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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hugo Henneberg (Austrian, 1863–1918) "Der blaue Weiher (The blue Pond)", 1904. Linoleum Cut on four Plates (blue, purple, black, brown) on Japanese Paper, 29.4 × 29.8 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hannah Mooney, Across Ballyglass landscape II, 2016, contemporary Irish painter #Womensart #SummerPaintings

Painting featuring a rural landscape with green and golden fields under a moody sky

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Take only memories, leave only footprints." -Chief Seattle

A photo of a wildlife refuge showing land in the foreground with water in the middle and mountains in the background.

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Matt Starr Fine Art @mattstarrfineart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The song, “The Raven” was released by the Alan Parsons Project in September 1976 Here is my drawing of “The Raven”. #mattstarrfineart #raven #TheRaven #AlanParsonsProject #music #birds #music #songs #art #painting #tshirts #ArtoftheDay #tshirt #artistic #artwork #artlovers

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

‘Two Birds.’ #Drawing by Maurits Cornelis Escher (1938) #art

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This Roman perfume bottle shaped like a bird is 2,000 years old, yet it looks like a modern design! 📷 Corning Museum of Glass glasscollection.cmog.org/objects/7194... #Archaeology

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) RIP

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EliseZ @vancouver22.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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Kristin Wilkinson 🍁 @silentkw.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My oil painting of my grandfather #art #painting

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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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Olivier de Saint-Aubin du Pressoir @chrisoligh.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“Sailor Reading”, 1980 by Yannis Tsarouchis (1910–1989). Greek modernist artist known for homoerotic subjects, including soldiers, sailors, and nude males. oil on canvas

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Vericocum @vericum.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Alexandre Pelletier (aka Leyack) Oil on canvas #art

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Joseph Crabtree produced some of his most stylistically original work in the 1950s. In this scene depicting the town of St. Ives in Cornwall,he uses a realistic pastel palette and has arranged houses into regular geometric patterns.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Kaii Higashiyama (Japanese, 1908–1999) "Sign of Spring", 1988. Woodcut , 30.6 × 42.2 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Those who dream by day know many things that are inaccessible to those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe, ‘Eleanora’ (1842) #Painting by John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1887.

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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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The Zen of True Art @thezenoftrueart.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Okamoto Shūki (1807-1862), from Pictures of Flowers and Birds, ink and color on silk, nd; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). #art #arte #japaneseart #japanesepainting #flowers #asianart #inkpainting #silkpainting #botanicalart #botanicalpainting #summer #museum #artgallery

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Peony from Japanese Meiji Era Sketchbook

Originating from a Meiji-period (1868–1912) artist’s sketchbook (funponto or sōko), this intimate botanical study showcases the masterly observational technique (shasshin) central to late 19th-century Japanese painting and decorative textile design draftsmanship. Set upon a warm, aged washi paper ground, the composition presents tree peonies (botan) at distinct stages of artistic execution. In the lower left, a dramatic blossom is fully realized in velvety crimson and plum pigment washes, its deeply ruffled petals anchored by naturalistic olive-green foliage. Above and to the right, lighter line work reveals the underlying studio process: fine, fluid sumi ink contours define a lush double bloom, while a neighboring flower features delicate touches of vermillion and gold outlining its exposed stamens and carpels. Long revered as the "King of Flowers" (hyakka no ō) and a classic emblem of wealth and high honor, these varied line-and-color studies capture both the organic splendor of the peony and the spontaneous, analytical precision of Meiji studio practice.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Artist: Ito Shinsui Title: The Eyebrow Pencil Date: 1923–1933 Medium: Color Woodblock print

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Jill Kerr, contemporary UK printmaker whose work focuses on linocuts #WomensArt

Print featuring three black snd white birds, swallows, facing forwards, perched on a bkack wire, against a blue sky

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designgeekatl.bsky.social @designgeekatl.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Tony Bevan (British, 1951), Studio Furniture, 2003. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 65 5/8 x 46 ½ in.

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Ian R. Pearsall @ianrpearsall.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

'Entry (into Turner Street)' Graphite Sketch

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Käthe Kollwitz, Sleeping Woman with Child, 1930 #womensart

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Dr. Sabine Metzger 🦇 @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

#RoyHenryVickers #Canadian #FirstNations Roy Henry Vickers (b. 1946) RAVEN AND WHALE, 1979 Serigraph

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Daily Rothko @dailyrothko.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢 Untitled, 1968 @phillipscollection Acrylic on paper mounted on hardboard 23 13/16 x 18 11/16 in.; 60.5 × 47.5 cm Gift of the Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1985 © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

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Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

And it was all yellow.. a yellow study #oilpainting #art

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Silver Flagon with Lemons (date unlisted) by British artist Roy Hodrien (born in 1957). Oil painting 40 x 30 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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The Zen of True Art @thezenoftrueart.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Eugene Delacroix, "Still Life with Dahlias, Zinnias, Hollyhocks, and Plums," oil on canvas, c.1835; Belvedere Museum. #art #arte #delacroix #flowers #stilllife #paintings #peintures #flowerart #museum #artgallery

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Bolivian artist Sonia Falcone, Campo de Color (Field of Colour), 2012 mixed media installation, 88 clay bowls containing spices and colourful powders to highlight diversity #womensart

Installation with many bowls of equal size grouped together neatly on a floor, each one with a different coloured powder inside

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

By Japanese artist miki katoh,

A beautiful, atmospheric painting by the contemporary Japanese artist Miki Katoh, dated 2007, showcases her signature blend of Taishō-period nostalgia (Taishō Roman) and modern figurative illustration. The composition captures a young woman resting indoors on a quiet, snowy day, offering a marvelous study in avant-garde textile pairing and early 20th-century retro aesthetics. The subject is seated on a simple wooden chair, leaning her head dreamily onto her arm atop a plain wooden table where a hot cup of tea or coffee gently steams. Behind her, a large multi-paned window looks out onto a serene winter landscape, revealing the iconic red-brick facade of Tokyo Station softly blanketed by falling snow.

The young woman's styling is a masterful celebration of bold, graphic textile choices that contrast beautifully with her soft, contemporary short haircut and contemplative gaze. She wears a magnificent plum-purple outer garment draped loosely over her shoulders, adorned with large, stylized peony or rose blossoms in vibrant shades of saffron yellow, tangerine orange, and dusty blue. Beneath this outer layer is a highly striking kimono defined by bold, playful vertical stripes of turquoise, mustard yellow, and rose pink. This striped fabric is further punctuated by large circular medallions containing dense bouquets of delicate, multicolored wildflowers.

Finishing her ensemble with meticulous attention to detail, she wears light tan, polka-dot tabi socks paired with traditional wooden geta sandals featuring brightly embroidered floral straps. The matte, delicately textured surface of the painting and its harmonious combination of historic architecture, western-style interior furnishings, and flamboyantly patterned dress create a deeply poetic narrative.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This woodblock print, was created in 1887 by the genius Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892). the historical rogue-turned-monk Fukami Jikyū (originally Fukami Jūza), a notorious 17th-century otokodate (street knight or gang leader) in Edo who later renounced his violent life.

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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Diana Rosa (Cuban, b. 1971). Picnic (2024, acrylic on canvas).

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The Color Archive @thecolorarchive.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Watermelon Sorbet, Modern Relics series Studio Nokori, ink and pen on handmade paper www.studionokori.com/modern-relics #art #painting

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J G Orudjev | collage . mixed media art @nineteendegrees.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Work in abstract mixed media collage. Furrow. found papers, photocopy, foil, wax, ash, acrylic #art #artist #collageart #collage #analogcollage #papercollage #mixedmedia #artsky

Vertical abstract collage in mixed media. Distorted shape of a cut diamond hovers in a void. Broken text and monochrome design elements surround. To one side, a colorful scrap of dyed paper, above, gold foil.

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Xtrakik @xtrakik.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Kunié Sugiura, Mum Above Orange, 1976

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

'Eclipse' by British environmental artist Liz McGowan, artwork created using Norfolk Razor shells #womensart

A neat circle created with many long thin shells forming a sun like image wirh thin rays against a black background

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

M.C. Escher (1898-1972) Palm Trees, 1923. #Woodcut

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mariaevajarrous.bsky.social @mariaevajarrous.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Beautiful silence 🤍

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Toyin Ojih Odutola (b.1985 Africa) Manifesto. Charcoal, pastel, and graphite on paper.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

William Rothenstein painted 'The Old Gardener,' during the 1930s while at Far Oakridge, his home in Gloucestershire. In his memoirs he described the idyll which existed in the Cotswolds between the wars and made a commitment to painting local people as a record of social history

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Artist: Komori Soseki Title: Moorhens Date: 1929 Medium: Color woodblock print Credit Line: Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Artist: Kawase Hasui Title: Karikachi Mountain Pass (Karikachi toge) Date: 1922–1932 Medium: Color woodblock print; oban Credit Line: Gift of Oliver Statler

A highly dynamic celestial grid that dominates the upper half of the canvas. Hasui frames a brilliant full moon, left unprinted as the pure white of the paper ground, shining like a cold beacon through a jagged tear in the storm clouds. The surrounding clouds are printed in dense, layered tones of slate grey and charcoal, their billowing edges carved with a loose, expressive fluidity that mimics wet ink washes. Pockets of a deep, velvety indigo-blue night sky peek through the top and bottom of the cloud bank, enhanced by a flawless bokashi (color gradation) that transitions down to a pale, misty white horizon line, evoking the crisp, biting air of a high-altitude wilderness.

The lower and middle registers present a beautifully textured study of rugged terrain enduring the elements. The foreground showcases a steep, rocky hillside covered in melting patches of pristine white snow. Hasui utilizes unprinted negative space to represent the heavy snowdrifts, contrasting them sharply with the blocky, dark charcoal-grey and brown wood-grain textures of the exposed volcanic earth. Sprouting from this cold terrain are a few skeletal, leafless winter shrubs, their fine, intricate branches carved with needle-like precision. As the eye moves into the middle ground, the landscape transitions to a rolling ridge blanketed by dense, deep forest-green and teal foliage, mapping the resilient evergreen flora of northern Japan.

The deep background introduces a magnificent sense of cinematic distance and tectonic scale. Looming on the far left horizon is the faint, silhouetted pyramid of a distant mountain peak, accompanied by a soft, pale grey mountain range that fades delicately into the twilight mist.

The overall framing relies on an immersive, low-key color palette that brilliantly captures the cool, ambient glow of moonlight reflecting off a winter landscape.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Richard Thomas Davis (Canadian artist, born 1947) "Cold Front", 1976. Acrylic on Panel, 44" × 48". Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

My apologies to those confused by my mention of a mirror in yesterday's post on Charles Spencelayh ~ here's the image I meant to post (The Artist's Studio)

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