illustrations in the manga / anime style of five famous Vocaloids: Kagamine Rin, Kagamine Len, GUMI, Hatsune Miku & Megurine Luka [a graphic constructed using promotional images]

🎹 🎙️ 💃

'Electrified Emotions & #Vocaloid Empathy'

@remydean.bsky.social reviews 65 years of computer song from conceptual beginnings in fiction to technological realisation & presents a snapshot of the cultural phenomenon it is now.

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#art #music #anime #ArtHistory

‘Lady Lillith’ (1868) detail of a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti of a woman combing her abundant red hair surrounded by floral symbolism - more description and analysis in article via link in post

🌹 🌼 🥀

'An Uneasy Beauty: Pre-Raphaelites & the Feminine Ideal'

"in The Epic of Gilgamesh, Lilith was either a magical Sumerian queen or a witch-queen of demons..." @remydean.bsky.social delves beyond the surface

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#art #ArtHistory #history #painting #illustration

carved wooden relief showing a stylised scene from a saga where the hero, Sigurd, sucks dragon blood off his thumb while roasting the beast's heart over a fire - more details and description in article via link in post

'Viking Saga Panels: a Matter of Life & Death'

@remydean.bsky.social explores the narrative #art of the Norse, which prefigured Art Nouveau & comic-books…

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#ArtHistory #history #sculpture #illustration

calendar pages from ‘Très Riches Heures du Duc Berry’ (1411-1416) left — right: April, spring (in the grounds of Duc Berry’s Châteaux Dourdan); May, ‘livree de mai’ pageant; June, harvest begins (Hotel de Nesle in the background, Duc Berry’s Parisian residence)

'Books of Hours: Treasures of the Limbourg Brothers'

@remydean.bsky.social takes an illuminating look at the #art of three brothers that triggered a transition from Gothic to Renaissance

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#ArtHistory #History #illustration #Gothic #books

‘Painting (The White Glove)’ (1925) and ‘Painting on Masonite’ (1936) - two markedly different moods of abstraction from Joan Miró - further analysis and descriptions in article via link in post

🎨 🦶 🧤

'Head to Toe with Joan Miró' - getting to grips with the poetic, painterly genius

@remydean.bsky.social on how "the process of formal simplification & abstraction to create a visual language of playful symbols is a key to finding meaning in many works of Miró."

👣 medium.com/signifier/he...

'Eros', Klee’s watercolour of 1923. It’s an exercise in balance and how a single point can disperse the energy of a composition if placed in the right position. The energy is generated by repetitive rhythms of form and an incremental ‘colour ladder’, the point is where these energies meet and achieve harmony.

'Paul Klee: Abstraction of Place'

@remydean.bsky.social on how Paul Klee’s colourful transition from observation to abstraction distilled the sense of place, making sense of reality by reducing some aspects to geometric & biomorphic forms...

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#art #painting #ArtHistory

‘Earthrise’ — the Most Influential Image of the 20th-century Season’s Greetings! To all on (and off) the planet as we revisit the iconic photograph taken during the Apollo 8 mission.

🚀 🌕 🌎

"For the first time, the world could be seen & comprehended as one, unique, isolated object in the void of space..."

(...& now the #Artemis II crew have added spectacular new imagery of Earth - our beautiful, fragile island in space - from beyond the Moon)

🌏 medium.com/signifier/th...

two promotional lobby cards showing gladiatorial combat in the famous scene from ‘Spartacus’ (1960) starring Woody Strode and Kirk Douglas

"One stereotype is that gladiators were slaves... they did not have the status of Roman citizens, which is different. While some gladiators were indeed slaves bought by schools, many were Roman citizens who voluntarily renounced their citizenship to pursue a career"

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'Nativity' and 'Last Supper' panels by Giotto for 'Capella degli Scrovegni' (c.1305) - further description and analysis in article via link in post

⛪ 🖌️ 👼

'Father of the Renaissance'

@remydean.bsky.social on how, Giotto brought art out of the Dark Ages & sparked the Renaissance imagination with his dramatic ‘graphic novel’ storytelling in fresco form...

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#art #ArtHistory #illustration #comics #history

The Egg & the Architect Inspired by natural form, Brunelleschi’s famous Florentine dome remains the biggest of its kind ever built…

"not one in the succession of architects managed to come up with a solution & the cathedral remained open to the elements ...until Filippo Brunelleschi presented the panel with an egg & set them a seemingly impossible challenge"

ideal #Easter reading 🥚 medium.com/signifier/th... #art #architecture

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch Fantasy art from the first surrealist tells the story of heaven and hell

a hidden #Easter Egg Hunt in 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch

"in several religions the egg represents pure potential of spirit in its perfect & uncorrupted form. Eggs appear here in various stages of hatching & ‘corruptions’..."

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#ArtHistory #art

Artist-endorsed replica of ‘3 Standard Stoppages’ made in 1964, now in the Tate Collection - three wooden shapes, a wooden box they they would fit in, three long dark blue canvases with lengths of string mounted on them with slight curves that fit the shapes cut into the lengths of wood...

