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“The Starry Night” Follows Laws of Physics That Weren’t Discovered Yet

Art lovers have long known that the Dutch painter saw the night sky like nobody else — and now scientists know it, too.

Troubled artist or mad scientist? As it turns out, Vincent van Gogh might have been both — a new study reveals that the brushstrokes from his iconic “The Starry Night” (1889) align rather seamlessly with the laws of fluid motion in physics.

By Rhea Nayyar via @hyperallergic

https://hyperallergic.com/956221/van-gogh-starry-night-follows-laws-of-physics-that-werent-discovered-yet/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=When%20Wildlife%20Imitates%20Art&utm_campaign=D101824

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Vincent van Gogh, "The Starry Night" (1889), oil on canvas, 28 7/10 x 36 1/5 inches (73 x 92 cm) (public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

The Starry Night is the only nocturne in the series of views from his bedroom window. In early June, Vincent wrote to Theo, "This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big". Researchers have determined that Venus (sometimes referred to as the "morning star") was indeed visible at dawn in Provence in the spring of 1889, and was at that time nearly as bright as possible. So the brightest "star" in the painting, just to the viewer's right of the cypress tree, is Venus.

The Moon is stylized, as astronomical records indicate that it was waning gibbous at the time Van Gogh painted the picture, and even if the phase of the Moon had been its waning crescent at the time, Van Gogh's Moon would not have been astronomically correct. The one pictorial element that was not visible from Van Gogh's cell is the village, which is based on a sketch made from a hillside above the village of Saint-Rémy. Pickvance thought was done later, and the steeple more Dutch than Provençal, a conflation of several Van Gogh had painted and drawn in his Nuenen period, and thus the first of his "reminisces of the North" he was to paint and draw early the following year. Hulsker thought a landscape on the reverse was also a study for the painting.

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#FlyFishingFriday
#FishingFriday

Block printing by Marina Noguchi

My daughter gave her artwork to me 😊
I felt that I enjoyed fly fishing at home 😉

#FlyFishing #Nature #Hiking #Walking #Creek #Photography #MentalHealth #Art #RainbowTrout #BlockPrinting #Fish #Trout

A block printing of a rainbow trout using green and yellow colors.

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Thank you to the art lover from Fuquay-Varina, NC - United States for purchasing a greeting card featuring my hand painted acrylic painting 'Big red heart'.

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#heart #love #MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #MastodonArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #creativeToots #ArtForSale #colorful #abstract #colors #AbstractArt #expressionism #romance #LoveArt #lovers #Liebe #gifts

Big red heart is an expressive abstract acrylic painting by artist Karen Kaspar in vertical format of a big red heart shape on a colorful textured background. It is expressing love, passion and positive energy.

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Timely Lessons From 18th-Century British Printmaking

The Radical Print reframes the work of five artists who used the form to satirize and lampoon, actively dismantling power systems in the process.

By Bridget Quinn

https://hyperallergic.com/985121/timely-lessons-from-18th-century-british-printmaking/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=WTF%20Is%20Planar%20Painting%3F&utm_campaign=D012425

#art #history #print_making

George Bickham the Elder, "Sot’s Paradise" (1706–7), etching and engraving, 13 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches (33.6 x 24.7 cm) (image public domain via the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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🦩🍸Martini and Mingo 🍸🦩 A tropical vibe with a little bit of whimsy. Happy Tuesday. 😊 https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/martini-and-mingo-lisa-s-baker.html

#flamingo #martini #drink #lounging #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #whimsy #whimsical #mastoart #birds #birdsofmastodon #pink #mastodonart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #fun #artforsale #buyintoart #CreativeToots #artprints #canvasprints #funbirdart

An art print of a flamingo lounging on a pink couch next to a table with a a martini. Art by Lisa S Baker.

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"Quero ser a pintora do meu país."
(I want to be the painter of my country)

Brazilian painter, draftswoman, and translator Tarsila do Amaral died #OTD in 1973.

As a member of the Grupo dos Cinco, Tarsila is also considered a major influence in the modern art movement in Brazil, alongside Anita Malfatti, Menotti Del Picchia, Mário de Andrade, and Oswald de Andrade. She was instrumental in the formation of the aesthetic movement, Antropofagia (1928–1929).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsila_do_Amaral

#art #painting

Portrait of Tarsila do Amaral

Unknown author - O Estado de São Paulo - Periodicals Section of the Mário de Andrade Library

The portrait captures Tarsila with a poised and confident expression, reflecting her influential role in the Brazilian Modernist movement.

