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Medusa by Jean Delville (1893)

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Colored pencil. Miniature. Closeup of a woman's face, her hair a big tangled mess of blue glowing snakes, and she is holding on each side of her head, just above eye level, two dishes full of a blue liquid that the snakes are feasting on. She has a blank expression, and her eyes glow white in a creepy way. there are incense burners emitting wavy lines of smoke all around her.

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 16 hours ago

An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/an-introduction-to-the-codex-seraphinianus.html

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An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

Imagine you could talk to Hieronymus Bosch, the authors of the Book of Revelation, or of the Voynich Manuscript—a bizarre 15th century text written in an uncrackable code; that you could solve centuries-old mysteries by asking them, “what were you thinking?” You might be disappointed to hear them say, as does Luigi Serafini, author and illustrator of the Codex Seraphinianus, “At the end of the day [it’s] similar to the Rorschach inkblot test.

Kent Navalesi ☕️

@KentNavalesi@mstdn.social · yesterday

Medusa by Jean Delville (1893)

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#ArtHistory #mythology #ModernArt #MuseumArchive #galleries #glam #expressionism

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Laura G, Sassy 70’s

@LauraJG@deacon.social · 4 weeks ago

By African-American artist Charles White (1918-1979), "Awaken from the Unknowing," 1961, compressed charcoal and brown and gray vine charcoal with scratching out, blending, and erasing, 81.9 x 145.4 x 4.4 cm (32 1/4 x 57 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches), the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. #arthistory #blackartists #BlackArt #BlackHistoryMonth More info in ALT.

From the museum: ‘This intimate image of a young woman symbolizes the hope of many African Americans after the "Brown v. Board of Education" ruling in 1954. In this landmark case, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment’s mandate of equal protection of the laws of the U.S Constitution—thereby entitling students to a quality public school education regardless of their race. The work’s large scale attests to White’s mastery of drawing. By rubbing and erasing, the artist created gradient tones in the figure’s face and arms. White fashioned the undulating creases of the garment by blending, while he scratched the paper to produce the naturalistic texture of her hair. The work is also a testament to White’s reverence for learning. He attended a predominately white high school, where his teachers actively excluded black contributions to American society from their curriculum. As a child, White educated himself on the experiences of black Americans through frequent visits to the Chicago Public Library. The work was immensely popular in its time. In 1963, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) put the image on the cover of a brochure announcing its Freedom School.’

Laura G, Sassy 70’s

@LauraJG@deacon.social · 4 weeks ago

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@NMARoulette@zirk.us · last month

'Subject No.12 - Australia' bicentennial commemorative milk carton

The twelth in a series of bicentennial milk cartons. The carton is white waxed card with printed text in a flat construction ready to be folded into …

Waxed paper

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/125806

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NationalMuseumAust Roulette

@NMARoulette@zirk.us · last month

'Subject No.12 - Australia' bicentennial commemorative milk carton

The twelth in a series of bicentennial milk cartons. The carton is white waxed card with printed text in a flat construction ready to be folded into …

Waxed paper

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Ben Higbie

@BenHigbie@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

'Kings of the Visigoths' by Alonso Cano (c. 1641)

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a painting of two men in robes holding scepters with large golden crowns on their heads, curtains behind them, one in gold and white and pink and dark inner robes, the other in a blue robe with a brown inner robe

Ben Higbie

@BenHigbie@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

'Kings of the Visigoths' by Alonso Cano (c. 1641)

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Global Museum

@globalmuseum@mastodon.online · 2 months ago

8 Famous Black Painters Who Changed the Course of Art History.

Famous Black painters introduced new techniques, such as quilting or graffiti painting, into their art scenes.

https://www.thecollector.com/famous-black-painters-changed-art-history/ #globalmuseum #art #arthistory

The Family, by Charles Alston, 1955. Source: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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8 Famous Black Painters Who Changed the Course of Art History | TheCollector

Famous Black painters introduced new techniques, such as quilting or graffiti painting, into their art scenes.

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NationalMuseumAust Roulette

@NMARoulette@zirk.us · 2 months ago

Prostanthera Melissifolia from Volume 2, 1873-6, Educational collections of Australian plants

Botanical specimen mounted on paper with label "Prostanthera melissifolia / Order Labiatae / Locality Gellibrand River / Contributor C. Walter".

