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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 3h

Day 2393 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Still Life with a Lemon and Pink Roses" (c. 1650) Cornelis Kick. Ashmolean Museum. Cornelis Kick was an Amsterdam-born painter trained initially by his father, Simon Kick. While his father focused on civic portraits, Cornelis was deeply inspired by masters

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Connections Puzzle #1209 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Day 2392 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Alice Helleu en robe blanche" (1902) Paul-César Helleu. Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne. This painting exemplifies the formal portrait conventions of the Belle Époque era. Hellu depicts his wife and primary model, Alice Guérin.

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Day 2391 #ArtKicksCovid19 "The River" (1897) Fritz Thaulow. Bradford Museums and Galleries. This work by Norwegian artist Thaulow demonstrates his ability to capture the complex, liquid mechanics of moving water. Rather than employing uniform tones, he depicts the river using strokes of turquoise,

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Day 2390 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Green Likes Mauve” (1970) Helen Frankenthaler. National Gallery of Art Washington DC. This is a brilliant testament to the lyrical, fluid abstraction that defined the second generation of Abstract Expressionists and Color Field pioneers.

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 2389 #ArtKicksCovid19 "The Calling of St. Matthew" (1600) Caravaggio. Caravaggio was born on this day in 1571. I saw this work in the flesh while visiting Rome back in 2023. Housed in Rome's Church of San Luigi dei Francesi, the oil painting captures the exact moment

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Day 2388 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Ophelia" (1870) Pierre Auguste Cot. Private Collection. Shakespeare’s heroine is depicted standing and reading from a book. The composition departs from the more familiar 19th-century representations of Ophelia associated with her madness or death,

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Day 2387 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Self-Portrait" (1659) Rembrandt van Rijn. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. The man’s surroundings are blurred, but his illuminated face is finely detailed. The sad eyes fix on us intently. What is he trying to communicate?

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Day 2386 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Le Matin embrumé à Villeneuve-l'Etang" (1910) Henri Biva. Private Collection. This work exemplifies Biva’s sustained interest in the atmospheric effects of light and landscape. Depicting the wooded surroundings of Villeneuve-l’Étang near Saint-Cloud,

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Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland @astiunion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The ASTI has made the decision to join the coordinated industrial action alongside other public service unions affiliated to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. We will issue an industrial action directive to members shortly.

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…..

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Day 2385 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Untitled” (1968) Mark Rothko. MoMA The Museum of Modern Art. Rothko was born on this day in 1903. By the early 1960s, he was widely regarded as one of America’s leading painters. Speaking of the style he had honed over the past two decades, he remarked:

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Day 2384 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Basket of Bread" (1945) Salvador Dalí. Dalí Theatre and Museum. Painted in California just as World War II was drawing to a close, the artwork depicts a single heel of a bread loaf resting inside a woven wicker basket, balanced precariously on the edge of a wooden table

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Day 2383 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Les Loisirs-Hommage à Louis David" (1949) Fernand Léger. Centre Pompidou. In this work, Léger celebrates popular leisure and the paid holidays introduced in France in 1936 under the Front Populaire. After returning from New York in 1945, the artist declared a shift

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Day 2382 #ArtKicksCovid19 "The Gardener” (1904) Maurice de Vlaminck. Private Collection. Happy Birthday to the best gardener I know, my Dad. Thus painting captures a pivotal moment in de Vlaminck's career just as the Fauvist movement was emerging, showcasing his transition towards a style

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

West Cork wanderings yesterday afternoon - excellent scampi for lunch at Nighthawks in Rosscarbery (formerly known as Rosscarbery Traditional Fish & Chips), followed by a walk on Long Strand and a sighting of Castle Freke (private property so this is as close as we could get!)

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Day 2381 #ArtKicksCovid19 “The Music Room (Portrait of Una Dugdale)" (1912) Ethel Wright. Private Collection. Trained at the Académie Julien in Paris, Ethel Wright’s career as a conventional portrait painter was radicalised by her growing commitment to the suffragette movement.

