#arthistory
'Yoro Waterfall in Mino Province' by Katsushika Hokusai (c.1832) #art #arts #artist #artists #arthistory #ukiyoe #japan #japanese #artwork #artlover #artlovers #nature #naturelover #naturlovers #inspiration #artnet #artmuseum #artmuseums #museum #museums #artgallery #artgalleries
$169.00 LEGO set, recreating van Gogh’s Starry Night. On back order currently. And it comes with this cute l’il LEGO Vincent! #LEGO #arthistory
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/vincent-van-gogh-the-starry-night-21333
Born on this day. Otto Dix, 2 December 1891, one of the most important painters of Expressionism and New Objectivity in Germany during and after the Weimar Republic.
The question to ask is, if he was around today would he be happy for his work to be used in genart training sets? Would he be using DALLE 3? If he was a musician, would he put his tracks on Spotify? Do you think his searing scorched earth anti war anti corruption anti fascism messages would go across well on those platforms? Do you think he'd tweet some of his paintings? Would he have a big following on Instagram?
Does the communication medium impact the quality of the message? Do we trivialise everything through the extractive capitalism of our digital platforms?
#politics #art #platformsociety #digitalsociety #capitalism #arthistory
'St. George' by Solomon J. Solomon (1906) #art #painting #paintings #arts #artist #artists #classic #classical #legend #legends #artnet #artmuseum #artmuseums #museum #museums #arthistory #history #preraphaelite
The Annunciation, by French artist James Tissot (1836–1902), Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 6 11/16 x 8 9/16 in. (17 x 21.7 cm), Brooklyn Museum. #arthistory
“And coming in, he said to her, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.””
Luke 1:28 (NASB2020)
In the FT's HTSI supplement this week, there's a feature on #artists drawing inspiration from the #Renaissance which includes this fabulous #painting by Jess Mockrin... enjoy
Older lesbians enter prestigious art prize to show they too have a place in the landscape
By Selina Ross
After identifying a lack of representation in past Glover Prize entries, a group of older lesbians are taking matters into their own hands. Employing the mediums of photography, collage and paint, members of the Soup Collective are working together to challenge the idea of the "individual genius artists".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-02/tas-lesbian-soup-collective-glover-prize/103179014
#VisualArt #ContemporaryArt #Painting #LibrariesMuseumsandGalleries #FineArtPhotography #ArtHistory #SelinaRoss
'We've always been here': Lesbian art group pushes for representation in prestigious landscape painting prize
By Selina Ross
After identifying a lack of representation in past Glover Prize entries, a group of older lesbians are taking matters into their own hands. Employing the mediums of photography, collage and paint, members of the Soup Collective are working together to challenge the idea of the "individual genius artists".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-02/tas-lesbian-soup-collective-glover-prize/103179014
#VisualArt #ContemporaryArt #Painting #LibrariesMuseumsandGalleries #FineArtPhotography #ArtHistory #SelinaRoss
“Konjiki Hall at Hiraizumi” (Hiraizumi Konjikido), 1957, by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957), woodblock print, signed Hasui and sealed Kawase, with Zeppitsu (last work) seal, published by Watanabe Shozaburo, Vertical oban: 15 ½ x 10 ½ in. (39.3 x 26.5 cm.), auctioned at Christie’s New York in 2021 for $75,000. #arthistory
‘“No artist is able to savor the satisfaction I have when [the printer] is able to bring out just the color I was looking for.”-- Kawase Hasui, 1935
'Equestrian Portrait of Charles V' by Titian (1548) #art #arts #painting #paintings #arthistory #history #artwork #artworks #artist #artists #artmuseum #artmuseums #museum #museums #artwork #artlover #artlovers #inspiration
Jean Dubuffet 🎨
