Art

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THE Lemmy community for visual arts. Paintings, sculptures, photography, architecture are all welcome amongst others.

Rules:

  1. Follow instance rules.
  2. When possible, mention artist and title.
  3. AI posts must be tagged as such.
  4. Original works are absolutely welcome. Oc tag would be appreciated.
  5. Conversations about the arts are just as welcome.
  6. Posts must be fine arts and not furry drawings and fan art.

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Welcome Post: Allegory of Art by Joachim Lüchteke c.1595 (lemmy.nz)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Carefully signed by the artist with the place and date of execution, this drawing was likely made as an entry in an album amicorum, or friendship album—a collection of drawn and written tributes to an individual patron or associate. The nude woman holding the brushes, palette, mahlstick, and coat of arms of the Guild of Saint Luke is an unmistakable personification of the art of painting. The meaning of the devil breathing fire on her leg is less obvious, but it may allude to the idea that art itself can be a dangerous temptation.

Welcome to Visual Arts!

I have been posting in various art communities across Lemmy recently and I've wanted to have one on an instance that I love. From now on this is where I'll be making most of my posts and would love to see more people join in!

I'll be trying to add more and more links with my posts from now to show rbe source of information and offer you resources on where to find art. May even create a post dedicated to sources later.

Similarly the most common style of posts you'll see will include:

  1. Single image posts with a passage to explain them.
  2. Multi image posts to show themes within an artists oeuvre.
  3. Single image posts without explanatory text if I can't add much of value.

I'll also be cross posting a fair bit to make sure more and more people are exposed to art as that is my primary desire.

Hope you all enjoy.

Sincerely, SnokenKeekaGuard.

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The glittering waters of UK painter Jenny Aitken. (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 hour ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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The Music Lesson by Gerard ter Borch the Younger (c.1670) (lemmy.nz)
submitted 8 hours ago by KentNavalesi@mstdn.social to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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The Music Lesson by Gerard ter Borch the Younger (c.1670)

@visualarts

Art Institute of Chicago 🖼
#ArtHistory #AnimalsInArt #MuseumArchive #galleries #glam #ArtMuseum

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Angel Zarraga - The Woman and The Puppet (1909) (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 day ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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A Free Online Archive Lets You Explore 5.8 Million Works of Art Spanning 5,000 Years of History (www.openculture.com)
submitted 6 days ago by CombatWombat@feddit.online to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Though it's traditionally meant 'last in a progression or series,' as Merriam-Webster puts it, the word ultimate has been more often used in recent decades to mean 'the best or most extreme of its kind.' The name of a recently launched digital archive performs a rare inversion, labeling as last a creation marked not by finality but extremity. Open Culture, openculture.com

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just finished my Dracula drawing (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 week ago by BazaarMonk@lemmy.world to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Aggravation - Briton Riviere - 1896 (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 month ago by fattyfoods@feddit.nl to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Kaiju Show 2 - Justine Lin - "Catzilla - Fire Walk With Me" (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 month ago by bizarroland@lemmy.world to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Salvador Dalí - Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity (1954) (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 month ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Hospital Triptych No. 3 by Zeng Fanzhi (1992) (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Painted the year Zeng graduated in Wuhan, the triptych borrows from the format of a Christian altarpiece to frame a hospital ward as sacred space. Patients and doctors share the same distorted faces, oversized hands reaching across a claustrophobic composition where healer and sufferer are equally exposed.

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"Yokai" series by photographer Yuji Watanabe (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Beesan Arafat – Glider (2023) (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[2026-06-16] @Boudicca61AD@twitter.comhttps://xcancel.com/Boudicca61AD/status/2066836988431393157#m

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The Earth That Remains by Firelei Báez (2025) (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 month ago by KentNavalesi@mstdn.social to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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The Earth That Remains by Firelei Báez (2025)

@visualarts

Seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
#ModernArt #ContemporaryArt #zeitgenössischeKunst #artcontemporain #contemporarypainting #chicago #MuseumArchive #galleries #kunst

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The Lost City by Gunther Gerszo (1948) (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 month ago by KentNavalesi@mstdn.social to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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The Lost City by Gunther Gerszo (1948)

@visualarts

Art Institute of Chicago
#GuntherGerszo #ModernArt #AbstractArt #chicago #MuseumArchive #galleries #kunst

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Untitled (Les tables de géographie réduites en un jeu de cartes) by Firelei Báez (2022) (lemmy.nz)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by KentNavalesi@mstdn.social to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Untitled (Les tables de géographie réduites en un jeu de cartes) by Firelei Báez (2022)

@visualarts

Seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
#ModernArt #ContemporaryArt #zeitgenössischeKunst #artcontemporain #contemporarypainting #chicago #MuseumArchive #galleries #kunst #AnimalsInArt

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Tadé Styka - Leda and the Swan (1913) (lemmy.nz)
submitted 2 months ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Earthly Paradise by Pierre Bonnard (1916-20) (lemmy.nz)
submitted 2 months ago by KentNavalesi@mstdn.social to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Earthly Paradise by Pierre Bonnard (1916-20)

@visualarts

Art Institute of Chicago
#AnimalsinArt #ArtHistory #ModernArt #MuseumArchive #galleries #glam #ArtMuseum

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Max Švabinský - In Paradise (1918) (lemmy.nz)
submitted 2 months ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Stamford after Brunch by John Currin (2000) (lemmy.nz)
submitted 2 months ago by KentNavalesi@mstdn.social to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Stamford after Brunch by John Currin (2000)

@visualarts

Art Institute of Chicago
Currin's style has been described as "American grotesque," which I think is apt.
#ModernArt #ArtHistory #MuseumArchive #galleries #glam #ContemporaryArt #zeitgenössischeKunst #artcontemporain #contemporarypainting #chicago #kunst

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An online exhibit by Roman Eng, matching-up famous creators upon their Western Constellation signs, to amusing effect. (imginn.com)
submitted 2 months ago by JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Max Pietschmann - Catch of Polyphemus (1892) (lemmy.nz)
submitted 2 months ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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The weird, surreal (and Magritte-inspired?) art of Miles Johnston: (lemmy.nz)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I haven't done a deep-dive or anything, but I find his stuff both fascinating and transfixing, and... lol, there's another example upon how sometimes the most carefully-chosen words still spectacularly fail to describe the actual artwork. 😅

Oh dear.

More: (this guy really is a genius IMO)
https://duckduckgo.com/?ia=images&q=miles+johnston+art+collection&iax=images

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Virgin and Child Crowned by Angels by Colijn de Coter (1490-95) (lemmy.nz)
submitted 2 months ago by KentNavalesi@mstdn.social to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Virgin and Child Crowned by Angels by Colijn de Coter (1490-95)

@visualarts

Art Institute of Chicago
#ArtHistory #MedievalArt #religion #Christianity #MuseumArchive #glam #ArtMuseum #catholicism

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Tipu's Tiger (lemmy.nz)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/tipus-tiger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu_Sultan

You haaaave to read about Tipu Sultan and Tipu's Tiger. A vital part of studying history here for us. I must've read about him first in first grade or so.

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Frank Holl - Did You Ever Kill Anybody, Father? (1883) (lemmy.nz)
submitted 2 months ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8489968

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