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Art, music, books Cinéma, theater💖« Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you. » Pablo Neruda 🌹 French from Strasbourg, living in Paris, psycho sociologist and management consultant

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · Apr 5

Happy Saturday, happy weekend ☀️🌼🌞

"The sun entered my veins and turned everything to gold."
William Turner and 🎨
(1775-1851)

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 7h

Happy Thursday 🍂🍁🍂

“From every object we place
Something is born
Reminiscent of autumn.”
- Aratika Moritake 1452-1549

🎨 Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
“Sarumaru Dayu”

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 7h

John Lennon🎶♥️
Born October 9, 1940
Died murdered
on December 8, 1980 🥲

“…. Imagine all the people
Living' life in peace
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one… »

youtu.be/iOs9Osz3UFQ?...

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 16h

🙏🏻🙋🏻‍♀️🕊️🌼🍁

Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 17h

Good afternoon dear Brindusa, thanks for that great post, the wonderful Maria Callas, I love her, her voice ♥️
Thank you 🙏🏻🌸🍁☀️🍀😘🙋🏻‍♀️
And have a peaceful Wednesday 🦜🌸🌼🕊️💐🌞

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 1d

🕊🍁🕊It's Wednesday🕊🍁🕊

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious.
The desire to reach hearts is wise."
Maya Angelou

Cecil Beaton ( 1904-1980 ) 📷
Maria Callas 1956
#PhotographyIsArt

Maria Callas/Habanera/Bizet 1962
youtu.be/EseMHr6VEM0?...

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 1d

"La Carmencita" by John Singer Sargent (American) - Oil on canvas / c. 1890 - Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France) #WomenInArt #dancer #performer #JohnSingerSargent #Sargent #art #artText #artwork #PortraitofaWoman #Muséed’Orsay #BlueskyArt #ArtoftheDay #AmericanArtist #BelleÉpoque #GildedAge #VictorianArt

Known onstage as La Carmencita, the sitter is Carmen Dauset Moreno, a Spanish dancer who dazzled audiences in Paris, London, and New York. American artist John Singer Sargent was already famous and had recently settled in London after the “Madame X” scandal when he became captivated by her modern theatrical charisma.

She stands against a dark, neutral backdrop, lit as if by a stage spotlight. Her torso tilts proudly, hands at her waist, chin lifted in calm command. Her black hair is swept up with a flower while warm pink makeup accents her lips and cheeks. Wrapped across her shoulders is a shimmering mantón de Manila with long fringe; beneath it billows an incandescent orange-gold dress, its tiered skirt densely embroidered with silvered motifs that catch the light. The hem arcs outward like a dancer’s twirl halted mid-motion. One satin shoe peeks forward, toes angled, the other leg receding into shadow. Her skin reads fair-to-light in this lighting; the costume’s saturated hue and metallic highlights amplify her presence. The paint handling shifts from crisp facial modeling to fluid, bravura strokes in the fabric and fringe, so that light, texture, and movement become part of the portrait’s character.

Sargent fuses portrait and performance: the dancer’s assertive pose, the flared silhouette, and the showman’s lighting convert a studio interior into a stage. The mantón and bright silk read as markers of a cosmopolitan, Andalusian-inflected style then thrilling European and American audiences, while the sitter’s composed gaze resists cliché, asserting control over how she is seen. The painting quickly became a sensation: shown in New York (1890) and London (1891), it affirmed Sargent’s virtuosity with sumptuous surfaces and psychological poise. In 1892 the French state acquired the work for the Musée du Luxembourg (the first museum home for living artists) before its transfer to the Musée d’Orsay.

