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  • Women are often erased from art history, where it takes some digging to find the famous female painters that changed, inspired, and pushed the art world forward while they were alive.

    Judith Jans Leyster was a Dutch Golden Age painter. She painted genre works, portraits, and still lifes. Although her work was highly regarded by her contemporaries, Leyster and her work became almost forgotten after her death. Her entire oeuvre was attributed to Frans Hals or to her husband, Jan Miense Molenaer, until 1893 (when the Louvre found her monogram under a fabricated Frans Hals signature).

    The singing lute-player in today's work is depicted di sotto in su, from a low vantage point. His extravagant red breeches with yellowish-gold and black stripes are slightly out of focus, creating the illusion that the viewer is looking up at him from close by.

  • [Deleted User]DarrenWalker (deleted user)

    @UKGuy: Huh? No, I was legitimately wondering, because I'm American by birth but German by ethnicity—since the subject's apparently more important than the artist when it comes to labeling the work, I wondered which was more important: the subject's nationality or their genetic heritage?

  • David Chigley is a mosaic artist in San Antonio. He does mosaic installations, as well as glass-on-glass framed pieces using tesserae, that are usually small glass or stone pieces which he describes as "individual fragments, imperfect and broken, [that] can be combined and interwoven in such a way as to reveal a rich tapestry for the senses."

    I have not worked with Mr. Chigley (yet), but have followed his artwork and his workshops for several years now.



  • This painting allows the viewer to share in Corot’s first experience of Italy. One of the artist’s early studies, it was painted in 1826 or 1827 and shows a wooded rocky landscape some 50 kilometers north of Rome on a warm summer evening. The small picture does not comply with 19th-century academic principles. Painted relatively quickly, it was never intended for exhibition at the annual Salon.

    Despite the sketchy, cursory treatment, the study conveys the sense of the Arcadian well-being that characterizes Corot’s later paintings. The low viewpoint and the suggested but not fully resolved planes draw us into this glimpse of nature, inviting us to follow the little path flanked by two sunlit boulders on the lower right.

    The exploratory wander would lead us into the valley and onto the plateau atop the forbidding cliff face on the left and finally to the softly rolling hill in the distance

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  • By Takato Yamamoto.

  • Mermaid by Victor Nizovtsev

  • Not only is Käthe Kollwitz one of the best-known modern women artists in Germany, she is also one of the most famous pioneers of her profession. In 1919 she became the first female member of the Berlin Academy of Arts and at the same time was the first woman to receive the title of professor.

    She achieved her breakthrough with the printed cycle The Weavers’ Revolt, which she showed at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1898.

    At that time, the Emperor refused to award her a prize because "a medal for a woman, that would be going too far." After studying in the sculpture class of the Académie Julian and visiting Auguste Rodin, she increasingly devoted herself to sculpture.

  • Today marks National Absinthe Day, celebrating the distilled, licorice-flavored, botanical spirit. This potent alcoholic beverage originated in Switzerland and became particularly popular in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Absinthe drinkers were the subject of paintings by many artists, including Manet, Degas, and Picasso.

    In this compelling piece by Czech painter Victor Oliva, the patron in the cafe, a weary middle-aged man with glazed eyes, has an unusual companion: a nude woman (translucent green like his drink) perched seductively on the edge of the table. Nicknamed the green fairy, absinthe was originally believed to have addictive and hallucinogenic properties. It's no wonder the man has conjured this temptress. Worth noting is that the scene is likely set in Café Slavia, one of Prague's oldest coffee houses.

    A historically popular meeting place for poets, artists, and other intellectuals, it was frequented by Oliva. Absinthe Drinker, Oliva's most famous work, hangs in the famed café.

  • Rogan Brown is a paper artist. Here is one example of his work.

  • Élisabeth Louise VigĂ©e Le Brun was one of the great portrait artists of her day, easily the equal of Quentin de La Tour or Jean Baptiste Greuze. Born into relatively modest circumstances, she firmly established herself in society’s upper crust.

    After painting the first major official portrait of Marie Antoinette in 1778, which met with a very positive reception, Vigée Le Brun was regularly called upon to paint the queen and produced 30 portraits of Marie Antoinette in six years.

    The queen enjoyed sitting for her friend Élisabeth Louise and received her in her private apartments. In 1783, she painted a portrait of the queen in informal attire that provoked outraged reactions at Court. Vigée Le Brun’s reputation did not suffer, however, and she kept her royal and aristocratic clients

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  • Berthe Morisot was the only female painter who took part in the first Impressionist exhibition in Nadar’s studio, in 1874. In the same year she married Eugène Manet (1833–1892), Edouard Manet’s brother, who had painted her portrait several times. 

    During her first exhibition in Nadar’s studio, the young woman exhibited pastel and watercolor works and four paintings, including The Cradle, painted in 1872 (check our Archive to see it), which depicts her sister Edma watching her sleeping daughter.

    After these noteworthy beginnings, Berthe continued to exhibit regularly with the group and built strong friendships with painters and writers with similar artistic interests. Monet and the poet Mallarmé were very close friends of her and her family.

    Renoir was also a loyal companion, particularly at the end of Berthe Morisot’s life. They sometimes painted together and exchanged themes and ideas.

  • Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is pictured explaining the musculature of the arm to medical professionals. Some of the spectators are doctors who paid commissions to be included in the painting. The painting is signed in the top-left hand corner Rembrandt. f[ecit] 1632.

