#ModernArt #RedWed
Alberto Giacometti's iconic, elongated sculptures are meant to reflect human fragility, WW2 trauma, existential despair, & the horrors of the Holocaust. Also, human resilience & the search for universal truth in the post-war era.
#ColorADay #Photography #ECK #Art #Photographers
Had a blast seeing the new Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Klee, Giacometti tour from Berlin's Berggruen museum
I loved our MFAH permanent exhibits more. New-to-me #art by: Rene Magritte; O'Keeffe; Monet & Manet; de Kooning; Lempicka; tons of John Singer Sargent! A room of Pointilists NTM outside Seurat!
Thx to @bsky.app's new upgrade: here are 10 paintings that caught my eye from Singer Sargent to Turner to crazy Pointilists, surely the masochists of the #Art world w their thousands of tiny dots.
I knew Seurat but not some others like Henri-Edmond Cross. The brush strokes are mesmerizing up close!
a #WaterfallWednesday #waterfall during #WeekWforWater for #AlphabetChallenge
One of England's earliest river & landscape photos by one of the UK's fathers of #photography:
Alfred Rosling's "The River Mole in Surrey," c. 1860, on albumen silver print.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWater #PhotographyHistory #Photographers #ClassicMono #BWPhotos #PhotographersUnited
Francis Firth helped create #PhotoPublishing & photo archives as an industry, esp. for travel shots of exotic locales. (See Alt-Text.)
"Eden Gardens, Calcutta" shows Kolkata's lush landscape in 1876 w/ a large pond perfect for picnics. #ClassicMono #BWphotos #PhotoHistory #ECK #AlphabetChallenge
Took one look at this from across the room & knew it was by Tamara de Lempicka! I've studied the #ArtDeco queen long enough to know her signature style & women.
"Her Sadness (Sa Tristesse)" 1923 is a portrait of Ira Perrot, a French poet who was Tamara's muse & lover. #Painters #Artsky #LGBTQart
Scott Cunningham
Kafkaesque
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I went to the Minnesota Zoo today and lucked out when this Victoria Crowned Pigeon flew near me and started posing and preening.
#Birds #Birding #Zoo #Nature #Photography #Animals #Photos #Photo #ECK
