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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🪑 🐕 🎨 David Hockney’s Dog Days “…I realised I was #painting my best friends, Stanley & Boogie. The subject was not #dogs but my love of the little creatures.” @kimvertue.bsky.social on how Britain’s favourite artist found solace in canine inspiration Signifier 🐾 medium.com/signifier/da... #art
photograph showing the wall in David Hockney's studio with many paintings of his dogs hung on it - detail form a larger photograph used on the back cover of his 1998 book 'Dog Days'
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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ @remydean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🌕 Happy Moon-Viewing Mid-Autumn Harvest Festival🌽 🥮 祝福中秋佳节快乐 🐇 お月見を楽しみましょう 🎑 images from 'Astronomia Cards' (1829) @publicdomainrev.bsky.social 🌃 publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...
old illustrated cards: the moon 'LUNA' - between constellations in the autumn sky, and constellations in the winter sky
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔷 🟥 🖼️ 'The Power of Merz' @remydean.bsky.social explores the collages & architectural assemblages of Kurt Schwitters that have left left a lasting legacy & remain highly relevant in #art #GraphicDesign & pop #culture ✂️ medium.com/signifier/ku... #ArtHistory #illustration #history
two early abstract ‘Merz’ collages (c1920) by Kurt Schwitters - detailed analysis and descriptions in article via link in post
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"the image is never entirely contained within the canvas & this is what makes Pellizza such an unusual painter: distance does not separate us from his subjects; it allows them to become present" 'The Device of Distance' by Michele Vigorita 🟡 medium.com/signifier/pe... #art #painitng #ArtHistory
"A particularly clear example is Sul fienile (On the Hayloft, c.1893). An elderly itinerant labourer lies dying inside a dark agricultural interior. A young woman and a priest remain near him. Beyond them, through the opening of the building, the exterior countryside burns with daylight." - further analysis and description in article via link in post
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The relationship between line & colour becomes one of balance & interplay. The result is a dynamic composition that bypasses rational meaning, becoming directly expressive in a similar way to music." 'Driven to Abstraction' 🌈 medium.com/signifier/dr... #art #ArtHistory #painting #illustration
music of Gunod (left) and Mendelssohn, as visualised c.1900 by Besant and Leadbeater - swirls of coloured lines and form above paintings of churches
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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ @remydean.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#KyaryPamyuPamyu celebrates 15 years of unique, eclectic & positive #JPop #Art - here's my long-read celebration of her #kawaii career @signifier.bsky.social Take a Bow: The Power of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu 🎀 medium.com/signifier/ta... #PamyuFes digest vid 💃 youtu.be/BY8ClW_SC9s?... #KPP #きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ
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🎀PAMYU FES〜Kyary Pamyu Pamyu 15th Anniversary〜🎀
YouTube video by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu ( きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ )
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🪨⚒️🪽 'Jacob & his Angels' "the huge figures shocked many of Epstein’s contemporaries just as his first commission for the façade of the BMA Building had shocked Edwardian sensibilities in 1908" @kimvertue.bsky.social on Jacob Epstein's monumental #sculpture of Angels 👼 medium.com/signifier/ja...
two photographs: detail pf Epstein’s sculpture of Jacob and the Angel is a larger-than-life depiction of Jacob’s all-night struggle with an unknown assailant - the grappling figures are angular, monumental. The angel wings are almost abstract, retaining the shape of the original huge block of alabaster; large bronze statue of ‘St Michael’s Victory over the Devil’ by Jacob Epstein at Coventry Cathedral (detail)
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We've thrown open the floodgates 🌊 #writers - please consider contributing to Signifier #artists - please consider showcasing your #art with us submission guidelines 👁️ medium.com/signifier/si... #ArtHistory #illustration #イラスト #photography #drawing #painting #FolkArt #writing #ContemporaryArt
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🌷 🍶 🥣 Christopher Dresser created the first objects to be known as Art Nouveau, drawing on his botanical knowledge & experiences in #Japan @remydean.bsky.social on the first product designer who designed C19th design-think 🫖 medium.com/signifier/ch... #design #art #ArtHistory #history #botany
Botanical Diagram (c1855) and Soup Bowl (1896) with simple Art Nouveau patterning by Christopher Dresser
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🍎 🎨 🖌️ 'Beauty of Creation' ponders a rare, pensive painting that holds permanence & transience together, making it Cézanne's most singular female #portrait 💛 medium.com/signifier/c%... #painting #art #ArtHistory
detail of 'Young Italian Woman at a Table' (c.1895–1900) by Paul Cézanne - further detailed descriptions and in-depth analysis in article via link in post
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🔆 👀 🖌️ 'First Impressions of Claude Monet' "The humble ferrule was a technological innovation that kicked off the Modern era by driving aesthetic change..." @remydean.bsky.social explores how 19th-Century French Impressionism strove for authenticity 🌄 medium.com/signifier/cl...
