The Soul as Guide, Showing the Way Watercolor by William Blake for Dante's Purgatorio, Canto IV, 1827 "This mountain's of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind." #romanticism #watercolors #spiritualart #dante #divinecomedy

Every spoken word betrays us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn’t a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.~Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Christ Pantocrator mosaic in the apse of the Cefalù Cathedral in Sicily. Completed around 1148 by Constantinople craftsmen. #bizantineart #mosaics #cefalu #sicily #medievalart #middleages #arthistory

“Your unconscious is a particle and at the same time the totality of the cosmos.”~Alejandro Jodorowski, Psychomagic

«Estoy y estuve en muchos ojos, yo solo soy la memoria y la memoria que de mí se tenga». ~ Elena Garro #escritoraslatinas #escritorasmexicanas #mujeresescritoras #latinawriters #womenwriters #mexicanwriters

Débora Arango - Esquizofrenia, 1949 - Matilde posando como actriz retirada, 1942 - La masacre del 9 de abril, 1948 - Las monjas y el cardenal, 1970 #colombianartists #womenartists #tornexpressionism #arthistory

Wifredo Lam: The Power of Art, Exile, and Transformation www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTnx... #art #ArtHistory #cuba

The Trees have Ears and the Field has Eyes Hieronymus Bosch, 1500 "One way to stop seeing trees, or rivers, or hills, only as 'natural resources,' is to class them as fellow beings—as kinfolk.” ~ Ursula Le Guin #northernrenaissance #netherlandishart #arthistory

A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires, tragedies, & comedies that shine a clean light into dingy corners of the human psyche & society.~Robert McKee

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...

Singing Man Jonathan Borofsky, 1994 "…I am fully aware that I was once physically part of a female human being... When male and female energies combine with grace and balance, all things are in harmony and peace and creativity is at its peak." #conceptualart #neosurrealism #sculpture #arthistory

Sandro Botticelli Birth of Venus, mid 1480s Primavera, early 1480s “I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.” ~Berthe Morisot #florentinerenaissance #florentineschool #arthistory

Landscape from a Dream Paul Nash, 1938 “I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision.” #surrealism #britishmodernism #arthistory

Beatriz Gonzalez Los Suicidas del Sisga No 1, 1965 Ánimas benditas, 1967 La pesca milagrosa, 1992 Empalizada, 2001 "Art says things that history cannot.” #artistascolombianas #colombianartists #popart #conceptualart #arthistory

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) -El caballero de la mano en el pecho, 1580 -El entierro del Conde de Orgaz, 1586 -Vista de Toledo, 1600 #mannerism #spanishrenaissance #counterreformation #spanishmysticism #arthistory

Consuelo Kanaga Frances with a Flower, 1932 She Is a Tree of Life, 1950 “Most people try to be striking to catch the eye. I think the thing is not to catch the eye but the spirit.” #photojournalism #modernism #groupf64 #womenartists #photography #arthistory

Vija Celmins, House #1, 1965 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137043

The Lacemaker Johannes Vermeer, 1670 “Vermeer is not a sun painter, but rather a moon-painter – like Uccello – that’s good, it is the pure, final stage of art, the moment when it becomes more real than reality.” ~Arshile Gorky #dutchbaroque #delftschool #dutchgoldenage #genrepainting #arthistory

In 1819, Madrid’s Museo del Prado opened to the public, transforming a royal collection into a national museum and reshaping how European masterpieces were preserved, studied, and shared with society at large. #ArtHistory

Self portraits by four artists: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Self-Portrait with Daughter Julie, 1789 Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self-Portrait with Hat and Veil, 1907 Amadeo Modigliani, Self Portrait, 1919 Stanley Spencer, Self-Portrait with Patricia Preece, 1937 #selfportraits #arthistory

New York City Piet Mondrian, 1942 “To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. ” #destijl #thestyle #neoplasticism #modernart #dutchartists #arthistory

El mismo modelo para distintos personajes: Santo Tomás y el rey Melchor, de Rubens

Window or Wall Sign Bruce Nauman, 1967 "My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like.” #postminimalism #arthistory #conceptualart

Woman I Willem de Kooning, 1950-52 “I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.” #abstractexpressionism #newyorkschool #figurativepainting #modernart #arthistory

Rosa Bonheur —- The Wounded Eagle, 1870 King of the Forest, 1878 El Cid, 1879 Two Horses, 1889 “…I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.” #animalier #romanticism #womenartists #arthistory

