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There is nothing as beautiful as waking up with a Ming dynasty blue and white vase. If I wake up grumpy I spend 15 minutes admiring this beauty. Hand painted in China 500 years ago #mingdynasty #porcelainvase #chineseantiques #blueandwhiteforever #handpainted #mingvase #joy #perkmeup (at The Antique Guild)

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STILL ROCKIN’.

Take a moment to consider how beautiful this person is! We post glorious pinups like this all day, every day, all unique! If you dig this pic we’ve found online, u should investigate the creator/subjects of the work and fan them, follow them, hire them.

If you’d like us to remove, or you know who made this so that we can credit, DM. Thanks and greetings from Los Angeles.

YOU ARE THE LIGHT

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Aboriginal art by Tiwi Artist Declan Apuatimi

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Rover Thomas (c.1926–1998) changed the course of Aboriginal Australian art through paintings that transformed Kimberley Country into monumental fields of ochre, memory, and spiritual geography. Emerging from the Gurirr Gurirr (Krill Krill) ceremony at Warmun during the late 1970s, Rover developed a radically simplified visual language built from earth pigments, aerial landscape forms, and ceremonial mapping.

Unlike Western Desert dot painting, Rover Thomas’ work reduced rivers, roads, massacre sites, and sacred places into elemental compositions of black, red, yellow, and white ochre. His paintings feel ancient and modern at the same time — somewhere between landscape, history painting, and abstraction.

In 1990 Rover Thomas became one of the first Aboriginal artists to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale, helping shift Aboriginal art from anthropological framing into the centre of contemporary international art discourse.

Today his work is regarded as foundational to the East Kimberley Art movement and among the most important achievements in modern Australian painting.

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Aboriginal Art by Declan Apuatimi

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Aboriginal sculpture by Enraeld Djulabinyanna Munkara

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Australia contains some of the world's oldest surviving rock art traditions, with cultural landscapes stretching back tens of thousands of years. This visual guide explores the remarkable diversity of Aboriginal rock art across the continent, from the elegant Gwion Gwion figures and powerful Wandjina ancestors of the Kimberley, to the X-ray paintings of Arnhem Land, the Quinkan spirits of Cape York, the petroglyphs of the Pilbara, and the stencil galleries of Carnarvon Gorge.

Each region developed its own artistic language, reflecting local Dreaming stories, ancestral beings, Country, and cultural traditions. Together these rock art traditions reveal the depth, sophistication, and continuity of the world's oldest living culture.

Discover how Aboriginal rock art connects people, place, spirituality, and history across Australia.

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Aboriginal Art Symbols and Meaning

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Discover the meanings behind some of the most recognised Aboriginal art symbols used by Western Desert artists. This visual guide explains waterholes, meeting places, tracks, campsites, hunting tools, animals, bush foods, Dreaming pathways, and connections to Country. Perfect for teachers, students, homeschoolers, Aboriginal studies, classroom displays, and anyone wanting to better understand Aboriginal Australian art and culture.

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Samurai wearing mino rain cape and jingasa. About 1870’s, Japan. Image via Pinterest

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Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849).

Feminine Wave, (1845).

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Artist: Kawase Hasui Title: Morning at Ao Marsh, Ura Heights (Urabandai Aonumano asa) Date: 1949 Medium: Color woodblock print Credit Line: Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc.