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Every 20 years or so I feel the need to do a self-portrait.
Me
Oil on Canvas Board
14 x 11 inches, 2026
Brush mirrors my soul,
Gaze reflects truth and longing,
Paint reveals myself.
#ContemporaryArt #ModernPainting #VisualPoetry #NewArt #WesSherman #HeresToNow #theJourney
www.WesSherman.net
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#art #modernart #kandinsky #circlesinacircle #c1923 #oil #canvas #painting #modernpainting #geometricart #modernism #vassilykandinsky
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#art #expressionism #modernart #ernstludwigkirchner #germany #diebrucke #InterieurmitzweiMädchen #painting #modernpainting #expressionistpainting #c1926
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Like many art movements—among them Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism—Orphism wasn’t named by the artists creating the work, but rather by a critic. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire first saw Robert Delaunay’s canvases in 1912 and likened them to the ancient Greek hero Orpheus, who was known for his poetry and music, which was so beautiful it could cast a spell upon listeners. Inspired by the work of certain colour theoreticians (Michel-Eugène Chevreul, Ogden Rood), Delaunay pursued the idea of painting based on the law of simultaneous and successive colour contrast. That was before the First World War. This particular kind of Cubism, which Apollinaire dubbed Orphism, produced an illusion of movement and was suited to the representation of a modern world in full flight: the Eiffel Tower, revolving aeroplane propellers, sport, and so on. In 1930, Delaunay reconnected with “non-objective art” in his Rhythmes and Rhythmes sans fin. In these paintings, colour alone is the expressive element; its organisation, its dimension and its spatial relationships are what determine the rhythms of the shapes. Many artists received commissions for the 1937 International Exposition. Delaunay, encouraged by his wife Sonia Terk’s activity as a painter and maker of “integrated” furniture and fabrics, had been thinking for some time about abandoning easel painting in favour of an art that would find its way into all the spaces of daily life. Delaunay was asked to collaborate with architect Félix Aublet on a large ensemble of decorations for the Pavillon des Chemins de Fer and the Pavillon de l’Air et de l’Aéronautique. Their work achieved great success with the public.
Rythme No 1
oil painting on board mural
1938
Robert Delaunay (1885-1941)
France
#art #modernart #orphism #cubism #painting #modernpainting #robertdelaunay #Paris #france #abstractart #nonfigurativeart #modernism #artdeco #geometric #oilpainting
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As yet untitled, oil and acrylic on canvas, 49 x 29 cm. #painting #abstraction #contemporarypainting #modernpainting
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Something new from the studio
A Walk with Fate
Oil on Canvas Board
14 x 22 inches, 2026
Silent steps wander,
Canvas holds destiny's hand,
Colors trace the path.
#StudioWork #ContemporaryArt #ModernPainting #ArtExhibit #VisualPoetry #NewArt #WesSherman #HeresToNow #theJourney
www.WesSherman.net
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#abstractart #contemporaryart #processbasedart #performanceart #colorstudy #largescalepainting #gesturalart #visualexpression #immersiveart #artinstallation #experimentalart #berlinart #modernpainting
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Rene Magritte, "The Great Style," oil on canvas, 1951; The Menil Collection #magritte #renemagritte #surrealist #surrealism #art #modernart #earth #paintings #oilpainting #modernpainting #kunst #museum #artgallery
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Pattern in Easter colours with central egg shape with Wishing you the Goodness of God, the Grace of Jesus and the Hope of the Holy Spirit. Painted by the artist Julia Wilkinson.
#Easter #tulips copyright #juliawilkinson. #julia #art #artist #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #Easter2026 #floral #artdaily #dailyart #fineart #fineartist #contemporaryfineart #fraud #modernart #painting #modernpainting #mixedmedia
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#abstractart #contemporaryart #figurativeart #danceinspired #acrylicpainting #modernpainting #womenartists #artandmovement #interiorart #artcollector #artreview #galleryfeature
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#abstractart #contemporaryart #processbasedart #performanceart #colorstudy #largescalepainting #gesturalart #visualexpression #immersiveart #artinstallation #experimentalart #berlinart #modernpainting
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Une petite peinture d'un artiste qui porte le même nom que moi.
Young and innocent(1937)
Acrylique sur papier,
29,7 x 20,8 cm
#modernpainting #painting #couple #danse
#dancing #dance #hitchcock #lovers
#acrylicpainting #movies#figurativepainting #figurativeart
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Something new from the studio:
Topography of the Unread
Oil on Canvas Board
11 x 14 inches, 2026
Layers of silence,
Words buried in shifting paint,
Stories lie concealed.
#ContemporaryArt #ModernPainting #ArtExhibit #VisualPoetry #NewArt #WesSherman #HeresToNow #theJourney
www.WesSherman.net
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Raoul Dufy, "La Marne," oil on canvas, c.1925; photo: Christie's. #dufy #raouldufy #art #arte #modernart #modernpainting #paintings #peintures #oilpainting #frenchartist #museum #artgallery
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Fernand Léger first saw the work of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso at the Paris gallery of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Around 1909 Léger began to paint in a Cubist style, although his compositions in this mode are more colorful and curvilinear than works by Braque and Picasso of the same period, with their angular forms and subdued tones. An artist with far-ranging interests and talents, Léger later became a designer for theater, opera, and ballet, as well as a book illustrator, filmmaker, muralist, ceramist, and teacher. Typically, Léger would develop a major composition by preparing studies in a variety of media. The Railway Crossing is an oil study for The Level Crossing (1919; private collection, Basel, Switzerland). When he took up this subject in 1919, he made a number of drawings and oil sketches, including the present work. Like many of his contemporaries, Léger was fascinated by the machine age. He maintained that machines and industrial objects were as important to his art as figures. References to such elements pervade The Railway Crossing. In the midst of a complex scaffolding of cylinders and beams, an arrow appears on a brightly outlined signboard. A network of solid volumes and flat forms seems to circulate within the shallow space, just as pistons move within a motor. The precise definition of his forms and the brilliance of his palette express Léger’s belief that the machine, along with the age it created, was one of the triumphs of modern civilization.