'Wheatstacks (End of Summer)' (1890-91, Oil on canvas) painting by Claude Monet - more information and analysis in article via link in post
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
RIP Yayoi Kusama ...here's @kimvertue.bsky.social on the relationship between the individual & the infinite through the work of Japan's globally renowned artist: 🍓 medium.com/signifier/pr... #art #ArtHistory #fashion #kawaii #ContemporaryArt #sculpture #Japan
‘Filled with the Brilliance of Life’ (2011) one of Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Infinity Mirror Rooms’ [images courtesy of Tate Galleries, presented by the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro 2015, accessioned 2019 © Yayoi Kusama]
Yayoi Kusama with bright orange hair, dressed in a gown of swirling yellow and black infront of her large signature polka dot pumpkin sculpture displayed in a yellow and black polka environment
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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ @remydean.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
RIP Yayoi Kusama - thank you for the colours & light ✨ ... & for each & every dot ⚫ ⚫ ⚫
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🌧️ 🛤️ 🐇 'Rain, Steam & Speed' "Can our #art meet exponential technological developments such as quantum computers & AI?" @kimvertue.bsky.social explores Turner’s lasting impression of rapid change - an image of the Industrial Revolution’s sublime momentum 😶‍🌫️ medium.com/signifier/ra... #ArtHistory
detail of the locomotive's firebox frontage in the painting ‘Rain, Steam, and Speed, The Great Western Railway’ (1844) by Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
✍️ 🎭 ⚔️ 'Cyrano de Bergerac, a Literary Oddity?' "the working class appreciated Cyrano’s rebellious, impertinent, libertarian spirit & willingness to stand up to those in power" Samuel Belleville-Douelle on why a powerful French play shook up society & still resonates: 👃 medium.com/signifier/cy...
two illustrations: 1: Roxane nursing Cyrano after a skirmish with swordsmen 2: Roxane reproaching Christian for not expressing his feelings clearly - illustrations by Paul-Albert Laurens for ‘Oeuvres complètes illustrées d’Edmond Rostand’ (1910) volume I. Éditions Lafitte, Paris, pages 91 and 141
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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ @remydean.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#YouTube #Music Weekend 12.0 foregrounding 2 of the most relevant #JPop synthespian cyber-idols 🫶 I wrote about them for @signifier.bsky.social The #JPop #Art of #HatsuneMiku 🩵 & #KizunaAi 💗 🍭 medium.com/signifier/wh... #キズナアイ 🎆 Virtual Fireworks Concert スペシャルエディション 🎶 youtu.be/divhVO0eCnQ?...
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【キズナアイ】Kizuna AI Virtual Fireworks Concert スペシャルエディション【YouTube Music Weekend 12.0】【 8/21(金) 18:00~】
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
📐 🧱 ⚒️ "Imagine what the pyramids would have looked like ‘back in the day’ when most people lived in huts or single storey houses of mud brick…" @remydean.bsky.social considers #architecture as a cultural proclamation of wealth & power — from Giza to Paris ⛪ medium.com/signifier/bu... #ArtHistory
the great pyramids at Giza rising above the sands of the Sahara Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris Façade: the figures across the top are the 28 kings of Judea and Israel, below are (left to right) Portal of the Virgin, Portal of the Last Judgement, and Portal of Saint-Anne
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
🪨 🔨 🕳️ "Pierced Form is a strange term for the lovely curves in many of the rounded sculptures which surround the negative space of a hole as developed in Barbara Hepworth’s transitional works" 'The Hole Story' by @kimvertue.bsky.social ⭕ medium.com/signifier/ba... #art #sculpture #ArtHistory
black and white photograph of ‘Pierced Form’ (1931) by Barbara Hepworth - abstract form, carved in pink alabaster that suggests the of neck and shoulders of classical sculptures with a hole that intimates a wound or, equally, a mouth opened to scream or sing
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
🖼️ 🫟 🪟 'A Small Thing But My Own' “...views through windows, memories of holidays, encounters with interiors & #art… with other people.” @kimvertue.bsky.social on the technicolour emotions of Howard Hodgkin 💎 medium.com/signifier/a-... #art #painting #ArtHistory #illustration #GraphicDesign
the colourful abstract painting 'A Small Thing But My Own' (1985) by Howard Hodgkin: "The way the frame becomes an integral compositional element, with the painted surface extending right to the outer edges, was a landmark of Hodgkin's later style. The dark surround, with flecks of colour, creates a visual corridor through which we enter the intimate work, as though his paintings needed this protection and setting to be correctly viewed - further description and analysis in article via link in post.
