◾️◽️◾️zebra crossing◽️◾️◽️ Made 400 years ago, almost to the day, this little painting, to me, represents the richness of cultural exchange and migration. The zebra in the painting was brought all the way from Ethiopia by Turks to India, then part of
✒️REVIEW🖋 Utopia, Depravity and Trauma: German Revolution Expressionist Prints “...an old soldier approaching us, balls sagging through his breeches with a neck as thick as his head like a prize bull at a fair” Head over to The Double
Painted by one of the women artists who was largely written out of Art History until quite recently, I think this painting really gets across the woman’s experience here. There she is, minding her own business and along comes this man, hand ful
Anyone else feeling like this? (Albeit far less fabulously dressed) This woman is a bit of a mystery. Some of you might recognise this kind of painting as a classic Dutch genre painting. You’d be right in a way: there she stands, the classic w
For some winter cheer in these dark days. I adore the way that this painting has aged only to compliment its subject - look at the crazing and cracks on the surface of the painting, like the traces of those miniature skaters who’ve been glidin
I’m trying to picture isolation like this at the moment. Turn off the news and imagine yourself floating gently through a snow-softened gully. The trees are heavy with snow and the sound of your paddle in the water is muffled. Maybe around the
🐪 Feeling festive today and found this groover of a mover camel that I thought I’d share. This fresco was taken from a hermitage-turned-church in Spain that was right on the border of the Islamic and Christian lands in 12th century. This area
For all those that have been watching #thequeensgambit here’s proof that Beth Harmon wasn’t the first woman to play chess! Back in 1555 Sofonisba Anguissola painted this image of three of her sisters playing chess whilst their governess
Claude Cahun (born Lucy Schwob) was an artist, activist and writer. Schwob fell in love with Suzanne Malherbe and in 1919 the two moved to Paris and adopted gender neutral names of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Cahun studied literature and philosoph
Here are two more images of ‘the new woman’. The first is a portrait of Sylvia von Harden, labelled in the title as a journalist but she was more of a poet. It’s ironic to me that art historians always bang on about the emancipation
THE FEMALE GAYS 2 🦫🦫 “I refused to accept the slavish traditions in art...” This self-portrait is often referred to as a typical depiction of the ‘new woman’ of the first half of the twentieth century. That’s pretty mu
THE FEMALE GAYS🦫 Here we have two paintings of nude women. So far so unexceptional for 1910 in Paris. The first shows a woman in a domestic setting, the second, a woman stretched out on a sofa. So far, so unexceptional. At this stage you might fair
I know only a little about this one and would love those of you who know more about Chinese and Japanese art, medicine or horticulture to help me find out more about this intriguing little leaf. This small botanical painting comes from an album of
A bit of peace. Disclaimer: Although I can understand his technical and stylistic innovation...I’m not a huge Monet fan, I find a lot of his work a bit chocolate boxy. Yep. I said it. HOWEVER, about seven years ago I found myself in Paris at
🗞REVIEW🗞Whole days whiled away pottering around the house, bits of cleaning here and there and tending to the plants with a level of care and tenderness usually afforded to babies. A routine easy to identify with as our worlds have been shrunk to t
Feeling like it’s easy to identify with these intrepid people...to dare to venture out into the weather no matter what it might throw at us! These are two more Ukiyo-e woodblock prints (see previous post) made during the Edo period in Japan.
Yes...it’s Halloween. But it’s ALSO Katsushika Hokusai’s birthday 🎂 Most people know him for his ‘Great Wave off Kanagawa’ (pic. 2) but he was and is so much more than just that! He was an avid observer of life and obs
Mary Seacole is a woman that we should all know about but who has, until relatively recently, been lost to the whitewashing of colonial narratives - such is the way of history mainly written down by white men that write out black women. But luckily f
Tuesday means Bake Off. Here’s how they did it back in late 14th and early 15th centuries. No, they didn’t employ rabbits as bakers, that was just a hook to get you reading! The second image is an extract from “The Forme of Cury&rdq
No Woman, No Cry by Chris Ofili, 1998. This is a portrait of Doreen Lawrence, mother of Stephen Lawrence, a teenage boy who was murdered in an unprovoked racist attack in 1993 in London. Nobody was convicted at the time despite clear evidence pointin
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