distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 10/09/2025"Maquette de costume pour 'Le Rêve de Léonor'" 020
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 10/09/2025"A painting is something like a spectacle, a theater piece in which each figure lives out her part." Leonor Fini "Le Double" #fineartpainting #art #painting #fineart #artsky 3271
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 09/09/2025"When Inez came out of the water she was crying with the tiniest voice. I wasn't expecting her voice. To have a whole new person with their own voice in your arms… We live in a world that is so magical, something as mind blowing as birth is quotidian." "Eye(Birth)" #fineart #painting #art #painters 040
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Ari Kwon's surreal, ethereal work visualizes the gap between an outwardly happy appearance and the private feelings of loss, anxiety, and deviation that individuals often hide. "A Dream Messenger" #fineartpainting #fineart #artsky #art #paintings #painters 180
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 07/09/2025“My art reflects the world I perceive with all my senses. People I meet and love; nature I admire; and all the things that affect the way I am.” Justyna Kopania "Mist #3" #fineartpainting #fineart #artsky #art #paintings #painters 0111
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 06/09/2025"When life feels chaotic & unfathomable, pause & listen. Listen to the murmur of the trees, the rushing chatter of a river, the birds weaving melodies into the wind. In these moments, you may hear the quiet wisdom of the world & your own place within it.” Genevieve Leavold #fineartpainting #art 1124
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 05/09/2025The California impressionists applied the techniques of impressionism to paint mostly the beautiful landscape of California's coast. "Hazy Morning" Jean Mannheim #artsky #art #painting #artists 090
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 20/06/2025"It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power." Jean-Francois Millet Hugh Cameron was a Scottish painter who, like Millet, specialized in painting the beauty of the commonplace. "The Careful Sister " #artsky #art #painting #artists 050
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 08/05/2025In honor of the election of Pope Leo IV today I present what is widely considered the greatest works of art depicting a Pope. Fittingly, that is Raphael's portrait of Pope Leo X, painted between 1518 & 1520. #artsky #art #artists #painting 1194
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 01/05/2025"Paintings are not primarily there to be explained, but to be looked at. And there are paintings where trying to explain makes no sense because the meaning of the painting is different from that expressed by language." Wolfgang Lettl #artsky #art #artists #painting 060
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 19/04/2025“Nothing matters in this world to the painter, but a good picture. And it must be a mighty good one to compete with those already done." Gari Melchers "The Unpretentious Garden " #artsky #art #artista #painting 0143
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 14/04/2025"The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble." Wassily Kandinsky "Light Picture" #artsky #art #paintings #painters 030
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 13/04/2025“Atmosphere in a painting is achieved through bathing the canvas in a single scale of colors. Thus one achieves an état d’âme (state of being) exteriorized in luminous form.” František Kupka "Synthesis" #artsky #art #paintings #painters 040
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 12/04/2025A remarkable female painter whose work was forgotten after her death for 250 years. She was far ahead of her time, painting portraits & nude figures in an era when women were not allowed to study live models when painting. Michaelina Wautier #artsky #art #paintings #painters 040
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 11/04/2025"Romantic River Scene" Horace Wolcott Robbins #artsky #art #paintings #painters 050
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 11/04/2025The landscape in Florida is often more waterscape. #Scape #EastCoastKin #photography #Landscapephotography 0182
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Golden hour at global headquarters in Copenhagen. #photosky #photography #art 0101
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 08/04/2025"Resistance is in each of us. We resist by exercising our creativity. That is true poetry…to resist is to be a poet and to live an uninterrupted metaphor." Roberto Matta "A Grave Situation" #artsky #art #paintings #painters 080
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 07/04/2025"I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment." Roberto Matta "Star Travel" #artsky #art #paintings #painters 070
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 07/04/2025"Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time." Kenneth Noland "Bravo Costa Brava " #artsky #art #paintings #painters 0111
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 05/04/2025"Desert Animals" William Baziotes #artsky #art #paintings #painters 072
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 05/04/2025"As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me." William Baziotes #artsky #art #painting #painters 020
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 05/04/2025"Painting is by nature a luminous language." Robert Delaunay "La Tour Rouge" #artsky #art #artists #paintings 0122
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 03/04/2025“[Beal's work depicts]the eternal pleasures of work and leisure, the casual enjoyable incidents which add so much to life’s richness.” Barry Faulkner "The Fish Bucket" - Gifford Beal #artsky #art #artists #paintings 060
