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The Harvest by Vincent van Gogh, June 1888, Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

#ArtHistory #ModernArt #PostImpressionism

This painting is on view in the exhibition Vincent’s Path to Fame from 12 June until 6 September 2026.
You can almost feel the dryness and heat in this painting of the flat landscape around Arles in the south of France. Van Gogh combined the azure blue of the sky with yellow and green tones for the land to capture the atmosphere of a summer’s day. He worked in the wheatfields for days at a time under the burning sun. This was an immensely productive period, in which he completed ten paintings and five drawings in just over a week, until a heavy storm brought the harvest season to an end. Van Gogh wanted to show peasant life and work on the land – a recurring theme in his art – and painted several stages of the harvest. We see a half mowed wheatfield, ladders and several carts. A reaper works in the background, which is why he titled the work La moisson or 'The Harvest'. Van Gogh considered it one of his most successful paintings, writing to his brother Theo that the ‘canvas absolutely kills all the rest’.
August 26, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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The Olive Trees by Vincent van Gogh, 1889, MoMA-The Museum of Modern Art

#ArtHistory #ModernArt
#PostImpressionism
In the blazing heat of this Mediterranean afternoon, nothing rests. Against a ground scored as if by some invisible torrent, intense green olive trees twist and crimp, capped by the rolling, dwindling hillocks of the Alpilles, beneath a light-washed sky with a bundled, ectoplasmic cloud. After van Gogh voluntarily entered the asylum at Saint-Rémy in the south of France in the spring of 1889, he wrote his brother Theo: "I did a landscape with olive trees and also a new study of a starry sky." Later, when the pictures had dried, he sent both of them to Theo in Paris, noting: "The olive trees with the white cloud and the mountains behind, as well as the rise of the moon and the night effect, are exaggerations from the point of view of the general arrangement; the outlines are accentuated as in some old woodcuts." Van Gogh's letters make it clear that he created this particular intense vista of the southern French landscape as a daylight partner to the visionary nocturne of his more famous canvas, The Starry Night. He felt that both pictures showed, in complementary ways, the principles he shared with his fellow painter Paul Gauguin, regarding the freedom of the artist to go beyond "the photographic and silly perfection of some painters" and intensify the experience of color and linear rhythms.
September 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it!

10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :)

#history #archeology #arthistory #museums
June 7, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #MuseumSky

Goodnight, Blueskyers

— Paul Klee, "Moonlight" (1919)
Paul Klee, "Moonlight" (1919) • An abstract painting featuring a mosaic grid of interlocking geometric shapes in gorgeous shades of blue and violet. A distinctly yellow moon glows in the upper section, nested within the blocky, fragmented forms that suggest a nighttime landscape or rooftops.
July 13, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May (1908) by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917).
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A painting of a woman in a green dress holding pink roses.
March 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Morning Sun by Edward Hopper, 1952, Columbus Museum of Art (Ohio)

##ArtHistory #ModernArt #Modernism #Neoclassicism
A woman sits on a bed, facing sunlight coming in from the window. She is wearing a coral-colored dress and her hair is in a simple bun. Her face, in profile, has a contemplative expression. Hopper's paintings often depict one solitary figure. The loneliness evoked in his paintings create an uncanny urban scene. The painting may be a reference to Edgar Degas’s Woman at a Window. It is known that his wife Jo gifted him a book on Degas's art before he created Morning Sun. Both Degas's and Hopper's paintings feature a woman whose profile is highlighted by a nearby window.
September 25, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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Guten Morgen!
Gustav Kampmann, * 30.9.1859 in Boppard; † 12.8.1917 in Bad Godesberg, war ein deutscher Landschaftsmaler und Graphiker 🎨🇩🇪
Blaue Luft, 1907 🖼️
Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe 🏛️
#OTD #ArtHistory #LandscapePainting #BskyArt #History #Museum
Blaue Luft
September 30, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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Monet's Impressionism

