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Ramon Casas i Carbó
Madeleine. L'absenta. (1892)
(Au Moulin de la Galette) depicting Madeleine de Boisguillaume
117x90cm

#Art #Paintings #RamonCasasiCarbo #Casas #Impressionism
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Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind.

Credit: NASA Goddard
Edouard Vuillard
In bed (1891)
92x74cm

#InBed #Vuillard #Art
Marianne von Werefkin 
The ragpicker (1917)
Also called The Rag-and-Bone Man

#art #paintings #werefkin #20thcenturyart
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Angst
Alfred Kubin, 1903
Sinantropías, 2023 - by Txema Salvans (1971), Spanish
Artemisia #Gentileschi
Mary Magdalene as #Melancholy (1622-1625)
100x136cm

"… I have one more intimate confidant-my melancholy. In the midst of my joy she waves to me, calls me to one side, even though physically I stay put. My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known…"
- #Kierkegaard
Vilhelm Hammershøi
Rest (1905)
49 x 46 cm

Domestic stillness. A sense of melancholy. Introspection. Privacy. The burden of existence.

This “painter of silence” was remarked on his retiring manner and reluctance to talk.

#art #melancholy #Hammershoi
Gustave Courbet
The Desperate Man (1843-1844)
Self portrait at 24yo
45×54cm

"Through this laughing mask that you know me with, I hide the sorrow, the bitterness, and the sadness that grips the heart like a vampire from within."

- Courbet (in a letter to Alfred Bruyas)

#GustaveCourbet #despair
Japanese paper artist Chie Hitotsuyama: “I make small, twisted paper strips by moistening and twisting thin newspaper parts. I change the thickness of those paper strips according to the body parts. Twisting such pages, I’m aiming to achieve expressions of color, including gradations.”

#sculptures
Instead of it being a purely negative experience, Louise Bourgeois (well in her 80s) created a "drawing diary", with over 220 drawings during her hours of sleeplessness.

#theinsomniadrawings #insomnia #louisebourgeois #art #drawings
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The Stork Club Bar Book by Lucius Beebe (1946)

Design by Paul Rand
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Moonlight, Henri-Joseph Harpignies, 1889.
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The eruption of Mount St. Helens, seen shortly after 8:32 am Sunday, 18 May 1980, probably along the forest roads of Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

The photographer, Richard Lasher, survived the eruption that killed approximately 57 others.

Imagine seeing this in person.

Imagine *hearing* it.
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The Bather (1877) by Gustave Caillebotte
Francis Bacon
Study after #Velázquez 's Portrait of #Pope Innocent X (1953)

#Bacon —an atheist— clarified he had nothing against popes but merely sought "an excuse to use these colours, and you can't give ordinary clothes thát purple colour without getting into a sort of false fauve manner".

#Art
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Giuseppe #Arcimboldo
The #Librarian (1566, 97×71cm)

A triumph of #AbstractArt in the 16th century.

He painted portraits by painting an assemblage of objects such as fruits and vegetables, flowers, or in this case, books. The objects typically had some connection to the person's life or depiction.
William James Webbe
The White Owl (1856, 45x26cm)

'Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits'

#WhiteOwl #Art #Nature #Owls #WilliamJWebbe
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