Her distinctive style, often characterized by elegance and artistic individuality, is evident in her attire and composed demeanor.

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Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924).

Francis Picabia, like his close friend and collaborator Marcel Duchamp, was a man of many names. While Duchamp famously went by his feminine alter ego Rrose Sélavy and signed his 1917 Fountain with the pseudonym R. Mutt, Picabia adopted numerous aliases across his literary and artistic practice.

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/francis-picabia-391-review/?utm_source=newsletter

https://archive.org/details/391-vol-1-19

Picabia at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=picabia&submit_search=Search

#art #books #literature #dada

“La Sainte-Vierge” from the 12th volume of 391 (1920).

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Italian dancer, choreographer and dance theoretician Carlo Blasis died #OTD in 1878.

He published an analysis of the ballet techniques in 1820, in a work named Traité élémentaire, théorique, et pratique de l'art de la danse. He is most known for the pose "Attitude" derived from the famous statue Mercury by Giovanni da Bologna.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Blasis

#art #dance #culture

Notes upon Dancing, historical and practical ... Followed by a history of the Royal and Imperial Academy of Dancing, at Milan. To which are added, Biographical Notices of the Blasis family, interspersed with various passages on theatrical art. Edited and translated ... by R. Barton. With engravings 1847.

https://books.google.pt/books?id=ICZhAAAAcAAJ&redir_esc=y

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Carlo Blassis

First Master at the Imperial Academy of Dancing, Milan.

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"A Soft Hazy Day At The Beach" ... a sunny day at Corolla, Outer Banks, North Carolina.

At my website: https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/a-soft-hazy-day-at-the-beach-lois-bryan.html

And at #FineArtAmerica: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-soft-hazy-day-at-the-beach-lois-bryan.html

#OBX #OuterBanks #Corolla #NC #NorthCarolina #photography #summer #ocean #art #giftideas #LoisBryan

"A Soft Hazy Day At The Beach" ... a sunny day at Corolla, Outer Banks, North Carolina.

At my website: https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/a-soft-hazy-day-at-the-beach-lois-bryan.html

And at #FineArtAmerica: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-soft-hazy-day-at-the-beach-lois-bryan.html

#OBX #OuterBanks #Corolla #NC #NorthCarolina #photography #summer #ocean #art #giftideas #LoisBryan

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Swedish painter and photographer Oscar Gustave Rejlander died #OTD in 1875.

His most famous work, "The Two Ways of Life" (1857), was a large-scale composite image made from over 30 negatives, depicting a moral allegory between vice and virtue. He worked closely with other pioneers like Henry Peach Robinson and was admired by Charles Darwin, who commissioned him to create photographs for The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Gustave_Rejlander

#art #photography

The Two Ways of Life, a moralistic photo montage of Rejlanders own work, 1857.

In 1857 he made his best-known allegorical work, The Two Ways of Life. This was a seamlessly montaged combination print made of thirty-two images in about six weeks.

First exhibited at the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857, the work shows two youths being offered guidance by a patriarch.

Each youth looks toward a section of a stage-like tableaux vivant - one youth is shown the virtuous pleasures and the other the sinful pleasures.

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#OTD in 1817.

English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, in which all feature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Haydon

Book about Benjamin Hydon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6756

#books #literature #art #painting

Ppainting titled "Christ's Entry into Jerusalem" by Benjamin Robert Haydon. The artwork depicts the biblical event of Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey, celebrated as Palm Sunday in Christian tradition.

Jesus at the center, highlighted with a serene and divine presence, seated on a donkey, symbolizing humility and peace.
A crowd surrounding Jesus, expressing a range of emotions, from reverence and awe to excitement and devotion. Some individuals are laying down cloaks and branches, an act of homage.

Dynamic composition, with figures in various poses and expressive gestures, adding drama and movement to the scene.

Rich colors and dramatic lighting, which emphasize the spiritual significance and emotional intensity of the event.

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Burlington VT is so beautiful!

Sunset over Lake Champlain is breathtaking! And the pedestrian shopping street is great!

#BurlingtonVT #LakeChamplain #Lake #waterfront #PublicArt #art
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Digging into the "atypography" art movement, really cool so far. Example of "Epetri" atypographic font - it reads "dubtechno."

More stuff + their manual at https://www.atypography.com/

#art #typography

An arrangement of atypographic characters consisting of minimalist black rectangles and blocks that extend down vertically in a tapestry or totemic fashion on a white background.

