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yamamanamaAngela is emphatically not an artist.
Montserrat, I’ve learned, is actually a rather common name amongst Spanish and Catalan speakers. It means serrated mountain. I guess that makes sense. Maybe it became a name because of that. It also has the honor of having the world’s smallest capital with a population of 0. She has a dragonfly ring.
There was a guy with astronomical sigils and an alchemical glyph and a dragon tattooed on his arm. A passenger had a crescent moon with a face on their arm and a brittle star (at least, I thought it was a brittle star. Their tattoo artist said it was a work in progress) and glitter on their face.
The Van Gogh exhibit was larger than I thought it’d be. I didn’t photograph the MFA’s paintings because I can see them whenever. I did photograph the other ones because I’m not planning to go to Chicago, not if Trump plans on taking federal control of the place.
there were a few other things too.
Pierre Bonnard - The Red Cupboard
He was part of a group called the Nabis, or Prophets, who rejected the idea that a painting was a window onto a world because photography had taken that role.
Jean Dubuffet - Still Life With Ham
Here’s a poem.
I don’t like blobs.
They’re not an image, they’re just a blob.
Get rid of them.
Maria Blanchard - Still Life
Szu-Chieh Yun - Untitled
It got clipped. That’s my fault.
This is the Community Arts Initiative for the season, in which kids use the forest as a metaphor for their path in life. It’s the 20th anniversary for the project, which is meant to introduce kids from all over Boston to making art and the museum’s collection, and a chance to showcase your art in a major important museum.
Morgan Bulkeley - Blue-Wing Warbler
He grew up in the Berkshire and his parents took care of injured and orphaned wildlife
The painting is done on carved maplewood.
These are various animal shapes from Egypt, Japan, and Sudan.
Darrel Austin - The Vixen
Doron Langberg - Merge
Steve Locke - Homage to the Auction Block 70
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
The Flag Year 13, Color Code Venice.
She’s wearing an antique Chinese theatrical robe because her ancestors were coerced over from China and made to work in Spanish Cuba sugar industry along with her Yoruba ancestors.
Nesting IV
Betye Saar - The Good Old Days
I think I’ve posted this one before. But nay, I only posted something by the same artist. It’s the same thing, though. A bunch of gathered materials from her family’s past and from flea markets and yard sales.
Kahlil G. Gibran - Bouquet
Hand-hammered lilies.
Sanford Biggers - A Deeper Form of Chess
The quilt behind it, a found object, is part of the work.
Peter Halley - Kirk
Shapes meant to evoke both the electronic age and prison cells.
Sandow Birk - White Out
A triumphal arch celebrating the contributions of people of color. The white out in the title refers to how white people just kind of take over the narrative.
Avery Singer - Studio
Christian Boltanski - Lumières (blue square––Sylvie)
This photo he found at a flea market. This isn’t the work in which the lightbulbs burn out one after another. You’re thinking of Intent.
Look hard. You can see it.
Shazia Sikander - Pathology of Suspension no. 6
A scaled up Persian miniature.
Tammy Nguyen - Ngô Đình Diệm
It’s actually part of a series depicting the four seasons along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Demeter, and Jesus. The whole thing was at the ICA a few years back but I missed it.
Frans Hals - Wilhelm van Heythuysen
Van Gogh brings this painting up somewhere.
Van Gogh - Self-portrait 1887
He would often paint himself when no one else was available
Van Gogh - the Yellow House
He rented this house in Arle, which I spell like that because the Occitan language doesn’t stick a silent letter at the end like French does.
Frans Hals - Merry Drinker
Adriaen van Ostade - Portrait of a Family in an Interior
Van Gogh never painted all five Roulins in the same scene. Maybe he just prefered the closeness of a portrait. Maybe he never had the opportunity. Maybe the canvas it required was impractically large.
Van Gogh - Camille Roulin
Maybe some people care about the frame but I don’t.
