The Cheese Sandwich (2019) by Belgian painter and filmmaker Michaël Borremans (born in 1963).

Oil on canvas

80 x 60 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Photo of a orange and black ceramic vessel with round base and trumpet like opening, all against a grey background

Kenyan born artist Magdalene Odundo, considered one of the premier ceramicists working today #womensart

Ernie and Me: An Appreciation Each August thousands of high school graduates from the Hoosier State and around the country descend upon Bloomington to begin their colleg...

Ernie and Me: An Appreciation.
My life with Pyle.
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Charlotte Salomon (German/Jewish, 1917-1943)
Trees with the Villa l'Ermitage in the Background, Villefranche-sur-Mer, 1939-41
Crayon on paper
35 x 24 cm
Yad Vashem Art Museum

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

'An East Anglian Landscape.' (c1971) In the early 1950s, Denis Wirth Miller settled in the Essex town of Wivenhoe - he considered the ship-building and fishing town a perfect retreat for his work and began to skillfully capture the austere, beautiful Essex flatlands on canvas.

Former UN Ambassador Rice:
"The U.S. is systematically weakening itself across all 5 pillars of global power—

Military: increased spending without modernization, depleted weapons stockpiles, politicized purges of experienced officers/generals, weakened legal/military norms, and a costly Iran 🇮🇷 1/7

This is wonderful

Agatha Christie's husband pulled this out of a well. Sir Max Mallowan, the archaeologist she married, was excavating Nimrud in 1951 when he found thousands of these ivory carvings dumped at the bottom of a well.

Good morning from the garden

So sorry, I hope you are better soon!

by Robert Gonsalves

Irish writer Seamus Heaney, born on 13 April 1939 (died in 2013), painted in 1974 by Irish artist, Edward McGuire (1932-1986)

Oil on canvas

142 x 112 cm

Ulster Museum, Belfast

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Peony blossom before it opens in the sun, pink against green leaves.

Good morning from the garden!

Peony season in my garden is upon us

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

'Enough of the idolatry of self and money!' Pope Leo blasts 'delusion of omnipotence' fueling war in Iran

In his strongest words yet, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday denounced the “delusion of omnipotence” that is fueling the U.S.-Israel war in Iran and demanded political leaders stop and negotiate peace.

Cesare Novi (Italian Contemporary artist)
Naïve Art.
A lawyer turned painter. That makes a change
His trees are wonderfully fuzzy. I like his tactile paintings.

Antoni Węcławski, Polish (1891-1985), Varsovie / Kamienne Schodki, c. 1930, photograph, silver gelatin print, 6/30, 60.5 x 42 cm, private collection

Wiktoria Goryńska, 1935. “Dappled Angora V”

#printmaking #linocut #1930s #cats #WiktoriaGoryńska

Illustration from an 18th-century natural history book depicting a blue-bellied finch from Angola perched on a small branch near a body of water. The bird has bright blue underparts and tail, with dark brown wings and back. It is positioned close to a tall green aquatic plant with long, narrow leaves and a large, vivid red flower with curved petals. The ground around them is moist with small rocks and water plants, emphasizing a watery habitat. Fine details include the bird's attentive posture and stamens visible within the flower. The scene highlights the close relationship between bird species and their water-associated environment.

💦 A natural history of birds
London: Printed for the author, at the College of Physicians in Warwick-Lane, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751, i.e. 1750-1776?]

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(Poem) A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I’m wondering if they’ve closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it’s “keep your children home so if you die, you die together” — Instead of “we’ll open back up once the plows have cleared” it’s “we don’t know if we’ll be here tomorrow, so hold your babies tight.” It’s just “talk,” I’m told, which I’ve been told before. “It’s how the president makes his deals.” But I’ve never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I’m not certain I can look my son in the eyes If we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: If this Is what we call leadership then I’m not entirely sure ours isn’t already dead. Michael F. DuBois

Someone should read this into the congressional record.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists.

Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.

"We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it."
Daniel Ellsberg, born on this day in 1931

Impeach, Remove, Imprison

#Easter

Stephen Scott Young (American, born 1957)
Easter Bonnet, 1995
Watercolor on paper
22 x 22 inches
Private collection

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I wantntobsay something but I actually am speechless

This is a splendid painting

#Easter

Curtis Graves (American, born 1971)
Easter Sunday, 2024
Oil and acrylic on canvas
24 × 48 in (61 × 121.9 cm)
Private collection

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Two Comedians (1966) was Hopper's final canvas. It shows Hopper and his wife, Jo, on stage taking a bow.
After decades spent spotlighting American life, he ends by stepping into the scene to say a quiet goodbye to the world he painted.