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gregcatar.bsky.social gregcatar.bsky.social @gregcatar.bsky.social · Mar 7
Roberta Imperatori
September 26, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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art.feediverse.org Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · Mar 21
The Prophet Zechariah, 1512 #michelangelo #highrenaissance
September 25, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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trahias.bsky.social ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · Mar 26
E. Phillips Fox (Australian, 1865-1915), Nasturtiums. Miss Edith Anderson, Mrs Penleigh Boyd, Reading in the garden,
c. 1912. Oil on canvas, 91.5 cm × 71.5 cm (62.4 in × 47.4 in). Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

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September 24, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Jan 11
2/2 Pensive man with a book, back in 1526, by Parmigianino.
September 29, 2026 at 5:21 AM
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mdstamper.bsky.social Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · Dec 23
“Siesta” by Doris Lee (American) - Oil on canvas / 1944 - National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #BlueskyArt #arte #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #DorisLee #NMWA #AmericanArt #AmericanArtist #NationalMuseumofWomenintheArts #WomenPaintingWomen
A dark-brown–skinned woman reclines on a bed set improbably outdoors, as if a private bedroom has been carried into a meadow. She lies with one arm tucked behind her head, eyes closed, her posture loose and unguarded. A soft peach dress drapes over her body in broad, simplified folds while a wreath of green leaves crowns her hair. Across her torso, a hand fan rests like it has just slipped from use. The bed’s white metal headboard curls into decorative loops, and a patterned blanket of deep blue and warm rust blocks turns the mattress into a quilt-like field of color. In the grass nearby are an open book, a bowl of cherries, elegant shoes, and a stoppered bottle. A tree stump doubles as a bedside table with a wine glass and small dish. A bird perches near the headboard and a rooster stands alert at the foot of the bed, watchful as a living “alarm clock.” Trees and a wide sky frame the scene, making rest feel both expansive and strangely staged. American artist Doris Lee’s folk-art clarity of flattened space, crisp outlines, and punchy patterns makes the painting feel like a memory or a daydream of domestic life, but untethered from walls and rules. The playful bed and meadow mismatch invites questions like is this a real nap, a fantasy of ease, or a portrait of longing for it? The cherries and wine suggest pleasure and abundance just as the open book hints at leisure chosen for the self. Seen in the context of 1944, during a world shaped by war and rationing, the painting can feel like an insistence on softness as a form of endurance so rest is not laziness, but rightful renewal. Lee built a career depicting everyday American life in an accessible, widely loved visual language, so this scene’s “simple” charm is also deliberate craft. By centering a dark-skinned woman in unhurried repose, Lee offers an image of dignity so a body is allowed to be comfortable, protected by the ordinary rituals of comfort, even when those rituals unfold in a surreal, pastoral stage.
May 3, 2026 at 6:20 AM
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hostens.bsky.social Ignace @hostens.bsky.social · Nov 7
Erik Theodor Werenskiold (Norwegian, 1855-1939
“Woman Reading” 1881
May 4, 2026 at 5:28 AM
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hostens.bsky.social Ignace @hostens.bsky.social · Nov 25
Georges Lemmen (Belgian, 1865-1916)
“Model reading in the atelier” 1912
May 2, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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2023chastete.bsky.social Melissa @2023chastete.bsky.social · Mar 31
Afternoon Pastimes
by Knud Erik Larsen
September 27, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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gregcatar.bsky.social gregcatar.bsky.social @gregcatar.bsky.social · Feb 21
Lisefischer
A quiet evening
May 11, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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hostens.bsky.social Ignace @hostens.bsky.social · Mar 6
Helene Schjerfbeck (Finnish, 1862-1946)
“Konfirmanden” 1891
August 4, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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gregcatar.bsky.social gregcatar.bsky.social @gregcatar.bsky.social · Jun 20
Brunna Mancuso

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September 20, 2026 at 7:26 AM
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hostens.bsky.social Ignace @hostens.bsky.social · Dec 1
Henri Matisse
“The Silence that Lives in Houses” 1947
May 10, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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2023chastete.bsky.social Melissa @2023chastete.bsky.social · Feb 8
Portia in a Pink Blouse (1942)
by Guy Pene du Bois
May 1, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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September 22, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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mdstamper.bsky.social Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · Feb 21
“海辺の二少女 (Two Girls by the Sea)” by 香風 / Kafū (Japanese) - Ink and color on silk / c. 1920s - Honolulu Museum of Art (Honolulu, Hawaii) #WomenInArt #香風 #Kafu #HonoluluMuseumOfArt #Nihonga #TaishoArt #BeachArt #art #artText #arte #BlueskyArt #bskyart #JapaneseArt #JapaneseArtist #日本画 #美人画 #HoMA #1920s
Two Japanese girls sit close together on a sandy shore, angled inward over an open book they read together. The girl at left, with a short bob hairstyle, wears a dark green “Western-style” dress with a wide white lace-trimmed collar and black strap shoes; her short bob frames a softly lowered face. The girl at right wears a patterned kimono in black, gold, and rust tones, with a long dark braid falling over her shoulder. Her red sandals and the kimono’s layered design contrast with her companion’s “modern” 1920s dress and shoes. White flowers bloom in the grasses around them, and one flower rests across the book’s pages. Behind them, calm light blue water, distant mountains, white sails, and a small steamship stretch across a pale horizon. Their expressions are quiet and focused, creating an intimate, reflective mood shaped more by shared attention than by posed display. The fashion difference is very much worth discussing, because it is one of the painting’s central ideas. The pairing of a Western-style dress and a kimono visualizes a modern Japanese world in transition during the Taishō/early Shōwa period, when imported styles and established cultural forms coexisted in everyday life. The contrast is gentle, not polemical as the two girls are companions, not opposites. Their shared book and downward gazes suggest learning, memory, and interior life, while the shoreline acts as a threshold space between land and sea, tradition and modernity, or possibly childhood and adulthood. The flowers and soft light add tenderness, but the steamship and sails subtly anchor the scene in a changing world. Little is known about the Japanese artist 香風 (romanized to Kafü or Kafū), but their signature …and ability to share a wonderfully beautiful youthful moment on silk … is clear.
May 30, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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mdstamper.bsky.social Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · Sep 9
Omakuva (Self-portrait) by Olga Gummerus-Ehrström (Finnish) - Oil on canvas / 1908 - Helsinki University Museum (Finland) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #art #WomensArt #artwork #selfportrait #OlgaGummerus-Ehrström #Ehrström #FinnishArtist #artText #HelsinkiUniversityMuseum #HelsinkiUniversity #Arppeanum
This self-portrait by Finnish artist Olga Gummerus-Ehrström depicts herself turned toward the left with her head turned facing us. She has smooth dark hair parted center and styled in low, rounded waves framing her face. Her large, dark eyes gaze outward with a calm, direct expression. She wears a high-necked dark garment with horizontal bands and a small white ruffle at the collar. Behind her to the right, a warmly lit interior scene shows a book-lined shelf and a doorway into a dimly lit adjoining room, lending depth and quiet domestic intimacy. Gummerus-Ehrström was a Finnish painter and graphic artist whose career bridged the late 19th-century academic tradition and the modernist shifts of the early 20th century. Born in Jyväskylä, she studied at the Finnish Art Society’s Drawing School and continued her training in Paris, where exposure to Symbolism and Art Nouveau broadened her aesthetic vocabulary. By 1908, when she painted this self-portrait, she was entering a pivotal stage of her life. That year, she married fellow artist Eric O. W. Ehrström, beginning a personal and creative partnership that would shape her trajectory. This portrait reflects this moment of transition: her direct gaze conveys self-assurance, while the domestic backdrop hints at the merging of personal and artistic identity. In these years, Gummerus-Ehrström was deeply involved in Finland’s cultural awakening, part of a generation asserting national identity through the arts during a time of political tension under Russian rule. Her work extended beyond easel painting into stained glass, graphic design, and applied arts, aligning with the ideals of the Gesamtkunstwerk—art as a total environment. She became known for her portraits, which combined psychological insight with refined composition. Though she never reached great international fame, her legacy endures in Finnish collections as a reminder of women artists’ contributions in shaping a visual language of Finnish independence.
May 8, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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Woman Reading with Peaches, 1923 #matisse #henrimatisse
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