#hashtag #bluesky #art #monetartexhibition #claudemonet #contemporarypainting #impressionist #waterlilies #arthistory #skybluephotography #arthistory #vincentvangogh #french #paris
January 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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March theme: When Life Gives You Lemons...
WAYNE THIEBAUD (1920 – 2021), “Cut Meringues”, 1961. Museum of Modern Art, New York City US.
#arthistory #art #Lemons #PopArt
MO Wayne Thiebaud was the G.O.A.T. at capturing the essence of delicious food products. His pies, cakes, ice creams, etc. are luscious and tempting: I can almost smell them! Best of all, zero calories. Thiebaud was a Californian, through and through, and his paintings capture the light and zeitgeist of 20th century living on the West Coast. Considered a Pop artist, Thiebaud’s subject matter is straightforward – like Warhol’s soup cans – but his handling of paint is not the usual Pop Art visual. Thiebaud used thickly applied paint to create painterly versions of delectable meringue pies in “Cut Meringues”. He used color – not quite black and not quite white – to create shadows and dimension and repetition to forge a geometric pattern that looks as good as it undoubtedly tastes. So maybe Thiebaud’s message to us is that when life gives you lemons, whip up some lemon meringue pies!
March 26, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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#ArtHistory 🗃️

In Paris, a young woman pauses from her work to look out the window—a symbol of transition. To convey her contemplative mood, the artist creates a contrast between her strong, rigid arm and the undulating, sagging outline of her back.

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, "The Laundress" (1889)
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, "The Laundress" (1889) • This painting depicts an auburn-haired woman in a white shirt and black skirt leaning over a laundry table, looking out the window. Her body language, not her face (which is seen in profile), conveys her introspective mood. • The artist used soft colors and gentle brushstrokes to create a surprisingly modern, intimate scene.
December 3, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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I am so thrilled to have been part of Emma Rutherford’s research team to reidentify this stunning portrait as Princess Mary, the future Queen Mary I. Displayed at Compton Verney, we argue that it was painted by Susannah Horenbout in c.1546 and is a rare example of her work. #Tudor #ArtHistory #MaryI
A newly identified portrait of Princess Mary, later Queen Mary I. Mary is wearing a black court gown with an embroidered, upturned collar. She has a black French hood, and a very distinctive cross set with five diamonds. Mary was gifted this cross in 1546 by her father, King Henry VII.
November 17, 2024 at 10:03 AM
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American artist
Eyvind Earle
Unknown title or year

#artist #painting #illustration #graphicstyle #painting #arthistory
#art #oil #serigraph
September 11, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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French painter Berthe Morisot died #OTD in 1895.

Acclaimed Impressionist who captured light, intimacy & everyday life with breathtaking brushwork. Only woman to exhibit her work at the first Impressionist exhibition (1874) alongside Monet, Renoir, and Degas. #art #ArtHistory #Impressionism #WHM
Vintage black-and-white studio portrait photograph of a young Berthe Morisot in the late 1860s or early 1870s, posed elegantly beside an ornate carved Victorian chair with twisted spindles and dark velvet upholstery. She is a poised woman in her 20s or early 30s with dark curly hair styled in an upswept fashionable manner, wearing a long-sleeved dark satin or silk dress with button detailing and a full, sweeping skirt. She leans gracefully on the chair arm with both hands, gazing directly to her left with a serious, introspective expression. The opulent interior background features paneled walls, evoking her bourgeois Parisian upbringing and her emergence as a key figure in Impressionism. Impressionist oil painting "Woman at Her Toilette" (1875–1880) by Berthe Morisot, showing a young woman viewed from behind as she sits at her dressing table, arranging her hair in front of a large mirror. She wears an off-the-shoulder white gown with blue ribbon accents, her bare back and shoulders softly rendered in luminous, loose brushstrokes of white, cream, pink, and pale blue. The vanity holds a glass perfume bottle, flowers, and toiletries; the background dissolves into a dreamy swirl of pastel floral wallpaper, light reflections, and airy colors. The composition captures intimate, everyday feminine ritual with fleeting light and vibrant, sketch-like Impressionist technique, emphasizing privacy, elegance, and modern womanhood.
March 2, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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Artist Franz Marc
Four Foxes
1913 Expressionism
Watercolor
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)
Movement

#Art #artist #Arthistory #artist #painting
#watercolor
December 8, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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Fetish art isn't new.

