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the 9th day @the9thday.bsky.social · 1d

Marianne von Werefkin
The ragpicker (1917)
Also called The Rag-and-Bone Man

#art #paintings #werefkin #20thcenturyart

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

Angst
Alfred Kubin, 1903

drawing, a figure climbing a stiff cliff face, with an amorphous creature dragging them back down

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the 9th day @the9thday.bsky.social · 2d

Sinantropías, 2023 - by Txema Salvans (1971), Spanish

the 9th day @the9thday.bsky.social · 3d

Artemisia #Gentileschi
Mary Magdalene as #Melancholy (1622-1625)
100x136cm

"… I have one more intimate confidant-my melancholy. In the midst of my joy she waves to me, calls me to one side, even though physically I stay put. My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known…" - #Kierkegaard

the 9th day @the9thday.bsky.social · 4d

Vilhelm Hammershøi
Rest (1905)
49 x 46 cm

Domestic stillness. A sense of melancholy. Introspection. Privacy. The burden of existence.

This “painter of silence” was remarked on his retiring manner and reluctance to talk.

#art #melancholy #Hammershoi

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the 9th day @the9thday.bsky.social · 5d

Gustave Courbet
The Desperate Man (1843-1844)
Self portrait at 24yo
45×54cm

"Through this laughing mask that you know me with, I hide the sorrow, the bitterness, and the sadness that grips the heart like a vampire from within."

- Courbet (in a letter to Alfred Bruyas)

#GustaveCourbet #despair

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the 9th day @the9thday.bsky.social · 7d

Japanese paper artist Chie Hitotsuyama: “I make small, twisted paper strips by moistening and twisting thin newspaper parts. I change the thickness of those paper strips according to the body parts. Twisting such pages, I’m aiming to achieve expressions of color, including gradations.”

#sculptures

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the 9th day @the9thday.bsky.social · 8d

Instead of it being a purely negative experience, Louise Bourgeois (well in her 80s) created a "drawing diary", with over 220 drawings during her hours of sleeplessness.

#theinsomniadrawings #insomnia #louisebourgeois #art #drawings

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Charles M. Schulz Museum | The home of Snoopy & the Peanuts Gang @schulzmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 10

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on June 10, 1967.

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the 9th day @the9thday.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thierry Lechanteur

#photography #ai #art

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the 9th day @the9thday.bsky.social · May 28

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · May 26

The Stork Club Bar Book by Lucius Beebe (1946)

Design by Paul Rand

Graphic of a stork wearing a top hat. Red, green, black and white.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · May 3

Goodnight.
🖼️ Moonlight, Henri-Joseph Harpignies, 1889.

Moon through trees over lake and pathway. Painting.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · May 18

The eruption of Mount St. Helens, seen shortly after 8:32 am Sunday, 18 May 1980, probably along the forest roads of Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

The photographer, Richard Lasher, survived the eruption that killed approximately 57 others.

Imagine seeing this in person.

Imagine *hearing* it.

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alabandine2.bsky.social @alabandine2.bsky.social · Apr 24

The Bather (1877) by Gustave Caillebotte

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the 9th day @the9thday.bsky.social · May 7

Francis Bacon
Study after #Velázquez 's Portrait of #Pope Innocent X (1953)

#Bacon —an atheist— clarified he had nothing against popes but merely sought "an excuse to use these colours, and you can't give ordinary clothes thát purple colour without getting into a sort of false fauve manner".

#Art

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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · Apr 28

Neighborhood watch.. 😊

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the 9th day @the9thday.bsky.social · May 4

#dEUS #Belgium #Music #❤️ #SudsAndSoda #WorstCaseScenario

dEUS - Suds & Soda (from Worst Case Scenario)

YouTube video by dEUSbe

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the 9th day @the9thday.bsky.social · May 3

Giuseppe #Arcimboldo
The #Librarian (1566, 97×71cm)

A triumph of #AbstractArt in the 16th century.

He painted portraits by painting an assemblage of objects such as fruits and vegetables, flowers, or in this case, books. The objects typically had some connection to the person's life or depiction.

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the 9th day @the9thday.bsky.social · May 3

William James Webbe
The White Owl (1856, 45x26cm)

'Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits'

#WhiteOwl #Art #Nature #Owls #WilliamJWebbe