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#edchatie Congratulations to all involved in #ResearchED Cork yesterday notably the teachers, students and staff at Bandon Grammar School who ensured the event went smoothly. The conference was insightful and informative with interesting speakers and an impressive turnout of attendees as well.👏🏻

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Day 2380 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Disappointed Love" (1821) Francis Danby. Victoria & Albert Museum. This was Danby’s first work to be exhibited at the Royal Academy and subsequently became one of his best-known paintings. It depicts a heartbroken young woman, seated beside a pool in a secluded landscape,

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Day 2379 #ArtKicksCovid19 “The Bouquet of Flowers” (1874) Eva Gonzalès. Private Collection. Gonzalès’s fresh yet intimate still life was painted at a formative point in her career. A small bouquet of blue and violet flowers remains loosely wrapped in white florist’s paper,

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Connections Puzzle #1195 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Day 2378 #ArtKicksCovid19 "The Bather" (1910) Léon Spilliaert. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. In this striking composition, Spilliaert blends Symbolism and early Expressionism to evoke a sense of isolation and quiet introspection.

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Day 2377 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Houses by the Bank of the River Zaan" (1872) Claude Monet. Städel Museum Frankfurt. Immediately after the Franco-Prussian War, during which Monet had sought exile in London, the artist travelled to the Netherlands. He and his family stayed in a small town near Amsterdam

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Day 2376 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Purple Petunias" (1925) Georgia O'Keeffe. The Newark Museum of Art. The artist's seminal shift toward monumental floral abstraction started during her summers at Lake George in New York. Here, O’Keeffe rejects traditional still life constraints

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Day 2375 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Still Life with Artichoke, Fruit in Kraak Porcelain Ware and a Salt Cellar and Pepper Castor” (1615) Osias Beert the Elder. Rijksmuseum. This still life combines a display of wealth with Christian allegory. An elevated viewpoint is used to display luxury goods of the era,

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Day 2374 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Farmhouse in a Wheat Field” (1888) Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh Museum. For this farmhouse in a field near Arles, Van Gogh used bright, unmixed colours. This work illustrates what he learned in Paris where he had encountered, and engaged with, a variety of new art movements,

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Day 2373 #ArtKicksCovid19 "The Annunciation” (1600) Agostino Carracci. Musée du Louvre. Perfectly showcasing the late 16th century Bolognese style, this small devotional painting rejects the artificiality of Mannerism in favour of a clear, balanced classicism.

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead.

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Day 2372 #ArtKicksCovid19 “The Concert” (1664) Johannes Vermeer. This painting’s whereabouts remains unknown; it was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on March 18, 1990 and is still missing. The intimate scene centres on two women and a man gathered to play music:

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#OnThisDay 25 years ago, was working in Dublin, a friend rang saying a ✈️ hit one of the Twin Towers, then the other. No social media, no internet. We watched coverage on 📺 in a pub. For many Gen Xers, this, Princess Diana’s death & the fall of the Berlin Wall were our “where were you when?” moments.

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Day 2371 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Self Portrait" (1889) Sarah Cecilia Harrison. The Hugh Lane Gallery. Harrison painted this the year she established her practice in Dublin. Rejecting contemporary Impressionist abstraction, she employed a polished, disciplined realism rooted in her rigorous training

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Day 2370 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Badesteg (Bathing Pier)" (1911) Klemens Brosch. Schlossmuseum Linz. This work demonstrates the remarkable technical assurance and sensitivity of the Austrian artist, whose work often transformed ordinary landscapes into images of extraordinary intensity.

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Day 2369 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Sunday Gardening" (1961) John Philip Falter, cover for The Saturday Evening Post published on July 1, 1961. This work captures an affectionate and gently humorous vision of suburban American life. Falter, one of the magazine’s most prolific and celebrated cover artists,

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Day 2368 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Green Landscape with Red Cloud" (1908) Emil Nolde. Private Collection. This is a striking early example of the artist’s Expressionist approach to landscape, in which colour becomes a powerful vehicle for emotion rather than a straightforward record of nature.

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Day 2367 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Woman Doing Her Hair" (1900) Félix Vallotton. Musée d’Orsay. This painting captures a private domestic moment through a lens of stark realism. Painted on cardboard, this Intimist work rejects the soft romanticism typical of traditional boudoir scenes

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Day 2366 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Breakfast Table with Blackberry Pie" (1631) Willem Claesz. Heda. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden. This is a masterful example of the Dutch Golden Age breakfast piece. The work exemplifies the monochrome banquet trend through its restrained, delicate palette

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