Paul Delvaux The Hands, 1941 Sleeping Venus, 1944 “In my opinion [surrealism] is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical.” #surrealism #figurativepainting #femalenude #arthistory

Chaos and Nature Andy Goldsworthy, 2007 “We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we've lost our connection to ourselves.” #environmentalart #ephemeralart #landart #photography #arthistory

Mother as a Mountain Anish Kapoor, 1985 "The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story." #postminimalism #sculpture #newbritishart #britishartists #maleartists #installationart #arthistory

Katsushika Hokusai The Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1831 Thirtysix Views of Mount Fuji, 1831 Under the Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa, 1832 #edo #ukiyo-e #woodblockprints #woodblockart #japaneseartists #influentialartists #arthistory

Prince Judy Pfaff, 2021 “I think there is a nervousness in my work. It’s like a love affair with materials. I feel a need for certain things, like color, and I’ll just do anything to get the fragrance or the flavor right.” #processart #installationart #womenartists #contemporaryart #arthistory

Graciela Iturbide at ICP: www.icp.org/exhibitions/... “When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people go in and out in costume - and it's like a play.” #photography #anthropoetic #mexicanartists #arthistory

José Clemente Orozco - Barricade, 1931 - Zapatistas, 1931 “Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them in the moment of speaking.” #mexicanartists #mexicanmuralism #socialrealism #arthistory

Pierre Bonnard - Nude Against the Light, 1908 - Nude on the Chair, 1935-1938 - Nude in the Bath and Small Dog, 1941-1946 “One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.” #nabigroup #lesnabis #postimpressionism #intimism #arthistory

A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings

Mäda Gertrude Primavesi Gustav Klimt, 1912 "No part of life is so small and insignificant that it does not offer space for artistic aspirations.” #viennasecession #artnouveau #symbolism #portraiture #austrianartists #arthistory

George Washington (The Lansdowne Portrait) Gilbert Stuart, 1796 - Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. - Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. - Honesty is the best policy. #americanmasters #americanportraiture #rococo #romanticism #arthistory

Group I (Concourse) Barbara Hepworth, 1951 “I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.” #unitone #abstractcreation #abstractsculpture #modernism #womenartists #modernart #arthistory

Jungian, Edward Whitmont on the relationship between ego and Self.

New Jersey Landscape George Inness, 1891 “You must suggest to me reality-you can never show me reality.” #hudsonriverschool #barbizonschool #landscapepainters #americanmasters #arthistory

If a single individual devotes himself to individuation, he frequently has a positive contagious effect on people around him. It is as if a spark leaps from one to another and usually occurs when one has no intention of influencing others and often when one uses no words.~Marie-Louise von Franz

M-Maybe Roy Lichtenstein, 1965 “I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.” #popart #modernart #americanartists #arthistory

Parts of the Body: French Vocabulary Lesson Larry Rivers, 1961-2 "Not one day of my life have I wasted on searching for the truth.” #abstractexpressionism #popart #modernart #arthistory

Leather Boots Marlene Dumas, 2000 "Painting has to show its method, how it becomes what it is; [it should] move back and forth from the 'illusion' to the 'gesture'". #neoexpressionism #figurativeart #contemporaryart #womenartists #arthistory

Richard Diebenkorn Berkeley No. 8, 1954 A Day at the Race, 1953 Interior with Book, 1959 “My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.” #abstractexpressionism #bayareafigurative #modernart #arthistory

William H. Johnson - Man in a Vest, 1939-40 - Café, 1939-1940 “To express a feeling on canvas one must first feel it.” #expressionism #harlemrenaissance #blackartists #americanartists #arthistory

Four outsider artists: Carlo Zinelli Untitled, 1961 Eugene Von Bruenchenhein No. 858, 1960 Augustin Lesage Composition Symboliste, 1927-1930 Henry Darger Untitled, date unknown #artbrut #rawart #outsiderart #outsiderartists #arthistory #selftaughtartists

L'art est inutile, rentrez chez vous. (Art is useless, go home.) Ben Vautier, 1971 "Le jour où je m'arrêterai de mentir, je ne ferai plus d'art". (The day I stop lying I will no longer make art.) #fluxusfrançais #frenchfluxus #figurationlibre #modernart #arthistory #frenchartists

Hurrah, die Butter ist alle! John Heartfield, 1935 “I found out how you can fool people with photos, really fool them… You can lie and tell the truth by putting the wrong title or wrong captions under them.” #photomontage #politicalsatire #antinaziart #berlindada #germanartists #arthistory

Kicking off October the only way we know how… with a howl! 🐺🍂 #ambassadorwolf #spookyseasonishere