#artHistory

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/bringing-in-the-firewood-anders-andersen-lundby.html

6 hours ago

Bringing in the Firewood is an 1872 #landscape painting by the #Danish painter Anders Andersen-Lundby (1841-1923).

#art #arthistory #Denmark #winter #rural #countryside #MastoArt

The oil painting depicts a winter landscape with an old snow-covered thatched house on the edge of the forest. A woman is carrying a bundle of firewood to the house while a man is chopping wood.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/la-scapigliata-1508-leonardo-da-vinci.html

9 hours ago

La Scapigliata (Italian for 'The Lady with Dishevelled Hair') is an unfinished painting generally attributed to the Italian High #Renaissance artist #Leonardo da Vinci, and dated c. 1507. The painting has been admired for its captivating #beauty, mysterious demeanor, and mastery of sfumato (a #painting technique for softening the transition between colors, mimicking an area beyond what the human eye is focusing on, or the out-of-focus plane)

#art #arthistory #MastoArt

The painting portrays the unfinished outline of a young woman whose face gently gazes downward while her loosely drawn, disheveled hair waves in the air behind her. The woman's eyes are half-closed and completely ignore the outside world and viewer, while her mouth is slightly shaped into an ambiguous smile, evocative of the Mona Lisa.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

18 hours ago

During his stay in Paris, Maris started painting ‘Italian-like’ on commission from the art dealer Goupil. This work appears to be a preliminary sketch for a larger painting. The painting hung in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (1931-1971), and was exhibited at the Maris exhibition (1935) as ‘Young woman in Neapolitan costume’. The final version is dated 1866, and this sketch must be from around the same year.

Jacob Maris, Italian girl, c. 1866
#boijmans #arthistory #museum #culture #rotterdam

1 day ago

A truly luscious painting. By Luca Cambiaso (1527-1585), Esther and Ahasuerus, circa 1569, Oil on canvas, 98.4 cm × 88.5 cm (38 3/4 in. × 34 & 13/16 in.), in the collection of the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin. More info in ALT. #arthistory

he King sits with his scepter in his hand. Queen Esther kneels before him on the right. From the website: “Rendering the Jewish queen’s courageous intercession with the Persian king to save her people, this painting is an outstanding example of Cambiaso’s most conventionally beautiful mode. Expressing the powerful conjunction of physical allure and moral force, the subject was a favorite from around this time through the 18th century. Typical of Cambiaso’s art, the composition is spare, schematic, and still. True to this mode, and appropriate to the subject, the description is relatively generous, the touch, especially in the ornament, delicate, and the tenor gentle.”

Jon Gary ⌘Z

You know how various modern imaging techniques are revealing alternate renditions of masterpieces hidden below the top layers of paint? When future art historians get their hands on the iPads of today’s digital artists, pawing through the hidden layers in their files will also reveal alternate renditions.
#art #arthistory #aardvark #ant

A drawing of am aardvark on a mostly flat background.

A drawing of an aardvark facing a column of ants marching from a anthill.

Mandy May

Me: My parents are moving and have some framed art prints to sell, would you be interested?
Consignment store: Sure send picture
Me: *sends picture*
Consignment store: We'll pass, our clients only want rustic or modern
#georgiaokeeffe #arthistory

A modern rustic classic by Georgia Okeefe

Jenny Lam

#AndyWarhol #Chicago #PopArt #ModernArt #ArtMuseum #ContemporaryArt #ArtHistory #Painter #Artist #Design #Gallery #ArtGallery #Fashion #Style #Photography #MobilePhotography #ArtExhibition #Exhibit

Me & Andy & Archie. 🐶 Today at the Special Preview of "Warhol" at Cleve Carney #Museum of #Art and McAninch #Arts Center at College of DuPage (thanks Carol Fox & Associates for the invite!). The #exhibition opens to the public tomorrow. #Photo by my mom (I brought my parents as my guests ^^).

https://www.christies.com/about-us/press-archive/details?PressReleaseID=10928&lid=1&fbclid=IwAR0t77HLG9X2llrWvSTKs-uloLMYonEub2S1GTRjRxHESYTdk8dAV5DZh4s

Do you know how rare it is for a work by Fra Angelico to come to auction? Oh how I wish a museum acquires this work. But, it will probably disappear from view again into a private collection. #arthistory

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-the-south-ledges-appledore-1913-childe-hassam.html

American #Impressionist painter Childe Hassam spent many summers on #Appledore Island off the coast of #Maine. Every year, he and a circle of musicians, writers, and other artists made an informal colony based at the home of his friend, the poet Celia Thaxter. This painting created in 1913 evokes the leisurely, seasonal rhythms of #America’s privileged families in the last years before the Great War.

#art #arthistory #Hassam #MastoArt #sea #coast #summer #impressionism

A beautifully dressed woman shields her face from the sun; she looks down and away as if absorbed in the song of a sandpiper, the island bird that inspired Celia Thaxter’s most famous children’s poem.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-cardiff-team-1913-robert-delaunay.html

In 1912 French avant-garde artist Robert Delaunay began the first of several versions of The Cardiff Team. The motif derived from a newspaper photo of a #Cardiff-#Paris #rugby match, which showed players jumping for the ball. Delaunay added Paris's Ferris wheel and an 'Astra' billboard, which advertises an aircraft company. The Eiffel Tower features in many of Delaunay's paintings, as the artist regarded it as the #archetypal symbol of #modernity

#art #arthistory #sport

Avant-garde painting (early 20th century) by French artist Robert Delaunay dedicated to the Cardiff-Paris rugby match.

Immerse yourself in the captivating façade of Kasteel van Saint-Cloud by Monogrammist CP, ca. 1850 - 1870. #Rijksmuseum invites viewers into a world of mystery & grandeur. Can you uncover its hidden stories? 🏰 #ArtHistory #ExploreRijksmuseum #
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-F-F05895

Cultura Nova

#Culture #Art #ArtHistory

"One painting at a time: ‘Dorelia in a Black Dress’ by Gwen John."

