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A comet, or some immeasurable celestial object, blazes down through the dark clouds towards a mountain range. It occupies nearly the entire sky: a glowing green flash trailing rivulets of greenish blue flame. The fringes are indigo. The mountain range reflects this color scheme: again, a mix of bright green and violet. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

197d

Pretty butterfly art to start your day. Have a good one. Golden Butterfly: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/golden-butterfly-lisa-s-baker.html

#butterfly #yellow #insect #bug #butterflyart #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #creativeToots #ayearforart #spring #summer #abstract #abstractart #painting #beautiful

Golden Butterfly is a vibrant, impressionist-style painting featuring a butterfly in full spread, brought to life through bold palette knife texture and layered color. Set against a rich golden background, the wings blend teal, soft white, blush pink, and deep charcoal accents, creating a striking balance between warmth and contrast. The thick, sculpted paint adds movement and dimension, giving the piece a lively, almost luminous presence.

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A conical chunk of rock with grass and a tree growing on top of it hovers in the air, anchored to the ground by a thin wire. It looks as though part of a mountain has simply been yanked out of the ground and is now floating like a balloon. On the side of the rock, though, are oddities: the outline of a door, missing tiles. On the underside of the rock is an open hatchway, revealing tubes and wires. A workmen wearing overalls and an orange helmet is poking around in there with tools. An orange toolbox sits on the ground. The scene is set against a blue background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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'Faithful wife', virgin or tragic martyr?: Why this 16th-Century masterpiece is not what it seems

Overpainted images found hidden inside Raphael's Portrait of a Young Woman with a Unicorn help unlock the mystery behind it. They also show the ways that the image of the ideal woman has been carefully controlled by men through the centuries.

By Kelly Grovier

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20260408-why-this-16th-century-painting-isnt-what-it-seems

Raphael at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3022

#art #culture

How the painting appeared before the first 20th century restoration, with the sitter as St. Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and palm frond.

A young woman of idealised beauty sits in three-quarter pose before an open loggia, two columns framing a soft landscape with mountains in the distance.

Her face is serene and direct, with large eyes meeting the viewer's gaze with calm self-possession. Her wavy hair is loosely dressed with a small ornament. She wears a gown with a broad dark horizontal band, a white shawl draped over her shoulders, a jewelled pendant necklace with a pearl drop, and a decorated belt.

In her hands she holds what appears to be a disc or circular object — along with what may be a palm frond.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Woman_with_Unicorn#/media/File:Sublimebeauty03-1.jpg

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Raffaello Sanzio - Lady with unicorn

The sitter's golden-auburn hair, pale complexion and remarkable green eyes are rendered with luminous delicacy. Her gown is a warm gold-yellow with a deep crimson-burgundy overdress and white sleeves. The ruby and pearl pendant glows against her décolletage. The small unicorn nestles in her lap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Woman_with_Unicorn#/media/File:Raffaello_Sanzio_-_Lady_with_unicorn.jpg

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The Controversial Story of Olympias, Alexander the Great’s Powerful Mother

Olympias, wife of Philip II of Macedon and mother of Alexander the Great, stands out as one of the few women in Hellenistic politics.

by Neil Middleton (from the archives)

https://www.thecollector.com/olympias-mother-alexander-the-great/

Greek history at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=greek+history

#art #history #culture

Olympias presenting the young Alexander the Great to Aristotle, by Gerard Hoet, 1733.

At centre of the painting, Olympias stands in white and pink drapery, gesturing with outstretched hand to present her young son to his future tutor. The small boy in green, curly-haired and eager, reaches back toward his mother while turning to face the bearded philosopher. Aristotle stands opposite in a blue-grey hooded robe, holding what appears to be a scroll or document, receiving the child with grave attention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympias#/media/File:Olympias_presenting_the_young_Alexander_the_Great_to_Aristotle_by_Gerard_Hoet_before_1733_MH.jpg