Two Nude Women, 1942
#Art Institute of #Chicago
#FannyFriday #ModernArt #kunst #ArtHistory #MuseumArchive #glam #Arte #ArtMuseum #ArtMatters
cover of Exciting Comics #53 by Alex Schomburg (1946) #comicbooks #comicbook #comicbookart #arthistory #illustration #superhero #superheroes #artlover #midcentury #artlovers #comiccon #goldenage #illustration #artist #artists #design #designing #artnet #geek #nerd #geeks #nerds #history #inspiration
'An Empire of Silly Statistics…A Fake War for Public Relations from General Dynamic F.U.N.' by Eduardo Paolozzi (1970) #popart #artist #arthistory #artists #artnet #popartist #color #colors #70s #1970s #collage #artwork #inspiration #arthistory #pop #popculture #art #arts
The impact of recent developments in AI on cultural heritage research was the topic of my presentation yesterday at the IM/MATERIALITIES - Museums between Real and Digital conference entitled "The Ghost of the Machine - AIs Impact on Cultural Heritage Research"
Presentation Slides: https://zenodo.org/records/10244628
#culturalheritage #ai #llm #llms #visualanalysis #knowledgegraphs #hybridai #iconclass #arthistory #performingarts #linkedstagegraph @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @nfdi4culture @nfdi4memory
Exploring the exquisite details of Florent Grau's Kaptafel in het kasteel van Saint-Cloud at #Rijksmuseum. Mystery and grandeur from 1858 trapped in one frame. Your thoughts?
#ArtHistory #FrenchArtwork #19thCenturyArt #MasterpieceMonday
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-F-F09574
November 30 - the birthday of William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - a French painter, a dominant figure in academic painting during the second half of the 19th century. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/songs-of-spring-1889-william-adolphe-bouguereau.html
Fellow #arthistory professionals: anyone have opinions or thoughts on online Art History grad programs? A colleague of mine is looking to broaden her expertise and asked me about these, but I have no direct experience with such programs.
She is interested in two in particular: Azusa Pacific University's and Lindenwood University Online's - thoughts?
https://www.apu.edu/vpa/programs/art-history-masters/index.html
art from Colossus Comics #1 by Bernie Weist (1940) #comicbook #comicbooks #comicbookart #cartoon #cartoons #cartooning #scifi #sciencefiction #retro #vintage #illustration #artwork #inspiration #comiccon #arthistory #artnet #artlover #artlovers
The great painter John Singer Sargent, an American expat, is the subject of a new show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. It reveals much about his methods and why his work remains relevant more than a hundred years later.
https://youtu.be/jnxJQ5HPPSw?si=B423VsY3spSd5-W3
#art #arthistory #artist #history #histodon
The Virgin Hodegetria by Yov Kondzelevych (1667-1740).
Yov Kondzelevych was a Ukrainian icon painter. In his works, Byzantine traditions were intertwined with new trends of the late 17th century, in the spirit of Ukrainian Baroque aesthetics. His icons fascinate with their tonal richness, harmony and brightness of colors, picturesque warmth of images.
Find it here:
https://ukrainian-artists.pixels.com/featured/the-virgin-hodegetria-yov-kondzelevych.html
#icon #Ukraine #Ukrainian #Virgin #ancient #arthistory #christian #BuyIntoArt
statue of Thetis with a triton, Thasian marble, Roman copy from a Greek original from the 2nd century BC #art #arts #artists #artist #artlover #artlovers #arthistory #history #myth #myths #mythology #greek #greece #ancientgreece #rome #roman #ancientrome #inspiration #archaeology #artmuseum #artmuseums #museum #museums #europe #artnet #sculpture #sculptures #sculpting #classic #classical
November 30 - the birthday of #Dutch painter Adriaen van de Velde (1636-1672). His favorite subjects were landscapes with animals and genre scenes. He also painted beaches, dunes, forests, winter scenes, portraits in landscapes, as well as mythological and biblical scenes.
