Close-up photograph of an older woman’s crossed hands wearing silver and turquoise rings and colorful beaded bracelets (reading "huelga", "uvalde strong" and "[si se] puede"), with a red embroidered top visible in the background.

The hands of Dolores Huerta, 95, cofounder of the United Farm Workers of America labor union, with bracelets reading "huelga" ("strike") and "sí se puede" ("yes, we can").

(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

#ufw #doloreshuerta #photography #portrait #artisforliving

A hand holds a dusty and damaged plush heart with the Arabic word "عشقي" ("my love") printed on it with decorative hears. In the background there are the shattered remains of a home.

"My love"

Gaza, 2024

#photography #photographysky #artisforliving #arabic #gaza

Photo of a South Indian female bodybuilder, naturally lit by the late afternoon sun, leans on a rock with one arm and looks into the distance with a slight smile. Bangles decorate her wrist as she flexes a large bicep. Behind her a hazy landscape fades into the horizon.

Bodybuilder Chitra Purushotham, photographed by Keerthana Kunnath for the series “Not What You Saw.”

#photography #photographysky #portrait #artisforliving

Black and white photo of Octavia Butler looking intently into the camera with a shelf full of books behind her.

“Live. Hold out. Survive.

I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”

Octavia Butler (Parable of the Sower)

#booksky #artisforliving #scifi #writing

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I am most thankful that my music was added to this fine playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/2hn... #music #musicsky #artisforliving

A drawing / painting of a young black woman swaying with hands slightly raised, looking down / closing her eyes while moving. She wears a light blue dress, has a dark small jacket and small purse on her shoulder. Made with pastel, watercolour and gouache on paper.

“Blues Dance” (2023) by Claudette Johnson ✨

A joyful depiction of a woman swaying to her own beat.

#art #artsky #contemporaryart #womensart #blackartists #artisforliving #musicsky

A large canvas filled with intricate and vibrantly colored plants, animals, human and robot figures, and other hybrid creatures. A soft blue sky can be seen above and behind the blue-green foliage and the bright red, yellow and pink characters.

Pop art pioneer Keiichi Tanaami. 🙌🏽

“Law of the Forest” (2024).

Painted during his final year, the piece includes a playful reference to Rousseau’s “The Dream”.

#art #artsky #popart #japaneseart #painting #collage #artisforliving

Black and white photo of Dizzy Gillespie and Quincy Jones seated next to each other. Gillespie blows into a trumpet and has large, inflated cheeks. Jones stares intently in front himself, reading, with a cigarette hanging from the side of his mouth. Photo by Joe Alper.

Dizzy Gillespie and Quincy Jones in the recording studio, 1965.

#music #musicsky #jazz #photography #photographysky #artisforliving

India Arie helps Elmo sing the Alphabet. A great guest performance and a beautiful rendition of a song that I never thought much about before.

#music #musicsky #artisforliving #sesamestreet

Vividly colored photograph of Frida Kahlo, seated in a long black dress with white floral patterns and a brown/crimson embroidered band near the lower end. Seated in on a white bench that looks like white flowers, in front of elaborately patterned green and white floral printed wallpaper.

“Frida on white bench” (1939), photographed in New York by Frida’s longtime friend and lover, Nickolas Muray.

#photography #photographysky #portrait #art #artsky #frida #artisforliving

Painting of a white deer skull affixed to a leaning barren tree, with a blue sky and New Mexico’s flat-topped Pedernal mountain far in the background

Georgia O'Keeffe

“Deer's Skull with Pedernal” (1936)

#art #artsky #modernart #okeeffe #painting #artisforliving

A rare soul masterpiece from 1972, with a funky groove and some serious flute playing 🪈 ✨

“The First Thing I Do in the Morning” 🌞

#music #musicsky #funk #soul #vinyl #artisforliving #morning

Painting of a view overlooking the Seine river and the pedestrian path alongside it, with a bridge in view, and the east façade of Notre Dame Cathedral in the background. The side of an open window is in the foreground on the right side.

Henri Matisse

"A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon" (1902)

A view from the window of the studio where Matisse lived from 1899 to 1907. ✨

#art #artsky #modernart #matisse #painting #artisforliving

Paul Klee intently painting a line on a canvas in his studio in Bern, 1938. Photo by Felix Klee. c/o https://houseofswitzerland.org/swissstories/history/paul-klees-universe-of-images-and-his-work

"A line is a dot that went for a walk."

Paul Klee

#art #artsky #painting #modernart #paulklee #artisforliving

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#blues

#soul

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What’s one piece of art you discovered on #Bluesky recently that impressed you?

I’ll go first: this collage by Deborah Eater

#art #artsky #artisforliving

Gwen McCrae is one of the most underrated singers of all time.

Her version of the blues classic “Let’s Straighten It Out” is a masterpiece.

#music #musicsky #blues #soul #artisforliving

An oil painting of two men in front of a stove in a fancy kitchen: A catholic cardinal, dressed in traditional red clothing but wearing a white apron, holds a pot in one hand and lifts a spoon in the other, which he gleefully inspects. Another man, to his left, also wearing an apron and a chef's hat, tastes a cooking spoon in wide-eyed astonishment.

"The Marvelous Sauce" (ca. 1890) by Jehan Georges Vibert ✨

The painting satirizes the solemn and austere public image of clergy in France, by showing a high-ranking church official enjoying a savory sauce in his luxurious home.

#art #artsky #painting #satire #artisforliving