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193d

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A dark scene: a sky heavy with dull, greenish clouds. Looming up against the clouds are oddly shaped industrial structures: irregular, precarious-looking arrangements of blocks and pipes. They have a few small glowing greenish windows, white lights, and smoking chimneys. In the foreground is a dock jutting out over foggy water. The dock is illuminated by a single greenish street light. Racing towards the street light is a person. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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My 2014 #photo "Petal"—shot on my iPhone 5s—is currently on display at the Northbrook Public Library! On the 1st floor, in the section where, according to the Northbrook Arts Commission, all the special pieces are ;) (the Northbrook Originals exhibition spans the entire library, with works on all three floors). Tonight was the #artist reception,

#Art #MastoArt #FediArt #Arte #Architecture #Building #Buildings #City #Urban #UrbanPhotography #Phohtography #Photos #MobilePhotography #ShotoniPhone

iPhone 12 Pro photo of Jenny Lam's 2014 iPhone 5s photo "Petal" (of the spiral staircase in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago) framed and matted and on display in the community exhibition "Northbrook Originals" at the Northbrook Public Library during the Artist Reception

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Artist Jenny Lam's 2014 photo "Petal," of the spiral staircase in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, shot on iPhone 5s

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195d

🚨 #TechWeenieAlert

“BERLIN (AP) — Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after world-renowned figures — including #ElonMusk, #MarkZuckerberg, #JeffBezos, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso — can be seen roaming around a #Berlin museum, occasionally “pooing” printed images of their surroundings which they’ve previously captured with integrated #cameras.”

#Art 🎨 / #MechaTronics / #electronics / #RoboDogs / #Robots 🤖 / #cameras 📸 / #ApNews <https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-robot-dogs-beeple-bezos-digital-art-4a2be2a4a4490553ad68c27beedfe83a>

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“Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after world-renowned figures — including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso — can be seen roaming around a Berlin museum, occasionally “pooing” printed images of their surroundings which they’ve previously captured with integrated cameras.”

source https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-robot-dogs-beeple-bezos-digital-art-4a2be2a4a4490553ad68c27beedfe83a

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Zeeliedenmonument

#Art #Urban #Photography

A tall, vertical, dark stone cylindrical column with a statue of a man. He has his arms crossed, is leaning slightly forward, and has a seagull sitting on his head. The background is a vast, open sky filled with soft, gray clouds.

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Building Groovie, an Advanced Web-Based Drum Machine / Beat Sequencer via @abnv https://lobste.rs/s/ejx00p #art #web
https://pointersgonewild.com/2026-08-06-building-groovie-an-advanced-web-based-drum-beat-sequencer/

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191d

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214d

Timelapse of my painting "Capybara and Bubbles," painted in Procreate!

#capybara #art #painting #sciart #painting

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214d

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195d

My painting, "Capybara and Mushrooms"! Wouldn't it be cool to have mini Capybaras?

#art #cute #capybara #painting #fungifriends

Painting of a capybara surrounded by large mushrooms in a variety of shapes. The artist's signature and watermark @joyousjoyfuljoyness are at the bottom.

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Paws in the action. #grickledoodle #cats #dogs #mice #introspection #reflect #animals #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

A cartoon illustration of a mouse, dog, and cat all staring together into a mirror, deep in thought. Caption reads "It turned into a day of self-reflection."

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193d

Cat and kitten door knocker, Clun, England

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A photograph of a bronze door knocker on a weathered wooden door. The knocker is shaped like a cat's head holding a smaller, curled-up kitten in its mouth by the scruff.

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What is the bitter surprise in this painting? ☕️|#SHORTS | National Gallery

Join art historian Jacqui Ansell as she brings to life the sensory experience of Lancret’s painting, ‘A Lady in a Garden having Coffee with Children’.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kBLDmyGNoeM

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"A wealthy family enjoy coffee beside a fountain. The mother offers a spoon from her cup to her little daughter. The father sits beside them holding the tray while their servant pours coffee from the pot into his cup. The painting is more likely to be a genre scene than a portrait of a particular family as none of the figures shows any awareness of the viewer, as would be usual in a portrait. The painting used to be known as ‘La Tasse de Chocolat’ (‘The Cup of Chocolate’) until it was noticed that the pot is one generally used for serving coffee.