Ink, Paper, Plant material - non specific

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/112557

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NationalMuseumAust Roulette

@NMARoulette@zirk.us · 2 months ago

Prostanthera Melissifolia from Volume 2, 1873-6, Educational collections of Australian plants

Botanical specimen mounted on paper with label "Prostanthera melissifolia / Order Labiatae / Locality Gellibrand River / Contributor C. Walter".

Ink, Paper, Plant material - non specific

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/112557

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Windspeaker.com

@Windspeaker@mstdn.ca · 3 months ago

“We whittled it down to seven themes so there would be juxtapositions and dialogue that ultimately would make our visitors think about winter in a different way.”

#Indigenous #art #winter #NGC @NatGalleryCan #CanadianArt, #MuseumLife, #ArtHistory #Ottawa #Ontario #Canada

https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/winter-count-exhibit-highlights-indigenous-art-counter-settler-narrative

Windspeaker.com

@Windspeaker@mstdn.ca · 3 months ago

“We whittled it down to seven themes so there would be juxtapositions and dialogue that ultimately would make our visitors think about winter in a different way.”

#Indigenous #art #winter #NGC @NatGalleryCan #CanadianArt, #MuseumLife, #ArtHistory #Ottawa #Ontario #Canada

https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/winter-count-exhibit-highlights-indigenous-art-counter-settler-narrative

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monoskop

@monoskop@post.lurk.org · 3 years ago

Hi ! we are a #wiki / #library / #catalogue for arts and studies , here to spread the word about recent and historical publications and projects in #experimentalart #permacomputing #lowtech #climateaction #decoloniality #technofeminisms #capitalocene #criticaltheory #shadowlibraries #communityservers #communityradio #everydaytechnology #libreculture #floss #diwo #care #artistpublishing #soundart #experimentalfilm #arthistory #weird etc.. Thank you @lurk for hosting us on #mastodon and everyone in the #fediverse for believing in it and making it such a welcoming space #introduction

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/le-brun-human-animal-hybrids/

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The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

Illustrations of supposed physiognomic affinities between humans and animals.

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Ben Higbie

@BenHigbie@mastodon.social · 4 months ago

'Girl with Peaches' by Valentin Serov (1887)

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a painting of a girl, about 11 or 12, sitting at a table with a white table cloth on it, a few yellow peaches on the table, she has a peach in her hands and is looking at the viewer with a calm but guarded expression, wearing a pink shirt with a large blue bow on the front, large windows behind her showing green grass and trees outside

Ben Higbie

@BenHigbie@mastodon.social · 4 months ago

'Girl with Peaches' by Valentin Serov (1887)

#art #arts #artist #artists #artlover #artlovers #artgallery #artgalleries #museum #museums #artmuseum #artmuseums #illustration #painting #paintings #arthistory #artnet

Laura G, Sassy 70’s

@LauraJG@deacon.social · 5 months ago

My October art history theme is, very loosely, Halloween. So, some dark, some surreal, some scary, some lighthearted works, not necessarily specific to the holiday.

Today I present, by Spanish-Mexican woman artist Remedios Varo (1908-1963), La llamada (The Call), 1961, oil on Masonite, 42 x 31 in., © 2023 Remedios Varo/Artists Rights Society, National Museum of Women in the Arts. More in ALT. #arthistory #womanartist #womenartists #surrealism

From Christie’s auction house: “She moved to Paris in 1937 and due to her political ties was banned from returning to Spain following the Spanish Civil War. When World War II neared Paris in 1940, Varo was imprisoned with her partner Benjamin Péret because of his political activities. Upon their release they caught one of the last ships allowed to depart the country and fled to Mexico…

Despite Surrealism’s insistence on cultural liberation, it was largely an all male affair. The 1924 Surrealist manifesto excluded female artists, and women were often relegated to the role of 'artist's muse.' The work of Varo together with that of other artists of her generation like Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini and Dorothea Tanning, represented a vital antidote to this male-dominated narrative.

Varo was not only a leading female artist of the Surrealist movement, but she frequently used her art to assert the collective power of women and femininity. Likewise, her paintings often represent women as the central protagonists fully in control of the environs they inhabit. She frequently incorporated motifs like ‘the cage’ and ‘the tower’ into her work, representing the urge to break free from patriarchal structures, and her use of feminine tropes like ‘the boudoir’ in her work was just as revolutionary in the male-dominated world of Surrealist painting.”