    This may be the first instance of Rembrandt signing a painting with his forename (in its original form) as opposed to the monogramme RHL (Rembrandt Harmenszoon of Leiden), and is thus a sign of his growing artistic confidence.

    The event can be dated to 16 January 1632: the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons, of which Tulp was the official City Anatomist, permitted only one public dissection a year.

    The body would have to be one of an executed criminal. Anatomy lessons were a social event in the 17th century, taking place in lecture rooms that were actual theatres, with students, colleagues and the public being permitted to attend on payment of an entrance fee.

    The spectators are appropriately dressed for a solemn social occasion. It is thought that the uppermost figure (not holding the paper) and the farthest left figure were added to the picture later.

  • Cuddling architecture

  • Takeuchi SeihĹŤ, a native son of Kyoto, was born during the turmoil towards the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the advent of the 1867 Meiji restoration. He was to become "the great Kyoto painter of his generation: prodigiously gifted, boundlessly curious, fearless, open, astute, articulate." As the "most celebrated practitioner" of the Maruyama-ShijĹŤ school of art, a realistic style of art dominant in the Edo period, he "enjoyed extraordinary fame during his lifetime..."

  • Bartolomeo Passarotti was an Italian painter of the mannerist period, who worked mainly in his native Bologna, Italy. His last name means "little sparrow".

    His many works were signed with an emblematic drawing of the little bird, indicative of his thriving workshop. In addition to his religious and genre works, Passarotti painted fine portraits throughout his career of religious figures such as popes and cardinals, noblemen (with dogs!), fishmongers and ordinary people.

  • The Milan-born painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who numbered several archbishops of that city among his ancestors, was in the employ of Emperor Ferdinand I, working with his father on the decoration of Milan Cathedral. Starting in 1562 he was imperial court painter in Vienna and Prague.

    In 1563 he created a series of paintings of the seasons, and their uniqueness is responsible for the posthumous reputation of the painter, who was rediscovered in the 19th century. Two other paintings of the series have been preserved in addition to the present Summer: Winter and Spring.

    Another series, created in 1566 and depicting the four elements Fire, Water, Air, and Earth is important in understanding the season paintings.

    All of these heads were created according to the same unique principle: they are composed of plants, animals, and objects appropriate to the respective theme, without a single natural feature of the human face.

    In 1569 the humanist Giovanni Baptista Fonteo wrote several poems dedicated to Maximilian II that are key to understanding the project.

    Based on the Aristotelian philosophy of the comparability of microcosms and macrocosms, the poems formulate all-encompassing praise for the ruler. The emperor has power over the state and people, and thus over nature and the world.

    There is perfect harmony between the seasons and the elements: summer and fire are hot and dry, winter and water cold and wet, whereas spring and air are hot and wet, and autumn and earth are cold and dry.

  • Artist unknown.

  • "Every leap of civilization was built on the back of a disposable workforce", Niander Wallace, "Blade Runner 2049"

    If you watch the movie with some friends, don't bet on him surviving. . .

  • I'm enjoying all the different artwork, Thanks


  • Because art and the creative mind are flowing mediums, not just portraits and paintings.

  • Wizard of Oz book cover by Ise Ananphada an illustrator from Thailand:
    https://www.behance.net/ISEDieeis

  • Media art. Artist unknown

  • edited March 2020

    What’s with the Oz art? The state of Kansas is shut down out here and we are all having the Ahhhhs.

    There is no place like home posters are everywhere to promote staying at home.

  • Blanche HoschedĂ© Monet was a French painter who was both the stepdaughter and the daughter-in-law of Claude Monet. The story is a bit complicated! Blanche was the second daughter of Ernest HoschedĂ©, a businessman and department store magnate in Paris who was also a collector of Impressionist paintings and an important patron to Claude Monet early in his career. But in 1877, Ernest HoschedĂ© went bankrupt and his art collection was auctioned off.

    Then Ernest Hoschedé, his wife Alice, and their six children moved into a house in Vétheuil with Monet, his wife Camille, and their two sons, Jean and the infant Michel. Ernest spent most of his time in Paris, however, and eventually went to Belgium. After the death of Camille in Vétheuil on 5 September 1879, Alice and her children continued living with Monet.

    In 1881, they moved to Poissy, and finally settled in their home in Giverny in 1883. Although Ernest and Alice Hoschedé never divorced, Claude Monet and Alice went on living together until after the death of Ernest in 1891. Claude Monet and Alice Hoschedé married on 16 July 1892.

    So here we are with Blanche. She became Monet's assistant and pupil, often carrying his easel and his canvases in a wheelbarrow, and then set her own easel and painted. She began submitting works to the Salon in 1888, but that year she was not accepted.

    Seven of her paintings appeared at the Salon des Indépendants in 1905, where Durand-Ruel purchased one of her works. She adopted an almost pure form of Impressionism, painting for her own pleasure. At times it was difficult to distinguish her work from Monet's, especially during her first period in Giverny (between 1883 and 1897). The palette, brushes, paint, and canvases came from Claude Monet, and her subjects were often Monet's garden and its surroundings.

    Blanche Hoschedé married Monet's elder son Jean in 1897, and the couple moved to Rouen where she often exhibited her works. Jean died in 1914, at which point Blanche moved back into the Monet household; she abandoned her activities as an artist to take care of Monet during the final 20 years of his life in a role much like an administrator.

  • [Deleted User]bigdlove (deleted user)

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  • The world is a piece of art :-) cherry blossoms in my backyard

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