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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Gerda, Half-Length Portrait (Frauenkopf, Gerda) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German) - Oil on canvas / 1914 - Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY) #womeninart #expressionism #painting #womanart #kirchner #germanartist #art #fineart #guggenheim #ernstludwigkirchener #guggenheimmuseum #womensart #attoftheday

In Dresden in 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner banded together with Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and others to form Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group devoted to transforming German art into something contemporary and revolutionary. In their manifesto, they declared: “We wish to establish our freedom of action and life against well-established older forces.” Taking their cue from the French Post-Impressionists and Fauves, they chose their subjects from the world around them, depicting city life, friends, landscapes, and music halls filling their art with emotional energy rendered in acrid colors and with frenzied brushstrokes, thus defining the signature style of German Expressionism.

Gerda, Half-Length Portrait was painted after Kirchner had moved to Berlin and Die Brücke had disbanded. The stylized pose and angularity of the figure set within a radically foreshortened background are typical of the artist’s mature style. The rough-hewn features of her face also call to mind Kirchner’s interest in African masks.

The intensity of the composition, the combined result of a harsh palette and sketchlike drawing, is made more dynamic by the highly abstract space surrounding the figure. The seductive, confrontational pose of the subject, the dancer Gerda Schilling (who was the older sister of the artist’s future common-law wife), has an affinity with Kirchner’s psychologically charged Berlin streetscapes of prostitutes and bourgeois life.

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Woman with a Veil (Donna Velata) by Raphael (Italian) - Oil on canvas / c. 1512-1515 - Uffizi Gallery (Florence, Italy) #womeninart #portrait #raphael #art #oilpainting #uffizi #artwork #womanart #painting #renaissanceart #italianart #uffizigallery #fineart #womensart #artoftheday #artbsky #firenze

La velata, or La donna velata ("The woman with the veil"), is a well known portrait by the Italian Renaissance painter Raffaello Sanzio, more commonly known as Raphael.

The veil over the hair, from which the name of this splendid work by Raphael is derived, indicates that the woman is married, yet her precise identity is unknown. According to Giorgio Vasari (1550, 1568), who observed the painting in the house of the merchant Matteo Botti in Florence, the work features Margherita Luti, known as La Fornarina (bakeress), a woman who Raphael loved throughout his life, but the exquisite gown and jewels are more indicative of a commissioned portrait of a young noblewoman.

It is a three-quarter portrait where one of the shoulder set behind emphasizes the spatial depth and modulations of light and shade. The dark background highlights the pink skin tones of the young woman and the luminosity of her pale silk clothing. The gesture of placing her right hand to her heart is perhaps an expression of devotion and love, but the position of the other arm extended in the foreground is a device to spotlight the sumptuous material of the sleeve and the exquisite interplay of light in the folds.

On closer inspection, the gown is the central focus of the painting, created through extraordinarily masterful skill, while the woman's face, set back slightly and partly in shade, and in particular her deep and penetrating dark eyes, express the subject's inner thoughts. The overall effect is both complex and extraordinary.

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Rebecca by Anne Goldthwaite (American) - Oil on linen / c. 1925 - Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY) #womeninart #portrait #goldwaite #womanartist #painting #whitneymuseum #americanartist #womensart #art #annegoldthwaite #americanart #womanart #fineart #portraitofawoman #oilpainting #ny

Anne Goldthwaite’s oil portrait “Rebecca” was purchased by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney herself and has been on display as part of “The Whitney’s Collection.”

An African American woman (Rebecca) sits leaning to her left with a calm confidence that conveys her beauty. Her short black hair is pulled back above the neck. She wears a colorful blue top with hints of a white undershirt. The absence of jewelry and the large muted blue, grey, and purple background allow the viewer to focus attention on Rebecca the person.