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 1d

“Closed“ by Monica Ikegwu (American) - Oil on canvas / 2021 - Baltimore Museum of Art (Maryland) #WomenInArt #WomenArtists #ArtText #WomanArtist #AmericanArtist #SelfPortrait #WomensArt #BaltimoreMuseumofArt #AfricanAmericanArtist #HipHopFashion #artwork #AfricanAmericanArt #Ikegwu #MonicaIkegwu

A beautiful young Black woman, American artist Monica Ikegwu herself, stands before a field of saturated crimson, the hue echoing across background, coat, and lipstick. She glances back over her left shoulder with a level, downward gaze. The high-gloss, quilted puffer coat is zipped and drawn close; deep, crisp folds gather at the collar and sleeves, catching pinpoint highlights that read like flashes on vinyl. Only a sliver of bare shoulder peeks out from the jacket. Her left hand rises just under her chin. Her hair is pulled into a low ponytail while her brows are neat and mouth composed. The red-on-red palette collapses space so the figure seems almost 3D, her silhouette defined by value shifts rather than outline. Hyper-real textures like stitched seams, knuckled fingers, specks of light on the coat contrast with the velvety, brush-quiet background.

In "Closed," paired with its companion "Open" (posted by me a few months ago on Bluesky), Ikegwu uses fashion as psychology: a zipped coat becomes armor; an unzipped one (in the other panel) signals exposure and ease. The monochrome crimson operates like a mood conveying heat, attention, and power while also flattening context so that presence itself is the subject. Ikegwu calls her practice a study of “perception… how people are viewed and how they want to appear,” and she aims to “capture the person… their essence” without forcing them into someone else’s ideal. Here, the artist stages herself as both model and message, aligning with hip-hop’s sartorial codes where outerwear telegraphs status and stance.

The downward gaze reads regal rather than deferent; the hand near the chin, a pivot between reserve and declaration. Painted in 2021, while the Baltimore-born artist was consolidating a hyper-real, figure-forward language, "Closed" reflects her broader project: celebrating Black self-presentation including youth, attitude, and choice through academic precision sharpened by contemporary style.

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 2d

“Makahiya VI” by Florence Solis (Filipino–Canadian) - Acrylic on canvas / 2025 - EXPO CHICAGO, Navy Pier (Chicago, Illinois) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #WomenPaintingWomen #WomensArt #art #artText #artwork #FlorenceSolis #Solis #ExpoChicago #MissionProjects #AcrylicArt #FilipinoArtist #CanadianArtist

A beautiful young woman facing calmly to our right, looks ahead with dark almond eyes as straight bangs curve across her forehead. Her features are softly modeled, emerging from a luminous field of blue-violet. From her head, lavish, roped waves of hair envelop her body like a cone. Threaded through the locks are countless fine, pale leaflets and beadlike specks like seeds that glint against the cool monochrome. No clothing is visible as her hair gathers and folds like a shawl, suggesting both warmth and weight. The background is a smooth gradient from indigo to orchid for a still, devotional composition. The overall effect is quiet, protective, and intensely focused on surface via glossy strands, delicate leaves, and a tender, private gaze.

Filipino–Canadian artist Florence Solis names this work for makahiya (Mimosa pudica), whose leaflets fold at a touch like an image of shyness that doubles as strategy. Her protagonists are modern icons built from digital collages, then translated into saturated acrylics, where hair, veils, and woven textures act as armor and constraint. She draws on Filipino folklore and craft, especially the delicacy and resilience of piña weaving, to think about the structures that shape women’s lives: “Threads bind, but they also connect.”

In Solis’s words, “Filipino women, much like the makahiya, have been taught to yield, to soften, to take up less space,” yet “beneath this quietness lies an undeniable force … that persists, adapts, and reclaims space.” The interlaced hair hints at touch-sensitivity and vigilance; the single-color glow reads like moonlight on water.

Shown with “The Mission Projects” at EXPO CHICAGO, “Makahiya VI” holds the paradox at the heart of her practice of vulnerability poised as power to ask whether these bindings are sanctuary, confinement, or the luminous seam where self-possession is made visible.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 1d

Make no mistake.

The recent incursions in our skies are part of a pattern of growing threats.

It’s time to call it by its name.
This is hybrid warfare.

Europe must get the capacity to respond and protect our skies.

Work has begun.

→ link.europa.eu/4Fxrqr

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 1d

Franck Herbert🌹
(*October 8, 1920
+February 11, 1986)
Writer, author of science fiction novels, owes his fame primarily to the 1965 novel "Dune" and the series of five novels that followed”

"To transform envy into enmity, all it takes is the slightest suggestion, the slightest shift of emotion."