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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ @remydean.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
'(Blue) Screen Calligraph' diptych from 'Golau / Nos (Night / Light)' series (intangible gestural calligraphy ©2011) #art #drawing #photography
abstract photography by Remy Dean: a repeated latent image of a blueish cathode ray screen captured from slightly different angles in two exposures with a few gestural light trails in red
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
📝 🚗 ✍️ 'Animating the Mind's Eye' What does the art of thinking look like? Ed Holland finds an answer in an surprising medium: #animation 🛣️ medium.com/signifier/st... #art #drawing #movies #philosophy #illustration
frame from a short animated film by Stuart Hilton - a simple line sketch of something that my be a castle and a city skyline with the words "explore your wold ... home matters"
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🐭 🐸 🐿️ "In the late C19th, mushrooms began to fascinate a young woman, who studied & painted meticulous illustrations of fungi still consulted by mycologists today..." Her name was Beatrix Potter 🎂 born OTD 1866 🍄 medium.com/signifier/po... #art #booksky #illustration #botany #ChildrensBooks
illustration of wood mushrooms by Beatrix Potter
one of Beatrix Potter's children's books illustrations of toads, sitting on toadstools having tea and cake
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
👽 ⭕ 🧠 The Universal Circle of Mariko Mori: The #Art of Loving the Alien & Connecting with the Other @kimvertue.bsky.social finds hope in the cyber-art of the #Japanese contemporary #artist who seeks to unify humans with their environment & the greater universe 🛸 medium.com/signifier/th...
photograph from ‘Subway’ (1994) cosplay performance by Mariko Mori in which she is dressed in a futuristic silver suit on board a train
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They 🐎 are the caramel macchiato @themself.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
💥 give it a go 🚀 🏵️ they featured my #art 🫶
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🥫🥫🥫 "The humble can of Campbell’s soup was notable even before Andy Warhol painted it in the 1960s..." 'Art Can Do' @remydean.bsky.social explores how the soup tin became a #PopArt icon to rival Marilyn & Elvis… 🥫 medium.com/signifier/ar... #art #history #design #food #ArtHistory
‘(32) Campbell’s Soup Cans’ (1962) by Andy Warhol - a series of paintings arranged in a 4x8 grid
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
📷 ⚰️ 🖼️ 'From Beyond the Grave — Unearthing Japan’s Forgotten Photographer' @remydean.bsky.social looks into the eyes of ghosts in the lost (& found) #photography of Ukai Gyokusen - pioneering photographer who, in 1883, buried his #art 🔲 medium.com/signifier/fr... #ArtHistory #Japan #history
photograph (ambrotype) by Ukai Gyokusen of two women in traditional Japanese clothing - the surface of the image is crazed with many cracks and blemishes
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
👞 🩰 👢 'Whose Shoes?' @remydean.bsky.social takes us on a quick-step through some shoe symbolism in #art & #culture along the path from innocence to experience... from #FairyTales to #horror films 👠 medium.com/signifier/wh... #art #ArtHistory #shoes #illustration #イラスト #fashion #movies #history
pop culture quoting red shoes cinematic imagery: album covers for 'Eldorado' by E.L.O. and 'The Red Shoes' by Kate Bush
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
'The Object of Art' @remydean.bsky.social on the Surrealists of the mid-1930s and how they used art to elevate everyday objects and give them new meanings beyond function medium.com/signifier/th... #Surrealism #art #ArtHistory #History
Méret Oppenheim’s 'My Nurse', which she presented in 1936 — a pair of women’s shoes tied with string and placed on a serving platter with manchettes adorning their heels
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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ @remydean.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
💗 #KizunaAI 10th Birthday Single #キズナアイ "I wonder if there's anything that never ends, ...that never changes, a reason I was born, the story began as I searched for the answer: My Love" the #JPop #Art of Kizuna Ai @signifier.bsky.social 🔊 medium.com/signifier/wh... 🎶 youtu.be/6RCe4n8ic5I?...
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Kizuna AI 10th Birthday Single「My Love」Official Music Video【キズナアイ】
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
😪 ♨️ 🎎 💁‍♀️ 🍢 it's #WorldEmojiDay #Japanese Characters that Became a Global Language @yuriminamide.bsky.social explores the origin of emojis & looks at a few that are often misunderstood 🛋️ medium.com/signifier/em...
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Emoji: Japanese Characters that Became a Global Language
exploring the origin of emojis and looking at a few that are often misunderstood
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We've thrown open the floodgates 🌊 #writers - please consider contributing to Signifier #artists - please consider showcasing your #art with us submission guidelines 👁️ medium.com/signifier/si... #ArtHistory #illustration #イラスト #photography #drawing #painting #FolkArt #writing #ContemporaryArt
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🎨 🍶 🖌️ "Morandi Taught Me: Creativity Isn’t About Chasing Novelty" learn how to take the slow road & build a language only you can speak — that's the way to stay creative in our hyped-up, AI-assisted world... by Beauty-Of-Creation 🏺 medium.com/signifier/mo... #art #ArtHistory #painting #history
‘Still Life’ (1955) by Giorgio Morandi is an arrangement of reductionist forms painted in a pale chalky palette
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
🍃 👁️🖌️ 'The Dürer Tree' "Trees are a gauge of time passing ... at a multi-generational timescale..." @kimvertue.bsky.social finds #history & meaning in the shade of Dürer’s lovingly rendered Linden study 🌳 medium.com/signifier/th... #art #painting #ArtHistory #history #folklore #illustration
‘Linde von der Nürnberger Burgbastei bei der Walburgis Kapeller / Linden Tree from the Nuremberg Castle Bastion Near the Walpurgis Chapel’ (c.1494) a watercolour study by Albrecht Dürer - further description and analysis in article via link in post
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🐜 🪑 🐦‍⬛ "By presenting an object in the arena of #art, removed from its normal context, the mind opens up to new relationships with that object and we question the nature of its reality." @remydean.bsky.social explores the question, "What’s Really Surreal?" ⌚ medium.com/signifier/a0... #ArtHistory
French poster and still image of a hand covered in ants from the film ‘Un Chien Andalou’ (1929)
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🍑 🍋 🍐 'Not Your Average Joe' Rodrigo S-C explores personal connections with Canadian artist Joe Plaskett & how he helped bring one of his paintings into the light… 🍎 medium.com/signifier/no... #art #ArtHistory #painting #Canada
three still-lifes by Joe Plaskett depicting arrangements of flowers, fruits, vases, etc. The colours and treatment of light lend an airy brightness to the compositions - paintings photographed by Rodrigo Sarrat-Cave
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
🏚️ 🩸 🏛️ 'When Brit Art was the ‘It’ Art' @remydean.bsky.social remembers when, suddenly, in the final decade of the C20th, #art in Britain became vitally important again & considers a few high-profile pieces that became emblematic of the movement 🦈 medium.com/signifier/wh... #ArtHistory #culture
‘Ghost’ (1990) by Rachel Whiteread, negative space ‘fossilised’ - the interior room of a house cast in concrete and standing in a gallery space
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河原 奈苗 🐶 Nanae Kawahara @nanaekawahara.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
🌟次回の出展イベントは7月26日(日) スプラス5周年感謝展です。 似顔絵ワークショップもします🙇‍♀️ nanaekawahara.blogspot.com/2026/06/even... #illustration #イラスト
私のイラストグッズの写真
My illustration merchandise photo.
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🌄 🏡 🌊 'Paul & Helen, Mountain & Sea' “changing views, motions caught...” @kimvertue.bsky.social considers the #paintings of Cézanne and Frankenthaler where #landscape, actions & re-actions meld Impressionism with Abstract Expressionism... 🖌️ medium.com/signifier/pa... #art #ArtHistory #history
'Landscape, Nice France' (1956) a colourful semi-abstract painting of a seaside scene by Helen Frankenthaler
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"All the chairs mentioned in this article, the №14, the Ant, the №7 & those of Charles and Ray Eames are all still available today, either as expensive artisan replicas or in mass-produced versions." 'Bent into Shape: Arne Jacobsen's Ant Chair' by @remydean.bsky.social 🐜 medium.com/signifier/be...
three images: 'At the Moulin Rouge’ (c.1893) detail of a painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec featuring one of Michael Thonet’s bentwood chairs; an original three-legged ‘Ant’ designed by Arne Jacobsen displayed in the Copenhagen Design Museum; Christina Keeler photographed by Lewis Morley in 1963 with the iconic №7 ensuring modesty is maintained.
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🎨 💭 🪨 "Rather than recreate or imitate nature, he wished to extract from it, & create his own worlds, often walking the thin line between abstraction & figuration..." 'Getting to Know Jean-Paul Riopelle' by Rodrigo S-C 🧊 medium.com/signifier/ge... #art #ArtHistory #painting #history
‘Poussière de soleil / Sun Dust’ (1954) by Jean-Paul Riopelle - an abstract expressionist style painting
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
👁️‍🗨️ 🦓 👀 'Op or Pop? What’s the Difference?' "...both offer a non-elitist primary experience of #art ... with an immediate pay-off." @remydean.bsky.social explores how Bridget Riley plays with perception to make us see things that aren’t really there 🏁 medium.com/signifier/op... #fashion #design
This precise, 'wavy zebra striped' piece was used as the catalogue cover for The Responsive Eye, a highly influential and well-publicised exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1965, where works by Bridget Riley hung alongside others by Josef Albers and Victor Vasarely, fellow pioneers of the style.
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🥩 🍗 🍷 Bruegel’s 'Land of Cockaigne’ & its legacy in #ArtHistory & #illustration Samuel Belleville-Douelle decodes the famous #painting uncovering the #folklore & #history behind its scenes of hedonistic excess. Fancy some porridge? 🥧 medium.com/signifier/br... #art #folklore #illustration
three examples from a series of humorous postcards on the theme of the Land of Cockaigne by Oskar Herrfurth (1862–1934) for Uvachrom (series 354, nos. 5086 to 5091), published in the 1920
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Why Kubrick’s Filmic Future Feels Plausible 'Beauty-of-Creation' reveals the 5 essential rules of #SciFi world-building in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1968) "Audiences intuitively sense when a device extends real research rather than being invented for aesthetic effect" 👨‍🚀 medium.com/signifier/wh...
a smiling man in brown suit jacket sits while using the Picturephone booth to call his daughter who can be seen on a screen
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🥀 🍇 🦎 ‘Our Sublime Art Heroine’ 💐 @kimvertue.bsky.social rediscovers Rachel Ruysch, the accomplished C18th court painter who preserved the transient beauty of nature for us to savour 🍑 medium.com/signifier/ou... #art #ArtHistory #painting #history #botany
an overly abundant ‘Still Life with Fruit and Flowers’ (1714) - a photo-realist painting by Rachel Ruysch
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Amy ⚡️Jiskra @ollyollyospreyfree.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"He discarded his past self and became something new: an artist and shaman, who communes with animals on behalf of humanity, to help heal the social wounds that he knew all too well and all too personally."
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
⛰️ 🎨 🐎 'Blue Mountains, Blue Riders' - Gabriele Münter & the evolution of an extraordinary sense of colour & form @kimvertue.bsky.social celebrates the spirit of innovation among the avant garde artists of Der Bleu Reiter 💙 medium.com/signifier/bl... #art #ArtHistory #painting #history
a colourful landscape painting by Gabriele Münter, ‘The Blue Mountain’ (1908) uses expressive colour and form while remaining grounded in realism - further analysis in article via link in post
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
#OTD in 1878, Eadweard Muybridge took historic sequential photographs revealing how a racehorse gallops, settling a long-running (pun intended) debate @remydean.bsky.social tracks the invention of ‘motion pictures’ & the early conventions of #cinema It's Still Moving 🐎 medium.com/signifier/it...
sequence of 12 black and white photographs showing ‘The Horse in Motion’ (1878) by Eadweard Muybridge
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Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Farewell David Hockney. Huge inspiration and #LGBTQ+ legend (the film A Bigger Splash was a big influence on younger me). “I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling.” artscouncilcollection.org.uk/artwork/we-t...
This painting was completed towards the end of Hockney's second year at the Royal College of Art at a time when homosexuality was still illegal in England. The painting derives its imagery from a poem of the same title by the nineteenth-century American writer, Walt Whitman: two lines of the poem have been scribbled on the right-hand side to offer a commentary on the men's activities. The painting also references a newspaper clipping detailing a climbing accident ('Two Boys Cling to Cliff all Night'), which Hockney interpreted as an allusion to his idol, Cliff Richard.
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
announcement from our editor 🐕
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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
🏢 📷 🖼️ The ‘500 Frank Lloyd Wright Project’ with Andrew Pielage Lauri Novak talks with the photographer on a mission to document all of the buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright, inside and out... 📐 medium.com/signifier/th... #architecture #photography #art #design
Ennis House interior photograph ©Andrew Pielage
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