Reality Fragments

Art and Inspiration. My art is at christopheroregan.tumblr.com 

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, A Japanese netsuke of a crouching tiger. Bamboo with inlays, mid to late 19th century CE, now housed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

[arthistoryanimalia]

It’s #WorldParrotDay 🦜!

Vessel in the form of a parrot

Comala style, Colima, W. Mexico

Late Formative Period, 300 BCE - 400 CE

Ceramic w/ red slip

18.5 × 30.5 × 14 cm (7 5/16 × 12 × 5 1/2 in.)

On display @ Princeton University Art Museum (2016-1239)

[classicalcanvas]

The Promenade, Woman with a Parasol (1875) by Claude Monet

[urgetocreate]

Oil on canvas

[tridentandtales]

Glass cameo with the head of Diana

25 - 100 CE

Cleveland Museum of Art 1965.465

[manuelmoncayo]

The act of being: Jorge at the family garden Schwielowsee, 2026

[archiveofcanvas]

Anonymous painter (circle of Gerolamo Tessari), Saint Anthony Preaching to the Fish (detail), 1518, Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua

[pwlanier]

A superb Jun purple-splashed blue-glazed tripod censer, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)

Courtesy Alain Truong

[windflowerfairy]

The Fairy Way by Margaret Winifred Tarrant

[centuriespast]

Augustus Saint-Gaudens Angel of Love (Amor Caritas)

RISD Museum

[wsrnnova]

Aldo Tolino

[globalbingbong]

Cammie Staros, Temple of Bacchus, 2026, Ceramic and black lava rock

[memories-of-ancients]

Parcel gilt silver standing cup crafted by Elias Lencker of Nuremberg, Germany, circa 1570-1580

from The British Museum

[bowelfly]

Brother Herbert's prize radish

[bowelfly]

ponder the chestnut

[pwlanier]

Caravaggio, The Cardsharps, 1595.

Kimbell Art Museum

Artnews

[tridentandtales]

Greek statue of one of Odysseus' men transforming into a pig

Based on this scene from Homer's Odyssey:

"They called her [Circe] and she came down, unfastened the door, and bade them enter. They, thinking no evil, followed her, all except Eurylochus, who suspected mischief and staid outside. When she had got them into her house, she set them upon benches and seats and mixed them a mess with cheese, honey, meal, and Pramnian wine, but she drugged it with wicked poisons to make them forget their homes, and when they had drunk she turned them into pigs by a stroke of her wand, and shut them up in her pig-styes. They were like pigs—head, hair, and all, and they grunted just as pigs do; but their senses were the same as before, and they remembered everything." (The Odyssey, Book 10, translated by Samuel Butler)

5th century BCE

The Walters Art Museum 54.1483

[arthistoryfeed]

Petit Lenormand Divination Deck. Culture: French-German cartomancy tradition. Origin: Paris, France. Date: circa 1890 AD. Publisher: likely Ch. Didot, Paris. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).