My contribution to the exhibition at Berlin Science Week (1-10 Nov), was about “Mapping the Social in 19th Century Art”. All these examples come from seminars and workshops with students. A little documentation:
Decoding the Gun-Wielding Angels of Bolivia
'Odalisca alla finestra dell'harem (Odalisque at the harem window)' by Francesco Hayez (1838) #art #arts #artist #artists #arthistory #painting #paintings #artlover #artlovers #museum #museums #artmuseum #artmuseums #illustration #inspiration
Beauty filters aren’t new, just more available.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231129-how-a-1574-portrait-was-made-insta-fabulous
Improvisation (1899) by American Impressionist painter Childe Hassam (1859-1935).
Find it here:
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-improvisation-1899-childe-hassam.html
#WindowFriday #art #ArtHistory #music #painting #impressionism #vintage #piano
By British Pre-Raphaelite artist Walter Fryer Stocks (1842-1915), “Mrs. Fanny Eaton,” c. 1859–60. Black, red, and white chalk on cream wove paper, Princeton University Art Museum. From the website:
“Birn Fanny Antwistle in Jamaica in 1835 to a former slave, Matilda Foster, and an unknown father, Eaton settled in Britain with her mother in the 1840s, taking up work as a housecleaner and cook before she began modeling for the Pre-Raphaelites.” #arthistory #Art
Always felt that those dismissing comic book art as "lesser", or not even an art form at all, show a limited and, ironically, shallow perception of the vastness and diversity of artistic creativity, or have barely looked into the history of comics as a form of entertainment but also as a means of political, social, and ideological expression.
Liam Sharp here makes a great analysis on the human need to create as a way to externalize and communicate one's thoughts, feelings, imagination, and worldview, and how it has been an integral part of human history for thousands of years, taking several forms and evolving through the ages, and makes a very good point on why comic books are part of that history and very much do qualify as an art form.
"I would argue that our ability to imagine the fantastic, the impossible, the mythic – as comics artists do - is one of the key things that defines us as human beings."
🔗 https://liamsharp.substack.com/p/the-evolution-of-the-imaginative
'After the Typhoon' by Félix Resurrección Hidalgo (c.1900) #painting #paintings #artist #artists #artnet #nature #naturelover #naturelovers #impressionism #impressionist #artmuseum #artmuseums #museum #museums #inspiration #artnet #arts #art #arthistory #weather
'St. George and the Dragon' by Benjamin West (1786) #art #arts #artists #artist #artlover #artlovers #legend #legends #myth #myths #mythology #artmuseum #arthistory #artmuseums #museum #museums #painting #paintings #dragon #dragons #fantasy #fantasyart #inspiration
Two self-portraits by Tintoretto (1519–1594). On the left, painted c. 1546-1548; on the right, c. 1588. More info in ALT. #arthistory #Art
And a quote:
“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.” ― Madeleine L'Engle.
Was finally able to see Albrecht Durer’s watercolor “Wing of a Blue Roller” in person at the Albertina in Vienna. Painted in 1512 A.D.
What the fuck.
(Throws away watercolor brushes and paints, wonders if maybe I should take up whittling or competitive duck herding instead.)
November 25 - the birthday of Maurice Denis (1870-1943) - a French painter, one of the leading artists and theoreticians of the Symbolist movement. An important figure in the transitional period between impressionism and modern art, he is associated with Les Nabis, symbolism, and later neo-classicism. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-white-sun-on-the-corn-1914-maurice-denis.html
the enduring influence of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks pops up this week in the Appetites section of the FT Magazine.
I wonder what Hopper would have thought of the continue ripples of homage/imitation?
