Colors, Shapes, and Lines

| Music/ Art/ Occasional Puns |

[publicdomainreview]

Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493) — Completed in his early twenties, the work seems to slip between the waking world and the stuff of dreams… https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/durer-pillow-studies

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Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493) — Completed in his early twenties, the work seems to slip between the waking world and the stuff of dreams… https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/durer-pillow-studies

[olliemnjones]

Our Flat Watercolour

[enchantedbook]

'Once upon a time' by Franz Von Stuck, 1891

[muzantropic]

Тихая ночь. Сергей Данчев, 2020

[weepingwidar]

Kensa Hung (Chinese, 1993) - Synchronised Swimming (2020)

[weepingwidar]

Vivien McDermid (Scottish, 1981) - Swan Silence (2022)

[chantssecrets]

Patrick Procktor (British, 1936-2003), Male Nude lying in a bed

[weepingwidar]

Natalia Rybka (Polish, 1988) - Untitled (2015)

[weepingwidar]

John Brosio (American, 1967) - Evening Dancer (2003)

[weepingwidar]

Kyle Dunn (American, 1990) - Devil in the Daytime (2024)

[psikonauti]

Rebecca Saylor Sack (American,contemporary)

[zegalba]

龚贤 - 金碧山水 by Gong Xian (Qing dynasty)

There's a special style in Chinese landscape painting called 青绿山水 (Qinglu Shanshui) which uses mineral dyes to complete the artwork. Those artworks have major green and blue colors. During Song Dynasty, artists and scholars added is 泥金 (made of glue and powdered gold or other metals) to the dyeing materials. These landscape paintings are 金碧山水 (Jinbi Shanshui).

[weepingwidar]

Youngju Joung (Korean, 1970) - Memory 420 (2024)

[venustapolis]

Roundabout at Sunset (Santiago Rusiñol, 1913)

[john-william-waterhouse-art]

-Circe Invidiosa-

[old-world-paper]

View of the Villa Borthese (1858) by Gustave Moreau