Prospect Magazine's new column on what we can learn from individual works of art starts with a look at a painting by Gwen John—and what it reveals about her reputation as a supposedly ‘reclusive’ artist

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/art/61472/one-painting-at-a-time-dorelia-in-a-black-dress-by-gwen-john

“Dorelia in a Black Dress” (circa 1903–4) by Gwen John. Oil on Canvas. Image: © Tate, presented by the Trustees of the Duveen Paintings Fund 1949.

A black background. At the righ bottom corner of the image, a drawn, yellow frame. Inside, we can see a small part of a real painting depicting a white woman with light brown hair. She is wearing a black dress and she has a red handkerchief on her shoulder.

Mónica Calderón

#Art #ArtHistory #Rembrandt #storm

Sometimes the most powerful light is at the very centre of the storm.
Let it be. Duc in altum.

📸Rembrandt, Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633), Isabella Stwart Garden. Boston.

More Art You Won’t Find At Hobby Lobby. “Mary, Judith, Jael, and Tomyris,” from Speculum Humanae Salvationis, circa 1300’s, The Warburg Institute. Mary included as the woman who crushes the serpent’s (Satan’s) head. More info in ALT. #arthistory

Illustrations in a medieval manuscript: Mary, Jael, Judith, and Queen Tomyris. Mary crushes the Serpent (Satan) under her heel. The other women delivered their people by acts of physical violence against their enemy’s head. Judith (from the deuterocanonical book) beheaded the Assyrian general Holofernes, Jael hammered Sisera’s skull (Judges 4:21), and Queen Tomyris of the Massagetai (story written of by Herodotus) placed the severed head of Cyrus in a vessel filled with blood. Pretty gory stories!

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/romulus-and-remus-1616-peter-paul-rubens.html

The canvas painting of Romulus - the legendary founder and first king of #Rome and his twin brother Remus was created by Peter Paul Rubens in 1616 in Antwerp, where Rubens settled upon his return to Italy. In fact, he was one of the first foreign artists in the 17th century that had a long, fruitful Italian experience from 1600 to 1608.

#art #arthistory #1600s #Rubens #ancient #myth #legend

The painting depicts the brothers Romulus and Remus being cared for by a wolf. The painting also shows the god of the Tiber river sitting on his urn, a woodpecker that watched over the twins to bring them food, and a shepherd discovering the infants.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-still-life-with-crayfish-oysters-and-fruit-cornelis-de-heem.html

Still-Life with Crayfish, Oysters, and Fruit (late 1600s or early 1700s) by a follower of #Flemish painter Cornelis de Heem (1631–1695).
The porcelain bowl in this painting most likely came from China. Political turbulence in China effectively eliminated ceramic imports to the West by the 1640s, so the bowl would have been considered at least as valuable as the gold object on the table.

#art #arthistory #vintage #StillLife #fruit

Vintage Still-Life with Crayfish, Oysters, and Fruit. Oil on canvas.

#kunst #ArtHistory #Arte #ArtMuseum #ArtMatters #MuseumArchive #mythology #AncientRome #Paris

Pan removing a thorn from a Satyr’s foot
Marble, 2nd century CE
#TheLouvre 🇫🇷
#PhallusThursday

Marble statue about 12 inches tall. A nude male figure sitting on a rock with his left ankle on his right knee. His head is leaning back in pain. Below him is Pan, sitting on the ground and picking the thorn out.

"Soup can or painting? Masterpiece or salable product?" A survey of the Brant Foundation’s Warhols is on show. But does it "help us acknowledge not the rightness of Warhol’s achievement but the profound and fertile wrongness that was in it from the start?" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/arts/design/warhol-peter-brant-foundation-art.html
#popart #modernart #arthistory #artcollector #artmuseum #artgallery #potterdayart #silkscreen

Andy Warhol’s “Big Campbell’s Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable)" (1962) in a show at the Brant Foundation. Credit...The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./ Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Exploring the captivating contrasts of Brug bij Stabat & Weg door het oerwoud op Sumatra at @rijkSmuseum! Carl J. Kleingrothe captures the essence of Indonesian landscape in/of 1898🌉🌳 What's your favorite hidden gem in art history? #ArtHistory #Indonesia
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-F-AA3189-20

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-kiss-1907-gustav-klimt.html

“The Kiss” (1907), probably the most popular work by Gustav Klimt, was first exhibited in 1908. It undoubtedly represents the culmination of the phase known as the “Golden Epoch”. In this decade, the artist created a puzzling, ornamental encoded program that revolved around the mystery of existence, love, and fulfillment through art.

#art #arthistory #love #kiss #Klimt #painting

Gustav Klimt depicts the couple locked in an intimate embrace against a gold, flat background. The two figures are situated at the edge of a patch of flowery meadow that ends under the woman's exposed feet.

#Culture #Art #ArtHistory #China #ChineseArt #TangDynasty

More Christian Art You Won’t Find At Hobby Lobby. Three Jewish Heroines: Esther, Judith & Jael. From a series of six woodcuts of eighteen heroes and heroines. c. 1516-9, by Hans Burgkmair the Elder (1473-1531), this impression in the British Library. #arthistory

From the website: “whole-length female figures, on left Esther seen from behind, wearing a crown, at centre Judith with the head of Holofernes and a sword, on left Jael with tent-peg and hammer. Three shields with coats of arms between the figures.”

Cultura Nova

5 days ago

"Who Was Zhang Xuan? Famous Painter of China’s “Golden Age”."

Zhang Xuan was one of the most famous artists in China’s Tang dynasty. While Europe was still in its so-called “Dark Ages”, he was making detailed, naturalistic work.

https://www.thecollector.com/who-was-zhang-xuan-tang-dynasty/

Detail of Emperor Xuanzong giving audience to Zhang Guo, one of the 'Eight Immortals', in a painting by Yuan Dynasty painter Ren Renfa (1254–1327). Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ( 8 September 685-3 May 762), also commonly known as Emperor Ming of Tang (Tang Minghuang), personal name Li Longji, known as Wu Longji, was the seventh emperor of the Tang dynasty in China, reigning from 712 to 756. His reign of 43 years was the longest during the Tang Dynasty. In the early half of his reign he was a diligent and astute ruler, ably assisted by capable chancellors like Yao Chong and Song Jing, and was credited with bringing Tang China to a pinnacle of culture and power. Emperor Xuanzong, however, was blamed for over-trusting Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong and An Lushan during his late reign, with Tang's golden age ending in the great Anshi Rebellion of An Lushan.

5 days ago

Christian Art You Won’t Find At Hobby Lobby. Bernardino Luini (c. 1480–1532) Salome Receiving the Head of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1520–1530 oil on canvas, Height: 0.625 m; Height with accessory: 0.83 m; Width: 0.55m; Width with accessory: 0.755 m., Musée du Louvre, Paris. #arthistory

On the left, lovely young Salome looks away as someone puts the severed head of John the Baptist on a platter. We don’t see who is holding the head, we only see the person’s hand and lower arm. The story: ‘On Herod’s birthday the daughter of Herodias danced for the guests and pleased Herod so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked. Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.” The king was distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he ordered that her request be granted and had John beheaded in the prison. His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl, who carried it to her mother.’ ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭14‬:‭6‬-‭11‬ ‭(NIV‬‬)

https://hyperallergic.com/823479/art-historys-most-controversial-nudes/

5 days ago

The nude figure as a subject has been a battleground issue for as long as it’s been a staple of fine art.

Here are some moments of naked controversy in art history.

#Art #ArtHistory

#TombTuesday #ArtHistory #MuseumArchive #Turkey #AncientHistory

Hellenistic sarcophagi at the #Istanbul Archaeology Museum
2022

Two stone carcophagi roughly the size of modern coffins. They are mostly smooth, with floral and architectural patterns running along the bottom and the top of the container’s rim. The lids are made to look like the pitched roofs of ancient Greek temples.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/sailing-vessels-at-wilders-plads-copenhagen-1830-christoffer-wilhelm-eckersberg.html

#Sailing Vessels at Wilders Plads, Copenhagen (1830) by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.
After spending his student years in Paris and Rome, Eckersberg returned to his native land, where, as a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, he earned the epithet "father of #Danish painting." Eckersberg produced portraits throughout his career, but his serene #maritime views reflect his Neoclassical training most lucidly.

#art #arthistory #Denmark #ships

This week I've mainly been reading, No.66.

Jane Jelley's fascinating Traces of Vermeer (2017) explores #Vermeer's work partly through a tour of the existing literature, but culminates in the account of the author (who is an #artist herself) experimenting with a camera obscure & an oiled paper transfer printing process to mimic the revealed under-painting of many of Vermeer's masterpieces.

This readable book will make you want to see & enjoy Vermeer's work (again).

@bookstodon
#arthistory

John Linton Roberson

#ArtHistory’s Most Controversial Nudes https://hyperallergic.com/823479/art-historys-most-controversial-nudes/

#MosaicMonday #ArtHistory #MuseumArchive #Turkey #AncientHistory

Roman Mosaic at the #Istanbul Archaeology Museum
2022

Rectangular floor mosaic with a man in Roman attire in center. He is sitting between two trees, and to the left and right of the trees are various wild animals: lions, oxen, tigers, birds, etc.

Your art history post for today, Memorial Day. Titled “On the Wire,” 1918, by Harvey Thomas Dunn (1884–1952), one of America’s first official war artists. More info in ALT. #arthistory #MemorialDay

From the Smithsonian: “Dunn entered the army art program in March 1918 as a captain and was soon on his way to France, where he established a reputation as a bold, even foolhardy, combat artist. His work very much centered on frontline action. Although he was one of the first to return from Europe, in February 1919, he continued painting pictures based on his war experience for many years.”

And the description:

‘Oil painting on canvas of two American soldiers carrying another soldier on a stretcher along a line of barbed wire. The stretcher bearers are in uniform and are wearing helmets with their gas mask bags hanging from their necks. The soldier in front is looking up into the distance as he walks, while the soldier in back is walking with his head bowed. The soldier on the stretcher is wrapped in a blanket and his face is white; he is either severely injured or dead. The sky is gray with faint light coming from the left. A line of fog is rolling in from the left, slightly obscuring the soldiers and the barbed wire. At the bottom of the painting among the grass are tiny red and blue flowers. Signed by the artist at bottom left, "Harvey Dunn, 1918"’

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/a-view-of-delft-1868-charles-leickert.html?newartwork=true

A View of Delft by 19th-century Belgian painter of Dutch landscapes Charles Leickert (1816-1907).

#art #arthistory #Delft #Netherlands #vintage

A view of the 19th-century city of Delft, Netherlands.

Looking though a book on John Sloan of the US 'ashcan school of #painters I was struck by the similarity of his treatment of the bourgeois pleasure of night-time window shopping to the slightly earlier paintings of (Dutch painter) Isaac Israels.

I've no reason too believe they knew each others' work, but they both (on different sides of the Atlantic seem to have come to similar solutions in depicting the night time urban culture of city streets in the first decades of C20th
#arthistory #artists

John Sloan; painting.
nighttime scene of people in evening wear peering into a lighted show window

Isaac Israels; painting.
Night time scene of people peering into a night time shop window, viewed from the other side of the street?

#Art #ArtHistory #Brooklyn

German-American sculptor Carl Paul Jennewein, who designed the Brooklyn Public Library’s iconic entrance reliefs, participated in Nazi exhibitions and espoused white supremacist beliefs.

https://hyperallergic.com/823702/the-pro-nazi-artist-behind-the-brooklyn-public-librarys-facade/

This enslaved man would become famous for a portrait — and his own art #arthistory https://wapo.st/3N2rpjL

Summertime! 'Balls on the Beach,' 1960s, Philip Evergood (1901-1973). A leading Social Realist, Evergood also became one of the leading Modernists with compositions that bordered on magic realism. He distanced himself from political & social issues to figures more fanciful & free, with an almost childlike sweetness in his work.
Private collection.
#magicrealism #socialrealism #modernism #modernart #modernist #arthistory #artgallery #artmuseum #potterdayart #americanart

Oil painting in a loosely painted, primitive style of a crowded, brightly colored beach scene with two women in bikinis holding colorful beach balls above their heads. signed Philip Evergood lower left.