[This illustration by Simon Bailly, who I would stress I am not criticising]
#ArtificialIntelligence is much more than #LLM and biased chatting. In #science, it is used even for art history. Often we don't have photos of missed or stolen art. These #masterpieces can be reconstructed with the help of #AI. The new models can also extend our #perception - but it's not clear how they manipulate us in our human, erroneous, and subjective way of #art #reception. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03604-3
#artHistory #artTheft #culturalHeritage #artLoss #GustavKlimt
This is done, and I'm pleased. 18 inches long. Dark transparent purple with applied and raked trails of marbled light opaque blue. The inspiration was a Hellenistic glass bead necklace in the Israel Museum, in cobalt blue with wavy white trailing, but as I was working, it evolved: more like antique Venetian beads.#glass #lampwork #handmade #jewelry #hotglass #glassart #glassartist #studioglass #handmadeglass #arthistory #glasshistory #venetianglass #handmademarket #handmadeoregon #handmadegifts
November 22 - the birthday of Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938) - a #German painter, one of the important representatives of German expressionism. Until about age 50, Rohlfs painted large landscapes in the style of academic realism. During the 1880s, color became an increasingly important element in his work. Inspired by van Gogh’s bold colors and vigorous brushwork, Rohlfs developed a new, more personal and sensitive style.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-abstraction-the-blue-mountain-1912-christian-rohlfs.html
The Art playlist is back! 🎨
➡️ https://fedi.video/w/p/bHts5Th3ys68RmwLweYmqK
This is a playlist of art videos from across many PeerTube servers, covering art, artists, art history, art techniques and related topics.
December 10, 1945
The teams investigating Nazi looted art in Switzerland had a very hard time getting any kind of cooperation from the Swiss authorities.
https://www.fold3.com/image/270257451
#WWII #loot #Switzerland #art #arthistory #Holocaust #crime #investigations #archives
The week I've been mostly reading, no. 110.
Jackie Wullschlager wonderful Monet: The Restless Vision (2023) is the best #arthistory book I've read for a long time. Her account of Monet, his relations with 3 key women (two wives & a step daughter) & how they shaped his work, balances biography with a compelling/insughtful account of the development of his work. Like all good #art books this just makes you want to see his #painting in the flesh. I cannot recommend it highly enough
The Art Story
"Discover a transformative way to engage with, understand, and truly appreciate art history" #arthistory
Good news about important #Haitian paintings becoming part of the National Gallery collection. But that last line 😡 “They have nothing to teach the world about governance and democracy, but they understand about creativity.” Nothing to teach about denocracy, except that it shouldn't depend on race - which the US at it's founding wouldn't have agreed with, and still hasn't been able to implement.
"Sullivans’ Haitian paintings become a national treasure"
#ArtHistory
https://www.rappnews.com/features/arts/sullivans-haitian-paintings-become-a-national-treasure/article_45154f90-84b0-11ee-a0a5-b39362d6e888.html
View from the Artist's Studio in Dresden on the Elbe is a drawing by German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840).
#WindowFriday #art #arthistory #Dresden #Elbe #painting #Germany #vintage #drawing
Digital Benin brings together all objects, historical photographs and rich documentation material from collections worldwide to provide a long-requested overview of the royal artefacts from Benin Kingdom looted in the late nineteenth century.
https://digitalbenin.org/
#Benin #BeninBronzes #ArtHistory #AfricanArt #KingdomOfBenin
Can someone with experience in #arthistory #art #painting give me a hand? I love vibrant nature paintings like these ones from Sandra Harris and Graham Herbert, but I have no idea what you might call this genre. I'd particularly like to find some of the east coast but the predominant works I've found seem to be all west-coast based...
rendering by Quatremère de Quincy of a statue of Zeus at the Temple of Zeus in Olympus that was destroyed in the 5th century AD (1815) #art #artists #arthistory #artlover #artlovers #illustration #history #artist #greece #ancientgreece #greek #myth #myths #mythology
Qur’an, 1333 CE ☪️ 🕌
Anatolia or Persia 📖
#NewYork Public Library 🗽
#Islam #IslamicArt #MiddleEast #ArtHistory #MuseumArchive #glam #bookstodon #histodons #history #geschichte #histoire #MedievalStudies #medievalists #Arabic #MiddleAges #Mittelalter #religion #libraries #calligraphy #arabiccalligraphy
Snowy Road with House, Surroundings of Eragny (1885) by Danish-French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903).
