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@laurajg.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 5:56 PM

By Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951), A Moonlight Music Party, woodcut (chromoxylograph) printed in color, 6 ¾ x 9 ¼ in. (17.1 x 23.4 cm.), photo: Sotheby’s New York, 16 March 2021. #arthistory #art #printmaking #woodcut

@laurajg.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 5:36 PM

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), Woman at the Piano, 1875-1876, oil on canvas, 93 × 74 cm (36 9/16 × 29 1/8 inches), The Art Institute of Chicago. #arthistory #oilpainting #painting #impressionism

A young white woman at the piano, painted in Impressionist style, very loose, lovely colors. Info about the artist, from Sotheby’s, “21 Facts About Pierre-Auguste Renoir,” January 26, 2026: ‘Renoir began his artistic career as a porcelain painter… He displayed a quick talent for the work (which principally involved copying floral designs to decorate plates and dish-ware) but found himself eager to expand his horizons. He began frequenting the galleries of the Louvre, where he applied his skills as a copyist to studying the great masterworks…

Later in life, he suffered from debilitating rheumatoid arthritis, causing him to make creative adaptations to his painting technique.

Renoir began to develop arthritis around 1892, causing progressive deformities of the hands, ankylosis of his shoulders and elbows, and eventually severely limiting his mobility. Naturally, his condition made it necessary for Renoir to adapt his methods. He relocated to the warmer climes of Cagnes-sur-Mer, near the Mediterranean coast, and took frequent spa treatments. Photographs of the artist reveal his hands wrapped in bandages to prevent skin irritation as he held his paintbrush; a palette was affixed to his wheelchair, allowing it to swivel from side to side; and a system of horizontal cylinders and a crank would enable access to different sections of larger canvases while he remained seated. Despite his deteriorating physical condition, Renoir remained committed to painting, noting: “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”’

@meisterdrucke.com Sep 24, 2026, 4:58 PM

No perspective, no single light source, no rules - Juan Gris shattered a glass and a checkerboard into flat shards and reassembled them into Glass and Checkerboard. Fine art print available at meisterdrucke.com. #JuanGris #Cubism #ArtHistory #art #meisterdrucke

Cubist painting by Juan Gris showing fragmented geometric shapes in dark green, terracotta, cream and black, including a checkerboard pattern with green circles on ochre ground and crescent-shaped black forms.

@worldofartbysue.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 4:33 PM

September's theme: Labor
HAROLD WESTON (1894 - 1972), “Building the United Nations #1, Steelwork of Secretariat”, 1949. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC.
#arthistory #art #Labor #UnitedNations #NYC

Weston was stricken by polio in 1911 that left his left leg paralyzed. Unable to serve in uniform during World War I, he volunteered through the YMCA as a liaison to the British Army in Baghdad, bringing entertainment activities including art classes to the soldiers; he soon became the Official Painter for the British Army in the Middle East. These years impressed upon him the perils of food insecurity, famine and disease and he spent the rest of his life organizing humanitarian food relief efforts. Back in the US, Weston withdrew to a rustic cabin in the Adirondack Mountains, where he relished the quiet and communed with nature. The outbreak of World War II drew him to Washington DC, where he founded Food for Freedom to combat war-related famine abroad. After the war, he made a series of six paintings (1949 – 1952) of the construction of the United Nations complex in New York City. Unsurprisingly, the UN’s mission aligned perfectly with his personal philosophy of working cooperatively to create a more peaceful world; he believed the United Nations was the “greatest hope for a better world”. “Building the United Nations #1, Steelwork of Secretariat” is bathed in the golden light of optimism. Weston painted in a modernist style, showcasing technology that moves civilization forward. His construction scene is filled with activity as the structure rises up towards the sky, with laborers working together to make this dream building a reality. In addition to his food relief activities, Weston also advocated tirelessly for government support of the arts and the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts; the NEA became a reality when legislation passed in 1965.

@nyuspsce.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 3:53 PM

✏️ What can a drawing reveal that words cannot? Explore drawing as a universal visual language through works by Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Mary Cassatt, John Wilson, and more. 🔗 Learn more:https://bit.ly/4yel1Lt

#Drawing #ArtHistory #NYU

@duncanmurrell.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 3:43 PM

You can look at one of Claude Monet’s paintings of haystacks and say, "That doesn’t look beyond me." But what you're seeing is the culmination of a hundred different kinds of talent and dozens of years of study that can’t really be taught.

#ClaudeMonet #Caricatures #ArtHistory #Art

@firstamendmentgirl.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 3:00 PM

Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières) by Vincent van Gogh, 1887, The Art Institute of Chicago (IL)

#ArtHistory #ModernArt ##PostImpressionism

The setting of this work is the river Seine at the Clichy Bridge near Asnières, a suburb north of Paris where van Gogh painted on several occasions with his friend and fellow artist Paul Signac. Van Gogh was inspired by Signac and Georges Seurat, both of whose work is on view nearby. Their technique, called divisionism, used science-based theories of color, which they applied in individual strokes to maximize luminosity. Although Van Gogh was only in Paris working among these artists for about two years, their influence can be seen here in his use of small brushstrokes of pure, brilliant color that combine to create the effect of light reflecting off the various surfaces represented in the composition.

@da-vinci2026.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 2:18 PM

The hand is older than the word. Trust it to discover things the sentence cannot reach.

#arthistory #renaissance

@chieya-tokyo.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 1:13 PM

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of a Man, 1902–1903.
A quiet, haunting face from Picasso’s

#ModernArt #ArtHistory

@anideaaday.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 12:05 PM

The woman may be Maria Trip, born into one of Amsterdam’s richest families—but her identity remains uncertain. Rembrandt offers no neat answer, only the sense of a person holding her place in history. What details make you imagine her life?
https://an-idea-a-day.replit.app/painting/56
#ArtHistory

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly Maria Trip by Rembrandt van Rijn

@hamarart.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 11:55 AM

Buddha – Wash Your Ego Away, 2026

A playful contemporary work combining spirituality everyday consumer culture and watercolor aesthetics

#Buddha #ContemporaryArt #WatercolorArt #DigitalArt #ArtWithHumor #ConceptualArt #HamarArtStudio #MartineJacobs #DutchArtist #NewMediaArt #ArtHistory #BlueskyArt

@antisignal.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 11:34 AM

WHAT IS CUBISM? An Art Operation, 1907–1914 — my new 26-minute video discourse applies the Art Operation Schema to the 1907–1914 Picasso–Braque collaboration as a case study.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhXU...

#cubism #picasso #arthistory #artoperation

@ideasroadshow.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 8:39 AM

🪜 The stemma (coat of arms) of the 11th-century Santa Maria della Scala in Siena features a ladder (scala) surmounted by a cross. You can find it everywhere: on doors, frescoes, outside walls and even keys.🗝️

#AdoorableThursday 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #medievalsky #art #Italy

Key with the stemma (coat of arms) of the 11th-century Santa Maria della Scala in Siena which features a ladder (scala) surmounted by a cross.

@tenuretracker.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 5:24 AM

Vanderbilt University is hiring:
Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Nineteenth Century Art History

#assistantprofessor #nineteenthcenturyart #arthistory

@da-vinci2026.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 1:50 AM

I have spent more hours watching water than reading philosophy, and water has the better arguments.

#arthistory #renaissance

@ekimellnea.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 12:05 AM

500 years gone and still impossible to put in a box. My full review of Isaacson's Leonardo da Vinci biography is live now.
#books #bookreview #LeonardoDaVinci #arthistory
https://smpl.is/an2ca

@firstamendmentgirl.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 11:46 PM

Estonian Peasant by Eduard von Gebhardt, 1867, Private Collection

#ArtHistory #Realism

@soumya-goblue.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 9:34 PM

I don’t know how old you are but you look great for someone in Baby Boomer generation! I have become good friends with Black woman #arthistory librarian who has crossed 70 yo now but everybody, including me, thinks she is in early 50s when we meet her. Full of spunk and energy.
GenX as whole is…not.

@nyuspsce.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 9:15 PM

#Drawing #ArtHistory #NYU

@laurajg.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 8:43 PM

By Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), The Twist, 1964, private collection. I found very little information about this painting, not unusual for works in private collections. One source did say the medium is oil on Masonite. More info in ALT. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

A painting of a group of young white people dancing, doing the twist, as a man (maybe a bit brown?) plays a bongo.

From the artist’s obituary in The New York Times, January 20, 1975: ‘Mr. Benton was a painter of enormous talent who believed that only by turning art to meaningful subject matter could America have an art that was not a bald imitation of the symbolic and abstract paintings that were then the vogue in Europe…

With such fellow Midwesterners as John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood, Mr. Benton became a practitioner of what became known in the Thirties as “regionalism.” It was a time when the nation concentrated on its own image. The regionalists’ art mirrored what the majority of Americans had in mind— America itself.’