ceiling. The artist is standing, working on a Santa Teresa painting, turning her back to us, focused on her work, holding a palette and a very long brush. There's two seated women in her company, one of them reads.
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Colette Calascione. Amphitrite (mermaid), 2010
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Into great silence, by Laura Makabresku.
November 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Fog on the water.
Foggy clouds over Lake Washington
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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La Santa y la aurora – Nieves González
Baroque style portrait of a blonde woman wearing a yellow puffy down coat and a pair of purplish-pink gloves
November 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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#BohdanShyptenko #Ukrainian
Bohdan Shyptenko (b. 1994)
PINK WORLD, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
https://www.singulart.com/en/artworks/bohdan-shyptenko-pink-world-2321978
November 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Ruth Powers Ortlieb, Bird on Thermos Bottle (oil on canvas, c. 1939)
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM