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2024-08-07 16:18:31

Konstantin Korovin. In the Garden, Gurzuf, 1914.
#painting
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2024-07-30 22:48:14

Josef Albers. Goldrosa, 1926.
Pure geometry, pure abstraction, pure color.
#painting
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2024-07-26 22:45:02

The boneless chicken-wing bone reminds me of a favorite realization when I first moved to France: An expat blogger noted my own experience, that the eggs often have poop and feathers on them, and that pretty soon you're asking, why have I never seen poop and feathers on my eggs in America!??

2024-03-30 08:40:06

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@npub1vlh…f6as well. I'll drive over and wipe your tears each weekend. For wine, of course

2024-03-30 08:35:07

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@npub1vlh…f6as we call it and the gers the labrea tarpits of American tourists. Friends don't let American friends drive alone into the countryside with a checkbook...

2024-02-03 19:19:16

Winifred Knights. The Deluge, 1920.
#Painting
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2024-01-29 13:26:25

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@npub1u3t…5q74 just curious but might it be a Leycesteria formosa instead? Pheasant bush? The telltale would be the hollow main stems. Whichever is the case I have both in my yard and you have me running out to take pictures right now lol!

2023-11-19 19:56:59

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@npub12ze…hunm A month or more. Time to get real familiar all over again. More positively, I will say that automatic transmissions and service with a smile are very easy to love! Plus texmex.

2023-11-19 11:26:07

4th day on the ground in the USA for the first time in many years. The money has changed colors! The billboards are electronic and flash a rotating mix of boobs, firearms, lawsuits, and churches. The food has a new equation: time. No one has any time to cook, so instant food has taken over. It's not cheap or edible only fast. Everyone works constantly. A black coffee costs $3. But the most shocking thing is the consumption of plastic. Mountains of single-use waste in every little purchase.

2023-11-14 07:55:00

Bonjour, la France.
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2023-10-13 08:51:59

Caravaggio (1571-1610)
All those weird bright arms. There are exceptions, but if you suspect a #Painting to be a Caravaggio, look for a weird overlit male arm near the center of the painting. It happens over and over, and over and over, again. A particular favorite of mine is his Conversion of St. Paul wherein the highlighted central arm theme is turned on a horse! But with a bonus double of human arms upraised to either side, too, for good measure.
#Painting
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2023-09-22 21:53:53

I am confused by people hoping another planet could be habitable. We can't take care of the planet we have, and more importantly we can't alter it 2c and survive here. How many other variables would have to match? And as for alien life, 1. You can't talk to an octopus much less a tree, and we are all fam. What do you expect to contact? 2. I have a small pond. No animal announces itself, not predators, and certainly not prey. It's not wise for nuggets of meat to go advertizing into the void.

2023-09-21 18:10:20

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@npub1zt3…0v09 this on from 1909 (Corfu) is typical of the ones I like most. So simple and light. Real mastery.
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/111/103/998/545/111/666/original/eab340f25f61d322.jpg

2023-09-21 13:07:32

John Singer Sargent. Portrait of Madame X, 1883-4. This is a big one, one of the pivotal points in #Painting, society, feminism, and even the eventual rise of American art as dominant. The scandal that erupted is hard to overstate in importance and impossible to describe for 21st c. readers in only 500 letters. It was no eureka moment but a nonlinear brawl with lots of sharp turns and ruined reputations, but within 10 years it had revolutionized mores, fashion, and Sargent's career.
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/111/102/737/877/503/829/original/2e54c332ed8f9da9.jpg

2023-09-18 19:51:03

New "pink" Lemon-Pyle Brahma, young rooster. Most of the others are solid salmon but this one and a couple of others do have an almost pink sheen in certain light. I was hoping for flamingo, but the type is still in development. #Chickens
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2023-09-09 10:45:04

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@npub1zt3…0v09 Maybe this is a good place to ask, maybe you know: I see many longer posts, but mine are strictly limited to 420 characters, including hashtags. It's a great exercise in economy for me, but sometimes I would like 10 or 100 more words, you know? Do you happen to know why some people are limited and others not? Is it determined by Instance, maybe?

2023-09-09 09:28:28

Fragonard. Renaud in the Forest, 1763.
Max Ernst #Painting for comparison.
Few today would call Fragonard their cup of tea. Most modern "people of taste" consider him only symbolic camp, kitsch, ironic, simplistic, saccharin. But his mark has lasted for centuries, defining ideals such as the very purpose of painting, "the good life" as hedonistic abundance, libertinism, femininity, class, explicit desire in romance, opera, and even porn. Our visual vocabulary descends from his rococococo.
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2023-09-01 12:21:51

Vine & Olive Colony mural wallpaper, Demopolis, Alabama. Early 19th c. Note the Egyptomania evident in the reimagined landscape. If you've never been, the Alabama Capitol grounds in Montgomery are a wonderland: the civil rights memorials, the Lurleen Wallace bust under the dome (one of the most twisted things I've ever seen), and sundries such as this scattered everywhere.
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/110/989/352/057/680/896/original/58056bec531f7d4c.jpg

2023-07-07 13:02:05

Mid-winter light. [Southwestern France, Feb 2023]
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