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 1d

Bom dia Maria ☕️🍁🦋🍂🍀

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 1d

Bom dia👥🍂🌿🌻☕

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 1d

Guten Morgen Klaus☕️🍀🌸👋

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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 1d

Guten Morgen!
Ernst Joseph Thelott, * 8.10.1802 in Düsseldorf; † 1.5.1833 in Augsburg, war ein deutscher Porträtmaler 🎨 🇩🇪
Porträt einer älteren Frau in Straßenbekleidung und Bonnet, um 1826/27 🖼️
#OTD #ArtHistory #PortraitPainting #BskyArt #History

Porträt einer älteren Frau in Straßenbekleidung und Bonnet, um 1826/27

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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 1d

Quote with the hero of your young adult literature

My favorite: Robinson Crusoe

Invitation to:

@brett-baudin.bsky.social
@cindyfcreations.bsky.social
@joyaz.bsky.social
@glasskite.bsky.social
@jestermc.bsky.social
@kieranjd98.bsky.social

#AiArt #PromptShare #AiArtCommunity #QP

Modern photography, mature male 18th century castaway, narrow, emaciated, tanned face with deep wrinkles, an aquiline nose and grey eyes, black hair with silver highlights, tied in a braid, dark brown bicorne covered with seawater stains, vest sewn together from various goatskins, No Shirt, Knee breeches made of spotted green leather, muscular and sinewy arms and legs, on his belt a cutlass, powder horn and flint, as well as an 18th century pistol, in his hand a Brown Bess musket, stands tensely at the edge of a jungle clearing, highly detailed, 8k

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Cindy @cindyfcreations.bsky.social · 1d

Quote with the hero of your young adult literature

My favorite: Hercule Poirot

Hero in many Agatha Christie novels. I still love mystery/thriller/suspense books.

#AiArt #PromptShare #AiArtCommunity
#QP

Invite All:
@minkyminx.bsky.social @artsyinventor.bsky.social @thold76.bsky.social

A cinematic portrait photograph of Hercule Poirot, a distinguished Belgian detective, captured in a moment of contemplative stillness within a richly appointed study. He is a short man with a perfectly groomed, magnificent mustache and a meticulously styled head of brilliantined hair, clad in a sharply tailored grey suit and a dark bow tie, his hands clasped gently in front of him. The study is filled with leather-bound books lining the walls and an ornate globe resting on a stand beside a dark wood desk, bathed in the warm glow of a single lamp illuminating Poirot’s face. Soft light filters in from a large arched window, creating a tranquil and sophisticated atmosphere, hinting at his sharp intellect and discerning eye.

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Wednesday 🎶

"The piano kissed by a frail hand
Glows in the pink evening and
A very old, very weak, and very charming air
Wanders discreetly”
- Paul Verlaine.

🎨 Vilhelm Hammershøi
Danish painter (1864-1916)
“Interior with Piano and Woman Dressed in Black”
Randers Kunstmuseum, Denmark

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you to be be always so kind and, the art and poetry lover you are, it’s a real pleasure dear Brindusa 🙏🏻🌸🍁😘🎨🙋🏻‍♀️

Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 2d

I think you had a nice lunch on that braun Georgian Bay with a very sunny sky 🌼🪻🌸🌺🌞

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 2d

Good afternoon, evening and night to all friends and followers

#NatureIsMagic

Going to lunch on Georgian Bay
My 📷

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 2d

Good Morning, and peaceful Tuesday dear Brinduda and thanks 🙏🏻 for you beautiful photography 💖🌸🍁😘🕊️🍀🌼🌾

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 2d

🕊☔️🕊Peaceful Tuesday🕊☔️🕊

#NatureIsMagic

Super harvest hunter moon
2025 October 06
My 📷

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 2d

Allan Edgar Poe 🌹
American poet, novelist,short story writer,literary critic, playwright
+October 7 1949,40 years
Many of his stories prefigure the genres of science fiction and fantasy

"Those who dream while awake are aware of a thousand things that escape those who dream only while asleep."

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 2d

Yes !!! Me too ! Yesterday I posted a Monet painting

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 2d

Merci 🙏🏻 ! Bom dia Maria 🌞☕️🌸