📏 🪢 ➰

'How Long is a Piece of String?'

@remydean.bsky.social investigates Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Stoppages’ (1913-1964) - a set of related artworks that tell the conceptual narrative of a radical creative process…

📦 medium.com/signifier/ho...

#art #ArtHistory #sculpture #philosophy #history

scientific illustrations showing the metamorphosis of the Garden Tiger moth, its plant host, and parasitic wasps, and life cycle of the Dark Tussock moth on its host plant, the dandelion (both published 1679)

🐛 🏵️ 🦋

'Merian’s Metamorphosis: Discovering the Cycle of Life'

@kimvertue.bsky.social takes a closer look at the #art & #science of C17th illustrator & pioneering entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian

🐜 medium.com/signifier/me...

#art #illustration #イラスト #biology #botany #entomology #ArtHistory

‘Ploughing on the Nevernais’ (1849) by Rosa Bonheur - a photo-real painting of two teams of six oxen pulling ploughs, tended by the ploughmen, in an idyllic countryside.

'Rosa Bonheur, the Animalière' 🐎

@kimvertue.bsky.social revisits the work of a technically brilliant realist who endeavoured to reveal the souls of her subjects & celebrate our connection with the land 🐂

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#art #painting #illustration #ArtHistory #WomensHistoryMonth

description taken from article via link in post: "Alma Pihl’s Winter Egg was carved from rock crystal and decorated with platinum snowflake motifs and lines of tiny rose diamonds (4,500 in all), which glittered like trails of ice in sunlight. It was presented on a base of rock crystal carved to depict a block of melting ice. Inside the hinged egg was a small trellis basket made of platinum, containing wood anemones fashioned from quartz, gold, and garnet, with leaves of nephrite, nestled on a gold moss base..." more analysis and information in article via link in post

🐣 💎 ❄️

'Cracking Spring Bling!'

@kimvertue.bsky.social tracks the success of Alma Pihl & her exquisite Fabergé #jewellery #design that grew out of #folklore to rank among the most coveted & costly creations craved by collectors

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#art #history #WomensHistoryMonth

The Ascent of Civilisation When humans built the first temples and towns, they filled them with art that expressed their values and intangible ideals…

🐗 🐯 🦊🐴 🐜🐊 🦅

"The surfaces of the huge stone megaliths are decorated with sophisticated deep reliefs & sculptured forms, mainly of animals including boar, big cats, foxes, horses, insects, reptiles and birds."

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#art #ArtHistory #history #archaeology

【咬人猫x咬人喵】胭脂❤️ Rouge！ [Yaorenmao Channel] YouTube video by 咬人猫Yaorenmao

💝 Happy Birthday 🎂 #Yaorenmao 🥂 祝您健康快乐

I wrote an extended article about the Queen of Home Dance #宅舞 & her joyous #art for @signifier.bsky.social

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MV for original song + own choreo = 3 minutes of perfection
👯 #咬人猫 x 咬人喵 🧸 胭脂 ❤️ Rouge! 🎀

💃 youtu.be/GHyN6OVX9O0?...

detail of the painting ‘Self Portrait With Cropped Hair’ (1940) by Frida Kahlo shows the subject seated and wearing a men's grey suit - details description and analysis in article via link in post

🪞 ✂️ 🕴️

revisiting this insightful article by @kimvertue.bsky.social about Frida Kahlo & some of her revelatory self portraits that challenge feminine stereotypes for #WomensHistoryMonth

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#art #ArtHistory #painting #illustration #Mexico

Frida Kahlo with her painting, ‘The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego, and Señor Xolotl’ - a black and white photograph by Florence Arquin — courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art

'Alone With Frida' - Frida Kahlo painted many self-portraits during her tumultuous life...

@kimvertue.bsky.social spends some time with two self-portraits by Frida Kahlo that tell the story of relationships, rifts, and reconciliations

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2026年3月22日開催のFANTASIA 2026春に出ますの絵。 illustration of I'm attending to FANTASIA 2026 Spring held on Sun 22 March 2026.

FANTASIA 2026春お品書きの絵。 illustration of the item list for FANTASIA 2026 Spring held on Sun 22 March 2026.

🦄 FANTASIA 2026 春/EVENT 🦄
1日のみ出展します/ブース「G20」
🕰️2026年3月22日(日)12:00〜16:00
📍TRC東京流通センター第一展示場Bホール/🎟️1000円

今回は原画キーホルダー(絵柄リメイク)を持っていきます！
初参加イベントです、どうぞよろしくお願いします！
#fantasia2026春
🔗 fantasia.network

ファンアートも可能なイベントとのことで以前全く別のイベントで作ってたものですが、1000円〜お求めでご希望の方にプレゼントします(ジャンルは私のpixivから推測してください)。
#illustration #イラスト

Len Deighton — In Spy Ring Writer Len Deighton talks with Kim Vertue about his long and varied writing career.

