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Alfred Kubin - The Rat House (1902)

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Flowering Garden (1888) by Vincent van Gogh

[clophie]

super mario sunshine (2002) - watercolor

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Agate lentoid seal. ca. 1400–1300 BCE. Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1907 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247999

[newguineatribalart]

Aboriginal Boomerangs used for fighting Central Australia

[mybeingthere]

Matija Bobičić, b 1987, Maribor, Slovenia.

Matija paints amorphous and prototypical beings of the post-pandemic society. Portraits are assembled from the eighties' cartoons with their mixture of dinosaurs, giant shoes, clown faces and disturbing smiles.The figures belong to neoliberal society, where they glorify consumerism and militant capitalism.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS I EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES 2023. Folklore, Alcheny Gallery, New York, USA. 2022. Masters Of Wilderness, Allouche Gallery,

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Samuel van Hoogstraten, Venus/Danaë/Erato and Cupid, top panel of A Peepshow with Views of the Interior of a Dutch House, 1655–60

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by Otto Piene, 2001

[ducissatenebrarum]

Witchcraft and Witchcraft paintings <3

[itwasagooddr3am]

Cherries in the snow :)

[elmayordelosdiez]

Nikolai Dubovsky, Silence Has Settled (1890)

[mybeingthere]

Virgil Ortiz, Native American, b. 1969

Virgil Ortiz is known for his groundbreaking contributions to contemporary pottery. Coming from a lineage of respected Pueblo potters, including his mother, Seferina Ortiz, and grandmother, Laurencita Herrera, Ortiz’s innovative work transcends traditional boundaries. He seamlessly integrates fashion, video, and film into his body of work. His career has included collaborations with fashion designer Donna Karan. By bridging the gap between contemporary and traditional artistry, Ortiz and his work exemplify the enduring legacy of Pueblo culture on the global stage. Ortiz has been the subject of a solo exhibition at the Lowe Museum of Art in Miami.

Description by Turner Carroll Gallery

See Ortiz describing his thoughts behind his pottery in the comments.

[mybeingthere]

Anthony Gross, British, (1905 - 1984)

Anthony Gross was born in London and studied painting and engraving at the Slade. Later he studied in Paris and Madrid and spent much of his time in France. In 1940 Gross evacuated his family on one of the last ships to leave Bordeaux. He was appointed an Official War Artist and landed in Normandy with the Allied troops on D-Day, holding his materials aloft as he waded ashore.

Gross was very prolific, producing more than 500 pictures during the War. Post-war, he stayed in France before finally buying a house in the south-west in 1955 and settled into a pattern of living and working there during the summer but returning to London each winter.

Anthony Gross - Wikipedia

[mybeingthere]

Rekha Rodwittiya (b 1958, India) rose to prominence internationally through the Eighties and Nineties with her forceful, vibrantly colored and idiosyncratic depictions of female forms and rituals.

The product of a liberal, middle class, highly educated cross-cultural household – her father was a Parsi and her mother a Roman Catholic from South India – since the 1970s Rodwittiya has forged her own distinctive artistic language. This too is a radical mingling: of Mughal painting from Persia and India, of folk art from the Indian subcontinent and of western traditions absorbed from books, travels and her time as a student at London’s Royal College of Art in the early 1980s. The vital thread, however, linking her work, is its celebration of female strength, even in vulnerability.

A solitary child, home-schooled until the age of seven, painting and drawing had offered a potent release for her vivid imagination. At art school, however, under the inspiring teacher KG Subramanyan, Rodwittiya was encouraged to experiment across media, including photography. She remembers: “I would wander around Baroda taking photographs of street life.” She was fortunate to be part of a great movement of proudly self-confident experimentation and renewal of figurative painting in India.

Rodwittiya rejects the term “feminist artist” but she is, she agrees, undoubtedly both a feminist and an artist. As she puts it, “I live and breathe as a feminist so therefore that is the prism through which I perceive everything around me, and so therefore it would patina my art as well.”

[mybeingthere]

Dora Jung (1906 – 1980) was textile artist and industrial designer from Finland. She designed products and works of art made out of linen which can be found in homes, churches, and public buildings. She was known for her expertise in designing woven damask fabrics with abstract motifs.

Jung graduated in school of Art and design in 1932. She founded her own weaving atelier where she worked for more than 50 years. She developed her own loom, but usually others did the weaving while Jung concentrated in design and improving the weaving technique. Jung was considered by her contemporaries as the reformer of damask and her weaving as the renaissance of the damask art. Her method of damask weaving has been called the Dora Jung technique.

In 1951 she was awarded a Grand Prix at the Milan Textile Triennial Exposition for her damask called Duvor (Doves). After that she got many contracts for public buildings.

[mybeingthere]

Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of Utsuro-bune

“Utsuro-bune”: A UFO Legend from Nineteenth-Century Japan. A mysterious event in Japan at the beginning of the nineteenth century shows surprising similarities with stories of UFOs.

In 1803, a round vessel drifted ashore on the Japanese coast and a beautiful woman emerged, wearing strange clothing and carrying a box. She was unable to communicate with the locals, and her craft was marked with mysterious writing. This story of an utsuro-bune, or “hollow ship,” in the province of Hitachi (now Ibaraki Prefecture) is found in many records of the Edo period (1603–1868), and Tanaka Kazuo, professor emeritus at Gifu University, has studied the topic for many years.

The first image is from the early 19th century; the second image is ftom Ōshuku zakki (Ōshuku Notes; around 1815) by Komai Norimura, a vassal of the powerful daimyō Matsudaira Sadanobu. (Courtesy National Diet Library); while the last image is from Hirokata zuihitsu (Essays by Hirokata; 1825) by shogunate retainer and calligrapher Yashiro Hirokata, who was also a member of the Toenkai circle. (Courtesy National Archives of Japan). [all text directly from article in nippon.con]

Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of *Utsuro-bune*

Was an alien woman really cast back into the sea after surfacing on the coast of Japan in 1803?

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HenriI Lebasque - Pierre après la baignade (c. 1920s)