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phoenixrising

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Digital marketing studio owner & designer, poetry junkie, p/t potter, voracious reader, lover of punk, 90s, Obscure Rock, Jazz, and Classical, and a little Science nerdy. I Resist this current wretched regime. 🧷💪 #ArtHeals - always Read the Alt Text

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She joined the famous German design school as a student in 1924, the year she created this rare hand-wrought silver tea service - later assuming the directorship of the workshop from 1928 to 1929, succeeding her mentor, László Moholy-Nagy.

Marianne Brandt :
Tea Service: Tea Infuser (Pot), Creamer, Sugar Bowl, and Tray
1924-29

Brandt was one of the best-known Bauhaus metal workers and one of few women in the Metal Workshop.

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Thelonious Monk performs on the Jazz Scene TV show filmed at Ronnie Scott’s Club, April 1970.

📸 : David Redfern/Redferns

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The painting was originally commissioned in 1793 by Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, for whom he had already produced a copy of Raphael's Deposition. He completed a cartoon for the work in 1793 which was favourably received by art critics in Rome at the time. However, when he produced a first version of the painting in 1796, it was less well-received, and so he destroyed it and started again from scratch, completing the current version in 1806. The Earl had died in 1803 and his heirs refused to pay for the work, so Camuccini instead sold it to Joachim Murat in 1807. After Murat's fall, it was acquired by Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and relocated to the Palazzo Reale in Naples. In 1864, it entered its present home, the National Museum of Capodimonte, in Naples.[2] Post image Post image Post image

Beware the Ides of March!

Vincenzo Camuccini :
The Death of Julius Caesar, 1806

This was originally commissioned in 1793 by Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, for whom he had already produced a copy of Raphael's Deposition.

National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples

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Please explain "Moore scale."

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Sergio Bustamente :
The Happy Blindness, 1975

Bronze, 16 kg
H 48 x W 24 x L 47 cm

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Half of his time is spent on commissions and the other half on his gallery sculpture. Jackson creates  figures both imposing and operatic in their narrative and presence, which are recognizable worldwide. Powerful and beautifully sculpted, Jackson’s meticulously precise posturing of each piece creates an overwhelming sense of drama. The figure statues he created are full of mysterious ancient temperament, like characters from a narrative opera. “My sculptures are essentially an impressionistic rendering of the figure,” Jackson says of his work.  “As the eye moves up the sculpture, the finish becomes gentler and more delicately worked, culminating in the hands and the mask, both of which are precisely observed and modeled.” https://philipjacksonsculptures.co.uk Post image Post image Post image

Philip Jackson is a contemporary Scottish artist known for his bronze sculptures depicting life-sized elongated figures.

Jackson went to the Farnham School of Art (now the University for the Creative Arts), and a year later joined a design company as a sculptor.

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It is. But they dyed the Chicago River green today!

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He created it to honor thousands of people massacred by fascist Hungarian militia belonging to the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest during the Second World War. Victims were ordered to take off their shoes (shoes were valuable and could be stolen and resold by the military after the massacre), and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried away. The memorial represents their shoes left behind on the bank.

"The Shoes on the Danube Bank" is a memorial erected on 16 April 2005, in Budapest, Hungary, conceived by film director Can Togay. He created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer.

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It's coming! 💚☘️🪉

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Go if you can!

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“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” “I work from awkwardness. By that I mean if I stand in front of something instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.” image: Arbus poses for a portrait in the Automat at Sixth Avenue in New York 📸 : Roz Kelly, 1968

Photographer Diane Arbus
(nee Diane Nemerov) was
born otd in New York City in 1923 🎂

She took portraits of transvestites, giants and dwarfs, twins, triplets, carnival performers, and sometimes ordinary people with troubling expressions or postures.

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One year before Picasso painted the still life, Cubism’s demise was announced during a Dada soiree in Paris by an audience member who shouted that “Picasso [was] dead on the field of battle;” the evening ended in a riot, which could be quelled only by the arrival of the police. Picasso’s subsequent series of 9 vibrantly colored still lifes (1924–25), executed in a bold Synthetic Cubist style of overlapping and contiguous forms, discredited such a judgment. But the artist was not simply resuscitating his previous discoveries in creating this new work; the rounded, organic shapes and saturated hues attest to his appreciation of Surrealist painting, particularly as evinced in the work of André Masson and Joan Miró. The undulating lines, ornamental patterns, and broad chromatic elements of Mandolin and Guitar foretell the emergence of a fully evolved sensual, biomorphic style in Picasso’s art, which would soon celebrate the presence of his new mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter. When Picasso met Marie-Thérèse on January 11, 1927 in front of Galeries Lafayette in Paris, she was 17 years old. As he was married at the time and she only a teenager, they were compelled to conceal their intense love affair. While their illicit liaison was hidden from public view, its earliest years are documented, albeit covertly, in Picasso’s work. Five still lifes painted during 1927, incorporating the monograms “MT” and “MTP” as part of their compositions, cryptically announce the entry of Marie-Thérèse into the artist’s life. The abbreviated delineation of her profile—a continuous, arched line from forehead to nose—became Picasso’s emblem for his subject, and appears in numerous sculptures, prints, and paintings of his mistress. Rendered in a sweeping, curvilinear style, this painting of graceful repose is not so much a portrait of Marie-Thérèse the person as it is Picasso’s abstract, poetic homage to his young muse. ~ Nancy Spector

