Art History
Exploring the bizarre and beautiful legacy of Art.
@zemm
Got to see some William Blake irl today.
Puts into perspective what dedication and devotion really is
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@stellaachenbach
GM Farcaster ✨ and art lovers 🎨
I recently spent a longer weekend in Rio de Janeiro and had the opportunity to visit the Museu de Arte Moderno do Rio (MAM Rio). I have been to many exhibitions around the globe, and it happens rarely that something captures me on an emotional level as one multimedia installation did at this very museum.
If you are curious, give it a read 👇 👇 👇
https://paragraph.com/@stellaachenbach/review-or-art-that-moves
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@ifeoluwafavour
"There are 3 versions of this painting. 2 have been sold for over £1.5m combined but 1 is still missing"
Watch my Tiktok video on the missing art by Ben Enwonwu
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMHGU92KeAWW8-qQMoW/
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@benna
This is one of my favourite paintings in the National Portrait Gallery in London. 'Queen Elizabeth I' by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1575.
The details are just so exceptional. The rose! The Phoenix crest! The barely-there veil!!!
L: a photo I took of my favourite details in the painting
R: full portrait from the National Portrait Gallery website
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@ideas
I am reading diaries of Paul Klee and it is fascinating,…. To get into his worlds through words with which he was also very skilled.
Varieties and possibilities,… I wrote about him some years ago https://musebuz.com/klees-perception-of-the-world-as-some-kind-of-a-model-an-illusion-of-something-behind-it/
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@afrochicks
im in a museum and they dont know where these pots are from
so i just deep searched them on grok
i will email it to them later
i hope this is right and they build a statue of me outside
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@ideas
Despite his growing fame, Giacometti often found himself dissatisfied with his sculptures, especially their scale. He famously recounted how, after World War II, he tried sculpting from memory but found that every time he worked on a figure, it became smaller and thinner. At one point, his figures were so tiny—some just a few centimeters tall—that he could carry an entire collection in a matchbox. This was not a deliberate artistic choice at first; he simply felt that the closer he got to reality, the smaller his sculptures became.
This crisis of perception lasted for years, and Giacometti even claimed that his most acclaimed works were merely incomplete attempts at capturing what he truly saw. Yet, his elongated, fragile figures became some of the most iconic sculptures of the 20th century, precisely because they embodied the existential themes of isolation, resilience, and the struggle to represent the human form.
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@viisikanta.eth
What museums are onchain or doing fun new stuff online? MET with art link, MoMa has a wallet, Belvedere on Roblox, Finnish National Gallery on Fortnite and Zora based platform. Who else?
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@zakkrevitt.eth
Ann Weaver Norton (1905 -1982) at her studio in west palm beach, Florida. Norton was known for her massive sculptures (vertical constructions of brick, stone or wood), many of which are displayed at the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens on the grounds of her former home in Florida. .
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@zakkrevitt.eth
Marina Abramović
Freeing the Voice, 1976
A performance in which the artist screamed for three hours, until her voice ran out.
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@zakkrevitt.eth
Yves Klein making fire paintings In the spring of 1961 at the Centre d’Essais du Gaz de France, the test centre of France’s national gas company, in Plaine-Saint-Denis.
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