Discover the astounding beauty of Piazzetta's "A Flying Angel" drawing, a study for the renowned Glory of Saint Dominic ceiling artwork #ClevelandMuseumofArt.✍️👼 What are your thoughts on the use of Venetian blue paper in this era? #ArtHistory #VenetianArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.388.a

Your art history post for today. Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), Calla Lilies, 1924, oil on canvas, 16 ¼ x 12 ¼ in. (41.3 x 31.1 cm.), sold through Christie’s auction house in 2014 for $3,301,000. More info in ALT. #arthistory

An oil painting depicting two white lilies in closeup. Excerpt from the lot essay: “As with all of O'Keeffe's best work, Calla Lilies seamlessly combines sensuous beauty with underlying formalist concerns to create a psychologically compelling work that feels as contemporary today as when it was first produced. When O’Keeffe’s depictions of this unusual flower were first shown, they aroused a considerable response due to their utterly unique and bold aesthetic. "They were extraordinarily controversial and sought-after, and made their maker a celebrity. It was the flowers that begat the O'Keeffe legend in the heady climate of the 1920s." (N. Calloway, Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers, New York, 1989, n.p.) The magnified images of flowers that Georgia O'Keeffe painted in the 1920s and 1930s became her best known and most celebrated paintings. These years dedicated to exploration and development of floral themes yielded some of the most important works of her oeuvre. The thoughtful and highly sophisticated study of line and composition as demonstrated by Calla Lilies characterizes her finest work.”

Mónica Calderón

#photography #ArtHistory #Sculpture

Este aprendiz de Pigmalión pareciera querer dar vida con su mano a su amada Galatea. Lo que no sabe es que, en realidad, está convocando a una peligrosa bacante.

Vladimir Bazan capturó el maravilloso instante. Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850) esculpió a la Bacante en reposo (Musée du Louvre).

Discover Min Zhen's versatile & mature artistry in #ClevelandMuseumofArt's "Album of Miscellaneous Subjects", trained by Tang Yin, reflecting a connection to Yangzhou style. Painted for scholar's stone exchange with Dailili Shanren. What draws you to this unique album?
#MinZhen #ArtHistory
https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.71

Discover the unique Pair of Bottle Coolers (Seaux à rafraîchir) at #ClevelandMuseumofArt 🍾 Saint-Cloud porcelain circa 1725 meets Chinese "famille-verte" in a vibrant fusion. How do you think this rare crossover shaped art history?
#ArtHistory #SaintCloudPorcelain #
https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.226

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-still-life-vincent-van-gogh.html

Van Gogh often called his still lifes "color studies." By arranging flowers in different combinations and setting them against saturated fields of color, he could experiment with bold new chromatic relationships. Van Gogh painted this canvas in May 1888, a few months after he had moved to the village of Arles in the South of France.

#art #arthistory #VanGogh #MastoArt

Still life by Van Gogh from his Arles period with flowers in the blue majolica vase with painted decoration, fruit, and a white teacup.

Science News

#science #chemistry #art #arthistory #beer #brewing

Breweries’ trash may have been Danish painters’ treasure.

Records suggest that Danish house painters sometimes created glossy, decorative paint by adding beer. But yeast and cereal grains have nbever been found in primer. Now, chemical analyses reveal some painters put beer-brewing leftovers to good use.

Learn more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/painting-beer-brew-yeast-art-canvas-denmark

Angela Miller

https://youtu.be/zHroA62tnwE

Here's my latest wee history video about the life and work of Scottish Artist and Glasgow Girl, Jessie M King. Jessie lived in Kirkcudbright for many years, at her house, Greengate.

#art #artist #arthistory #history #scotland #galloway #glasgowgirls

Colossal

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/05/hiroshige-views-of-edo/

‘One Hundred Famous Views of Edo’: Hiroshige’s seminal series of woodblock prints gets a vibrant reprint. #arthistory #books #japan

A traditional ukiyo-e woodblock print of a koinobori (carp streamer) hanging high up. Behind the fish, the viewer can see the rest of Edo and Mt. Fuji in the distance.

Julianoë

#Spain #ArtHistory #MiddleAges #CelticKnotwork #IslamicArt #InterlaceArt #manuscript #knotwork
https://www.interlaces.art/islamic-art/seville-coran-1226/

🪢 New interlace froim the Koran of Seville (1226) and its marvelous illuminations

#kunst #ArtHistory #MuseumArchive #TombTuesday #AncientReligions

Hellenistic sarcophagus, #Istanbul Archaeology Museum
2022

Rectangular marble sarcophagus with a very high, oval-shaped lid. On the sides of the container are battle scenes between cavalry and minotaurs, and on the end side of the lid are two gryphon-like creatures with human women’s heads and exposed breasts. Otherwise the lid is smooth.

Ride Theory

#GraphicDesign #ArtHistory

Pentagram: We're just like Push Pin Studios, but boring.

Cassandra Good

#histodons #materialculture #arthistory #museums #womenshistory

Now that it's official, I'm excited to share that I'll be spending 6 months at the Smithsonian Institution next year doing research for my next book on women's political participation in early America. I'll be digging into genre paintings, portraits, prints, textiles, campaign memorabilia, and more!
https://americanart.si.edu/press/2023/16/smithsonian-american-art-museum-announces-2023-2024-fellowship-appointments-and

Tucker Teague

https://pilgrimakimbo.com/2007/10/20/starfish/

Something I wrote years ago of which I was just reminded. I still like it. Perhaps I ought to let this artifact of a past life inspire me again to take up my camera (now with me everywhere in the form of a smartphone – I would have given my right arm for such a device in the 80s/90s) and create some new moving images. #ManRay #ExperimentalFilm #SilentFilm #cinema #movies #art #ArtHistory #Jung #Jungian #symbolism

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-the-boating-party-1893-mary-cassatt.html

May 19 - the birthday of Mary Cassatt - American painter and printmaker. She was born in #Pennsylvania but lived much of her life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of #women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between #mothers and #children. She sought to depict movement, light, and design in the most modern sense

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday

The Boating Party (1893/1894) by Mary Cassatt.
We look slightly down into a lime-green and white rowboat carrying a woman holding a baby and a man. Azure-blue water surrounds the boat up to the high horizon line, which brushes the top edge of the painting. The shoreline in the distance is lined with trees and dotted with white houses with red roofs.