#art #ArtHistory #Impressionism #Impressionist #painting #landscape #winter #France #vintage #countryside #rural #snow #snowy
November 14 - the birthday of Claude Monet (1840-1926) - a French painter who was the initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the #Impressionist style. His popularity soared in the second half of the 20th century when his works traveled the world in museum exhibitions that attracted record-breaking crowds and marketed popular commercial items featuring imagery from his art.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-poppy-field-1873-claude-monet.html
#art #ArtHistory #ArtistBirthday #impressionism #painting #France #vintage #FediGiftShop
Großartige Performance. Ihr müsst unbedingt Sister Wendy Kennenlernen. #ArtHistory https://youtu.be/QBv0HezlOBw?si=fCcmxTaMEEBM2md2
This week I've been mainly reading, no. 109.
Like the 5 previous volumes in Michel Pastoureau's series of books on colour, White: The History of a Colour (2022) is a mixed bag. Its full of great insights & wonderful illustrations, but (unavoidably) repeats some aspects of the previous books & never really completely coheres into a focussed argument about white as a colour. That said, there is so much of interest, that you can forgive this (inevitable?) short-coming.
🪞 Look closely: A remarkable reflection of a window in the eyes and jewellery in this painting of Judith by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1530).
➡️ Coming soon: our 1st film on the Italian Renaissance, details: https://ideasroadshow.com/renaissance/.
Full name of painting: Judith with the Head of Holofernes.
statue of Hera, early 1st century AD Roman copy of a Greek original from the early 4th century BC #statue #statues #arts #art #roman #rome #ancientrome #greek #greece #ancientgreece #ancient #culture #sculpture #sculptures #arthistory #history #inspiration #artmuseum #artmuseums #museum #museums
Henri Lehmann 🎨
Woman of the “Orient,” 1837 🖼
National Gallery of #Art, #WashingtonDC 🇺🇲
#malerei #kunst #ArtHistory #MuseumArchive #glam #Arte #ArtMuseum #ArtMatters #OilPainting #Painting #orientalism
Did you know that #Impressionist #painters were initially thought to be colour-blind?
The Impressionists painted #outside & tried to capture #light. They used short strokes & unblended paints.
#Doctors speculated that the #artists were visually impaired. Everything was hazy & exaggerated.
"Violettomania", the abuse of violets, was the most telling symptom.
“I have finally discovered the true color of the atmosphere, it’s violet. Fresh air is violet.” -Claude Monet
Largest Ancient Floor Mosaic in Cappadocia and Central #Anatolia Uncovered: 600 square meters
#histodons #history #geschichte #histoire #Archäologie #archaeodons #archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Altertumswissenschaften #arthistory #AncientHistory #antiquity #antike #AncientRome #AncientGreece #Turkey
@historikerinnen
@histodons @archaeodons
@antiquidons
"As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella." This quotation from the obscure poetic novel 'Les Chants de Maldoror' (1869) was a favourite of the surrealists. Magritte has given an almost literal visual translation: as beautiful as the chance meeting of a lion, a billiards table and many other objects on a country lane.
René Magritte
La jeunesse illustrée
1937
#boijmans #arthistory #rotterdam #museum #culture #surrealism
Apocalypse of St. John, c. 1470 ⛪️ 🗽
#NewYork Public Library 📖🎨
#Bookstodon #MuseumArchive #glam #ArtHistory #Arte #ArtMuseum #histodons #history #geschichte #histoire #AncientReligions #ReligiousStudies #nyc #ny #religion #paleography
Do you like Art History? Do you prefer the traditional academic lecture format to bombastic Bill Nyesian infotainment? Do you like the sitcom Community? Allow me to introduce you to "Professor Neal's Art Appreciation & Art History" Art History Survey lectures on YouTube. Seriously, great. It's what the internet was made for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thdg0hfb2fY&list=PLiL3JwUL21tOQ0-YVygIWh3BF0ime0kbw
The Bucintoro Returning to the Molo on Ascension Day after the Ceremony of Wedding the Adriatic (1730) by Canaletto.
