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The size of Earth compared to the rings of Saturn.

Book Cover of the Day:

Ewa Juszkiewicz Untitled, 2013
130x100cm One of the best-known contemporary Polish artists. #Juszkiewicz reinterprets 18th- and 19th-century portrayals of women, replacing faces with hair, flowers, shells, or fabrics to challenge their reduction to anonymous objects of beauty. #Art #Surrealistic

Liu Xue We are the world (series of sculptures) 2013-2016 Hybrid beings. A human head with animal appendage. Absurdity and drama. A man is merged with a pig, a woman with a chicken, a man with a dog... Grotesque. Elegant. Disturbing. #LiuXue #Sculptures #Art #Anthropomorphy #WeAreTheWorld

Snail Scott 'Ghost Construct' ceramic and cast glass 42" tall #Art #SnailScott #Sculpture

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée Mélancholy (1785) 50 x 63 cm #Rococo #Melancholy #Lagrenee #Art #ArtOfBluesky

Vantablack coating is claimed to be the world's darkest material. Surrey NanoSystems invented the coatings—unique in being super-black and retain uniform light absorption from almost all viewing angles. Exclusive rights to use #Vantablack artistically were granted to Anish Kapoor. #AnishKapoor

Bertha Wegmann Despair (1902) 47x52cm #Despair #ArtofBluesky #Art #BerthaWegman #1900s

Ilya Repin Ivan the Terrible and His Son (1885) 199×254cm Ivan the Terrible (ruthless&paranoid) cradles his son in horror and remorse after fatally striking him in rage—either over a dress code misconduct (resulting in miscarriage) or over the son’s rising influence, threatening his authority. #Art

Jan #Matejko Stańczyk (1862) 120x88cm #Stańczyk the court jester used satire to comment on politics. His solemn state contrasts with the ball in the background: the letter likely announces the news that Russia took #Smolensk. The jester realizes its significance—while rulers party. #PolishArt #Art

Edward Hopper Automat (71×91cm) First displayed on Valentine's Day 1927 Urban isolation. Solitude. Light and shadow. The window, dominating the painting, showing complete emptiness. Captivating simplicity. #EdwardHopper #Hopper #Automat #Loneliness #Isolation #Art #Paintings #AmericanModernism

Julie de Graag Dripping Mushroom (1916) Woodcut #Woodcut #Jugendstil #JulieDeGraag #Art #Mushrooms

The evolution of the Moon. 4.5 billion years in 2 minutes. Credit: NASA Goddard

Shiro Kasamatsu Leek Flowers (Cat and Leeks) - 1958 One of the artist’s most sought-after self-printed works. Produced in several editions, this 2nd edition has been printed in grays whereas the 1st and 3rd edition were in shades of blue. #Kasamatsu #Cat #Woodcut #Art #JapaneseArt #LeekFlowers

Ramon Casas i Carbó Madeleine. L'absenta. (1892) (Au Moulin de la Galette) depicting Madeleine de Boisguillaume 117x90cm #Art #Paintings #RamonCasasiCarbo #Casas #Impressionism

Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind. Credit: NASA Goddard

Edouard Vuillard In bed (1891) 92x74cm #InBed #Vuillard #Art

Marianne von Werefkin  The ragpicker (1917) Also called The Rag-and-Bone Man #art #paintings #werefkin #20thcenturyart

Angst Alfred Kubin, 1903

Sinantropías, 2023 - by Txema Salvans (1971), Spanish

Artemisia #Gentileschi Mary Magdalene as #Melancholy (1622-1625) 100x136cm "… I have one more intimate confidant-my melancholy. In the midst of my joy she waves to me, calls me to one side, even though physically I stay put. My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known…"
- #Kierkegaard

Vilhelm Hammershøi Rest (1905) 49 x 46 cm Domestic stillness. A sense of melancholy. Introspection. Privacy. The burden of existence. This “painter of silence” was remarked on his retiring manner and reluctance to talk. #art #melancholy #Hammershoi

Gustave Courbet The Desperate Man (1843-1844) Self portrait at 24yo 45×54cm "Through this laughing mask that you know me with, I hide the sorrow, the bitterness, and the sadness that grips the heart like a vampire from within." - Courbet (in a letter to Alfred Bruyas) #GustaveCourbet #despair

Japanese paper artist Chie Hitotsuyama: “I make small, twisted paper strips by moistening and twisting thin newspaper parts. I change the thickness of those paper strips according to the body parts. Twisting such pages, I’m aiming to achieve expressions of color, including gradations.” #sculptures

Instead of it being a purely negative experience, Louise Bourgeois (well in her 80s) created a "drawing diary", with over 220 drawings during her hours of sleeplessness. #theinsomniadrawings #insomnia #louisebourgeois #art #drawings

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on June 10, 1967.

Thierry Lechanteur #photography #ai #art

The Stork Club Bar Book by Lucius Beebe (1946) Design by Paul Rand

Goodnight. 🖼️ Moonlight, Henri-Joseph Harpignies, 1889.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens, seen shortly after 8:32 am Sunday, 18 May 1980, probably along the forest roads of Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The photographer, Richard Lasher, survived the eruption that killed approximately 57 others. Imagine seeing this in person. Imagine *hearing* it.

The Bather (1877) by Gustave Caillebotte

Francis Bacon Study after #Velázquez 's Portrait of #Pope Innocent X (1953) #Bacon —an atheist— clarified he had nothing against popes but merely sought "an excuse to use these colours, and you can't give ordinary clothes thát purple colour without getting into a sort of false fauve manner". #Art

Neighborhood watch.. 😊

#dEUS #Belgium #Music #❤️ #SudsAndSoda #WorstCaseScenario

Giuseppe #Arcimboldo The #Librarian (1566, 97×71cm) A triumph of #AbstractArt in the 16th century. He painted portraits by painting an assemblage of objects such as fruits and vegetables, flowers, or in this case, books. The objects typically had some connection to the person's life or depiction.

William James Webbe The White Owl (1856, 45x26cm) 'Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits' #WhiteOwl #Art #Nature #Owls #WilliamJWebbe

#AsianHornet #Nature #Insects #Larvae #Wasps

The rescue cat Charlie: “He loves tuna and is scared of ants.” — Lola Dupré #Cats #Art #RedCats #LolaDupre #CollageArt

Movie Note: ‘Conclave’: Say what you will, they’re snappy dressers.

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

#Books #Diary

A hippo as a ‘muse’ started out as a joke. #LeslieSealey was participating in an online art forum about what would be needed to make the ultimate top-selling painting. Result: 1. A landscape 2. A body of water 3. George Washington 4. A hippo, for an animal #Hippo #ContemporaryArt #Art #Paintings

Paul Weiner Charcoal on canvas #Art #ContemporaryArt #ModernArt #PaulWeiner

"The Empty Library," located in Berlin's Bebelplatz marks where Nazi Party students burned 20,000 books on May 10, 1933. "Where you burn books, you end up burning men" -Heinrich Heine (1820)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Nocturne in Black and Gold- The Falling Rocket, 1875 - oil on wood

Ferdinand #Keller #Selene (1886, 76x110cm) A scene from the novel The Emperor by Georg Eber. “Something which as she approached it resembled a dog, and which was larger—much larger—than a dog should be.” She attempts to flee but is violently struck down, dying where she lay. #Dogs #Books #Art

Barnard 68…The dark hole in the Space It is not actually a hole but a molecular cloud that is so dark no light can pierce through it, leaving the stars and galaxies behind it invisible from our view.

Earth Day’s 2025 theme is Our Power, Our Planet. Hello, Earth! Hello, Earth! Watching storms start to form Over America Can't do anything Just watch them swing with the wind out to sea... Hello, Earth Hello, Earth - Kate Bush www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWsf...