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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hans Thoma (German, 1839-1924) Einsamkeit [Loneliness], 1896 PAINTING: Oil on cardboard 69 x 78.5 cm Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Tina @crippledtree.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Υπάρχει ένα μυστικό όπλο που αφοπλίζει: λέγεται χαμόγελο!

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Filipp @filipparts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Harry Dittmer, 3 figurer, c. 1952

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Filipp @filipparts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Be as careful at the end as you are at the beginning, and you will not fail. Laozi.

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

she is a necromancer of untold stories she finds them in the boneyards and on the shores of salt-rich seas she doesn’t know how to give them back to the minds that should have told them and so she gathers tenderly till her magic dares unfold them #poetry

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good advice for wizards everywhere.

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JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org · 20/09/2026

The coast of Fife hides many gems, like St Fillan's Cave, and the village of Pittenweem has so much more to offer! #fife #coastal #scotland #history

Interior view of St Fillan's Cave in Pittenweem, Scotland. Golden spotlight illuminates a stone altar with a small cross and vase of yellow flowers nestled deep within a dark, rugged rock chamber.

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JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org · 10/07/2026

It doesn't get much more Scottish than this wee beauty hard at work on a thistle. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐝 check my prints here: weescotland.com #bumblebee #thistle #scotland #nature #macro #wildlife #photography #floral #beekeeping #bee

A crisp, close-up macro photograph captures a fuzzy bumblebee perched atop a vibrant purple wild thistle in bloom. The bee, with its distinct black and golden-yellow striped torso, is deeply nestled into the fine, dense purple petals of the flower. Below the colorful bloom, the thistle's bulbous, spherical base is covered in a sharp defensive armor of spiky green and pale yellow thorns. A second, unopened thistle bud sits lower and slightly out of focus to the right. The background is a soft, beautifully blurred mix of deep green foliage and a moody, overcast sky, making the bright purple of the national flower of Scotland and its busy visitor stand out vividly.

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Stephanie @stolen-spring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ένα τελευταίο δώρο από την Περσεφόνη Ένα αφιέρωμα στον ήλιο που δύει

I'm not sure what kind of flowers these little yellow beauties are, but they always tell me that summer is almost over and autumn is right around the corner

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

John Everett Millias (1829-1896) Autumn Leaves, 1855-56. Oil on canvas. #PreRaphaelite

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Misery 👻 @miseryhighlight.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sometimes the only way to cope with pain is to turn it into art.

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

she’s got moonlight in her m o l e c u l e s and sea salt in her hair the wind has been her lover—twice and the trees have stripped her bare #poetry

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Filipp @filipparts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oliver Mayhall

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Filipp @filipparts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Τι είν’ αυτό που το λένε αγάπη τι είν’ αυτό, τι είν’ αυτό που κρυφά τις καρδιές οδηγεί κι όποιος το ‘νιωσε το νοσταλγεί... What is this thing they call love? What is it, what is it that secretly guides our hearts, and whoever has felt it longs for it... drosssel.bandcamp.com/track/kalimera

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Kalimera, by Rodrigo Gallardo

from the album 1Löffelchen

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Stephanie @stolen-spring.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I went to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art again. I had my children with me so I couldn't look at anything for too long, but this painting captivated me from a distance. I remember thinking "She looks like a dead woman" and then my friend came to me and told me it was Persephone.

Thomas Hart Benson's Persephone. He was an American artist. And all the little details in this painting have me gazing at it for hours. Is she just waking from a nap after a swim? Or is she a corpse that was beautifully posed? She seems rather too stiff, her hip bone looks almost unnatural as she lays there. Her expression does not read to me like one who was pleasantly sleeping. Her colors feel flat as opposed to the vibrant hues of the Farmer next to her. Speaking of the farmer, or rather Hades, the info card says he has a "lustful" expression. However viewed through the lense that he stumbled upon a dead woman, the expression then turns from lust, to concern.
The muted colors of the flora around her, as well as the scene of harvest behind her, indicates to me that this is the end of summer. Harvest time. Yet the flowers in her basket are still freshly cut. This painting speaks to me of seasonal change, and the woman, with her red blanket pooling under her like blood neither belongs to the living nor dead. Or perhaps she belongs to both?

A close up of the details of her basket full of flowers and shoes. Notice the way the red fabric flows into the basket almost like a liquid.

"Thomas Hart Benton
American 1889-1975

Persephone 1938-1939
Tempera with oil glazes on canvas, mounted on panel.

Thomas Hart Benton's Persephone recasts a Greek Myth in a contemporary rural guise. Beautiful Persephone was abducted by Hades who imprisoned her in the underworld. Her father Zeus negotiated her release for all but four months every year. During this period her mother, the harvest goddess Demeter, denied the growth of all flora, thus creating winter.

Benton's Persephone appears as a sunbathing farm girl. Hades is shown as a lustful, aging farmer with a rickety cart for his chariot. His facial features seem similar to Benton's own, although he used a local model. The creek-side suggests an Arcadian landscape as well as a likely venue for skinny-dipping. Shamelessly naked, Persephone evokes Old Master female nudes in addition to modern pin-ups"

Can you see how I feel the info card takes away from the heaviness and meaning of this painting? But. Then again I'm not an Art Historian. Just someone utterly devoted to Persephone.

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Filipp @filipparts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Justine Smith, Ex Arcadia

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a Land Panther 🍉🇵🇸🇨🇺🇬🇱 @alandpanther.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🎶το πειρατικό του κάπτεν Τζίμη που μ' αυτό θα φύγετε κι εσείς🎶

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Βασίλης , χάρηκα. @pandahondros.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Γαμώ την ζέστη και γαμώ την υγρασία.

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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It’s important to note the use of #polychromy on a bronze statue. We have ancient written works that refer to this practice; and although the lips would have been inlaid with copper to produce a natural red color, other parts could be painted. Or the bronze treated in different ways. 🏺

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CHRISTINE MARIA @cristingitana.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Das Leben schützen - in einer zerrissenen Welt.💛

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Solivagant @wanderingsag.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you want to keep a bird, don't build a cage, plant a tree.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This incredible Etruscan bronze statue of the chimera was found in Arezzo in 1553. The fire-breathing beast had the head of a lion, a goat’s head growing from its back & a snake for a tale. In Greek myth, Bellerophon killed the chimera. 🕰️c400BC 🏛️📷National Archaeological Miseum, Florence

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nickforbrains 🏳️‍🌈 @nickforbrains.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There is no better compliment to your gardening ability than having your yard blessed with hummingbirds. I love them so much.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Moby Dick by artist Gerard DuBois

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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

noisy, lively, wild love hearing the garden grow living unrestrained #dailyhaikuprompt #Boisterous #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

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Jan @janstreit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Ukrainian artist, Oleg Korotkevich

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Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

dark lantern all summer long forgotten #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (lantern)

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This Roman floor mosaic depicts a peacock gloriously spreading its tail feathers into a large, colourful fan. It was found at the Villa du Paon (Villa of the Peacock) in Vaison-la-Romaine. 🕰️ 1st Century AD 🏛️📷 Musée Théo Desplan in Vaison-la-Romaine #MosaicMonday

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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

curiously passionate or passionately curious passion and curiosity deserve each other #emoetry #Passionate #FreeVerse #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

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