#art #ArtHistory #Venice #Venetian #vintage #MastoArt #FediArt #FediGiftShop #antique #festival
A forgotten vault where Michelangelo went into hiding and sketched for two months is opening to the public for the first time.
We all know her feathered hat and her skeleton grin: La Catrina is the iconic symbol of Día de Muertos, and her origins are way more specific than one could imagine.
José Guadalupe Posada, a Mexican engraver, created her in 1912, but died long before he could ever know the huge impact his prints would have for decades to come.
https://theconversation.com/how-la-catrina-became-the-iconic-symbol-of-day-of-the-dead-212687
#DíadelosMuertos #DiadeMuertos #DayOfTheDead #ArtHistory
I've added a new playlist of PeerTube videos to the fedi.video site, this time about art, artists, art history and related topics:
➡️ https://fedi.video/w/p/cj8y4Kh2NWh71pz4srkNrC
If a video has an error message, refresh the page and press play again.
There are many other themed playlists, latest and trending videos, at:
(Accounts on fedi.video are all screened using an allowlist, to avoid any nasty stuff showing up.)
#Art #ArtHistory #Artists #Painting #Drawing #ArtTutorials #PeerTube
October 31 - the birthday of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) - Japanese master artist and printmaker of the ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) school. His famous print series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji,” published between 1826 and 1833, marked the summit in the history of the Japanese landscape print.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/under-the-wave-off-kanagawa-1830s-katsushika-hokusai.html
#art #ArtHistory #ArtistBirthday #Japan #Japanese #Fuji #vintage #seascape
October 30 - the birthday of Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) - an #Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. Claude Monet influenced him, and, like him, Sisley was chiefly concerned with recording the effects of light. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscapes en plein air (outdoors).
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/3-meadow-1875-alfred-sisley.html
Is that a walking Vermeer? We're taking a look back at Kawasaki's Halloween parade, where famous paintings marched through the city.
may i put forward for your consideration: "A digital archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives" ~ https://archives.design/
Coastal Scene With Fisherfolk (1855) by 19th-century Belgian painter of Dutch landscapes Charles Leickert (1816-1907).
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/coastal-scene-with-fisherfolk-1855-charles-leickert.html
#art #ArtHistory #sailboats #antique #vintage #Dutch #Holland
The newly released 'Groundswell: The Women of Land Art' is a 256-page book that encompasses a range of works by the pioneering women who changed the genre.
The Sea of Ice (1823) by German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840).
In the winter of 1820/21, Friedrich witnessed the ice on the Elbe. Fascinated by the rare natural spectacle, he made three oil sketches with ice floes on site (Hamburger Kunsthalle). He resorted to this when he created his famous painting The Sea of Ice a few years later, but increased the proportions to monumental proportions.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-sea-of-ice-1823-caspar-david-friedrich.html
October 20 - the birthday of Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691) - one of the leading #Dutch Golden Age painters, especially known for his large views of Dutch riverside scenes in a golden early morning or late afternoon light.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-maas-at-dordrecht-1650-aelbert-cuyp.html
#art #ArtHistory #ArtistBirthday #Ships #sailship #antique #history #historic #historical #Netherlands #sailboats
Seeking advice from the #DigitalEdition #DH #ArtHistory #OpenScience communities:
In addition to text items, the @AMP_OeAW collection includes photographs, for which we are designing a separate schema. 📷
We are now looking for best practice to model/encode/markup photos in the context of digital edition.