The sentiment the figures display, their solid positioning in space, the compositional balance between the triangle made by the family group and the circular form of the fountain and the play of strong colours across the picture’s surface make this one of Lancret’s most accomplished paintings."- The National Gallery. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/nicolas-lancret-a-lady-in-a-garden-having-coffee-with-children

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A new abstract. The first one I did that really got me excited about working on abstracts, though I struggled so much with getting the colors just right.

This is so much smaller than how I envision the piece in my head, but was good to figure out what worked and what didn’t. Going to work on a much larger version next.

Four Winds, 2026
Acrylic on Canvas Board, 7 x 9”

#art #abstract #contemporaryArt #mastoart #painting

The painting is divided into three gradient panels in a light warm beige neutral on the left, a darker blueish grey neutral in the center, and even darker warmer grey on the right. On the top & bottom are unfinished borders resembling caution tape. There is a compass circle and lines intersecting the 2nd & third panel and a fine black line that bisects the three panels at the bottom. Over it all are a lot colorful triangle shapes like flying birds and butterflies and fine swooshy black lines showing their trail. Their movement is chaotic.

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Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

"At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the Norman port city to gawk at the pictures he sold through a framing shop: not paintings of haystacks or of the sea or water lilies, but slightly cruel caricatures of local bigwigs and minor celebrities."

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/claude-monet-caricatures/

#art #caricatures

Caricature by Monet of a man smoking a cigar. His head is twice the size of his body and the cigar is huge. The man is seated and turned towards the right.

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212d

It was true. #grickledoodle #chameleon #copy #camouflage #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

A cartoon illustration of a man with a mustache looking at his chameleon in a terrarium who has the same face and mustache as him. Caption reads "The chameleon had gotten quite good."

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212d

Windy Beach

Acrylic on canvas.

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#Art
#Abstract #Landscape

A colour photograph of an abstract landscape painting of a chaotic beach strewn with seaweed under a windy blue sky.

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#art #history: when asked, in 1970, by australian journalist, richard carleton, why the PFLP didn't engage in negotiations with the israeli state, ghassan kanafani (esteemed author & a leading figure of palestine's marxist resistance) explained that to do so would be 'a kind of conversation between the sword & the neck'. ghassan *should have* celebrated his 90th birthday yesterday, but he was assassinated by mossad in 1972.
#ghassanKanafani #literature #palestine #gaza #resistance

digital ink drawing of author & PFLP activist, ghassan kanafani. here, he looks intently at his subject, who seems to be sat slightly to his left.
above him, in a staticky black box, is part of one of his famous citations, paraphrased. in uppercase text, it reads: '(to talk to your oppressors is) a kind of conversation between the sword & the neck'.
colours are black, white medium peach & light cocoa.

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212d

Still Water Ritual, Elena Wuest, Oil on canvas, 2026

#Art #Painting

An impressionistic painting of a person with long dark hair, wearing a white dress, standing in shallow, light blue water. They are leaning forward with cupped hands, catching falling water. The scene is dappled with soft pink and white light, suggesting sunlight filtering through leaves, which creates patterned shadows across their back and arms.

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Enjoy your Saturday, everyone. Maybe do some thrifting today or sit and look at a garden. Feel your inner goat. #grickledoodle #goat #thrifting #saturday #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #nice #humor

A cartoon illustration of a happy goat wearing a coat standing in a thrift store looking at furniture.

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Alfred Stevens, Moonlight,1894.

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A tonalist oil painting of a dark, calm sea under a night sky. A bright, yellowish-white crescent moon is positioned just above the horizon, casting a vertical, shimmering path of light that ripples across the dark water toward the viewer. The sky transitions from a deep charcoal at the top to a murky reddish-brown near the horizon. Small, distant silhouettes of sailing vessels are visible on the water, and the artist's signature is in the bottom left corner.

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