A Pisces Discovers Art

On learning about art in 2026

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Olga Antonova

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Blue Shadows #2 by Sergiu Ciochina, c. 2026

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Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis by Henry Fuseli

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Minerva Dressing

Minerva Dressing by Livia Fontana

Minerva Dressing by Kate Welsh (after Lavinia Fontana (1613))

Through the doorway to the balcony, the sky is the dark blue of dusk or dawn or stormy day. St. Peter’s hazy dome appears cumulous; an olive tree reaches its fine branches up, up; a black owl scrapes its talons on the balustrade. Inside, the floor is strewn with armor, with weaponry—her shield against the bureau; her breastplate on the tile. Sitting in the threshold, a blond cherub gazes into the iron shine of the red-feathered helmet, too taken with himself to admire the nude goddess in front of him. She has just returned or she is readying to leave; her body turned from us, her eyes on us, looking at us who look at her: her dark hair constellated in pearls; her back of quiet muscle. In her hands, a diaphanous, gold-threaded gown. Worn, it will do nothing to conceal her body. It will only make her more like the moon, bright-faced and still unfathomable.

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Ecstasy of St Teresea by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

No need to be coy—

you know what

she’s doing

And so did Bernini,

when he found Teresa

in the full-throttle of

her divine vision,

caught her at it,

carving this surrender

so fluidly you expect

the impossible:

for her tang to swell up, ripe

as seafoam, from the gulf

of her flushed and falling

figure. Perhaps this is how

God comes to us,

or should come to us, all:

the bluntly and

beautifully corporeal at

prayers in the Sunday

school of pleasure. Why

shouldn’t He come to us

as He did to Teresa? A saint

on her back—

a girl tearing open

the gift He gave her?

In Ecstasy by Erin Belieu

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William Eggleston - untitled 1973

Print

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Soft pastel drawings of the sea by Tanya Avchinnikova (b. 1988)

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Cooling off by Portuguese artist Ana Cardoso (b. 1978)

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Andrejs Ko (b.1970)

Latvian

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Sandrine Torredemer

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René Magritte

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Helen Frankenthaler

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Bahira Motaz

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Sanae Sugimoto (Working, Japan)

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Gerard Rigot (1929 -?, France)

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Ayako Miyawaki (1905-1995, Nagoya, Japan)

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Beyond by German artist Elena Wuest (b. 1961)