Pablo Picasso :
Mandolin and Guitar, 1924

Oil with sand on canvas
55-3/8 x 78-7/8 in |
140.7 x 200.3 cm

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

This vibrant, brightly colored still life features overlapping, biomorphic, and geometric shapes, representing a shift toward a more Surrealist style.

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Georgia O’Keeffe :
Green Lines and Pink, 1919

Oil on canvas, 18 x 10 inches

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

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Lol

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😎 cool!

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LOLLL

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Because he's just another pc of shit in the big turd's cabinet. Not shocked here.
They all need to be impeached, removed and sent to prison.

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Wassily Kandinsky: Cross, 1926

Oil on canvas
20.5 × 17.7 in | 52.0 × 45.0 cm

Munster, LWL
Museum of Art and Culture

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MC5 - Kick Out The Jams - Live Tartar Field, 1970 - with M*thf*ker restored ( colorised) . YouTube video by Seedy Jeezus

Adding my 2 cents
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
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Happy Friday the 13th!

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This work is part of the 108-painting exhibit, From Matisse to the Blue Rider: Expressionism in Germany and France, organized by the Kunsthaus Zürich and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. According to the exhibit catalog, the exhibit also presents new research that indicates, “Expressionism was not just a purely German movement, but a supranational one inspired and driven by artistic and personal exchanges.”

Marianne Von Werefkin (1860–1938) :
The Red Tree (Der rote Baum), 1910

Tempera on paper on cardboard

von Werefkin is best known as a Russian-Swiss expressionist painter, though her early realist work established her as the “Russian Rembrandt.”

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Though executed entirely in oil paint, this piece grew out of Man Ray’s numerous collage experiments. The work’s original composition was inspired by the view of a tightrope dancer in a vaudeville performance. Back in his studio, Man Ray cut colored paper into shapes resembling his memory of the dancer’s acrobatic movements but, dissatisfied with what he had done, he discarded the scraps on the floor. Glancing down, he noticed that by chance they had formed an abstract pattern. Comparing the accidental pattern with shadows that a dancer might have cast, he incorporated it into his composition. The dancer is outlined in grey and white at the top of the canvas, her legs and fluttering skirt shown in various positions simultaneously. Similarly, Man Ray depicts the tightrope six ways; each line swinging out from her feet atop the large planes of color, which represent the “shadows” cast by her figure.

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) :
The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows, 1916

Oil on canvas
52" x 6' 1-3/8" | 132.1 x 186.4 cm

The Museum of Modern Art

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David Hockney at Serpentine Gallery London 2026 Discover David Hockney’s 2026 Serpentine Gallery exhibition in London. Featuring the 90-metre A Year in Normandy frieze, this free show celebrates one of Britain’s greatest living artists.

Must've been lovely.
90 meters! This one done on an iPad in Normandy. Love it. I'm such a fan.
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An icon, to be sure.

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He avoided the limelight, wore bespoke suits from Savile Row tailors and remained married to the same woman for more than 50 years. Watts even seemed barely interested in rock ’n’ roll itself. He claimed that it had little influence on him, preferring and long championing the jazz heritage of Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich and Max Roach. “I never liked Elvis until I met Keith Richards,” Watts told Mojo, a British music magazine, in 1994. “The only rock ’n’ roll player I ever liked when I was young was Fats Domino.” His distinctive drumming style, playing with a minimum motion, often slightly behind the beat, gave the group’s sound a barely perceptible but inimitable rhythmic drag. Bill Wyman, the Stones’ longtime bassist, described that as a byproduct of the group’s unusual chemistry. While in most rock bands the guitarist follows the lead of the drummer, the Stones flipped that relationship. Keith Richards, the guitarist, led the attack, with Watts (and all others) following along. ~ By Ben Sisario 📸 : Michael Putland, 1978

On some superficial level, Charlie Watts always seemed the oddest Rolling Stone, one who never quite fit as a member of rock’s most Dionysian force.

While his bandmates cultivated an attitude of debauched insouciance, Watts, the drummer since 1963, kept a quiet, public persona.

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