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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Nov 22

The great Romanian and Austro-Hungarian opera tenor Josef Schmidt. He became a radio and film star in Germany's Weimer Republic, but was eventually forced to flee after the Nazis seized total power. He died as a refugee in a Swiss internment camp in 1942 at the age of 38.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Mar 24

ps. Here's an English newspaper's announcement of Verdi's death.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Mar 24

The enormous crowd that turned out in Milan for Giuseppe Verdi's funeral on January 31st 1901.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Jul 4

A closer look at "Death and Life" by Gustav Klimt (2nd version,1915).

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Nov 17

Bismark and Death in "Le Petit Journal" (1892-1895).

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · May 31

Anti-Trump body art based on his "Access Hollywood" tape by Aria Watson.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thank you 👍

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Nov 18

A Matter of Life and Death.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Oct 28

The Death Masks of Cromwell and Napoleon.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · May 31

"Lyrical Abstract Expressionism" by Congo the Chimpanzee.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · May 31

ps. Congo was born in 1954. He learned to draw near the age of two, when zoologist Desmond Morris offered him a pencil and some paper. Morris soon observed that "Congo would draw circles, and had a basic sense of composition. He also showed symmetrical consistency."

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Phil Syrpis @syrpis.bsky.social · Aug 9

It’s happening again; and this time they’re heading towards me.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Mar 13

ps. This is what Loie Fuller's show would have looked like at the Folies Bergère. The modern photo is from a recreation of her act by the choreographer and dancer Jody Sperling.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Mar 13

The Art Nouveau Dancer Loie Fuller, who inspired many artists of the age. Her performances used specially created light effects to illuminate her billowing costumes (see the next post on the thread).

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · Aug 8

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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Eric Near Detroit @ericneardetroit.bsky.social · Jul 4

Barbies gone wild.
#photography #squareformat #kenandbarbie #summertime

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Apr 1

"Stridentist" Masks from the 1920s by Germán Cueto.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Jul 15

Boston Housemaids from the 1910s/20s by William McGregor Paxton.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Jul 31

19th century women and girls from Europe and America wearing Japanese kimonos ... by (clockwise) Mary Brewster Hazelton (1897), George Hendrick Breitner (1894), Alfred Stevens (1872), Giuseppe de Nittes (1884).

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Jul 31

"La Japonaise (Madame Monet Wearing a Japanese Kimono)" by Claude Monet, 1876 vs. "La Japonaise au bain (The Japanese Woman Bathing)" by James Tissot, 1864.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · May 12

Japanese Woodblock Art by Katsushika Hokusai.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Nov 13

The "Onna-Bugeisha" female samurai of feudal Japan.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Aug 6

In many ways, the Hirshoshima Panels by Iri and Toshi Maruki are the Japanese equivalent of Picasso's "Guernica". There are 15 of them, each measuring 1.8m x 7.2m. Housed in their own gallery, they're an anti-war statement showing the human tragedy of nuclear weapons and nuclear testing
#Hiroshima80

Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Aug 6

In many ways, the Hirshoshima Panels by Iri and Toshi Maruki are the Japanese equivalent of Picasso's "Guernica". There are 15 of them, each measuring 1.8m x 7.2m. Housed in their own gallery, they're an anti-war statement showing the human tragedy of nuclear weapons and nuclear testing
#Hiroshima80

Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · Aug 6

In many ways, the Hirshoshima Panels by Iri and Toshi Maruki are the Japanese equivalent of Picasso's "Guernica". There are 15 of them, each measuring 1.8m x 7.2m. Housed in their own gallery, they're an anti-war statement showing the human tragedy of nuclear weapons and nuclear testing
#Hiroshima80