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Once an artist, always an artist, poetry junkie, wishful potter, voracious reader, lover of Indie and Obscure Rock, Jazz, Classical, Science & always the Resistance. 🧷💪 #ArtHeals

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Este MacLeod : Untitled, 2022

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Mary Leonora Carrington :
The Palmist, 1960

Bronze sculpture

Antiguo Palacio del Arzobispado
Centro Histórico, México City

This sculpture inspired a creature from Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 film 'Pan’s Labyrinth'

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Usually the artist has 2 life-long companions - poverty and loneliness. To have a friend who understands and appreciates your work, one who never let's you down but who becomes more devoted, more reverent as the years go by, that is a rare experience. It takes only one friend ... to work miracles.

- Henry Miller

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Paul Klee : Fairy tale, 1929

Watercolor on gessoed canvas
50 × 43 cm

©Estate of Paul Klee

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Georgia O’Keeffe :
The Chestnut Grey, 1924

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Good morning 🌞 ☕️

Sunrise at Stonehenge 💛

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Eoghan Bridge :
Blowing Bubbles, 2019

York-based sculptor Bridge, uses horses and figures juxtaposed to create surreal sculptures that are at once amusing and thought provoking. He offers no explanation or meaning behind the idea other than a title that usually relates to the human experience.

Blowing Bubbles features a horse on all 4 legs, supporting a figure that appears to blow a large ultramarine coloured bubble.

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Luigi Russolo (Italy 1885-1947) :
Landscape in the First Rays of the Sun, 1940

Oil on canvas

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Jen Hardwick : My Heart, n.d.

Her latest adorable puppy assemblage. Made with wood panel, acrylic paint and found objects.

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Daniella Willett-Rabin :
Deep Into the Land of Enchantment, 2022

Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 in

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Saitō Kazu (斉藤和, b.1960) :
Moonlight Walk Through the Rice Fields, n.d.

A contemporary Nihonga (traditional Japanese-style) painter from Kyōto Prefecture (京都府), having graduated from Kyōto City University of Arts as a Japanese painting major in 1987.

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Shi Yi (史一, b.1939) :
A Morning Song, 1997

a contemporary Chinese artist from Shanghai who is one of his country's best known printmakers, making woodcuts often with rural Chinese landscape and village scenes.

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M.C. Escher (Dutch, 1898–1972) :
Still Life with Mirror, 1934

Lithograph
39.4 × 28.7 cm | 15.5 in × 11.3 in

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Henri Matisse : Venus, 1952

gouache on paper, cut and pasted on white paper, mounted on paper panel

101.2 x 76.5 cm
39-13/16 x 30-1/8 in

Two cut pieces of royal-blue paper are affixed to a cream-white background in this vertical composition. The blue paper is cut so that the center between the two sheets creates an abstracted female form with a neck, shoulders, a breast to each side, a waist, and curving hips. The blue paper on our right spans the height of the composition and the left piece is shorter, stopping at what would be the hip. The blue is painted in horizontal strokes so streaks are visible. The artist signed the work with his initials near the lower right corner, “HM.”

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Totally Legal

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Andrew Wyeth :
Ericksons, 1973

Tempera on Panel
42" × 38" | 106.7 × 96.5 cm

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Ivan Generalić (Croatia, 1914-92) :
Deer in the Forest, 1956

Oil on glass
60 × 80 cm

Museum of Naïve Art, Zagreb, Croatia

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László Moholy-Nagy :
Nuclear I, CH, 1945

oil & graphite on canvas

Art Institute Chicago

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Beautiful Blue Hour in the "war zone" of Chicago. 🙄

Navy Pier at dusk with the giant ferris wheel

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Of course! 😊

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Matthew Wong, was a burgeoning artist early in his career, whose brilliantly colored pictures have reinvigorated landscape painting in recent years, in tones that can feel playful, mystical, and elegiac, often all at once.

Matthew Wong (Canadian) :
End of the Day, 2019

Matthew Wong (1984-2019) :
River at Dusk, 2018

oil on canvas

Matthew Wong :
Morning Landscape, 2017

oil on canvas
36 × 48 in | 91.4 × 121.9 cm.

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Jackson Pollock : Birth, 1941

oil on canvas | 116.4 x 55.1 cm
Abstract Expressionism

Tate Britain, London, UK

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📸 : Tommi Viitala -
When The Angels Cry, Helsinki, Finland, 2023

Fujifilm X100f
Urban Street Photography

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Meredith Frampton (British, 1894–1984) :
A Game of Patience, 1937

Oil on Canvas, 106.7 × 78.7 cm

Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston Upon See, UK

Woman sitting at a round table with a deck of playing cards, and 2 green apples.

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It's going to be a "Matthew Wong" kind of day.

Matthew Wong, was a burgeoning artist early in his career, whose brilliantly colored pictures have reinvigorated landscape painting in recent years, in tones that can feel playful, mystical, and elegiac, often all at once.

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River at Night, 2018, oil on canvas.

Wong’s deeply evocative blue paintings, of intimate interior scenes and luscious nocturnal landscapes, from his Blue Series made between 2017 and 2019.

Wong’s Blue Series paintings are notable for their saturated and richly varied blue palette and pervasive sense of melancholy, enhanced by solitary figures. The striking compositions reflect Wong’s technique of flattening the depth of space between the foreground and background with deft combinations of wet and dry brushwork. From monumental oils on canvas to smaller gouache and watercolor paintings, this body of work reveals Wong’s intimate and intense meditations on blue that is, as essayist Nancy Spector writes, “as much a mood as it is a color.”

A Dream, 2019. Oil on canvas, 177.8 x 203.2 cm.

Untitled, 2018

(Moonlight coming into a room thru a window)

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