I love owls and I love owl pictures. This one is an inhabitant of the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, painted by Moses Haughton (the Elder) around 1780 or 90. Isn't she adorable? #OwlMonday #OwlPainting #art #18thCentury

Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt

Stanisław Masłowski Moonrise, 1884 Good night take care🌙

I like this picture. But I can't believe that I fell for it: it's F+++ing AI. I am very disappointed in myself. And in this picture.

Painted in 1913, 'Corner of the Church of San Stae, Venice,' John Singer Sargent has abandoned the 18thC panoramic tradition and painted a cropped version of the church, creating a more visually dynamic and arresting viewpoint.

View of Arles with Trees in Blossom - 1888 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14494

Fotografie von Franz oder Mary von Stuck, die Tilla Durieux in der Rolle der Circe zeigt, ca. 1912 Tilla Durieux konnte das fertige Bild übrigens nicht ausstehen. Wer mehr darüber wissen will, kann hier lesen: little-arthistories.com/2025/tilla-d...

Ich schreibe an einem Posting, den ich schon lange schreiben wollte: Über Pigmente. Nicht hochwissenschaftlich, eher informativ. Just for fun. Und das Fazit: Menschen können wahrhaftig abgrundtief ekelhaft sein. Bäh.

Giovanni Segantini, The Evil Mothers, 1894, Belvedere

Today is Halloween. Time for creepy things Fris, Pieter, Orpheus and Eurydice in the Underworld 1652. Museo del Prado

More relevant than ever… 🎃🎃🎃

Althea Gyles (right) with Constance Markiewicz c.1898. Gyles, Irish poet and artist, friend of Oscar Wilde. Markiewicz was an Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, the first woman elected to the Westminster Parliament #womensart

Always interesting to get a glimpse behind the scenes youtu.be/8r4NXfZs5qA?...

I don't know what it is but I love this picture as well. Did you know that they made around 8000 copies of it?

It's kind of fascinating and pretty impressive on one hand. On the other hand though - I don't know if I personally like it. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/06/jacq...

Poète maudit: Arthur Rimbaud, influential French symbolist poet, author of Le Bateau Ivre, Les Illuminations, born #OTD 1854; inspired TS Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Nabokov, Camus. Painted (second from left, beside Verlaine) by Fantin-Latour 1872. @museeorsay.bsky.social Rue Ferou, Saint-Germain, Paris

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

The sense that a subject has been seized from life’s continuum became one of the essential criteria of Edwardian portraits. In this work of 'A Cornish Boy,' (1917) Harold Knight painted his sitter wearing a hat typical of Newlyn fishermen.

Great Peacock Moth - 1889 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14569

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Portrait of a very good boy. #art #illustration

Honoré Daumier, Horsemeat is a Healthy and Easily Digestible Food, 1856

Until Honoré Daumier entered the scene, the art of caricature was mainly the domain of the Brits. One of his caricatures landed him six months in prison: he drew the king as a gluttonous Gargantua. Honoré Daumier, Gargantua, 16 December 1831 Gazette Drouot

'Avenue de la Republique, Paris.' A contemporary writer (this is from 1915) noted of Luigi Loir, ‘One can say of this master that he created a genre: ‘parisianism’...he is, in effect, the painter of Paris par excellence, often momentary and fleeting scenes are no secret to him.’

Yayoi Kusama with her artwork Pumpkin, 2010 #womensart

In 1880, Mortimer Menpes befriended James McNeill Whistler, under his influence he began incorporating motifs and techniques of Japanese art into his work. In 1887, he travelled to Japan to witness its culture first-hand and produced many paintings including 'Flower of the Tea.'

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October. - Virginia Woolf #Womensart

'Heart of the Dragon, Socotra, Yemen' by photographer Beth Moon on her fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees of the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa #WomensArt

"Black is the most essential color" as Odilon Redon once said. Between 1870-1890 he created a series of drawings and lithographs he called "noirs", some of them are really, really strange, touching on the realms of dreams. Odilon Redon, The Crying Spider, 1881, Private Collection #Redon #Drawing

'Rusty Stream and White Pebbles,' was painted in the late autumn of 1921, a year after Félix Vallotton chose to spend his winter months in Cagnes. Used to the low, grey skies of Normandy, he was struck by the brilliance of the light in this part of France.

#Delacroix is one of the most famous painters of 19th-century France. He also produced illustrations – although Delacroix's illustrations were not well received in his homeland, #Goethe greatly appreciated his illustrations for Faust, he found them ‘whimsical’. #Delacroix #Lithography

Mary Cassatt, The Letter, 1890. The Impressionist painter and printmaker was inspired by Japanese woodblock prints for the style, layout, and colours of her work in print #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Music and politics expert here. There is no music that is free from politics, because music is a human construct and whether or not we like to admit it, humans are all affected intimately by politics. Even music without words can express political ideas. You’re just noticing it for the first time.

Brera Madonna: early Renaissance altarpiece 1472, of faultless architectural proportion, with symbolic suspended egg; for donor Federico da Montefeltro,Duke of Urbino (kneeling) by Piero della Francesca, whose mastery of perspective drew on mathematics & geometry; died #OTD 1492. Pinacoteca di Brera

Franz von Stuck, Lucifer, 1890, National Art Gallery of Bulgaria #darkPhase #FranzvonStuck #Lucifer #ArtWork #Creepy

James Ensor, Skeletons Fighting over a Pickled Herring, 1891, oil on panel Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique #Ensor #ArtWork #Skeletons #weird

Pierre Bonnard, Le Chat blanc (The white cat), 1894 oil on carton, Musée d'Orsay

Armer Trump, hat er ihn dieses Jahr wieder nicht bekommen 😂

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT." -Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

Today's favorite artwork is by Hokusai. I love this old tiger. He looks so smug while dancing through the snow. It is one of Hokusai's last works, he created this in 1849, when he was already 88 years old, shortly before he died. #hokusai #tiger #artwork #silkpainting

This work by Félix Vallotton was on the cover of the satirical weekly newspaper Le Cri de Paris on January 23, 1898 - it was a reaction of immediate support for Émile Zola's famous J'accuse! letter after Captain Alfred Dreyfus had been found guilty of treason.

Hana Choi (S. Korean, b.2003) "The Most Private Room, the Loudest Thoughts," 2025 Oil on linen 24.2 x 24.2 cm #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Mika Hoshi, Evening News (oil and acrylic, 2011)

John William Waterhouse, Circe bietet Odysseus den Kelch an, 1891, Gallery Oldham, UK Und wer mag, ist herzlich eingeladen, meinen Blogbeitrag zum Thema zu lesen. Ich würde mich über Besucher freuen. little-arthistories.com/2025/waterho... #waterhouse #Circe #FemmeFatale #Art #ArtHistory

Salvator Rosa, The Witch, c. 1646, Musei Capitolini #spooky #witch #SalvatorRosa #Art

Artemesia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1620 #womensart

Henri Rousseau's tropical worlds suggest that this painter travelled widely. But that was not the case. He never ventured beyond France's borders. Instead, he drew his inspiration from books and botanical gardens. Henri #Rousseau, Fight between a Tiger and a Buffalo, 1908, Cleveland Museum of Art