I'm in Europe but feel that this visual message needs spreading... so just ordered a bunch of these buttons and stickers for passing around. Take a look at their website for more positive thoughts to wear and share! dzynwrldbuttons.bigcartel.com

Very interesting video on an artist I was not previously aware of. Her brushstrokes have wonderful detail - as do those of my favourite abstract painter Sean Scully when viewed in the real - and in a way similar to some portrait works by John Bratby... i.e. full of passion!

An entry for the popular #BlueSkyMonday theme... #BlueSkyMonday #Art #Artwork #Collage #ZigZag

Concentrating on a 1,000-piece jig-saw for three evenings (after dinner and wine, of course) is a mentally interesting way of viewing a famous painting, and especially all its many, many fine details... now to shop for another Bruegel, or an equally challenging Bosch! #Art #Jigsaw #BruegelTheElder

It has been dubbed one of the world's rarest treasure troves of art. For decades, masterpieces by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock have been kept in the basement of a museum in Iran's capital Tehran, shrouded in mystery. #Art #ModernArt #Tehran #Iran

I'm reminded of the "From today, painting is dead," quote by the French academic painter Paul Delaroche after he viewed a daguerreotype (photograph) for the first time. Will painting survive the threat of AI this time?

Posted earlier in my photography stream as an interpretation of a film title, which is this week's 'Alphabet Challenge'. Nevertheless, it is an example of my past decade of collage work in notebooks... now numbering 26, and on-going! #Art #Artwork #AbstractArt #Collage #CutAndPaste

Alex Katz (b.1927) an American figurative artist known for his large paintings, divided into portraiture and landscape, whose bold simplicity and heightened colors are considered as precursors to Pop Art. His works seem simple, but according to Katz they are more reductive. #Art #AlexKatz #American

This painting by Samuel John Peploe - Scottish Post-Impressionist and one of the group of four painters known as the Scottish Colourists - really does feel as if there's a strong gale blowing. #Art #Seascape #Barra #Hebrides #Scotland #SamuelPeploe

The Musée Marmottan Monet in the Paris 16th is always a great gallery to visit not least for the permanent Monet collection downstairs. In 2023 the presentation of works by 100 different artists was extraordinary... such detailed work close-up was eye-opening! #Art #Engraving #MarmottanMonet #Paris

Hung this painting in my bedroom office recently to try to warm-up the plain grey wall. It felt odd at first that having painted it seven years ago - doesn't time fly - I hadn't hung it for more than three years... but I'm pleased to see it again. #Artwork #Painting #Abstract #Acrylic #Geometric

Another beautifully produced pair of art books by the German publisher Hatje Cantz Verlag - these two volumes published for the major exhibition of Russian artist Vladimir Tatlin at the Museum Tinguely in Basel in 2012. #VladimirTatlin #HatjeCantz #MuseumTinguely

Cul de Sac acrylic, pastel #womenartists #houses

Philip Guston's 1934 anti-fascist mural, "The Struggle Against Terrorism," hidden for decades behind a false wall in Morelia, Mexico, has been fully restored and unveiled. This powerful artwork addresses themes of persecution and resistance. #PhilipGuston #ArtRestoration #AntiFascistArt #ArtHistory

I don't often express myself with "en plein air" artwork although on three occasions I did try at friend's garden table with my bits and pieces to create a pencil drawing, a water-colour and a collage of a group of buildings in a local town. #Art #Artwork #Drawing #Watercolour #Collage #EnPleinAir

Graham Nickson (1946-2025) was a British artist known for large-scale figurative paintings and drawings. He was a renowned artist and teacher developing the "Drawing Marathon," a two-week program of intensive study. Nickson worked in oils, acrylics, charcoal, and watercolor.

This is the third fanzine I have purchased from Fred Sochard and the quality of the commercial printing is very good. Fred has a super range of graphic products on ETSY. I'm ordering a T-shirt next... and so hoping for better weather! @fredsochard.bsky.social

This huge exhibition changed how I looked at and thought about art... 'modern' became my thing and I have remained that way for the past sixty years. I even used Letraset to add my name and date of visit in a more 'brut' style than my hand-writing. #ModernArt #TateGallery #London

This is the type of 'abstract geometric' composition that stirs my creative juices! #AbstractArt #GeometricArt #Bauhaus #MoholyNagy #Hungarian

The well-illustrated volume accompanying the 2023 retrospective exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, of 'New York School' Robert Motherwell's abstract artwork spanning half a century. #Art #ModernArt #AbstractArt #RobertMotherwell #American #ModernArtMuseumFortWorth

An untitled piece of mixed-media collage - one of a series - using a page torn from an old Spanish language technical text-book overlaid with strips of an old French newspaper plus additional black crayon and red acrylic paintwork. #Art #Artwork #Collage #Newsprint #Acrylic #Crayon #EdBuziak

Art books on my shelves No.020... "The History of Don Quixote", by Cervantes, pub. Cassell & Co. 1885, 855+ pp. My oldest, treasured art book - presented to my grandfather at school in 1899 - with many illustrations by Gustave Doré #Books #BookSky #ArtBook #ArtBookShelf #GustaveDore #DonQuixote

An truly excellent book by Mary Gabriel... I was so impressed with her research, writing and readability I then bought her "Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution" which is equally impressive and gets deep into the hard life of Marx. #Book #BookSky #ArtBook #MaryGabriel

The real-life models for Grant Wood’s American Gothic – Nan Wood Graham (Wood's sister) and Dr Byron McKeeby (Wood's dentist) – sitting in front of the painting at an exhibition at the Cedar Rapids Public Library (Wood's hometown) in 1942

Super short clip on making a... but I'm not going to give a clue... just watch it!

