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We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves.

~James Hollis
Window or Wall Sign
Bruce Nauman, 1967

"My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like.”

#postminimalism #arthistory #conceptualart
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Woman I
Willem de Kooning, 1950-52

“I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.”

#abstractexpressionism #newyorkschool #figurativepainting #modernart #arthistory
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Rosa Bonheur
—-
The Wounded Eagle, 1870
King of the Forest, 1878
El Cid, 1879
Two Horses, 1889

“…I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.”

#animalier #romanticism #womenartists #arthistory
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Paul Delvaux

The Hands, 1941
Sleeping Venus, 1944

“In my opinion [surrealism] is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical.”

#surrealism #figurativepainting #femalenude #arthistory
November 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Chaos and Nature
Andy Goldsworthy, 2007

“We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we've lost our connection to ourselves.”

#environmentalart #ephemeralart #landart #photography #arthistory
November 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Mother as a Mountain
Anish Kapoor, 1985

"The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story."

#postminimalism #sculpture #newbritishart #britishartists #maleartists #installationart #arthistory
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Katsushika Hokusai

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1831

Thirtysix Views of Mount Fuji, 1831

Under the Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa, 1832

#edo #ukiyo-e #woodblockprints #woodblockart #japaneseartists #influentialartists #arthistory
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Prince
Judy Pfaff, 2021

“I think there is a nervousness in my work. It’s like a love affair with materials. I feel a need for certain things, like color, and I’ll just do anything to get the fragrance or the flavor right.”

#processart #installationart #womenartists #contemporaryart #arthistory
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Graciela Iturbide at ICP:
www.icp.org/exhibitions/...

“When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people go in and out in costume - and it's like a play.”

#photography #anthropoetic #mexicanartists #arthistory
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
José Clemente Orozco
- Barricade, 1931
- Zapatistas, 1931

“Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them in the moment of speaking.”
#mexicanartists #mexicanmuralism #socialrealism #arthistory
October 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Pierre Bonnard

- Nude Against the Light, 1908
- Nude on the Chair, 1935-1938
- Nude in the Bath and Small Dog, 1941-1946

“One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.”

#nabigroup #lesnabis #postimpressionism #intimism #arthistory
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Mäda Gertrude Primavesi
Gustav Klimt, 1912

"No part of life is so small and insignificant that it does not offer space for artistic aspirations.”

#viennasecession #artnouveau #symbolism #portraiture #austrianartists #arthistory
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
George Washington (The
Lansdowne Portrait)
Gilbert Stuart, 1796

- Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

- Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

- Honesty is the best policy.

#americanmasters #americanportraiture #rococo #romanticism #arthistory
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Group I (Concourse)
Barbara Hepworth, 1951

“I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.”

#unitone #abstractcreation #abstractsculpture #modernism #womenartists #modernart #arthistory
October 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
New Jersey Landscape
George Inness, 1891

“You must suggest to me reality-you can never show me reality.”

#hudsonriverschool #barbizonschool #landscapepainters #americanmasters #arthistory
October 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
M-Maybe
Roy Lichtenstein, 1965

“I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.”

#popart #modernart #americanartists #arthistory
October 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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
October 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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
October 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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
October 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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
October 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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
October 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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
October 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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
October 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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
September 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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
September 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM