Marguerite Alexandre

Moonlight, cloudy night sky, silhouettes of trees, painting.

‘We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.’ ~ Ursula K. Le Guin. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Moonlight in the Forest,
Joséphine Bowes.

The image displays a vibrant, detailed pattern featuring a peacock amidst lush floral elements, likely a design for wallpaper or fabric. The artwork is characterized by a soft, painterly style with visible brushstrokes, giving it a somewhat vintage or hand-painted feel.

The "Royal Peacock" wallpaper, which features the design seen in the image, was designed by Catherine Martin for Mokum by James Dunlop Textiles.

The Rainbow (1892), by Nikolay Dubovskoy

An oak tree that appears to be dancing

Dancing Sessile Oak with no name, or a name only known to other dancing oaks - Caronia, Sicily

Photo: Saro Sciuto

The Indian Church (1929)
by Emily Carr

Tossed by the Wind
Emily Carr
1939

#forestFriday
#ArtChallengesAug

Emily Carr
Canadian Artist

A painting of thin, wispy, colorful trees, blowing in the wind, with shades of greens and blues.

#forestFriday
##ArtChallengesAug

@meritadocta.bsky.social
Emily Carr
Canadiens Artist, 1871- 1945

Andrew Wyeth, Walking Stick

A boat on the Sumida River (in Tokyo) in Moonlight (1910-20)
by Arai Yoshimune

There’s no emergency here.

Chicago Jazz Festival x
Esperanza Spalding!

🎨: @smnta___

An illustration from "Simeon's Gift," a book by Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton, illustrated by Gennady Spirin. The central figure is a young man, Simeon, lying on the ground, holding a lute, and looking upwards towards the night sky and a full moon. In the upper left, small, winged cherubic figures appear to be floating or flying, emanating from the area near a tree.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Gennady Spirin

🎨: Hacchi.stainedglass

I truly believe that the normalization of nighttime bookstores would change the world.

Forty-four annular turquoise blue glass beads strung on modern thread. Found when a farmer ploughed up a cremation urn at Kongehøj in Denmark in 1885. The urn broke and was found to contain burnt bones, the 44 blue glass beads and two gold spiral rings. Research shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), indicating far-reaching trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago

Something lovely for your timeline!

Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age.

Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.

📷 National Museum of Denmark

#Archaeology

Cosby Creek at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The water was running high with all the crazy rainstorms! (Photo by me)

The defining feature of Japanese artist Saburōsuke Okada's (岡田三郎助) style is, above all, his graceful and elegant female figures, which integrate influences from his European and Japanese training in which he gradually established his own style based on delicate brushstrokes and elegant colors. "Kimono with Iris Pattern" (aka "Iris Robe") is a perfect embodiment of Okada's refined decorativeness and the detailed, soft skin tone characteristic of how he depicts women, as seen in works such as 紫の調 (Portrait of a Certain Woman) from 1907 and 萩 (Bush Clover) from 1908. The main feature of this work is the beautiful kimono robe, in which a white iris pattern stands out against the light indigo background that resembles water in a pond, and the vermilion stripes that beautifully harmonize with them. The young Japanese woman wearing the robes is painted in oil paint, with her back visible, against a golden-yellow background in the style of a lacquer dye. Traditional Japanese aesthetics and techniques are clearly visible in this "Western-style" oil painting, reflecting Okada's tireless research. At the age of six, Okada moved to Tokyo and stayed in the residence of Nabeshima Naohiro (鍋島直大), the former lord of the Saga domain. There, he saw the oil paintings of his fellow Saga native, Hyakutake Kaneyuki (百武兼行), and developed an interest in Western painting. After studying at the private school of Soyama Sachihiko (曽山幸彦), he entered the Tenshin Dojo, taught by Kuroda Seiki (黒田清輝) and Kume Keiichiro (久米桂一郎), who had returned from France. In 1896, he participated in the founding of the Hakuba-kai, and was appointed assistant professor in the newly established Western painting department at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (東京美術学校). The following year, he traveled to France as the first student studying Western painting funded by the Ministry of Education, studying under Kuroda's teacher, Raphaël Collin.

あやめの衣 (Kimono with Iris Pattern) by 岡田三郎助 / Saburōsuke Okada (Japanese) - Oil on cardboard mounted on canvas / 1927 - Pola Museum of Art (Hakone, Japan) #WomenInArt #art #JapaneseArt #日本絵画 #ポーラ美術館 #岡田三郎助 #PolaMuseumofArt #着物 #OkadaSaburōsuke #OkadaSaburosuke #womensart #OilPainting #JapanesesArtist

It's a gorgeous cover! It was wonderful to attend your reading at Politics & Prose in Washington DC. I'm savoring the beautiful, poetic prose slowly!

🎨: SOFTlab, "Spectral Grove"

It’s truthfully hard to fathom a more perfect pairing than that of rainfall and reading.

Famous scene from North by Northwest with crop duster chasing Cary Grant but crop duster has been altered to read "2025."

Don't know who created this image but it has lost none of its relevance since Dec. 31.

Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?

Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers

An elegant account of how one ancient language went global Hunting the origin of 40 per cent of the languages spoken today is a huge feat, but Laura Spinney's new book makes an excellent job of it

Hunting the origin of 40 per cent of the languages spoken today is a huge feat, but Laura Spinney's new book makes an excellent job of it

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Panza Collection, 1991 © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Surface Veil III by Robert Ryman, 1971 #artbots #guggenheim
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square container with tapered sides; three large and six small holes in top; sides have landscape design with two figures in foreground next to trees; mountains and church in distance at R

Bulb pot https://collections.artsmia.org/art/111025/

Two crows on an ice laden branch in a snowy forest, one crow is mid conversation, starry snowflakes, magical painting.

Goodnight.
Very unseasonal, but I love it.
🖼️ Zima (Winter), Michalina Janoszanka, 1920s.

Rainbow walking path and church in distance in Reykjavik

Good morning from Reykjavik 🇮🇸 ☕️

Bunch of Hellebore Flowers (2023)
by Suzan Visser

Winter Oasts
by Paul Evans