Reason No. 1,376 why comprehensive history and sex education is important!
🧡🖤

#sexeducation #arthistory #CharlesGibson #entomology #giantess #fetishart #tinyman #sizefetish #mserinireland #femdom
A black & white drawing of four early 20th century ladies examining a small specimen with a hat pin and a magnifying glass. The text above reads "Modern Prude: You never used to see major artists publishing their obvious fetish art.", then "Charles Dana Gibson, 1903: the Young Man Imagines Himself the Latest Victim of Some Fair Entomologist".
October 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Artist Maurice de Vlaminck
Rue de village sous la neige
1936
Expressionism
Fauvist movement

#Art #artist #Arthistory #expressionism #painting
January 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Monday Maufra.
Maxime Maufra.
A French painter you may not know…
Autumn Flowers. 1902.
Private Collection.
❤️💚🤎💛🤍🩶

#art #painting #arthistory
#fall #garden #impressionism
#Frenchimpressionism
Flowers of Autumn. 1902. Maxime Maufra (1861-1918). Private Collection. Maufra was a French landscape painter, influenced by the impressionists. This painting depicts a walkway, white, red and gold flowers in a bed and a small greenhouse. Different colored trees are in the background.
September 28, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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'The Artist's Daughter with a Parakeet' by Berthe Morisot, 1890 #painting #paintings #art #arts #artwork #artlover #artists #artist #artmuseum #artmuseums #museum #museums #artwor #illustration #arthistory #history
a painting of a young teenage girl wearing a light orange and yellow dress, looing at the viewer, a small green bird with an orange face in a small cage sitting on a post behind her, she is looing at the viewer with a calm expression, it is done in an impressionist style, emerald green and tan brush stroke background
April 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Police report, Rome, May 1605: Caravaggio arrested for carrying a sword and dagger without a permit on Via del Corso, Rome 🗃️ #earlymodern #arthistory
Detail of an archival document indicating the painter Caravaggio was arrested, including a drawing of a sword and a dagger in the margins
February 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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🦁 🦅 Gold signet ring depicting a flying griffin & a female figure, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion.

A griffin is a mythical creature w/ the wings, head & front claws of an eagle combined w/ the body of a #lion

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #lion #cat #art #caturday 🏺 #Greek #archaeology
Gold signet (=small seal) ring depicting a flying griffin & a female figure, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion.
March 21, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Artist August Macke
Street with Church in Kandern
1911 Expressionism
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)
Movement

#Art #artist #Arthistory #expressionism #painting
December 13, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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Wall of Light Desert Night by Sean Scully, 1999, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Texas)

#ArtHistory #ContemporaryArt #ColorFieldPainting #AbstractArt
This piece belongs to Scully's famous Wall of Light series, which merges the solid feel of ancient stone walls with the soft, glowing nature of light. Deep velvety blues represent the night sky, sun-bleached tones evoke the ground, and shimmering grays suggest moonlit desert plants. The work was inspired by a night drive into the Nevada desert and the Valley of Fire during a trip to Las Vegas.
September 30, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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Flowers, Italy by Joseph Stella, 1931, Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ)

#ArtHistory #ModernArt #Precisionism
Order and symmetry are in constant tension with the spontaneity of organic ornamentation. The canvas overflows with colorful depictions of flowers and birds within a setting evoking Gothic architecture: pillars of gnarled tree trunks extend outward from the center, as if aisles of a cathedral. Lupine, gladiolas, and birds-of-paradise fill the vertical spaces with a spectrum of colors simulating stained glass windows. Like a congregation in the pews, a host of smaller flowers and plants are gathered below.
June 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Found on a galatian (Celtic) site in Castro de Santa Trenga Spain, these petroglyphs were made around 2300 BC. The art style remained throughout celtic artwork.
#archaeology #arthistory #druidsky /|\ #pagansky #witchsky #occultsky #spain
April 22, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi: one of the most brilliant 17th-C storyteller artists.

While her female contemporaries were restricted to painting safe, polite subjects, she specialized in large-scale history & biblical paintings. She was lost to #ArtHistory for centuries...1/3 🧵
This powerful Baroque oil painting is Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1615–1617) by the pioneering Italian master Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–c. 1656), known for her subversion of traditional gender roles in art. Set against a dark, minimalist background, the three-quarter portrait depicts the artist physically embodying the 4th-century martyr. Facing the viewer directly, her expression is resolute, defying the typical passive representations of women from the era. She wears a rich, deep-plum gown with rolled white sleeves, draped in an ochre cloak, and a light-colored turban topped by a subtle, spiked golden halo. Her right hand firmly grips a long, slender green palm frond—the traditional symbol of martyrdom—while her left hand rests deliberately upon a broken, iron-spiked wooden wheel, the instrument of Saint Catherine's attempted torture. The tight composition and dramatic lighting evoke a solemn, proud, and fiercely resilient mood.
July 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM