The Purpose of Art

a personal collection of visual art. header is by antiqueart. i follow from homosexualsanonymous.

[classicdavinci]

Bertha Wegmann

[lionofchaeronea]

Morning Awakening, Eva Gonzalès, 1876

[beatricecenci]

Berthe Morisot (French, 1841-1895)

La fille de l’artiste avec une perruche

[william-adolphe-bouguereau]

I Set the Moon on Fire Because She Wouldn’t Wake Up (series) (2020) - Mai Ta

[weepingwidar]

Salman Toor (Pakistani, 1983) - Fag Puddle with Candle, Shoe and Flag (2022)

[thatsbutterbaby]

T.C. Cannon (Kiowa/ Caddo, 1946-1978), Beef Issue at Fort Sill, 1973. Acrylic paint on canvas; 71 1/2 x 55 3/4 in. read

Cannon wrote this poem about the painting and it was displayed along with the painting in the exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum.

Beef Issue

Everything must be used then else returned to the earth for even now the grass is black with blood

the rainsmell fills the breeze and the children are hungry i can see that the sky is yellowing again

the fuzzy face soldiers are laughing they are never hungry the dogs are eager for the bones the sky is burning down overhead

everything must be used the grass is black with blood

[chantssecrets]

The Green Bar, 🎨 by Salman Toor, 2018

[weepingwidar]

Salman Toor (Pakistani, 1983) - Immigrant Gathering (2016)

[jareckiworld]

Salman Toor — Ghost Ball (oil on linen, 2023)

[william-adolphe-bouguereau]

Aries Rising (2021) - Mai Ta

[wormanddirtarchives]

Untitled by Stephen Mopope

[srednod]

Salmon Toor Four friends 2019

[william-adolphe-bouguereau]

Cornfield (1905) - Bertha Wegmann

[wadim-hohn]

The Singers, 2020 by Salman Toor (Pakistani-USA)

[random-brushstrokes]

Salman Toor - Three Friends in a Cab (2021)

[imkeepinit]

Læsende dame ved tebordet (Hanna Lucia Bauck) (1899) by Bertha Wegmann

[bartleby-company]

Serpiente y Lagarto, 1788 · Kitagawa Utamaro