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Founder: Aardvark Digital Agency, poetry junkie, wishful potter, voracious reader, lover of Indie, punk, and Obscure Rock, Jazz, Classical, Science & always the Resistance. 🧷💪 #ArtHeals
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phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · Oct 13
"We have art so that we shall not die of reality." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Victor Brauner (1903-66) :
Géométrie d'une tête (Geometry of a Head), 1959

oil on graphite on prepared panel
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Mohammad Al-Fayoumi (Egypt, b.1963) :
Omda (The Mayor), n.d.

Bronze
28 x 41 x 27 cm
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Kurt Schwitters : En Morn, 1947

No material was considered unsuitable for art by Schwitters. His collages using magazine cuttings, found objects, sweet wrappers etc paved the way for pop art and arte povera.

📸 : ©Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris/DACS 2012
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Kurt Schwitters :
47.15 - Pine Trees C.26, 1946-47

📸 : Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Stiftung, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Edward Steichen :
The Flatiron, 1904, Manhattan, NY

gum-bichromate over platinum print
19 x 14.75 in | 48.3 x 37.5 cm
printed 1905
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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I wrote a paper on Jelly Roll Morton in college. This guy is arguably the father of jazz, and included in Alan Lomax's recordings for the Library of Congress.

If you don't know about him, I suggest you learn. He was an amazing man and musician.
Doctor Jazz
YouTube video by Jelly Roll Morton - Topic
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November 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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📸 : Chris Schmidt -
Andromeda

Our closest galactic neighbor
Under the dark skies of Ellis County, KS

Stats for nerds --
Camera: Nikon D3400
Lens: Rokinon 135mm f2.0
Mount: iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Settings: (50 stacked) 135mm 90sec. exposure
ISO 1600 f/2.8
Stacking in DeepSkyStacker
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Jean-Michel Basquiat :
She Installs Confidence and Picks Up His Brain Like a Salad, 1987

oil and acrylic on wood panel
238 x 228 x 6 cm

Collection Lambert in Avignon, France
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Pablo Picasso : La repasseuse,
(Woman ironing) Paris, 1904

Oil on canvas
45.75 x 28.75 in | 116.2 x 73 cm

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Frederick (Rick) Jay Rubin, born March 10, 1963, is an American record producer. He is a co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records.

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Making art is a mystical process — a lot of people who are artists don’t understand it themselves. Especially the young ones. They feel different, but they don’t know what it is. They feel more. Everything hurts. Everything. They’re supersensitive. They see things that other people don’t see. It can be crippling. For someone like Kurt Cobain, it can kill you. ~ Rick Rubin In 2007, Rubin was called "the most important producer of the last 20 years" by MTV and was named on Time's 2007 list of the "100 Most Influential People in the World". Rubin helped popularize hip hop by producing records for pioneering acts such as LL Cool J, the Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Geto Boys. He has also produced hit records for acts from a variety of other genres, such as pop (Kesha, Adele, Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga), heavy metal (Danzig, Metallica, Slayer), alternative rock (The Cult, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, the Strokes, Weezer), hard rock (Audioslave, AC/DC, Aerosmith), nu metal (Linkin Park, System of a Down, Slipknot), and country (Johnny Cash, The Avett Brothers, the Chicks, Tyler Childers). In 2021 he co-starred in the 6-part documentary miniseries McCartney 3,2,1 which explores the career of Paul McCartney.
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Wassily Kandinsky :
Double Tension, 1938

Oil on canvas
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Rithika Merchant :
Plant Medicine II, 2023

Gouache, watercolour and ink on paper

Bio is in the alt text 👇
Merchant is a visual artist from Bombay, India, where she was born in 1986. She received a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, New York. At the crossroads of the East and the West, Merchant’s work reflects her journey as a global citizen. Her art explores both comparative mythology as well as science and speculative fiction, featuring creatures and symbolism that are part of her personal visual vocabulary.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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John Singer Sargent :
Alhambra, Patio de los Arrayanes
(Court of the Myrtles), 1879

Oil on canvas | 57.5 x 48.8 cm
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Robert Mapplethorpe : Orchid, 1985

gelatin silver print
19 x 15-1/8 in | 48.4 x 38.4cm
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Anna Syperak (Brit-Can, b.1949) :
Twilight, 2010

Two Plate Etching Print

Bio in the alt text 👇
“The inspiration for Anna Syperek’s poetic realism comes from an intuitive rapport with her own surroundings, in and about the town and county of Antigonish, Nova Scotia. For Syperek, the everyday is significant and marvelous subject matter. Whether it be a pasture up the back road, a season in transition, or a toothbrush tossed in a glass, she creates a kind of mythology for what you might not have noticed before. Her faith in the inherent truth that lies in the natural brings her to an honest and reverent rendering of light and atmosphere with gentle, true colour.” ~ Beth Parker, Lyghtesome Gallery
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Potter : Melanie Ferguson

Stoneware vase
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Susan Paterson (Canada b.1958) :
Silver and Lace with Eggs, 2022

Oil on panel
97 x 46 cm | 38 x 18 in
Detail
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Leonora Carrington :
Cat Tapestry, c.1950s

Wool

Museo Nacional de Arte INBA
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Adolph Gottlieb (1903-74) was an American abstract expressionist painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor.
He designed and oversaw construction of a 1500 square-foot stained glass façade for the Milton Steinberg Center in New York City in 1954, and he designed a suite of 18 stained glass windows for the Kingsway Jewish Center in Brooklyn. He was the first of his generation to have his art collected by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1946) and the Guggenheim Museum (1948)…. …. Gottlieb's work is included in the permanent holdings of numerous museum institutions in the US, for instance, his work Altar from 1947, is included in the permanent collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida… …A stroke in 1970 left Gottlieb paralyzed except for his right arm and hand. He continued to paint and to exhibit his art until his death in March 1974. His funeral service was held on March 6, 1974, at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home, and he was buried at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Hawthorne, NY. He was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1972.” Sleep Mask, 1945 Tempera and graphite on paper 25-5/8 x 19-3/4 in | 65.1 x 50.2 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Untitled, 1967 Wall, 1968 painted aluminum 208 x 308.6 x 190.5 cm 81-7/8 x 121-1/2 x 75 in National Gallery of Art
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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JIMMY CLIFF - The Harder They Come - London
YouTube video by Soopanatural
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November 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Safe travels on your cosmic journey, Jimmy 💔
Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross
YouTube video by worldsgreatestmusic
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November 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Annie Glass :
Apres Swim, n.d.

Sculpture wire & glass beads
35 x 25 x 23 cm

Further description in the alt text 👇
Annie was born in Melbourne and showed a strong interest and talent in art since she was very young. After completing her bachelor of fine art majoring in sculpture at Monash university in 1998 Annie worked in bronze before moving to wire. The movement and immediacy of the material appealed to her. Annie has been working in wire for almost 15 years. She recently moved to Red Hill on the Mornington Peninsula with her husband and 3 children. Her work is best described as whimsical often humorous snapshots of life. Dogs and the human form feature in her work along with movement. She has been involved in many group and solo shows as well as having her own stand in the Emerging artist section of Art Melbourne and Sydney. She has won awards and has work in many private collections in Australia, New York and London. Bio statement: “I like to have humour in my work as I find that people can identify with a humorous piece. I like to give the works and Australian flavour and I find the beach, dogs and the Hills hoist work towards that. I want to remind people of their childhoods and just generally use human themes so people can identify with the work. It is figurative because I want it to be accessible to the average person and to tell a story about life. Sculpture is my passion and I am so lucky to be doing something that I love and it makes other people happy to.”
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Jed Jackson (b.1954) :
Charlie Parker, 1979

Oil on Canvas | 180.5 × 149.9 cm

Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Andrew Wyeth : Cranberries, 1966

Dry brush watercolor
18 × 12 in | 45.7 × 30.5 cm

Further description in the alt text 👇
When other mid-20th century artists were drawn toward abstraction, Andrew Wyeth continued his exploration of domestic realism, painting both interiors and exteriors of the farm and industrial buildings of the Pennsylvania countryside, and, in the summers, the clapboard houses and stark landscape of the Maine coast. After his father N.C. Wyeth died in a 1945 car accident, he began to incorporate images of people into his paintings, most famously his neighbor Helga Testorf. Rendered in egg tempera, Wyeth's keenly observed images have a pared down sparseness that gives them a palpable sense of quiet. Wyeth was the first visual artist to appear on the cover of Time magazine and the first living American-born artist to have a show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Edward Hopper :
Moonlight Interior, 1921-23

oil on canvas

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Further description in the alt text 👇
A nude woman in an interior space, with her face often hidden, illuminated by soft, pale blue moonlight
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM