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Mattea Gernentz

@thewhimsicalowl.bsky.social

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art curator • poet fascinated by memory & landscape • PhD student researching Impressionism & women artists in parks & gardens 🪷 (she/her) https://linktr.ee/matteagernentz

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Mattea Gernentz @thewhimsicalowl.bsky.social · Nov 20

Hello, friends! So thrilled to connect with you. For anyone new, I am a poet and art curator. I’m currently living out my dream: PhD research on women Impressionists (Berthe Morisot! Eva Gonzalès! Marie Bracquemond!) and their relationship with parks and gardens at University of Glasgow via SGSAH. 🌱

A variety of books on Impressionism, including Julie Manet’s journals, and a cup of cherries.

Mattea can be seen in a brown dress in front of Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’ at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris.

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · Aug 28

Performatively reading a book? Level up. I’m performatively writing a book

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · Aug 26

Peggy Guggenheim (born #onthisday) wearing a Schiaparelli dress in Kay Sage’s Paris apartment.

Photograph by Rogi André.

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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · Aug 26

The gutted forest falls to ash;
Appalled by secret want, I rush

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Gill @crikeys.bsky.social · Jun 29

Some colour from the garden today 🌱

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jun 22

all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 9

Toorop created a sparkling portrait of a woman on the threshold of a new century. Here we see Marie Jeanette de Lange. She was the chair of an association that championed hygienic, loose-fitting, natural clothing that allowed women greater freedom of movement.

https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200475283

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · May 20

Apollinaire in Alice Notley’s translation 💔

GOODBYE

I picked this spray of heather
Autumn is dead remember
We won't ever again see each other on earth
Fragrance of time spray of heather
Remember I'm waiting for you

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · May 8

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social · May 6

after a long stint as a computer science major, I switched to art & never looked back. I got my bfa in photo & FRANCESCA WOODMAN became my fav photographer. The ALBERTINA Museum in Austria has her work on view through July 6th!
www.albertina.at/en/exhibitio...

woodmanfoundation.org/francesca/wo...

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · May 6

congratulations to Marie Howe on the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry!! i’m thinking again of this moment from an interview—

Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · Apr 27

Take a moment to explore these natural details in all their glory. 🌱🐇🐌

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Alison Croggon @alisoncroggon.bsky.social · Apr 17

Every morning I read the news and something else reminds me of Robert Musil saying in 1930s Germany that one of the defining aspects of fascism was the mockery of compassion

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Apr 16

The Paradise Buckle, 1905 by Edith Dawson (and partner Nelson), leading Arts and Crafts artist and jeweler #womensart

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · Apr 15

I don’t need to go into space, it’s none of my business. I’m a big Earth guy, I can’t get enough of her work. Daffodils! Are you kidding me? Bison! Miraculous. Sending a slinky down the stairs? Incredible. Mariachi music? Yes, please.

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sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social · Apr 16

paintings by Maryclare Foá (R&F Mo) @randfmo.bsky.social

maryclarefoa.com

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · Apr 15

i want more art. i want more conversation, constellations. i want more time with trees. i want more of my own heart. more pasta shapes! and the shapes of song! i want paintings so huge we have to build a new space. i want tiny paintings only baby pigeons can properly appreciate

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · Apr 15

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, David Simon Contemporary has invited 12 artists to respond to the novel. The exhibition is on in London (Mayfair) from 3-8 June & Somerset (Castle Cary) from 14 June - 12 July. www.davidsimoncontemporary.com/exhibitions/...

FOR THERE SHE WAS | 3 June - 12 July 2025 - Overview

LONDON: 3 – 8 June 2025 SOMERSET: 14 June – 12 July 2025 Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, David Simon Contemporary has invited twelve contemporary...

www.davidsimoncontemporary.com

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Mattea Gernentz @thewhimsicalowl.bsky.social · Apr 15

This is such a wonderful opportunity! Being a Young Makar enabled me to receive invaluable mentorship and writing feedback, share my work for the first time at festivals around Scotland, and connect with brilliant emerging poets I still interact with today. So grateful. Dear poets, apply! 💚

Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · Apr 15

Our young makars' mentoring programme for poets living in Scotland aged 16 to 25 years is open for applications.

There is a £500 bursary for 3 sessions.

We welcome applications from poets working in Scottish Gaelic, Scots & the Spoken Word form.

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/scotlands-ne...

Scotland's Next Generation Young Makars 2025

The poetry library seeks submissions for its young makars' mentoring scheme.

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Apr 14

When I was lecturing today on books of hours as a book produced in large quantities, a student (understandably!) said she thought most people were illiterate in medieval Europe, so it’s not my fault we got behind because I had 20 minutes of Things to Say.

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · Apr 14

For National Garden Day, take a read of our Women’s History Magazine special issue on gardening.
womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

Women’s History Summer 2019 – Special Issue: Gardening

Special Issue: Gardening The Summer 2019 special gardening issue of Women’s History is available now. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below. Conte…

womenshistorynetwork.org

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · Apr 11

evenings are for kisses and reading maybe 2 poems out loud and forgetting you made a pot of tea and lying all the way down

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · Apr 13

Some #1930s whimsy, consisting of broad multi coloured stripes and a puffy bustle style arrangement at the back of the otherwise straight silhouette. It is Schiaparelli, deploying some playful details @philamuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A side by side image of a multi coloured horizontal striped dress with shoulder straps and a large bustle alongside a fashion drawing of the front of the same dress

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · Apr 12

There is in fact no way to make a case for a moral or political obligation to have children that does not degrade the status and dignity of women by claiming ownership their bodies as instruments for collective use.

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Wes Bulla @wesbulla.bsky.social · Apr 11

Detail from previous post.

This was a fun piece to work on, as it evolved through reworking and layering while trying to balance various degrees of finish.

#art #artwork #painting #layers #portrait #figurativeart

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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · Apr 8

If this regime is dragging us back to the 1800s they should have to bring back the good stuff too. I want investment in high-speed railways. I want federal buildings redone in Art Nouveau. I want streets clogged with flâneurs walking tortoises on leashes. I want the de-extinction of Oscar Wilde

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