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Lady Wearing Spectacles by Unknown Artist- Oil on canvas / c. 1840 - National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) #womeninart #glasses #art #painting #americanart #artwork #portraitofawoman #sunglasses #fineart #nationalgalleryofart #womensart #oilpainting #portrait #hairstyle #womanart #artoftheday

This portrait of a woman wearing glasses (spectacles) from about 1840 is from Connecticut and in the U.S. National Gallery of Art. A woman sits on a wooden chair in front of a brown wall with a red curtain behind her left shoulder. She wears an all black lowcut dress with lace trim, gold bead necklace and gold drop earrings plus green tinted glasses which give the painting its name. Her brown hair is parted down the middle and styles with long braided hair loops in front of her ears down to her chin and back over the ears.

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honey-man.bsky.social @honey-man.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

They want us to overlook the fact that his name appeared on Epstein’s flight logs multiple times. I haven’t forgotten, and neither should you.

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honey-man.bsky.social @honey-man.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

NICE!

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Colorado naturist @coloradonaturist.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

What are we missing if we don’t have Snapchat?

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Colorado naturist @coloradonaturist.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Ah, too bad for me.😢

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Colorado naturist @coloradonaturist.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Excellent idea!

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Colorado naturist @coloradonaturist.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Wonderful to be outside nude!

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kevin7bsky.bsky.social @kevin7bsky.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

These are beautiful Christmas decorations around my neighborhood

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kevin7bsky.bsky.social @kevin7bsky.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Every year around Christmas I always have sees candies

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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hi Carlie I work on system change, grassroots activism and (increasingly) education. Please may I be added?

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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Last year we ran some events at the University of East Anglia imagine what a solarpunk university might look like. They went down well and so today we are repeating the 'Introduction to Solarpunk' talk. If you are Solarpunk curious please feel free to come along.Teams link here: bit.ly/3ATZsaw

A poster for the Introduction To Solarpunk talk at the University of East Anglia on 28th November.

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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Can someone in London please nail this excellent piece by @johnharris1969.bsky.social to the door of 10 Downing Street? Ta.

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Thomas Wobben @towob.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Excellent study by @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social about determining factors for decentralisation, showing the complex relationship between the levels of government. There is clearly a need for effective decentralisation for more local delivery instead of top-down missions. doi.org/10.14746/qua...

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Thomas Wobben @towob.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

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Thomas Wobben @towob.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

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Thomas Wobben @towob.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year! Some mathematical facts about 2025

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Thomas Wobben @towob.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I was there in 1989!

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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 31/12/2024

On New Year's Eve 1989, hundreds of thousands of people rang in the new decade at the Brandenburg Gate, mere weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Against this euphoric backdrop David Hasselhoff gave an iconic performance of his smash hit 'Looking for Freedom' from a crane...

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Thomas Wobben @towob.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Great to see that the Polish Council Presidency will devote much attention to the MFF, the future long term budget of the EU as well as to the future of Cohesion Policy! Looking forward to the high level conference on the MFF in Warsaw in February! #Poland25EU polish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu

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Thomas Wobben @towob.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Vielen Dank für das klasse Interview. Habe viel Neues erfahren über Leni Riefenstahl und teile Eure Einschätzung über X. Genau deswegen bin ich jetzt bei Bluesky. Eine Anregung hätte ich: mehr Gesprächspartner aus der EU und von der lokalen Ebene.

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Thomas Wobben @towob.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Interesting study of the @Eprs on the cost of non-cohesion strongly advocating a better understanding of drivers for territorial inequalities and the need for a more integrated approach across all levels of government to address them. www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

He sure didn’t help.

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

“America didn’t swing rightward, but couchward: The popular vote result was almost entirely a collapse in support for Harris and Democrats, not an increase in support for Trump and MAGA.” open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

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How Trump “Won”

The Anesthetized Anti-MAGA Majority

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

These guys skate and skate and skate.

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

So happy to see Bill Nye get the Presidential Medal of Freedom — a great group of recipients all around, but Nye has been a fearless in warning the world about climate change. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/u...

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Biden Awards 18 Medals of Freedom, and Delivers One Unmistakable Message

With a recipient list stocked with old-guard icons and political backers, the president signaled support for the establishment his successor wants to tear down.

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