Jaq - Art &c

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If you must use Al (don't) or know someone who does and blindly believes whatever it says, before asking it a question, ask it why you shouldn't trust what it will tell you.
Claude, sonnet 4.6:

Édouard Vuillard, The Newspaper, 1896-98, showing a woman reading a newspaper in a decorated interior

If I were to recommend only a single exhibition in NYC right now it wouldn't be a big, splashy museum presentation but rather a small, ravishing show of Édouard Vuillard's early interiors at Skarstedt in Chelsea. Absolutely stupendous. Open through April 25 (thread) www.skarstedt.com/exhibitions/...

Everett Longley Warner (1877-1963)
Rain

Noori Al-Rawi (1925-2014)
Townscape at Night

William S. Schwartz (1896–1977)
Outskirts of a City 1927

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)
View from Vincent's Studio 1886

Two decades after one of the biggest art thefts in Brazilian history, the statute of limitations has expired. This means no one will ever face prison time for stealing five works by Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso in 2006.

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Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar (1911-1996)
Peacock

Henri Evenepoel (1872-1899)
La chambre d'artiste, c.1891-92

James Proudfoot (1908-1971)
The Burnt Out House 1949

John Bold (1895-1979)
Maiden Castle, 1964

Auguste Herbin (1882-1960)
Moulin en Hollande, 1908

Jehangir Sabavala (1922-2011), The Casuarina Line II,

This is a wood-block print of "Broadstairs" by Elwin Hawthorne from c.1931. When I first showed it online it was untitled but, after a while a follower identified it as being a view of Broadstairs which, once one knows that, is instantly recognisable! #ElwinHawthorne #Broadstairs

Gustav Wunderwald (1882-1945),
Grünewaldstrasse, Berlin-Westend, 1918

#Berlin

Dessin en noir et blanc de Karl Nordstrôm d'un paysage rural avec un ciel nuageux. Un pont en bois traverse un cours d'eau calme, avec une colline en arrière-plan. Deux structures de ferme apparaissent sur les collines, créant une atmosphère sereine et mélancolique.

Focus Collections • Lumière du nord. Dessins scandinaves et hollandais
Jusqu'au 10 mai 👉 https://bit.ly/LumiereduNord_Orsay

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🎨Karl Nordström
Les Environs de Stockholm (1904)
97 x 125 cm (avec cadre)
© Musée d’Orsay, dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Sophie Crépy

Well this answers the question I posted earlier when I thought all of my art posts had been wiped 🙃

oh thank you. I wonder why I can't? So strange.

Emily Carr (1871-1945),
Happiness, 1939.

Leonid and Rimma Brailowsky
1867-1937 and 1877-1959
Moscow Blue

Lesser Ury (1861-1931),
Thunderstorm on Lake Garda, c.1890

Jean Dufy (1888-1964),
Paysage

Leon Wyczółkowski (1852-1936),
Jaremcze, 1910

Karl Heinz Krug (1915-1967)
Das Licht der Ile de France (The Light of the Ile de France)

James Proudfoot (1908-1971),
Sun on a House, Dieppe, 1937

John Piper (1903-1992)
Cheltenham, Composite of Houses in Priory Parade and Elsewhere (1949)

Joaquín Mir (1873-1940)
The Artist’s House, Vilanova i la Geltrú c.1922

My photo shows part of a limestone wall panel carved in bas relief from the Fifth Dynasty mortuary temple of king Userkaf at Saqqara, Old Kingdom, 2465-2458 BC. It shows a Hoopoe, a crested bird with black and white wing pattern, and an ibis, with long curved beak, amongst papyrus plants in the marshes of the river Nile. My photo was taken in 2022 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Lovely naturalistic relief of a Hoopoe and Ibis, carved by an Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago!

Limestone wall relief from the 5th Dynasty mortuary temple of Userkaf at Saqqara. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me

#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology

The Clarendon Building at twilight featuring its coloumns and a muse figure on the roof. The statute appears to be holding up the full moon, creating an optical illusion.

The perfect spot at the perfect time!

Thank you for this fantastic picture of the Clarendon Building, Kshitij Mohan 👏

📸 | kshitijmohan.oxford (Instagram)