Musée d'Art

Great art has dreadful manners. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality. (Simon Schama)

[weepingwidar]

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (Tsartlip/Syilx First Nations/Canadian, 1957) - Killer Whale Has A Vision and Comes to Talk to Me about Proximological Encroachments of Civilizations in the Oceans (2010)

[museedart]

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Triumph of Death, c. 1562, oil on panel, Museo del Prado, Madrid; Spain

[museedart]

Jules Elie Delaunay, The Plague in Rome, 1869, oil on wood, Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota; USA

[weirdlandtv]

Droodles by Roger Price (from his 1953 book). Droodles (a blend of “doodle”, “drawing”, “riddle”) are simple drawings with a witty, often absurd, caption. The first one, as some of you may know, was used by Frank Zappa for his 1982 album, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. (Zappa, a fan of Price's work, lived just a few miles from the artist and personally sought permission to use the image.)

These come from the 1972 edition of the book.

[museedart]

vanessa german, THE BEAST, or Self Portrait, 2022. Ingredients for the Work: love, wood, fire, plaster, wood glue, glass beaded, bead trims, hand blown glass nipples, old coke bottles, hand blown glass egg/tear shapes, hope, hair grease, rage, sorrow, bitterness, obsessive thoughts, two wooden Children’s chairs, rage, ptsd, tears, black so-flat paint, tar, white and pink so-flat, wire, cloth, Astro turf, anxiety, two miracles, everyday there is grace, love. 78 3/4 x 42 x 30 1/2 inches.

[museedart]

Stephen Towns, Luncheon on the Sand, 2025. Natural and synthetic fabric, polyester and cotton thread, cubic zirconia, glass beads, button, 71 1/2 x 59 1/2 inches

[museedart]

Nicolas Poussin, The Plague of Ashdod, 1628 - 1630, oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris

[memories-of-ancients]

Earthenware coati, Incan,circa 1400-1532

from The Museum of the Americas

[normal-horoscopes]

Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture

[theslowesthnery]

ohhhhhh my godddddd

[jordanbolton]

To The Painters of Pompeii - Jordan Bolton

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[ltwilliammowett]

Engraved turban shell commemorating the Great Easters and the 1862 World's Fair, 1862-63

[4x01]

saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

[petrichara]

Mother and baby viewing Van Gogh's Madame Roulin and Her Baby at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, US. By the Boston Herald

I’m not sure how to look at art by Lynda Barry

[jareckiworld]

Keiichi Tanaami (1936-2024) — Venus [acrylic on board, 1974]

[ducissatenebrarum]

This ring, made in c. 1620 CE and now in the collection of Albion Art, shows a miniature crucifixion scene made entirely out of ivory. It was perhaps made in France or Spain.

[romanceyourdemons]

sometimes you just want to look at the qing dynasty jadeite cabbage again

[romanceyourdemons]

here she is!

[ID: a sculpture of a chinese cabbage carved from a piece of two-tone white-and-green jadeite, resting on an intricate wooden stand /end ID]

[metamorphesque]

Christina's World, Andrew Wyeth

[thunderstruck9]

Louise Bourgeois (French/American, 1911-2010), Les Fleurs, 2009. Gouache on paper, in twelve parts, each: 23 ½ x 18 in.