#MosaicMonday #ArtHistory #MuseumArchive #AncientRome

Roman Mosaic, #Beirut National Museum
#Lebanon
2019

Square floor mosaic with a circle inscribed along the four inner edges. Within the circle is a concentric circle of eight roundels, each depicting a different bearded man. At the center is another roundel with a female figure.

Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

https://medium.com/signifier/let-the-light-come-in-49d4c9216ca7?sk=51e4c471fbe1bc7719c7a07cb972bde7

"...an artwork to be appreciated by not necessarily looking at it but observing its aesthetic & social effect upon its environment. Now that’s profound on so many levels..."

In my latest article for Signifier, we follow the light that unites some diverse #artists through time & space...

#art #arthistory #contemporaryart #architecture #design

a lift / elevator with its doors open revealing a bright green neon-lit interior

a lift / elevator with its doors open revealing a bright pink neon-lit interior

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/landscape-1890-albert-bierstadt.html#comment54225939

Autumn #landscape (1890) by Albert Bierstadt. He was a key figure of the Hudson River School, a group of painters who depicted the #American landscape with a sense of discovery and awe. His work fits into the 19th-century artistic movement known as #Romanticism, which emphasized #emotion. Many of Bierstadt’s luminous landscapes were inspired by his trips to rugged places like the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite Valley

#art #arthistory #tranquil #SilentSunday

Tranquil autumn landscape with a calm lake and mountains in the background.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-carnival-evening-1886-henri-rousseau.html?newartwork=true

May 21 - the birthday of French post-impressionist painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) - one of the most famous representatives of naive art or primitivism. Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists.

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #NaiveArt #primitivism #MastoArt

An air of mystery pervades this wintry forest landscape. Dressed in festive carnival costumes, a lone couple stands in front of barren trees. The figures seem to shine from within rather than from the light of the moon, which has strangely left the forest in darkness. An unexplained face leers out from the empty hut beside the figures, and an unexpected street lamp incongruously glows nearby. Known for his fantastic scenes, Rousseau was a self-taught artist whose works appealed to the collectors and avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, including Pablo Picasso.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

This cupboard, designed by Ettore Sottsass, is a striking example of 'anti-design'. Despite the use of industrial materials, many of these objects are manually produced in limited series. This was a protest of designers against mass consumption and the sleek, corporate design style that accompanied it. It is an example of the increasing dislike of consumer society that started to develop during the sixties.

Ettore Sottsass
Carlton
1981
#boijmans #arthistory #culture #rotterdam #museum #design

Here is a colourful and abstract cupboard, designed by the Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass. The open, geometric cupboard consists of shelves in different sizes, angles and colours (black, yellow, pink, red, orange, blue, green), and features two red drawers near the bottom. The top part of the cupboard seems to resemble the figure of a human. Sottsass made this work, also called Carlton, in 1981.

colorblind cowboy 😷

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-of-modern-art-with-klaire/id1563310522?i=1000527205082

I just listened to @klairelockheart’s podcast on #PopArt. It’s hard to hear your favorite artists get killed, but she’s right on about men who’ve profited on women’s work. And these days it’s no surprise. 😔

Klaire is a ridiculously good artist in her own right.

#Art #ArtHistory

Couldn’t find a higher res jpeg, but I will share anyway. By an unknown German artist, Half-figure of a Saint or Prophet, c. 1500, carved relief of limewood, H. 40.5 cm, W. 34 cm, D. 9.8 cm, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (The Bavarian National Museum ), Munich. #arthistory

A wooden statue of a prophet or saint, from the waist up, holding a scroll. Possibly John the apostle as his symbol has been the eagle for centuries.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-feast-of-the-bean-king-1645-jacob-jordaens.html

May 19 - the birthday of Flemish painter Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). He was a prolific artist who created biblical, mythological, and allegorical compositions, genre scenes, landscapes, illustrations of Flemish sayings, and portraits. As well as being a successful painter, he was a prominent designer of tapestries and prints.

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #1600s #MastoArt #Flemish

The painting by Jacob Jordaens depicts the Flemish folk custom on Epiphany Day: the person able to find a bean hidden in a cake becomes king of the Feast, and then chooses the most beautiful woman as queen. Those others present assume “honorary offices”. The Latin inscription (in English: “None is closer to the fool than the drunkard”) lends the degenerate carryings-on a moralistic undertone.

Art you are unlikely to find at Hobby Lobby. Today is Ascension Sunday, celebrated in many church traditions. So, here is The Ascension of Christ, from Triptych of the Resurrection, by Hans Memling (1430–1494), Louvre. I love how the disciples gaze up at Jesus’ feet as He disappears into the clouds. #arthistory

A painting of the disciples staring up into the sky as Jesus ascends to Heaven. The only part of Him still visible is His feet.

#Art #ArtHistory #ArtBooks

“The canon of women’s art history was established in the 1970s. Fifty years later, it is now our job to disassemble it.” — Hall W. Rockefeller

https://hyperallergic.com/822615/its-time-to-rewrite-the-canon-of-women-artists/

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/16-argenteuil-claude-monet.html

One of the most famous paintings created by Claude Monet during his stay in #Argenteuil was simply called Argenteuil. He painted this work in 1872.

#art #arthistory #Monet #impressionism #impressionist

The peaceful landscape by Claude Monet depicts the mirror-like waters of the Argenteuil waterways with sailing boats; a road along the water leading to the buildings in the background; blue sky with white clouds.

Angela Miller

#history #artHistory #artist #GlasgowBoys #Scotland #Galloway #video

EA Hornel was the Kirkcudbright Artist who began inspiring other Artists to come and visit, paint and live in Kirkcudbright, creating it's status as an Artist's Town. Steadfast in his refusal to go to the big city to ply his trade, he lived most of his life in the town, up to his death

https://youtu.be/1ZLgBaAusL4

COMMISSIONS OPEN

#masterStudy #artHistory #walrus #shark #MastoArt

La Bohémienne Endormie by Henri Rousseau

Instead of the original's lion and human sleeper there is a walrus and a shark.

This week I've mainly bee reading No. 63.

