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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 16h

Parts of the Body: French Vocabulary Lesson

Larry Rivers, 1961-2

"Not one day of my life have I wasted on searching for the truth.”

#abstractexpressionism #popart #modernart #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 1d

Leather Boots
Marlene Dumas, 2000

"Painting has to show its method, how it becomes what it is; [it should] move back and forth from the 'illusion' to the 'gesture'".

#neoexpressionism #figurativeart
#contemporaryart #womenartists #arthistory

Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 2d

Richard Diebenkorn

Berkeley No. 8, 1954
A Day at the Race, 1953
Interior with Book, 1959

“My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.”

#abstractexpressionism #bayareafigurative #modernart #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 4d

William H. Johnson

- Man in a Vest, 1939-40
- Café, 1939-1940

“To express a feeling on canvas one must first feel it.”

#expressionism #harlemrenaissance #blackartists #americanartists #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 6d

Four outsider artists:

Carlo Zinelli
Untitled, 1961

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
No. 858, 1960

Augustin Lesage
Composition Symboliste, 1927-1930

Henry Darger
Untitled, date unknown

#artbrut #rawart #outsiderart #outsiderartists #arthistory #selftaughtartists

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 7d

L'art est inutile, rentrez chez vous.
(Art is useless, go home.)

Ben Vautier, 1971

"Le jour où je m'arrêterai de mentir, je ne ferai plus d'art".
(The day I stop lying I will no longer make art.)

#fluxusfrançais #frenchfluxus #figurationlibre #modernart #arthistory #frenchartists

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 8d

Hurrah, die Butter ist alle!
John Heartfield, 1935

“I found out how you can fool people with photos, really fool them… You can lie and tell the truth by putting the wrong title or wrong captions under them.”

#photomontage #politicalsatire #antinaziart #berlindada #germanartists #arthistory

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 14d

Kicking off October the only way we know how… with a howl! 🐺🍂 #ambassadorwolf #spookyseasonishere

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 18d

Mademoiselle Victorine in the Costume of an Espada
Edouard Manet, 1862

“You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.”
#frenchrealism #modernism #arthistory

Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 24d

Cecilia Beaux

Ernesta, 1894
Ernesta, 1914
Dorothea and Francesca, 1898
Sita and Sarita, 1893-1894

“I predict an hour when the term Women In Art will be as strange sounding a topic as the title Men In Art would be now.”

#americanmasters #arthistory #womenartists #theplasticclub #postimpressionism

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 26d

Approaching Thunder Storm
Martin Johnson Heade, 1859

“Heade's calm is unsteady, storm-stirred... His weather is interior…and he perhaps was the first to portray a modern mood, an ambivalent mood tinged with dread and yet imbued with a certain lightness.”
~ John Updike

#luminism #arthistory

Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · 28d

Gas
Edward Hopper, 1940

“I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.”

#americanrealism #americana #realism #americanmasters #arthistory

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · Sep 10

Frederick Kiesler, Totem for All Religions, 1947 #artbots #moma
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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · Sep 6

Merzbau
Kurt Schwitters, 1923-1937

“Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork.”

#sitespecificart #installationart #dada #germanartists #arthistory #merzart #merz

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚨 Wolves need your voice! Right now, Congress is considering spending bills that could strip federal protections from gray wolves in 44 states.

Removing these protections would leave wolves vulnerable to hunting, trapping, and persecution.

📣Take action now: engage.nywolf.org/site/Advocac...

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · Sep 4

Black Square
Kazimir Malevich, 1915

“In my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.”

#suprematism #pureabstration #nonobjectivity #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · Aug 27

17th century Dutch master, Meindert Hobbema

- The Water Mill, 1664
- Forest landscape with a merry company in a cart, 1665.

#dutchmasters #landscapepainting #dutchbaroque #baroque #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Assumption of the Virgin

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), 1515–1518

“From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.”

#italianrenaissance #cinquecento #venetianschool #venetianrenaissance #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · Aug 21

Cataract 3
Bridget Riley, 1967

“Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.”

#opart #opticalart #womenartists #postmodern #modernart #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · Aug 21

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

-The Sacred Grove, 1884
-The Dream, 1883
- Fantasy, 1866
- Young Girls by the Seaside, 1879

#muralpainting #muralists #symbolism #arthistory

Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · Aug 19

Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo and Her Son Giovanni

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo), 1545

#cinquecento #mannerism #florentinemasters #portraiture #mannerists #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · Aug 19

Miners’ Wives
Ben Shahn, 1944

“What is it about conformity that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally celebrate those who do not?”

#socialrealism #expressionism #symbolism #arthistory

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Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · Aug 10

Odalisque
Jean Auguste Dominique
Ingres, 1814

“The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a whole... so that he may then execute it with warmth and as if the entire thing were done at the same time.”

#frenchromanticism #arthistory

Luchy @luchy1.bsky.social · Aug 10

Northeaster
Winslow Homer, 1895

“The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life: the sun will not rise, or set, without my notice and thanks.”

#americanartists #realism #seascapes #arthistory

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · Aug 10

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves. It is a tormenting tension and it must be borne, but the choice is clear. – Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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