images of the Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno in Genoa, Italy #art #arts #culture #italy #italia #europe #statue #statues #sculpture #sculptures #artist #artists #death #travel #travels #traveling #traveler #travelers #arthistory #history #artnet #photography
October 17 - the birthday of Childe Hassam (1859-1935) - a pioneer of #American #Impressionism and perhaps its most devoted, prolific, and successful practitioner. While Hassam was unusual among the American Impressionists for his frequent depictions of burgeoning cities, he spent long periods in the countryside. There he found respite from urban pressures and inspiration for numerous important works of art.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/rainy-day-columbus-avenue-boston-1886-childe-hassam.html
Big Ben (1897) - watercolor painting by American Impressionist painter Childe Hassam (1859-1935).
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/big-ben-1897-childe-hassam.html
#art #ArtHistory #London #England #foggy #BigBen #watercolor #impressionism #impressionist #cityscape #rain #rainy #vintage
Gatehouse Artists: George Faed
George Faed was the youngest of James and Mary Faed's highly talented children, and perhaps the most talented. Tragically, that talent was never realised.
https://crowkitchentales.wordpress.com/2023/10/11/gatehouse-artists-george-faed/
Two Men Contemplating the Moon (1820s) by #German #Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840).
These two figures are seen from behind so that the viewer may participate in their communion with nature. They have been identified as Friedrich, at right, and his friend and disciple August Heinrich (1794–1822). Fascination with the moon ran high among the German Romantics, who regarded the motif as an object of pious #contemplation
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/two-men-contemplating-the-moon-1820s-caspar-david-friedrich.html
The Shipwreck (1772) by French artist Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789).
The Shipwreck epitomizes the type of marine subject for which Vernet was best known. He painted the scene with lively brushwork, corresponding to the various effects of clouds, waves, and foam; his figures, however, were carefully and precisely rendered.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-the-shipwreck-1772-claude-joseph-vernet.html
#art #ArtHistory #storm #stormy #seascape #sailship #marine #nautical #shipwreck #ship
October 04 - the birthday of Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) - a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in #rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of #peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the #Realism art movement. Millet was an important source of inspiration for Vincent van Gogh during his early period. Millet and his work are mentioned many times in Vincent's letters to his brother Theo.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/haystacks-autumn-1874-jean-francois-millet.html
In two major exhibitions, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA celebrates African aesthetics and cultural hybridity.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/10/yinka-shonibare-ritual-ecstasy/
Cupid's Hunting Fields (1880) by Edward Burne-Jones.
This piece is a fascinating combination of painting and sculpture. The technique, in which gesso is built up on a flat panel to create a relief image and then decorated with oil and gold paint, is quite unusual. The combination of media is reflective of the close relationship between fine and decorative arts fostered by the Arts and Crafts Movement.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/cupids-hunting-fields-1880-edward-burne-jones.html
Not only do I enjoy looking at #aiArt I think that #generativeAI helps me to understand various visual styles. #stablediffusion takes my knowledge of #art and expounds on it; finds the common rhythms in #artHistory and riffs on them.
It does this as I actively participate; adding riffs of my own, creatively collaborating and shaping the vision.
#AI is a learning tool.
Lilac Bush (1889) by Vincent van Gogh.
This marvelous work was painted at Saint-Remy, where the artist was undergoing treatment. Van Gogh depicted a lilac bush in the hospital gardens, the broken, separate brushstrokes and vibrant forms recalling the lessons of Impressionism, yet with a spatial dynamism unknown to the Impressionists. This bush is full of powerful, vivid energy and dramatic expression.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/3-lilac-bush-vincent-van-gogh.html
statue of the goddess Sakhmet, Egyptian, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. #archaeology #ancient #egypt #egyptian #culture #history #spiritual #spirituality #artist #artists #design #designs #designers #designing #arts #art #artlover #artlovers #artmuseum #artmuseums #arthistory #inspiration #motivation