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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 2d

Giovanni Segantini, The Evil Mothers, 1894, Belvedere

A young woman in the middle of a frozen landscape. With her child at her breast, she is trapped in the branches of a tree. With her head turned to one side and her body bent over, the mother struggles with all her might against the infant. In this barren mountain world, Giovanni Segantini shows us the fate of women who indulge their physical desires but reject motherhood.

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 2d

Today is Halloween. Time for creepy things
Fris, Pieter, Orpheus and Eurydice in the Underworld
1652. Museo del Prado

It's difficult to describe in a few words: It's a scene in a dark cave, the underworld. There are monsters and ghosts. In the middle we can see a couple, Orpheus and Eurydice, who seem to have just found each other again. Behind them are Persephone and Hades who allowed Orpheus to rescue his wife.

Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 5d

Ins Altenheim würde ja schon reichen. Oder ins heimatliche Sauerland, wo er am Stammtisch stänkern kann. Wär ja auch okay. Ihn dahin zu schicken, wo der Pfeffer wächst, wäre den Leuten dort gegenüber sehr unfair, da wir ja wissen, was er von Stadtbildern mit dunkelhäutigen Bewohnern hält.

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Susan @artlovergirl.bsky.social · 6d

More relevant than ever…
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Dear Great Pumpkin, do something about you evil cousin.

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 7d

So, dann hoffen wir mal, dass die Medien nicht die gleiche Gülle verbreiten, wie sie es hier mit der Ampel gemacht haben, dass es funktioniert und dass sich linke Parteien eifrig Notizen machen, wie es geht.

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 10d

And this difference is something that billionaires, finance bros, tech-bros, nepo-babies will never ever get. But they want to destroy it nevertheless. Because they see us as their own money-making working lifestock. Nothing more.

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 10d

Ja, ich bin etwas verstört, dass sich niemand klar gemacht hat, dass Blackrock die Beziehungen zu einer solch nützlichen Figur niemals beenden würde. Er führt den Staat wie eine Private Equity.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10d

Althea Gyles (right) with Constance Markiewicz c.1898. Gyles, Irish poet and artist, friend of Oscar Wilde. Markiewicz was an Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, the first woman elected to the Westminster Parliament #womensart

Monochrome photograph of two white woman sitting smoking and drinking at a table in an interior room with many objects

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 10d

NEIN! Echt? Das hätte ja niemand erwartet! 🙄

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 10d

Always interesting to get a glimpse behind the scenes
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Beneath the Painted Surface: Fragonard's Fountain of Love

YouTube video by Getty Museum

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 12d

I don't know what it is but I love this picture as well. Did you know that they made around 8000 copies of it?

Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 12d

What do you think is the appeal of Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa? 🌊

🖼️ Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1831. Supported by Vereniging Rembrandt and the Ministerie van Onderwijs, Kunsten en Wetenschappen

👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200134564

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 12d

It's kind of fascinating and pretty impressive on one hand. On the other hand though - I don't know if I personally like it.
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Jacques Monneraud's Remarkable Ceramic Vessels Meticulously Mimic Corrugated Cardboard

You'd be forgiven for thinking that if any of Jacques Monneraud’s vessels were filled with water, they'd soak right through and split at the seams.

www.thisiscolossal.com

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 14d

Poète maudit: Arthur Rimbaud, influential French symbolist poet, author of Le Bateau Ivre, Les Illuminations, born #OTD 1854; inspired TS Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Nabokov, Camus.
Painted (second from left, beside Verlaine) by Fantin-Latour 1872.
@museeorsay.bsky.social
Rue Ferou, Saint-Germain, Paris

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 14d

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 14d

The sense that a subject has been seized from life’s continuum became one of the essential criteria of Edwardian portraits. In this work of 'A Cornish Boy,' (1917) Harold Knight painted his sitter wearing a hat typical of Newlyn fishermen.

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 13d

Great Peacock Moth - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14569

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 13d

Diebe erbeuten Schmuck aus dem Louvre

Sie benötigten nur wenige Minuten: Unbekannte sind in den Pariser Louvre eingedrungen und haben Schmuckstücke aus der Sammlung Napoleons und der Kaiserin gestohlen. Im Museum brach Panik aus.

www.tagesschau.de

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 14d

🎃 Looking to read something truly terrifying?

We asked our #museum employees what sends chills down their spine and wakes them in a cold sweat. 😱

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#MuseumNightmare

A mock up of a tweet from Scott, who works in Paintings Curatorial: A painting arrives for a loan exhibition and the actual frame dimensions are WAY bigger than the dimensions provided by the lender

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 15d

ZU spät, habe ich nicht mitbekommen. Mist.

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 15d

Genau so ist es. Merz hätte nie an die Macht kommen dürfen und die anderen in seinem Dunstkreis hätten direkt harte Konsequenzen ihres Tuns zu spüren bekommen sollen. So aber eskalieren sie jetzt.

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 16d

😂😂😂

a woman in a floral shirt is laughing with the fox logo in the background

ALT: a woman in a floral shirt is laughing with the fox logo in the background

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Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 18d

Portrait of a very good boy.

#art #illustration

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Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 17d

Honoré Daumier, Horsemeat is a Healthy and Easily Digestible Food, 1856

Drawing: A man lies in bed, just waking up. His glasses have slipped, and he looks horrified and surprised at the horse standing on his chest, staring at him with its mouth wide open.

Susan @arthistories.bsky.social · 17d

Until Honoré Daumier entered the scene, the art of caricature was mainly the domain of the Brits. One of his caricatures landed him six months in prison: he drew the king as a gluttonous Gargantua.

Honoré Daumier, Gargantua, 16 December 1831
Gazette Drouot

A very large, fat man, King Louis-Philippe, sits on a chair. On the right-hand side, haggard and hungry-looking citizens deliver his food to him, which is transported directly into his mouth via a conveyor belt. Underneath the chair are the laws and regulations that have been passed, carried away by his ministry officials. Any parallels with today's rulers are purely coincidental.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 18d

'Avenue de la Republique, Paris.' A contemporary writer (this is from 1915) noted of Luigi Loir, ‘One can say of this master that he created a genre: ‘parisianism’...he is, in effect, the painter of Paris par excellence, often momentary and fleeting scenes are no secret to him.’

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