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025A Swiss painter and chemist who developed new techniques for fixing pigments in pastels, Luigi Chialiva was known for his idealized rural scenes, almost always including livestock. #artsky #art #artists #paintings 070
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 29/03/2025More Paul Klee "Mosaic Like" #artsky #art #painting #abstractart 0172
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 28/03/2025"I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied." "Lindsay Key" Robert Mapplethorpe #artsky #art #artists #photography #RobertMapplethorpe 090
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 28/03/2025"The search for a picturesque or readymade landscape, comprising ideal color, composition, and subject matter often actually results in an unexciting dull picture." Henry Martin Gasser "Shanty Town" #artsky #art #painting #HenryMartinGasser 080
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 27/03/2025For much of human history children, if they were depicted in art at all, were either presented as cupids or in royal portraits as miniature adults in full regalia. This work by Sir Anthony Van Dyck is one of the earliest candid depictions of children in art. #artsky #art #painting #abstractart 070
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 27/03/2025More work from a Chinese artist whose art I admire. "Zitterlein" #artsky #art #painting #abstractart 090
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 27/03/2025"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see." Paul Klee #artsky #art #artists #paintings #PaulKlee 030
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 26/03/2025“Get out and preserve nature by taking care of her, or die in a pigpen.” Joseph Eliot Enneking "Cottage In The Woods" #artsky #art #artists #paintings 060
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 26/03/2025"the most intimate aspects of the natural world are the inspiration for her paintings The details of Nature's vast tapestry, its warp & weft... are translated by her whimsical imagination into works of striking originality." Lucia Tongiorni Tomasi on Sophie Grandval #artsky #art #artists #paintings 050
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 25/03/2025As promised earlier, another painting from a Hudson River School master who died virtually unknown, but really deserves to be remembered. "Starrucca Viaduct , Pennsylvania" #artsky #art #artists #paintings #JasperFrancisCopsey 040
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 25/03/2025"I find in recalling to mind those that have the greatest works, they have been the most attentive to nature..." Jasper Francis Copsey "Autumn On The Hudson" An artist who died as an almost complete unknown but had a staggering talent. #artsky #art #artists #paintings #JasperFrancisCopsey 150
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025"I believe that all painters are realists for themselves. They are abstract for other people" Zao Wou Ki "Untitled 9-6-2000" #artsky #art #artists #paintings 060
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025"Order, and a certain simplicity of composition, probably accounts for a good deal of the tranquility you seem to find in my pictures" Fernando Zobel "Horizonte " #artsky #art #artists #paintings 041
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen. Joaquin Sorolla "The Guitarists Valencian Customs" #artsky #art #artists #paintings 030
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Guillermo De Santa Rita was an eccentric Cubist/Futurist painter who died young and directed that all of his works be destroyed when he died. This unfinished piece is one of the rare surviving works "Head" #artsky #art #artists #paintings #GuilhermeDeSantaRita 070
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 23/03/2025“Then I started to realize that any color is African color. You just have to be able to go beyond these preconditions that limit your thinking.” Odili Donald Odita "Cracked Actors" #artsky #art #artists #paintings 150
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 22/03/2025"The more I stare at nature, the more I move away from aspects such as form and am overcome by a strange inspiration" Tsuchida Bakusen "After the Rain" #artsky #art #artists #painting 081
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Of all the possible journeys in life, there is one #journey we all must take alone. #BlueskyArtShow #EastCoastKin 160
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 22/03/2025"I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark." Julie Mehretu "Convergence" #artsky #art #artists #painting #JulieMehretu 070
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 21/03/2025"You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble." Janet Echelman "Dream Catcher" Suspended twine sculpture #artsky #art #artists #sculpture #JanetEchelman 041
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Waterscape on the bayou. #Scape #EastCoastKin 0352
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 21/03/2025"Traunstein River On The Road To Empfig" #artsky #art #artists #paintings #WilliamStanleyHaseltine 061
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 20/03/2025And then Georgia Okeefe. Famous for her abstract closeup floral painting, she goes a different way with "Cottonwood Tree" #artsky #art #artists #paintings #GeorgiaOkeefe 0173
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Two artists you probably know, but painting in a manner you may not expect when you hear their names. First, "Head" by Jackson Pollock #artsky #art #artists #paintings #JacksonPollock 1102
distantThunder @distantthunder.bsky.social · 20/03/2025"The magnificent beauty of the natural world is a manifestation of the mysterious natural laws that will be forever obscured from us." -Albert Bierstadt "A Storm In the Rockies, Mount Rosalie" #artsky #art #artists #paintings #AlbertBierstadt 0120
