Jaq - Art &c

Gustave Buchet. (1888 - 1963)
Small Composition

Erich Kaizr (1919 - 1980)

Charles E. Burchfield (1893 - 1967)
The Open Road c.1917

Ferruh Başağa (1914-2010)
Red Doves

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis 1903

Paul Nash (1889-1946)
Sunflower and Sun, c.1945

For a long time, we thought Vermeer's main patron was the collector Pieter van Ruijven. But new research by art historians Piet Bakker and Judith Noorman (The Female Impact / University of Amsterdam) tells a different story.... 👀  https://bit.ly/MariadeKnuijt

Women in Ancient Egyptian Art From female pharaohs to God’s Wives to everyday women as wives and mothers, Jen Turner will examine women’s roles as portrayed in ancient Egyptian art this Women's History Month. Start time - 18:00 (U...

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Rolf Armstrong self-portrait 1915

My photo shows a view looking straight down an ancient street in Pompeii. The road is made of large, unevenly-shaped, rounded gray stone blocks. Running lengthwise through the stones are two shallow grooves—parallel tracks worn into the stone by the passage of wagon wheels centuries ago. On both sides of the street are pedestrian pavements, raised about a step higher than the road. Beyond the pavements are the remains of buildings with thick walls made of rough stone and reddish bricks. The roofs and upper floors are gone. The street stretches straight into the distance, narrowing with perspective. A few small human figures and trees in the distance, emphasize how long the road is. Above the street, the blue sky is streaked with thin, wispy clouds. At the far end of the street, rising behind the ruins, there’s a glimpse of the dark, lower slope of Mount Vesuvius, the volcano whose eruption buried Pompeii in AD 79.

Wheel ruts worn into the roads of ancient Pompeii made by the passage of wagons and carts some 2,000+ years ago.

A reminder to modern visitors of ancient traffic which flowed through busy Pompeian streets.

📷 by me

#Archaeology

On the left, a cruciform style copper alloy Saxon brooch with a square head at the bottom and decorative features along the body. On the right a necklace with a boar's tusk amulet at the right end and 17 beads, mostly amber, a=of varying sizes and shapes. These were among grave goods of a pagan woman in Londesborough in Yorkshire.

#SaxonSunday
In AD 550-690 a Saxon woman was buried in Londesborough Yorks with personal objects arranged all around her body, including
--cruciform brooch, and
--necklace w glass and amber beads and a boar's tusk amulet.
Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle 🏺

Artist Joan Miró on His House Roof, Montroig, Spain 1948

John Bold (1895-1979)
Industrial Landscape, Hulme, Manchester in the Sixties

Georges Ames Aldrich (1872-1941),
Chicago Skyline

Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (1875-1957)
New York By the River, 1946

Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960)
New York City Skyline

Artist/Illustrator Rolf Armstrong atop his New York City Studio 1940’s

😄 yes 😱

as I always think someone is going to turn the light off when I'm halfway up!

Yeah, the dark interior behind that door is spooky.

For me, it's the stairs that are the creepiest bit. I think they might actually be lit by an electric light, because the light is a different colour to that in the main room - it's brighter and more white.

I hate stairs with no natural light as

I wonder if it's the colour scheme?
That shade of green in combination with cream, reminds me of the colour schemes in old, derelict schools, or medical institutions. It does give me the shivers!

This is a masterclass in the observation of angles and shadows... the angles of the open doors, and the angles of their shadows; the stairs - lit from an unseen window above... the room lit from an unseen window.

And all so accurately painted.
It's just brilliant.

Shame about my typo in the date!

Joan Crawford won the Oscar for Best Actress at the 18th Academy Awards held #OnThisDay in 1946. She wore this Milo Anderson designed three-piece acid green silk boucle skirt suit in her winning role as Mildred Pierce. Collection of Motion Picture Costume Design #Oscars #costume

Victor Charreton (1864-1937)
Maison forestière

Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (1884-1965)
Trees

James Bell Anderson (1886-1938)
Scottish Evening Scene

Will Barnet (1911 - 2012)
Woman Playing with a Cat, 1964

Albert Saverys (1886-1964)
A vase with flowers, 1910

Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958)

Marvin Cone (1891-1965)
The Appointed Room c.19400