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[yaxaaska]

He/him, queer, trans-friendly, not a bot, VHS generation

Collection of bits n' bobs I think are neat or art inspiration. Love art and painting and creatures and other weird bits n' bobs

Worms and crocodiles are wonderful

Harry Potter fans and AI sloppers blocked on sight.

Currently collecting pictures of distressed and dead pizzas under the tag 'pizza funeral'

[mybeingthere]

American artist Cy Twombly (1928-2011) was a fascinating person who produced beautiful paintings.

Sotherby is giving us a few facts about him:

1. Cy Twombly, born Edwin Parker Twombly, Jr., was nicknamed “Cy” after the legendary National Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young. His father Edwin Parker Twombly, Sr. (who was also nicknamed “Cy”), was a pitcher in Major League Baseball, and played for the Chicago White Sox.

2. Born in Lexington, Virginia, he was a bookish child despite having an athletically minded family. His early interest in art was developed by art making kits he would order from the Sears Roebuck catalogue.

3. As a teenager, he studied with the Spanish painter Pierre Daura, who had fled with his wife Louise Blair from the Spanish Civil War and settled in Lexington, Kentucky. Blair’s study of prehistoric cave paintings may have contributed to Twombly’s fascination with Paleolithic art.

4. After receiving a scholarship to study at the Art Students League, Twombly relocated to New York City. In his second semester of study, he met and became close, lifelong friends with the artist Robert Rauschenberg.

5. Twombly turned down the offer for an exhibition at the Art Student League in the 1950s, saying it was “too early” for him.

6. In 1952, Twombly received a grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, and he traveled to Italy and North Africa with Rauschenberg. These travels had a profound impact on the artist, and he filled a sketchbook with drawings based off the material culture he saw while abroad; these designs would act as the basis for later expressive abstract canvases such as Tiznit and Quarzazat (both 1953),

named after towns in Morocco.

7. Upon returning from their travels abroad, Rauschenberg and Twombly had a two-person exhibition at the Stable Gallery in New York City. The show was so scandalous that the director, Eleanor Ward, had to remove the visitor comments book because of all the negative, sometimes even hostile, responses.

8. Twombly’s work of the 1950s was done mostly in black and white, illustrating the strong influence artists such as Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, and, perhaps most importantly, Franz Kline, had on him.

Read many more points in the article

https://www.sothebys.com/.../21-facts-about-cy-twombly

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Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (1875 - 1957)

[xanaxfarts]

ファイナルファンタジーIV ‘Final Fantasy IV’ Instruction Manual (1991) art: Yoshitaka Amano

[theprofessional-amateur]

link to bluesky post

[theprofessional-amateur]

In addition to how to turn various things, it includes:

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)

Library Freedom Project has a lot of handouts about AI on their Resources page

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Amédée Joyau (French, 1872-1913)

[drawingden]

Painting Grassfields Tutorial by slawekfedorczuk

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[drawingden]

Colour Painting Tips by slawekfedorczuk

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[huariqueje]

Cat on Stripes - Felicity House

British , b. 1950 -

Pastel on paper ,  20 x 30 cm.

[xanaxfarts]

Yoshitaka Amano: ‘Guin Saga’

[inkeatons]

Hello everyone! I have managed to find some clean cover art for delicious in dungeon, buried in some promotional italian pamphlet (JPOP Direct)! Some of the files were even separated in layers, i'll put it after the cut

[inkeatons]

searched a bit more and found also volume 3,4, and a piece of 6!

EDIT: UPDATED VERSION HERE, with more art and sources

[hellasarthole]

Slime Crime

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Rudolf Swoboda - Shanker Girr (1886-1888)

This is one of over 40 portraits of people from the Middle East and South Asia painted at the request of Queen Victoria. Shanker Girr was a Fakir (an ascetic holy man or mystic) from Malabum, Nepal, aged 23 at the time of his sitting for Swoboda. He wears the orange robes traditionally associated with Buddhist monks, but his long, shoulder-length hair has not been shaved close to the scalp. Rudolph Swoboda sailed for India on 7 October 1886. Queen Victoria paid for his passage and gave him £300 to cover his travelling expenses. In return he was to provide the Queen with sketches worth £300. The Queen gave Swoboda specific instructions: ‘The Sketches Her Majesty wishes to have – are of the various types of the different nationalities. They should consist of heads of the same size as those already done for The Queen, and also small full lengths, as well as sketches of landscapes, buildings, and other scenes. Her Majesty does not want any large pictures done at first, but thinks that perhaps you could bring away material for making them should they eventually be wished for.’ When Sir Howard Elphinstone, a contemporary, saw some of the sketches in 1888 he observed: ‘They are very clever indeed, most characteristic of the different types, & drawn with wonderful vigour’. When Queen Victoria received them she was very pleased and thought them ‘such lovely heads… beautiful things’. (source)

[hellasarthole]

Loaf!

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Félix Ziem - Envol de flamants roses, étang de Vaccarès (1890-1895)

[thepromiscuousfinger]

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Ernst Moritz Geyger - Wisdom (1887)