There's some really good collage artwork from John Dummett on his Bluesky stream... have a look! #Art #Artwork #Collage #OutsiderArt

A compilation of creative artworks drawn and painted in sketchbooks by seventy illustrators and which should provide many ideas and inspiration for other creatives - including photographers... and with fully descriptive text on how each artist works. #ArtBook #Sketchbook #Artwork #Illustration

"Less is Known than People Think" is a major exhibition of David Hockney's works at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, from April 9. (Hopefully some personal iPhone reference snaps will be allowed to be taken of Hockney's work, unlike at his show at BOZAR in Bruxelles!) #Art #DavidHockney #British

Interesting artist... In Paris, Ekster became personally acquainted with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. In 1912 under the name Alexandra d'Exter she exhibited works at the Salon de la Section d'Or, Galerie La Boétie, Paris with Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Marcel Duchamp and others.

Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (1908 – 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, director, and voice actor known for directing and producing animated cartoons including Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck during the Golden Age of American animation for Warner Bros and MGM. #Cartoon #Animation #TexAvery

RIP...

Another example of 'outsider art' or 'art brut' viewed at the Halle Saint-Pierre in Montmartre. Their major exhibitions usually have several hundred items and so are on show for six months at a time giving plenty of opportunities to visit. #OutsiderArt #ArtBrut #HalleSaintPierre #Montmartre #Paris

The final issues have been published but from their website, "46pgs. is a magazine that wishes to show passion in words, pictures and letters. Is there a finer tool to represent a thing so beautiful, so cherished, so nurtured than graphic design?" #46pgs #Magazine #Typography #Collage #Graphics

"Outsider" artworks from David Lynch. There are a number of articles on his artwork including one from "Bomb" magazine in April 2015... bombmagazine.org/articles/201...

An image of the late American film director David Lynch working on a lithograph in Paris... the active link below is to the French "Mixte" art magazine.

I like this idea... kudos to Manchester Art Gallery where I spent many a lunch hour in the early '70s. #Art #Hockney #Manchester

Art books on my shelves No.014... "Sean Scully - Metal" a French/English 80-page exhibition catalogue from the Galerie Lelong in Paris. Many writers and critics talk about Scully's art, but you really have to stand in front of it! #Books #BookSky #ArtBook #ArtBookShelf #Artist #SeanScully #Irish

This is so good to see... instead of the growing piles of thrown-away boxes littered around public skips becoming soaked with rain; we could with a little thought, some craft(iness) and a bit of energy, attempt to create... anything, but at least something new! #Art #Sculpture #Cardboard #Box

These look fun... I haven't seen anything really like it on numerous trips on the metros of Paris or Bruxelles... #Art #Artwork #Underground #Tube #Metro #London #UK

This clam-shell box containing 180 illustrated colour plates by Claus Caspari is one of the "Documents d’Histoire Naturelle" series which include Flowers of Europe, Insects and Spiders, Minerals, and possibly others I've never seen. #BookSky #ArtBook #Fungi #Mushrooms #ClausCaspari #Artist #German

I do a lot of collage work in notebooks, but not photo collage. Here, for example, I've drawn diagonal stripes on broad masking tape lightly stuck to a sheet of corrugated cardboard, so by drawing marker pens across the corrugated surface a 'jerky' line is created. #Art #Artwork #MarkerPen #Collage

Suiseki is tightly intertwined with the Japanese art of bonsai, and it is said that they are the twin pillars of the traditional appreciation of the vastness and essence of nature in Japanese culture. #Art #Suiseki #Stones #Japanese

The Museu Apel-les Fenosa is located in a 16th-century palace, the Nin Manor, popularly known as Casa del Portal del Pardo in the town of El Vendrell 72 km from Barcelona and 30 km from Tarragona... www.museuapellesfenosa.cat/en/index-esp... #Art #Sculpture #Fenosa #Spain

There's a small, dark green room in Manchester Art Gallery where visitors can sit and look at the three paintings on the wall and really see them by being encouraged to spend up to 15 minutes with their chosen artwork, one on one. #Art #ArtGallery #MentalHealth #RoomToBreathe #Manchester

British artist Antony Gormley leads a creative masterclass, emphasising the joy of collaboration and experimentation, fostering an environment of play and curiosity, participants explore art-making as a communal process and the joy of creating without expectation. #Art #Sculpture #Gormley #British

Hmm... one small illustrated artwork, a charcoal drawing titled "Reclining Nude, 1912" has flagged this post! The larger image above is also a charcoal drawing and titled "Nude, 1912" but is very abstract in rendition... so no need to close your eyes! #Books #BookSky #ArtBook #Mondrian #Dutch

A revealing book on the history of Louis Vuitton luggage with many famous people's examples from the past. Many know of his handbags (Lady Bracknell too perhaps?) but his travel luggage is something else and accordingly very expensive. #LouisVuitton #Luggage #French

"Add Color - Refugee Boat" created by Yoko Ono in 2019 for the 18th annual River To River Festival in New York. The public was provided with canisters of paint to write their thoughts on the walls, floor and also on the boat. #YokoOno #Artwork #Installation #ParticipatoryArt #Graffiti

This first volume of his catalogue (I've never seen vol.2) is full of the excellent drawings and artworks of Foujita who achieved celebrity status during periods living in Paris especially during the Roaring '20s when associated with the École de Paris. #Foujita #Artist #Japanese #French