Recently, I read (for a book group) James Fox's The World According to Colour: A cultural history (2021). What a disappointing book this was; much less than the sum of its parts. Certainly some interesting & specific discussions, but overall not only does it lack a clearly argued central thesis, Fox often (like he does on TV) seems to get in the way of what he is trying to reveal. There are much better books on colour than this
@bookstodon
#arthistory

#MosaicMonday #kunst #arthistory #Arte #ArtMatters #MuseumArchive

Mosaic Pavement with Egyptianizing Scene
Roman, late Hadrianic or early Antonine, ca. A.D. 130-150
#TheMet

2022

Floor mosaic about 4 feet by 4 feet, with mostly white stones as background and black stones making stylized floral and architectural outlines. In the center is a more colorful scene of a standing “Egyptian-looking” god approaching a seated one.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-seascape-near-les-saintes-maries-de-la-mer-1888-vincent-van-gogh.html

This #seascape was created by Vincent van Gogh in 1888 at the fishing village of Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, during a trip he took from Arles in the south of France. We can tell that Van Gogh painted this view of the sea from the beach, as grains of sand have been found in the paint layers. With bold brush strokes, he neatly captured the effect of the light through the waves.

#art #arthistory #vanGogh #waves #painting #sea #sailboats #1800s

Seascape near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer by Vincent van Gogh.

I often pick a book about #PaulaRego off the shelf to enjoy (be puzzled by) her wonderful work... this afternoon while looking at her #nurseryrhymes series of prints I was again taken how striking yet disquieting her image of Ba Ba Black Sheep is.... on the face of it seems relatively innocent rhyme, but in Rego's rendering you pause & wonder, 'what is happening here'?

Something to ponder on a Sunday afternoon?

#arthistory #artists

Paul Rego etching:
A large black ram sitting on a stool is has its leg on the elbow of a girl (whose face is turned away) who looks to be about to pluck some wool from his chest; beside them are three full bags of wool on a shelf, and in the background in the distance is the boy from the rhyme.

For nearly 80 years after O’Keeffe’s MoMA retrospective, the museum didn’t pay her much attention. Now, it's refocusing on her penchant for repeating images as a “serial practice"—by pushing her motifs toward abstraction or exploring different materials. But does MoMA really need to reestablish O'Keeffe's Modernist bonafides?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/arts/design/georgia-okeeffe-moma-review.html
#modernism #artmuseum #artgallery #arthistory #modernart #potterdayart #midcentury

Simple, line drawing painted in in rainbow-colored wet paint, creating a blurred landscape with sun resembling a woman’s legs. Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Evening Star No.III,” from 1917, in the exhibition “To See Takes Time.” Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; via Museum of Modern Art

it's B! Cavello 🐝

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradation_(art)

Any #ArtHistory folks know much about the history of color #gradients in art/painting?
There's a very short wikipedia entry on "gradiation (art)," but I don't know where to look to learn more.
In my experience, #painting a really smooth #gradient is a pretty tough process without digital tools. Was it thought of as a skillful act? Do I uniquely find it hard? Did it depend on scale?

#ArtHistorians, please tell me what you know about gradients! 🙇🏼

Ryan Pendell

https://www.letustalkbooks.com/p/picassos-war-how-did-europes-avant

@bookstodon “The early champions of modern art saw their mission as confrontational, as a conflict between two different approaches to art. To embrace modern art was to be converted to a new way of seeing; once you had seen the light, it was impossible to go back to the old ways.” #art #arthistory

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/narcissus-1599-caravaggio.html

4 weeks ago

Narcissus (1599) by Italian Baroque master Caravaggio.
In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a hunter who was known for his beauty. According to Tzetzes, he rejected all romantic advances, eventually falling in love with his own reflection in a pool of water, staring at it for the remainder of his life.

#art #arthistory #Caravaggio #mythology #ancient #Greek

Caravaggio painted an adolescent page wearing an elegant brocade doublet, leaning with both hands over the water, as he gazes at his own distorted reflection.

Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏

4 weeks ago

The Art Newspaper: More than 20,000 "degenerate" works were seized from German museums and sold on in an operation orchestrated by Joseph Goebbels—now the institutions want them back

📰 https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/10/germanys-museums-buy-back-degenerate-artworks-purged-by-the-nazis

#fz_links #ArtHistory #EgonSchiele #GermanArt #GermanExpressionism

Marian Dörk

4 weeks ago

the New York Times have this #scrollytelling series called Close Read—maybe in contrast to #DistantViewing?—presenting a nice spread of artworks for each carefully stepping through key aspects. they are implemented with minimal zoom and pan animations gently guiding the eyes across the images:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/arts/close-read.html

i think they are really well crafted. has anybody worked on any templates or libraries for something like this? it deserves imitation and refinement…

#ArtHistory #InterfaceDesign

#MosaicMonday #arthistory #ArtMatters #MuseumArchive #histodons #history #geschichte #histoire #ancienthistory #antiquity #antike #Turkey

2nd-3rd C. Wall Mosaic at the #Istanbul Archaeological Museum
🇹🇷
2022

Mosaic of a nude man being mauled in his midsection by a lion. A large portion of it is missing at the midsection, so we don’t see the lion’s mouth making contact with the man. A club is shown falling at the man’s side, showing that he dropped it.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/basel-with-the-rhine-1928-ernst-ludwig-kirchner.html

May 6 - the birthday of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - a German expressionist painter and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art.

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #Expressionism #Expressionist #MastoArt #Basel #Switzerland

Expressionist cityscape of Basel, Switzerland.

https://hyperallergic.com/384332/the-false-advertising-of-sophistically-decorated-19th-century-pharmaceutical-trade-cards/

When you think of bunions and warts, the image of a blooming red rose may not immediately come to mind.

#Art #ArtHistory

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/chaucer-at-the-court-of-edward-iii-1851-ford-madox-brown.html

This painting, a celebration of the English language, was created by a British painter Ford Madox Brown in 1847-1851. Chaucer, the ‘father of English literature’, is reading lines from The Canterbury Tales to King Edward III, who first championed the English language over the French.

#art #arthistory #England #history #English #MastoArt #Chaucer

The painting of Chaucer at the court of Edward III is reading The Canterbury Tales to King Edward III and his Court.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-paradise-giovanni-di-paolo.html

Together with a scene of the Creation and Expulsion from Paradise, this picture formed the base (predella) of an altarpiece formerly in the church of San Domenico, Siena (Galleria Degli Uffizi, Florence). Painted in 1445, the two paintings rank among the finest works by Giovanni di Paolo. Groups of saints and angels embrace in a rich, tapestry-like garden of Paradise.

#art #arthistory #medieval #MastoArt #Paradise #vintage #saints #1400s

Painting of Paradise by medieval Italian artist Giovanni di Paolo.

Michael Magras (he/him)

I learned a new word today: staffage, the small human and animal figures that populate a landscape in a painting and aren't the main subject of the work. Read the New York Review of Books, and you'd be surprised what you pick up. #Art #ArtHistory

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-japanese-footbridge-claude-monet-1899.html

In 1899, Monet painted 12 works from a single vantage point, focusing on the arching blue-green bridge and the microcosm of his water garden. Monet designed and built the landscape that appears in the painting—from the bridge to the pond and its shape, to the water lilies and other plantings.

#art #arthistory #impressionism #impressionist #Monet #landscape #pond #WaterGarden #MastoArt #WaterLilies

Impressionist landscape with pond and the Japanese footbridge by Claude Monet.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Maurizio Cattelan didn't have any training in art, but caused a sensation in the art world with his satirical and controversial sculptures. In 2019, Cattelan's banana duct-taped to a wall went viral, and became the most talked-about item in the art world.

'Untitled' (2001), a self-portrait, was one of the eye catchers in the museum. The depot gives a new perspective to those who remember it from the museum.

Maurizio Cattelan
'Untitled' (2001)
#boijmans #arthistory #rotterdam #museum

Close up view of 'Untitled' by Maurizio Cattelan. The sculpture is a self-portrait of the artist, looking out from a hole in the floor. The sculpture is of a white-skinned man with short, dark hair; thin, dark eyebrows; and dark brown eyes. His hands are settled on the edge of the floor, while he looks up from an almost square hole in the ground. Cattelan made this work in 2001.

A view from underneath Maurizio Cattelan's 'Untitled', made in 2001. From this vantage point the sculpture stands atop an Artek-like stool. The sculpture is a self-portrait of the artist. He wears pastel yellow Converse trainers, a pastel yellow chino, and dark blue sweater. The stool stands atop multiple pallets. In the background is a glimpse of the atrium of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-vase-of-flowers-pink-background-1906-odilon-redon.html

Having worked almost exclusively in black and white for more than two decades, French artist Odilon Redon revealed his gifts as a colorist in the luminous pastels and paintings he made after 1895. Late flower pictures such as this one remain true to Redon’s artistic aim: "to place the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible."

#art #arthistory #flowers #StillLife #MastoArt #floral #bouquet #vintage #arrangement

Still life with flowers in a white vase (1906).

Eric Vitiello

#Chimera #ArtHistory #WilliamBlake
https://eclecticlight.co/2023/02/14/reading-visual-art-36-modern-chimeras/

Reading visual art: 36 Modern chimeras

Rachel Hope Cleves

I am planning a visit to the Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan, for research reasons, and I just discovered I will be viewing this fine 1659 painting of Monkey barbers when I'm there. Bonus! #monkeys #painting #arthistory

A painting of a seventeenth-century barbershop. The customers are all cats. The barbers are all monkeys, capuchins I think. In the foreground, a monkey in a white smock gazes at his reflection in a handheld wooden mirror. I swear this painting was created in Las Vegas in 1977, but Wikipedia claims it was painted in the Netherlands in 1659.

Maria Bustillos

#authoritarianism #arthistory #art

@Dahlialith

The one thing tho... one has to admit that David is extremely, extremely sexy

BUT. If you put jeans on him he might be EVEN MORE sexy, did anyone even think of that??!

BlinkPopShift👁️🫧⤴️

#ArtSchoolFromBed #art #disabled #chronicallyill #arthistory #bed

Bed art history! Being chronically ill and making art from bed is not new. These are only a handful of artists that made work from bed. Do you know any others?

https://youtube.com/shorts/VkUJa2UEJEc?feature=share

Dr Surekha Davies

https://open.substack.com/pub/surekhadavies/p/vermeer-how-not-to-curate-an-exhibition?r=3kpsg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Wrote up my thoughts on the Rijksmuseum's #Vermeer show in an essay subtitled "How Not to Curate an Exhibition". #museums #exhibitions #ArtHistory #Histodons #EarlyModons

A woman in a bonnet smiles at a man in a large hat who is turned away from the viewer. Both sit at a table by an open window. A wall map hangs in the background.

Cultura Nova

#Culture #Art #ArtHistory

"What Is Chiaroscuro in Art? (5 Key Examples)"

Chiaroscuro is an art term derived from the Italian word, meaning “light-dark”. While working with tonal contrast can be traced back to ancient times, the term emerged during the Italian Renaissance. It generally employs raking directional light and high tonal contrasts to create volume, modelling and atmospheric depth of field. A look through some paintings demonstrating this art technique.

https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-chiaroscuro-in-art-key-examples/

A piece of "Salome with the Head of John the Baptist" by Caravaggio.

A painting focusing on three heads.
On the left, a young white woman with light brown hair. She is turned towards us, but she is glancing at her left, sideways. She is wearing a red shawl. Besides her, an old white woman, her head covered by a white cloth. She seems to be coming out from behind the young woman's left shoulder. She is looking down. On the right side of the painting, the head of a young, white man. He is turning his back at us, but his head is turned to his left, so we can see the left side of his face, looking down. He has dark, curly hair.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/5-the-creation-of-the-world-and-the-expulsion-from-paradise-giovanni-di-paolo.html

"The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise"
This medieval masterpiece was created by Italian painter Giovanni di Paolo in 1445.
The painting presents a vision of Paradise reminiscent of that described by the great Florentine poet Dante in "The Divine Comedy."

#art #arthistory #medieval #MastoArt #Paradise #Dante #poetry #writing

The universe is shown as a celestial globe, with the earth at the center surrounded by a series of concentric circles representing first the four elements, the known planets (including the sun, in accordance with medieval and Renaissance cosmology), and finally the constellations of the zodiac. Presiding over the scene of Creation is God the Father, bathed in a glowing celestial light as he is borne aloft by seraphim. Beside the "mappamondo" (map of the world) is the garden of Paradise, its four rivers issuing from the ground at the lower right. The garden's effulgent flora symbolize the pure and sinless state of man before the Fall. A diminutive Adam and Eve are expelled from the garden by a lithe angel whose unusual nakedness and human form may symbolize his deep compassion for the corrupted state of humankind after the fall from grace.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/a-picnic-party-1920-edmund-blair-leighton.html

The genre painting A Picnic Party was created by the English painter of historical genre scenes Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922) in 1920. Leighton was specializing in English Regency and medieval subjects.