The Railway Crossing (Sketch)
oil on canvas
1919
Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
France
#fernandleger #art #modernart #therailwaycrossing #oilpainting #c1919 #france #frenchmodernism #modernpainting #20thcenturyart #modernism #cubism #tubism #cubistart #machineage #europe #europeanart
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Tamara de Lempicka , "L'Eclat," oil on panel, c.1932; photo: Sotheby's. #lempicka #delempicka #portrait #modernart #modernpainting #oilpainting #paintings #peintures #art #arte #femaleartist #womanartist #museum #artgallery
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Georgia O'Keeffe, "It Was Yellow and Pink III," oil on canvas, 1960; Art Institute of Chicago. #okeeffe #georgiaokeeffe #abstractart #abstractpainting #modernart #modernpainting #art #arte #paintings #oilpainting #museum #artgallery
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#wassilykandinsky #russia #france #cross #c1926 #oilpainting #art #modernart #constructivistart #abstract #geometric #modernpainting #frenchmodernism #constructivism
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Something new from the studio
After The Looking
Oil on Canvas Board
11 x 14 inches, 2026
After the Looking
the field stays in quiet bands,
time soft on the eyes.
#AfterTheLooking #Art2026 #StudioWork #ContemporaryArt #ModernPainting #VisualPoetry #NewArt #WesSherman #HeresToNow #theJourney
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Green Balloon Figure on Hot Pink
#ContemporaryArt
#PopArt
#BoldColors
#FluorescentPink
#NeonGreen
#AbstractFigure
#NudeArt
#ExaggeratedForm
#BodyPositive
#PlayfulArt
#ColorContrast
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#SurrealBody
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#landscapepainting #contemporaryart #fineart #visualart #artgallery #modernpainting #artistsoninstagram #artlovers #galleryexhibition #artcollectors
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#abstractart #contemporaryart #figurativeart #danceinspired #acrylicpainting #modernpainting #womenartists #artandmovement #interiorart #artcollector #artreview #galleryfeature
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Denise Heywood, "Pink Parrot Tulips," contemporary watercolor, nd; photo: Lime Tree Gallery. #tulips #flowers #flowerpainting #realism #realisticpainting #modernart #contemporaryart #modernpainting #contemporarypainting #paintings #art #arte #museum #artgallery
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#landscapepainting #contemporaryart #fineart #visualart #artgallery #modernpainting #artistsoninstagram #artlovers #galleryexhibition #artcollectors
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"I'll See You There" and it's charcoal predecessor. This one actually didn't need a model. The image was just enough to get me started. There was no need to create my own lighting as the shadow was already perfect. #ContemporaryArt #BostonArtist #ModernPainting #StudioPractice #ArtCollectors
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Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, "Santa Maria della Salute, Venice," oil on board, 1910; National Galleries Scotland. #venice #paintings #modernpainting #modernart #scenic #oilpainting #peintures #art #arte #museum #artgallery
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During the summer of 1923 Joan Miró began painting The Tilled Field, a view of his family’s farm in Montroig, Catalonia. Although thematically related to his earlier quasi-realistic, Fauvist-colored rural views, such as Prades, The Village, this painting is the first example of Miró’s Surrealist vision. Its fanciful juxtaposition of human, animal, and vegetal forms and its array of schematized creatures constitute a realm visible only to the mind’s eye, and reveal the great range of Miró’s imagination. While working on the painting he wrote, “I have managed to escape into the absolute of nature.” The Tilled Field is thus a poetic metaphor that expresses Miró’s idyllic conception of his homeland, where, he said, he could not “conceive of the wrongdoings of mankind.” The complex iconography of The Tilled Field has myriad sources, and attests to Miró’s long-standing interest in his artistic heritage. The muted, contrasting tones of the painting recall the colors of Catalan Romanesque frescoes, while the overt flatness of the painting—space is suggested by three horizontal bands indicating sky, sea, and earth—and the decorative scattering of multicolored animals throughout were most likely inspired by medieval Spanish tapestries. These lively creatures are themselves derived from Catalan ceramics, which Miró collected and kept in his studio. The stylized figure with a plow has its source in the prehistoric cave paintings of Altamira, which Miró knew well. Even the enormous eye peering through the foliage of the pine tree, and the eye-covered pine cone beneath it, can be traced to examples of early Christian art, in which the wings of angels were bedecked with many tiny eyes. Miró found something alive and magical in all things: the gigantic ear affixed to the trunk of the tree, for example, reflects his belief that every object contains a living soul.
The Tilled Field
oil on canvas
1923-24
Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Catalonia, Spain
#surrealism #surrealistart #joanmiro #spain #catalonia #thetilledfield #modernart #catalanart #catalanartist #painting #modernpainting #c1923
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Joseph Edward Southall, "Fishermen and Visitors," watercolor on paper, 1931; Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum. #art #paintings #watercolor #paintings #peintures #arte #modernart #modernpainting #britain #england #artsandcrafts #museum #artgallery
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William Crosbie, "Fruit and Wine," oil on board, 1994; photo: Christie's. #stilllife #modernart #modernpainting #abstractart #paintings #oilpainting #peintures #art #arte #museum #artgallery
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