For instance, the top character, "d," is 5 black vertical monoliths, with the very last rectangle slightly taller than the rest.

Read top to bottom, the script spells "dubtechno."

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Blue window - handmade abstract acrylic painting

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#WindowFriday #MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #creativeToots #ArtForSale #ArtMatters #HumanArtist #ArtCollector #abstract #abstractart #abstractpainting #colors #blue #window #monochrome #panorama #fensterfreitag

Blue Window is an acrylic painting in a unique horizontal panoramic format painted by artist Karen Kaspar. It is painted with loose expressive brushstrokes in different shades of blue. It could be a window in a sky full of storm clouds, Or the morning mist still hanging between the houses in a rainy city, only slowly revealing a view of the colourful hustle and bustle. Or maybe simply geometric shapes like squares and rectangles dancing on the paper.

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Slices or twists of lemon fruits are happily dancing across the paper.
May they bring happiness and joy to your hearts and rooms and walls!

Handmade acrylic painting:
https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/lemon-twist-karen-kaspar.html

#MastoArt #art #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #contemporaryArt #ArtForSale #abstract #abstractart #fruits #fresh #health #vegan #veganfood #smile #happy #vegetarian #food #foodie #happiness #goodvibes #lemon #handmade #veganuary

Lemon twist is an abstract acrylic painting in portrait format painted by artist Karen Kaspar. On an abstract background in shades of fresh yellow and light green round slices or twists of lemon fruits are happily dancing across the paper.

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Today's cold weather has me dreaming of spring...

Colorful spring garden with tulips - handmade watercolor painting -
https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/colorful-spring-garden-with-tulips-karen-kaspar.html

#spring #tulips #SpringFlowers #MastoArt #art #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #watercolor #watercolour #creativeToots #BuyIntoArt #flowers #gardening #garden #floral #nature #bloomscrolling #florespondence #handmade #aquarell #aquarelle #natur #blumen

In this abstracted watercolor painting in horizontal format by artist Karen Kaspar many colorful tulips in vibrant shades of yellow, orange, pink and red are blossoming in a sunny spring garden.

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#pixelart #art

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Glitch. #grickledoodle #satanic #music #sonos #horror #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of two boys desperately trying to turn off their Sonos speaker as the witness a satanic goat demon materializing in front of them. Caption reads "The new Sonos speaker just wouldn't stop playing everything backwards."

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A Garden of Ideas in John Berger’s Letters to His Son

Over to You is an ever-evolving meditation on images by the art critic and his youngest son, two men linked by blood and art.

By Lauren Moya Ford

https://hyperallergic.com/988748/a-garden-of-ideas-in-john-berger-letters-to-his-son/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=John%20Berger%20s%20Letters%20to%20His%20Son&utm_campaign=D021825

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Have you eaten your veggies today? But not mine please (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶) #art #cuteart #grunlings #veggie #illustration

illustration of cute veggie characters like a cauliflower and a bean in different poses and emotions

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Are you in the mood for some cuteness?

Early morning rendezvous hand painted watercolor painting:
https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/early-morning-rendezvous-karen-kaspar.html

#love #heart #MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #watercolor #watercolour #BuyIntoArt #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdArt #birding #nature #NatureLover #BirdWatching #vogel #cute #animals #liebe #cuteanimals #ValentinesDay #valentine #romance #LoveArt #lovers

Early Morning Rendezvous is a watercolor painting in landscape format painted by the artist Karen Kaspar. Two sweet little birds sit opposite each other in a bush and look at each other. The dense branches of the bush form a heart shape around the two birds. The rest of the bush can only be seen blurred in the light blue morning mist. The two birds are depicted as silhouettes in front of the rising sun in a delicate pink heart shape and surrounded by green heart-shaped leaves.
This watercolour painting is the ideal gift for lovers - for Valentine's Day, a birthday, a wedding anniversary or just to say "I love you".

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#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

A tall, thin human figure walks through a dark meadow. The sky is a bluish-green and looks like late evening. The figure's head is a desk lamp, casting a glowing white beam. The figure is holding a magnifying glass in front of it, pointed towards the ground. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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Public Domain Spotlight: Rhapsody in Blue

Rhapsody in Blue stands as an iconic piece of American music with riveting orchestration, and a cultural footprint that reflects the modernity of the early 20th century.

by Sean Dudley

https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/18/public-domain-spotlight-rhapsody-in-blue/

More information here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue

#art #culture #music #publicdomain