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phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · Oct 13
"We have art so that we shall not die of reality." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Support Your Local Businesses on Small Businesses Saturday
November 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Child's hand finger painting... Kids Need Art
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Andy Levine :
When In Doubt, Dance, n.d.

Acrylic on canvas
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Gunta Stölzl :
Wall Hanging, Bauhaus, 1924-25
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Auguste Herbin (1882-1960) :
Terre, Eau. 1944

Gouache on paper

Centre Pompidou, Paris
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Gift from Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, to his uncle Ferdinand II von Tirol.

16th century Italian made armor gifted to Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II.

Created by Lucio Piccinino (1550-1589)
Upper back Helmet Full body armor
November 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Keith Haring :
Sérigraphie, n°41_90, 1988

104 x 104 cm

Collection Speerstra Keith Haring artwork Keith Haring Foundation
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Detroit brought it!!!
Jack White FULL Thanksgiving Halftime Show
YouTube video by NFL
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November 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Horst Antes (Germany, b.1936) :
1972 Olympic Games (poster)

Gouache
November 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Fernand Léger :
Skating-Rink, (Costume Design), 1921

Costume design for Jean Börlin for the avant-garde ballet Skating-Rink.
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Oksana Berda :
Sculptural Chess Set, n.d.

porcelain
Board is made up of individual tiles 1-5/8 x 1-5/8 ea.

A playable showpiece chess set. Original design. Chess pieces are annotated on the bottom.
November 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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RECORD STORE DAY
TODAY!!
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Mario Tartari (Italian, b.1960) :
Porcelain and Lace, 2022

Watercolor, 38 × 56 cm.
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Otto Nebel (German, 1892-1973) :
Die Kathedrale (The Cathedral), 1930

Oil on canvas
125.2 x 95.3 cm

Kunstmuseum Thun

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Museum notes: The architectural structure is monumental in scale: we can see various configurations of stone walls leading to a number of flying buttresses, with glimpses of organ pipes and stained-glass windows, all of which would suggest the interior of a church or cathedral. The Berlin-born Nebel, produced a whole series of cathedral paintings between 1930-54. A particular feature of his work is the wide variety of textures he uses, as can clearly be seen in the cathedrals he depicts. These textures are made, for example, by toolmarks or by the addition of coarse-grained filler. The joy of experimenting with materials and technology is a typical characteristic of Nebel’s work. Entries in his diaries make further references to his tendency to correct: he painted over the entire surface of six cathedral pictures and reworked them.
November 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Auguste Herbin (French, 1882-1960) :
Composition, 1938

Gouache on paper
34 x 26 cm | 13.39 x 10.24 in

The Berès Gallery, Paris

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Herbin was born in Quiévy, FR, 1882. He moved to Paris in 1901 and began painting in the Impressionist style. His encounter in 1909 with Picasso, Braque, and Juan Gris brought him closer to Cubism. At the 1910 Salon des Indépendants, Herbin exhibited in the same room as Fernand Léger and Albert Gleizes. Two years later, he participated in the important Section d'Or exhibition. In 1917, the artist painted his first abstract canvases, then returned to a figurative style. It was in 1927 that he discovered geometric abstraction. In 1929, he became a co-founder of the Salon des Surindépendants. In 1931, he founded the Abstraction-Création group with Georges Vantongerloo. His painting then became purely geometric, composed of squares, circles, and other shapes in flat areas of pure color. In 1946, Herbin developed his "Plastic Alphabet," an attempt to codify the correspondences between letters, colors, and shapes. Using 26 colors, each associated with geometric forms, he created a new language modeled on everyday speech. He then painted his canvases based on a word, translating it into his new alphabet. He also associated colors with musical sounds, composing his canvases like a symphony. In 1949, he presented his book "Non-Figurative, Non-Objective Art," in which he presented his Plastic Alphabet and his theories of color, inspired in part by Goethe's. This book became one of the major references for abstract painting of this period. In 1953, struck by hemiplegia, Herbin learned to paint with his left hand. The artist died in 1960 in Paris, at the age of 78. One of his canvases remained unfinished and bears the title "The End." Herbin enjoys international recognition today, and his works are exhibited in museums around the world.
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Wassily Kandinsky :
Game of Verticals, 1939

Gouache

Biomorphic forms and a vibrant, almost playful use of color against dark backgrounds. Vertical lines and biomorphic shapes, suggesting a playful "game" of forms suspended in a vast, dark space.

Helsinki, Didrichsen Kunstmuseum

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part of his late, biomorphic-influenced period. The painting, housed at the Didrichsen Art Museum in Helsinki, features a dark, almost black background against which colorful, geometric, and biomorphic shapes are suspended and arranged in a playful, vertical composition.
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Happy birthday to William Blake, born otd in 1757. 🎂

Angel of the Revelation
(Book of Revelation, chpt 10) 1803-05

One of the greatest poets in the English language, also ranking among the most original visual artists of the Romantic era.
November 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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David Lorenz Winston
(American, b.1943) :
Solitude, 1981

67.5 × 45.5 cm.
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Jean Metzinger :
Colorful Landscape of Aquatic Birds, 1907
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Children from the Red Lion Street School line up to mail letters on a street in England (1920s)
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Odilon Redon :
Vase with Japanese Warroir, 1905-08

Pastel on paper
228.6 x 184.15 cm
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Wayne Thiebaud : Pie Counter, 1963

Oil on canvas
29-13/16 × 35-15/16 in
75.7 × 91.3 cm

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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Drawn to everyday objects and typically American foods as the subjects of his art, Wayne Thiebaud began painting still lifes such as Pie Counter in the early 1960s. He was particularly attracted to these subjects because of the rituals and cultural meanings that surrounded them. As he explained, “Pie has a long history and it has other implications: the idea of ‘Pie in the Sky,’ the old American preoccupation with Mom and Apple Pie, pie throwing contests, pie throwing in Chaplin films. One makes a pie out of ordinary stuff, like raisins, squash or apples and gift wraps it, in a sense with a crust. It’s very magical, very special.” In Pie Counter, as in other paintings, Thiebaud used vernacular foodstuffs to explore composition, color, light, and texture. Unlike most of his Pop art contemporaries who were eliminating the nuances of touch in their work, he exploited the physical properties of paint to mimic the look and feel of the substance depicted. Here, the paint imitates the gestural strokes a baker might make when frosting a cake or spreading whipped cream across a pie. By combining this physical treatment of paint with the rigid geometry of triangular pie slices and circular plates, arranged in a grid composition against the counter’s neutral background, Thiebaud made a work that is simultaneously representational and abstract.
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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BUY NOTHING DAY
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Kazuyuki Ohtsu (Japan, b.1935) :
Sudden Snow, 1954

Woodblock Print
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM