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#womenartists

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Laura G, Sassy 70’s

Your art history post for today: by Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), On the Subway, 1986, lithograph, 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm). As a print, it appears in many collections, both public and private. #arthistory #BlackHistory #blackart #womenartists

A quote from the artist: “I am inspired by Black people and Mexican people, my two peoples.”

From the Museum of Modern Art: “Catlett produced sculptures and prints across her more than six-decade career that drew on her personal experiences as an African American woman, mother, and émigré living in Mexico. Directly addressing people whose perspectives and experiences, like hers, had historically been excluded from artistic representation, Catlett developed a distinctive visual language defined by its carefully delineated forms and strong compositional focus. Merging the political with the personal, her work influenced younger generations of artists, including many associated with the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and ’70s, who shared her activist principles and commitment to harnessing art for Black liberation.”

Description from the National Museum of African American History & Culture: ‘An offset lithograph print of a woman, in profile, wearing a beret and a blouse with a notched collar. The paper is wove and off-white in color. Below and to the right of the image are the edition, title, Elizabeth Catlett's signature, and the date handwritten in pencil. "EC" appears above the figure's proper left shoulder and is part of the lithograph.’
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moonlightmyst
"I Dreamt of Brighter Days", 2012

I continue to transition my #art from #deviantart to #Pixelfed. #AIhasDestroyedArtPlatforms such as Deviant Art for me. And unlike most other platforms, I greatly appreciate the freedom of the #Fediverse, including the lack of data collection, or the lack of algorithms dictating what we see, think or feel. #HelloPixelfed. #GoodbyeDeviantArt.

This is more of a #photomanipulation than a #digitalpainting - though there are touch ups. Originally, when I created this, it was meant to represent how I was feeling at the same, particularly during February, one of the most #depressing months. And now I reflect on how much has changed. Though I have experienced #dark days, I have also learned the value and necessity of finding meaning (i.e., finding #alifeworthliving). This can be anything from arts, nature, crafts, activities, hobbies, meditation, relationships and so on. Reflecting back on 2012, I am happy to say that life is much more bright nowadays. However, life would not be so bright without those dark days.

"Suffering should be creative.
Should give birth to something
good and lovely." -Chinua Achebe

#art #digitalart #death #depression #mentalhealth #despair #sadness #emotionalart #medieval #womeninart #womenartists #vultures

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CREDITS:
#Woman - https://www.deviantart.com/faestock
#DeadTree and background - https://www.deviantart.com/the-night-bird/art/Dead-Tree-BG-262525390
#Vulture - https://www.deviantart.com/piratelotus-stock/
#Rats - https://www.deviantart.com/harpyen/art/rats-147716090
#Skull - https://www.deviantart.com/aleuranthropy/art/Skull-Stock-Photo-05-41426441
#Bones - https://www.deviantart.com/mjranum-stock/art/Bones-2-66682764
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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

"Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop," Rachel Ruysch, 1716.

Rachel Ruysch's still lifes are always worth revisiting. I've talked about her before, so I won't repeat myself, except to say the basics: She was a painter of florals and still lifes who was enormously popular and charged high prices in her lifetime, and is also the best-documented female artist of her time, thanks her to habit of adding her age to her signature on all her paintings. She is regarded as one of the greatest still life artists of all time.

Here we have a lovely bouquet with roses, pansies, irises, calendula, dianthus, and others, with a few insects buzzing about or landing on the petals. Her father was a teacher of anatomy and botany, so she learned to look at flowers and insects closely and examine their structure, to recreate them realistically on the canvas.

A perfect painting for Flower Friday!

From the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

A still life from the Dutch Golden Age. A tall bouquet of flowers sits in a green bowl on a marble table. The flowers include roses, poppies, pansies, irises, dianthus, and calendula, but there's also a number of insects visible.
#Art#DutchGoldenAge#RachelRuysch
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Rebecca Nordquist

This tile artwork by Maria Keil, "Pastores" (Shepherds) is at the Museu Nacionaldo Azulejo in Lisbon. Walking through the museum, I came across this, which was easily the coolest piece in the gallery.

And that led me down the rabbit hole of wikipedia, where I learned more about this amazing person, who many among other things designed the tile for the Lisbon subway:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ke

Photo of an artwork in tile, with green, orange and white triangles, with in between people in a pastoral scene, kneeling next to a goat, laying as if in a field. People are black and white.
#womenArtists#tiles#art
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Laura G, Sassy 70’s

By Slava Gerulak (born 1933), Girl (Decorative Plate), n.d., ceramic, The Ukrainian Museum, New York. #womenartists #ukraine #ceramics

From the museum: “A given work can be about functional design or about purely creative art, and occasionally about both. Befitting her roots, Gerulak imaginatively continues to use beguiling imagery in her ceramic work, reflecting the same fascination with her heritage and the richness with which it can be translated into clay. She adapts iconic likenesses of mermaids, nymphs, protectresses, mother and child, villagers in folk costumes, and head adornment with floral wreaths to the style of her own figural ceramics so successfully that they manifest the unmitigated embodiment of womanhood. Gerulak draws upon lush imagery and abundant Ukrainian customs, but creatively renews and revises these traditions as well.”

A semi-abstract portrait of a woman, her collar and hair decorated with Ukrainian motifs.
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Laura G, Sassy 70’s

Your art post for today: Spring time: Olesia, oil on linen, by contemporary Ukrainian artist Iryna Kalyuzhna (Ирина Калюжная), currently living in the Netherlands. #ukraine #womenartists

From Saatchi Art: ‘Looking at classical painting with modern eyes, she is inspired by a kind of 'modern realism', in which the influence of impressionism is visible.

The works made in the oil painting technique combine a traditional and decorative approach. The main field of the artist's research are female images. It always preserves the portrait likeness of the model, but adds an element of individuality to the conceived image. Characteristic themes are clearly traced in the artist's work: the national identity of Ukrainian women, Ukrainian traditional clothing and culture, the theme of motherhood and the female body. The war forced her to leave Ukraine, but her work continues. “It is important for everyone to decide and understand what you must do and to what you dedicate yourself,” she says, continuing: “I would like to bring more beauty and positive emotions into this world.”’

Her Instagram: instagram.com/ikalyuzhnaart/

A portrait of a young girl, a white flower in her hair. Head in three-quarter view. She looks slightly downward, chin tucked, and to our right.
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Art History Animalia

Grace Hudson (USA, 1865–1937)
Mr. Jack or Jackie, 1930
Cast Ceramic with Glass Eyes
On display at Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA (10428)
“[This] was a #jackrabbit sculpture to be marketed as a garden statue, a prototype of which you see here. Indeed, this very ‘Mr. Jack’ (or ‘Jackie’), can be seen in various locations outside the Sun House in a number of photographs from the Museum's collections.”
#WomenArtists

photo of the ceramic sculpture on display at museum: jackrabbit in upright position with very tall ears, front profile view, brown color, has look of a wood sculpture but made of ceramic
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Laura G, Sassy 70’s

Your art history post for today, by Ukrainian artist Tetiana Yablonska (1917-2005), The Enemy is Approaching. Painted in 1944, it could be a scene in Ukraine today. #ukraine #womenartists

“The canvas stands alone in the artist’s work: she never again painted paintings with a developed plot and frankly dramatic content. This work reflected her personal life experience: the difficult road to evacuation, bombing, confusion, human tragedies... Everything she saw then was war.

The plot is dedicated to the tragic events of 1941. The main theme of the canvas is the feeling of war. Every detail speaks of it: a column of refugees, faces, a harsh sky with ominous clouds. The whole picture is permeated with grief, anger and indignation. War is everywhere, it is a common enemy and evil for everyone, even if the front line is still far away. The endless column of refugees stretches and dissolves in the twilight. The viewer is immersed in the difficult trials that fell to the lot of people in the first days of the war. The canvas is designed in a dark, strict color, which fully corresponds to the artist's ideological plan. The author brings several figures as close to the viewer as possible, thus turning him into an involuntary participant in the movement of this column, in which women and children lead hungry cattle in search of salvation from the enemy. For the first time in this picture, T. Yablonska used the technique of diagonal composition, which will later be present in many of her paintings. The painting "The Enemy is Approaching" was highly appreciated not only by ordinary viewers, but also by critics and the government.” — Marina Popkova

A painting of people fleeing a war zone. In the center and right foreground a mother, running, carries one child on her back as her young daughter follows, looking back. In the middle ground behind her a woman looking back, a large truck loaded with people and belongings. We see a calf as well. In the left foreground, more people, walking, pushing a cart. And we see a Red Cross truck and power lines.
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