Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 - Ilya Repin (1885) (upload.wikimedia.org)
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Exhibition of a Rhinoceros at Venice (1751), by Pietro Longhi (i.imgur.com)
Michael Whelan, "Lore of the Witch World". (lemmy.world)
My Ceremony - Alonsa Guevara (2015) oil on canvas (i.pinimg.com)
http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/guevara-4-639x898.jpg...
Trollvintr - Tove Jansson (1957) (i.pinimg.com)
Kuoleman puutarha (The Garden of Death) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Hugo Simberg (1873 – 1917)...
White Painting (cmoa-collection-images.s3.amazonaws.com)
Jirō Yoshihara, Japanese 1905–1972...
Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist - Giovanni Bellini (1490–1495) Oil on panel (upload.wikimedia.org)
I really enjoy the contrast in this piece between the precise Mary and the realistic texture of her clothes and the cherubs looking like jelly babies, along with some odd looking kids. I honestly can’t think why they made choices they did.
No title - Zdzislaw Beksinski (lemmy.world)
Known as the nightmare artist, Zdzislaw Beksinski, a polish painter and photographer, is famous for his horrifying works, all of which have no official title. Despite the hellish landscapes that he imagined, he was of sound mind and had no history of mental illness or emotional instability, which only adds to the oddity as he...
' Overgrowth' felt installation, by Jennifer Moss (lemmy.ml)
Her website
The Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton (1864) (i.postimg.cc)
Planers of a small apartment - Gustave Caillebotte (1875) (cdn.mediatheque.epmoo.fr)
This painting is one of the first representations of urban proletariat. Whereas peasants (Gleaners by Millet) or country workers (Stone Breakers by Courbet) had often been shown, city workers had seldom been painted. Unlike Courbet or Millet, Caillebotte does not incorporate any social, moralising or political message in his...
肖像之相——小姜 - Leng Jun (2011) oil on canvas (mymodernmet.com)
https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/leng-jun-photorealistic-painting-8.jpgClose up
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog - Caspar David Friedrich (1818) oil on canvas (upload.wikimedia.org)
'Island Celebration' linocut by Angie Lewin (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/3779341...
'Snow Melt (Spring Thaw)' Leaded glass, bevels, fused images by Josephine A. Geiger (lemmy.ml)
From her website...
Fumée d'ambre gris (Smoke of Ambergris) (media.clarkart.edu)
John Singer Sargent...
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X - Francis Bacon (1953) (historia-arte.com)
The original Portrait of Pope Innocent X, by Diego Velázquez in 1650: https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/84a6bc07-0f7d-4291-87a1-61e1827575df.png...
Nightwaves - Gregory Manchess (images.squarespace-cdn.com)
'Maritime Travel' collage by Sarah Eisenlohr (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/3722251...
'Sea Mist' Woodblock Print Merlyn Chesterman (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/4406504...
Alien Monster II - H R Giger (1978) (4.bp.blogspot.com)
Artist Hans Reudi Giger, was a Swiss-born proponent of “biomechanical art” blending human and machine. His work in the 60s and 70’s went on the influence monster and set design for the Alien film series. He often collaborated with his muse and sometimes lover Li Tobler until her death at age 27. Her face is visible in some...
Dressing for The Carnival - Winslow Homer (1877) Oil on canvas (2.bp.blogspot.com)
from the Met Museum: “In this Reconstruction-era painting, Homer evokes the dislocation and endurance of African American culture that was a legacy of slavery. The central figure represents a character from a Christmas celebration known as Jonkonnu, once observed by enslaved people in North Carolina and, possibly, eastern...
Goodbye! by Alfred Guillou (1892) (lemmy.world)
Essentially French, though of Celtic Brittonic or Breton heritage as these people exist in Brittany, France, Alfred Guillou had his painting debut in 1868. About this time, Guillou and other painters formed the Concarneau Art Colony near Pont-Aven, France, attracting painters such as Charles Cottet and Paul Gauguin. A prime...
Kaplumbağa Terbiyecisi (The Tortoise Trainer) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Osman Hamdi Bey...