RIP Len Deighton - a great author & chef

here's an archival interview from 2014 when he spoke to @kimvertue.bsky.social for our sister publication 'The Scrawl'

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#BookSky #writer #writing #fiction #movies

🎨 🖌️ 🖼️

Remy Dean: 'The Asemic Terrain'

was our online #art #exhibition for February 2023
& still free to view in the Signifier : six : shot : gallery

🖍️ medium.com/the-signifie...

#ContemporaryArt #landscape #drawing #poetry #artist

detail of the painting ‘La Pittura, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting’ (c.1638) by Artemisia Gentileschi shows a woman in a green dress with her right arm raised holing a delicate brush in hand - her dark hair is tied up and back, casually.

#WomensHistoryMonth

🖼️ 'Escaping the Frame' 💥

@remydean.bsky.social recalls how #artist Rose Garrard broke the age-old tradition of the frame, freeing three fellow women artists from obscurity...

medium.com/signifier/es...

⬇️ Self-Portrait as the Allegory of #Painting
by Artemisia Gentileschi

two grey earplugs made from felted grey dust by artist Cornelia Parker

'A Handful of Dust'

@kimvertue.bsky.social considers the poetic practice of an #artist listening for whispers of the past woven into the threads of British #history

recommended read for #WomensHistoryMonth

The Explosive Quiet of Cornelia Parker 💥 medium.com/signifier/a-...

#art #ArtHistory

‘Mycology Studies’ — accurate natural history illustrations of fungi by Beatrix Potter

'Beatrix Potter’s Field Studies' 🍄

@kimvertue.bsky.social considers the #art & #science of a pioneering mycologist better known as the beloved children’s #author & #illustrator Beatrix Potter 🐰

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‘The Ant / la fourmi’ (1953) and ‘Water / l’eau’ (both 1953) - two sculptures in blackened bronze by Germaine Richier - left is a figure that suggests both ant and woman, seemingly weaving a cat's cradle with thread; right is a seated female form that morphs into an amphora form at the shoulders.

"largely overlooked since her death, a major retrospective at the Pompidou Centre in 2023 helped to place Richier centre stage once more & acknowledge her #art"

@kimvertue.bsky.social on Germaine Richier’s Hybrid Beauty
& the human form in extremis

✝️ medium.com/signifier/ge...

#WomensHistoryMonth

detail, of a mother looking at a baby in a veiled crib, from ‘The Cradle’ (1872) a painting by Berthe Morisot

👩‍🍼 🎨 🖌️

'This Woman’s Work'

Paintings by Berthe Morisot now command some of the highest prices at auction of any woman #artist, but @kimvertue.bsky.social discovers that it wasn’t always this way…

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#art #ArtHistory #painting #history #WomensHistoryMonth

detail of the painting by Marie-Denise Villers: ‘Young Woman Drawing’ (1801) - description taken from article via link in post: "What appears to be a well-executed, straight-forward portrait rewards close attention with layers of meaning allowing various interpretations, and some truly groundbreaking formal innovations: The young woman of the title is looking towards a mirror as she sketches for a self-portrait. The viewer occupies the position of the mirror and so the subject makes direct and searching eye-contact. Cleverly, the white paper on her drawing board reflects the window light onto her face, giving a slightly underlit ethereal softness as the direct light sets her hair aglow. This halo of light lifts her from the flat dark grey wall behind her."

#WomensHistoryMonth 👭

#ArtHistory ... or HerStory?

@remydean.bsky.social considers The Case of Whistler v Villers: two conspicuously similar paintings of women, one painted by a woman, the other by a man. One hailed as a breakthrough, one painted 70 years earlier...

🪑 medium.com/signifier/ar...

kodomoe コドモエ 2026年4月号 『毎日のスキンケアで予防しよう！ 子どものアレルギーSOS』ページのイラストカットまとめ画像 Gathered illustration cuts for the page of Kid's allergy SOS on the magazine "kodomoe" (Japan) 2026 April issue.

kodomoe コドモエ 2026年4月号 『毎日のスキンケアで予防しよう！ 子どものアレルギーSOS』ページの写真 Picture of the page of Kid's allergy SOS on the magazine "kodomoe" (Japan) 2026 April issue.

kodomoe コドモエ 2026年4月号 『毎日のスキンケアで予防しよう！ 子どものアレルギーSOS』ページの写真 Picture of the page of Kid's allergy SOS on the magazine "kodomoe" (Japan) 2026 April issue.

kodomoe コドモエ 2026年4月号
3月6日(金)に発売してます！🍙🍞
巻頭大特集がおにぎりと食パン・・！

そしてまとめたイラストカット、先ほどの投稿1枚目とここの1枚目で、全部入れてないです。ページの写真は他2ページ分です

brightly coloured painting of ‘Red Canna’ (1924) by Georgia O’Keeffe in which the heart of the flower fills the canvas and looks like fire

🌹 🌷 🌺

'Mother of the American Modern'

No one painted flowers quite like Georgia O’Keeffe.

@kimvertue.bsky.social looks at some of the artist's early blooms & "a totally new approach to still life, one that merged realist elements with abstraction"

🌼 medium.com/signifier/mo... #art #painting