#art #arthistory #picnic #MastoArt #vintage #summer #summer

Vintage early 19th-century English picnic by the river

Art Grootfontein

#johannadrucker #BookArts #VisualPoetry #ArtHistory #gilwayfont #designinspiration #typography #typographydesign #font

The #DesignersQuotes series features inspiring quotes from renowned designers, aimed at motivating and sparking creativity in the design community.

Fonts used :
• Capraia by Giulio Galli — Cast Foundry
• Arlen by @groteskly_yours
• Gilway by @art_grootfontein

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-a-frozen-canal-near-the-river-maas-1867-andreas-schelfhout.html

The oil painting A Frozen Canal near the River Maas was created by Dutch painter Andreas Schelfhout (1787-1870) in 1867.
This winter landscape presents a typically Dutch canal scene: a panoramic, tranquil world almost devoid of color. Winter scenes by Schelfhout, which allude to the 17th century, were extremely popular. They were even called ‘little Schelfhouts’

#art #arthistory #vintage #painting #Dutch #winter #landscape #ice #tranquil #river #canal #frozen #MastoArt

Vintage winter Dutch landscape with frozen canal and ice skaters.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/14-the-magpie-claude-monet.html

The Magpie (1868-1869) by Claude Monet
This painting of a place in the countryside, executed on the spot, uses very unusual pale, luminous colors. Sun and shade construct the painting and translate the impalpable part-solid part-liquid matter. The Impressionist landscape was born, 5 years before the first official exhibition when the movement was given its name.

#arthistory #famouspaintings #impressionism #impressionist #winter #landscape #MastoArt #art #monet #magpie

Rural winter landscape with a magpie by Claude Monet

#Art #ArtHistory #WomenArtists

“If the world is to be saved, it will be the women who save it,” said American Impressionist #MaryCassatt, who led a headstrong life as a woman abroad.

https://hyperallergic.com/583049/mary-cassatt-she-votes

Shantell Powell

In 1933, the Detroit News wrote this condescending headline about Frida Kahlo. #FridaKahlo #condescending #ArtHistory

Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Artq. Somethabout tutted lari, u plaster-of-Paris horse, and a colored chromo of George Washington draped in garlands of red, white and blue crepe paper, all jumbled in the same shop window, proved to be too much for the sense of humor of Senora Diego Rivera, and so she simply had to do something about it. What she did was to go home and paint it, which may surprise people who think that Diego Rivera, the great mural painter now at work at the Detroit Institute of Arts, is the only artist in the family. That, however, is all a mistake, since his wife, Carmen Rivera, or "Freda." as her friends call her, is a painter in her own right, though very few people know it. "No." she explains, "I didn't study with Diego. I didn't study with any- one. I just started to paint." Then her eyes begin to twinkle. "Of course." she explains, "he does pretty well for a little boy, but it is I who am the big artist." Then the twinkles in both black eyes fairiv explode into a rippling laugh. And that is absolutely all that you can coax out of her about the matter. When vou grow serious she mocks you and laughs again. But Senora Rivera's painting is by no means a joke; because, however much she may laugh when you ask her about it, the fact remains that she has acquired a very skillful and beautiful style…far removed from the heroic figures of Rivera as could well be imagined.

Kelly Therese

🎧: https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/lois-mailou-jones/

This month - and every month - Unsung History celebrates women's history.

Listen to the stories of inspiring determined women like artist Loïs Mailou Jones.

#UnsungHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #History #UnsungHeroes #Podcast #Podcasts #USHistory #HistoryPodcast #HistoryPodcasts #LoisMailouJones #BlackHistory #ArtHistory #histodons

Black and white picture of African American artist Lois Mailou Jones painting on a canvas. She has a kitten on her right shoulder who is watching the brush.

Colossal

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/02/gretchen-scherer-paintings/

Brooklyn-based artist Gretchen Scherer meticulously renders historic interiors in oil and acrylic, emphasizing frescoed ceilings, baroque niches, and salon-style art collections. #architecture #arthistory #painting

A maximalist painting of the elaborate halls of Doria Pamphilj Gallery in Italy. Frescoed ceilings, ornate frames displaying portraits salon style, and gold tones emphasize baroque themes.

Wiki Education

https://wikiedu.org/blog/2023/03/06/students-preserve-art-and-join-centuries-long-historian-conversations-on-wikipedia/

These #arthistory students from Sacramento State, Concordia College, and the University of Louisville have reached millions of readers by adding information to #Wikipedia pages about Renaissance and Baroque #art

Colossal

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/02/my-girl-with-a-pearl/

While Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” is on loan to Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum for the largest-ever exhibition of the Dutch artist’s work, a cheeky surrogate takes its place at the Mauritshuis.
#arthistory

A rendition of Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" but with rubber bands

Larry D Barber

View Of Etretat ( 1888)
Gaston Roullet (French, 1847-1925)
#oilpainting #arthistory #art

Larry D Barber

Road to a Breton Village (1889)
Henry Orne Ryder (American, 1860-1943)
#oilpainting #art #arthistory

The Public Domain Review

NEW ESSAY — “Images from the Collective Unconscious”, in which Frederika Tevebring looks at mystic Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn's far-reaching “Eranos Archive”, which aimed to allow dreamers to cross-reference their visions with the entirety of cultural history: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/images-from-the-collective-unconscious #history #psychology #histodon #arthistory #art #archive

4 stone Etruscan “Dionysian funerary masks” lined up in a row, various expressions.

Canadian History Ehx

#Canada #History #Histodon #Histodons #Art #ArtHistory #Canadian

Today in 1871, Paul Kane dies. Famous for his paintings of the Indigenous People in the Canadian West, he took two trips to the west to paint in 1845 and from 1846-1848.
His trips produced over 100 oil paintings.