Rest on the Flight into Egypt (i.imgur.com)
painting by Luc Olivier Merson 1880
'Chair on the Stairs - Sunnybank Mills' print, by Mike Smith (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/9042448...
At the Seashore - Anna Bilinska (1886) oil on board (upload.wikimedia.org)
Phoenix Egg - Thetis Blacker (1981) Batik on cotton (marinaelphick.files.wordpress.com)
Michael Whelan, "Lore of the Witch World". (lemmy.world)
Chess - Georgy Kurasov (2.bp.blogspot.com)
Anna - Walter Ufer (1920) oil on canvas (upload.wikimedia.org)
Seld Portrait - Walter Ufer (1920) oil on canvas (upload.wikimedia.org)
Two Women at a Window - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1655-6) oil on canvas (upload.wikimedia.org)
Art, No.2 - Chuck Baird (1992) (i.pinimg.com)
The Slave Ship - J M W Turner (1840) oil on canvas (upload.wikimedia.org)
“Turner tackles a serious social subject, and produces a dazzlingly powerful image. Paradoxically, for a scene set at sea, he deploys a fiery palette of oranges and yellows to show the sunset reflecting a scene of human brutality. Turner was not just an artist pre-occupied by the aesthetic. This painting was owned by John...
Assertiveness - Izumi Kogahara (2017) (kogaharaizumi.com)
Paris: In memory of the young deceased friend - Shalva Kikodze (1920) oil on canvas (i.ebayimg.com)
Shalva Kikodze (1894-1921) was a Georgian expressionist painter who worked in Georgia, Russia and later France. He also worked as a graphic artist and theatre decorator. He died of tuberculosis in Freiburg, Germany, on November 7, 1921....
City Landscape - Orest Zaborski (1975) oil on canvas (upload.wikimedia.org)
Woman with Rabbit - Eugeniusz Zak (1908) (upload.wikimedia.org)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Eugeniusz_Zak_-_Autoportret.jpg/800px-Eugeniusz_Zak_-_Autoportret.jpg
Le jardin aux pavots - Robert Antoine Pinchon (1906) Robert Antoine, oil on canvas (upload.wikimedia.org)
The first time I saw this piece, all I could see were the spots if flowers on blurry backdrop. The harder you look the more details appear, mottled leaves on the trees and how the branches curve over. Different tiles on the houses and fluffy edges on the clouds.
Bathers at Asniers - George's Seurat (1884) oils (upload.wikimedia.org)
wikipedia- Seurat used a variety of means to suggest the baking heat of a summer’s day at the riverside. A hot haze softens the edges of the trees in the middle-distance and washes out colour from the bridges and factories in the background—the blue of the sky at the horizon is paled almost to whiteness. A shimmering...
Shoda Koho - Black Cat (1930’s) (i.imgur.com)
Inspired by a haiku poem by Kawabata Bosha (1900-1941): “In the thick of the leaves / the eyes of a black cat / ominous flashes of gold”
Tornado over Kansas - John Stuart Curry (1929) oil on canvas (images.fineartamerica.com)
Postmen of the Wilderness - Arthur Hemming (1921) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Woman Reading - Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (1907) (1.bp.blogspot.com)
Peter Ilsted and Vilhelm Hammershøi, together with Carl Holsøe (1863–1935), were leading artists in early 20th-century Denmark. All three artists were members of the Free Exhibitions (Den Frie Udstilling), a progressive artists association founded in 1891. They are famous for painting images of “Sunshine and Silent...
La belle Irlandaise (Portrait of Jo) - Gustave Courbet (1865-66) oil on canvas (upload.wikimedia.org)
Joanna Heffernan was an Irish artists’ model and muse who was romantically linked with American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler and French painter Gustave Courbet. In addition to being an artists’ model, Hiffernan herself also drew and painted, although it is not believed she ever exhibited her work. She features in...
Double Portrait of the Artist and his Wife seen through a Mirror The Cottage Spurveskjul - Vilhelm Hammershoi, oils (cdn2.oceansbridge.com)
Girl with Beret - Lucian Freud (1951) oil on canvas (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Self portrait of artist (1946) https://d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net/w944h944/collection/TATE/TATE/TATE_TATE_T00422_10-001.jpg