Van Gogh - Madame Roulin and her Baby
One of two double portraits
Van Gogh - Joseph Roulin
There’s six of them. The backgrounds are based on Provençal textile work and Japanese woodblock prints. This one is the Museum of Modern Art’s.
Van Gogh - Armand Roulin
Paul Gaguin - Madam Roulin
Hey, wait a minute!
Van Gogh - Madame Augustine Roulin and Baby Marcelle
Frans Hals - Fisherboy
Van Gogh - Marcelle Roulin
<img=https://i.imgur.com/uxfpam2.jpeg>
Van Gogh - Camille Roulin
Hey, wait a minute, this looks a lot like the other painting of Camille. It’s a duplicate he made so he could make adjustments.
Van Gogh - The Schoolboy (The Postman’s Son - Boy in a Cap)
Émile Bernard - The Artist’s Grandmother
Vincent Van Gogh - The Dance Hall in Arle
A rare crowd scene.
Van Gogh - Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle
Van Gogh - The Raising of Lazarus (after Rembrandt)
Van Gogh - Enclosed Field with Ploughman
Van Gogh - Marcelle Roulin
Van Gogh - The Bedroom
Van Gogh - Self-Portrait
This one was done near the end of his life.
Mark Branford - Backward C
Robert Thompson - Untitled (Paris)
David Paul Bradley - Greasy Grass Premonition no. 2
A victory of Lakȟóta, Tsétsėhéstȧhese, and Nank'haanseine'nan warriors over Custer’s forces.
Beverly Buchanan - Four Shacks in the Neighborhood
Robert Colescott - Marching to a Different Drummer
Ambreen Butt - Untitled, from Cirque du Monde
Ambreen Butt - Shah Jahan
Bony Ramirez - MACHETAZO!
Jan Knight - Lumumba’s Harp
Patrice Lumumba, who was elected first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was actually both pretty popular and pretty decent and betrayed by Mobutu Sese Seko and handed over to Belgium-backed separatists (Belgium’s colonial policy was basically “do evil”) where he was executed six months later. And then things went to complete shit. It’s doing better than it was as of 2018 but there’s still some issues in the east. Most of it is the fault of Rwanda. The mask is from South Sudan, the figure is from Nigeria, the pot holder baskets from Cameroon, and the harp from Gabon.
Dana Chandler Jr. - Fred Hampton’s Door 2
The door is scarred with bullet holes
Yoan Capote - Maleable
The colors on the Rubik’s Cube are replaced with photographs of Cubans in crowds. We are all but toys in someone’s game.
???
More of those animals. I’m sure you can tell which ones come from the Nile civilizations and which ones come from Japan.
Qí Báishí - Peaches
Rock on Wood Pedestal
Qí Báishí -Browsing by Candelight
Qí Báishí -Dove of Peace
Qí Báishí -Fish and Crabs
The titles are all nice and obvious.
Qí Báishí -Autumn Sound
Qí Báishí -Lotus and dragonfly
Qí Báishí -Ear picking
Qí Báishí -Back scratching
Qí Báishí -Old yet strong
Qí Báishí -Lifting the hat
Qí Báishí -Demon queller Zhong Kai
Qí Báishí -Statement in Running Script
Qí Báishí -Red crowned crane
Qí Báishí -Daoist immortal Li Tiegua
Qí Báishí -Little ghost scratching Zhong Kui’s back
Qí Báishí -Chicks and small fish
Qí Báishí - Shrimps
Qí Báishí - Shrimps in a mountain stream
Qí Báishí - Borrowing mountains from nature
Qí Báishí - ??work of insects
I'm not super-familiar with Charlie Kirk but I figure he's an important cog in the meme machine but he's no Trump or even Rogan.
burning question: Aren't there other people who deserve flags at half mast more than Charlie Kirk does?
Montserrat, I’ve learned, is actually a rather common name amongst Spanish and Catalan speakers. It means serrated mountain. I guess that makes sense. Maybe it became a name because of that. It also has the honor of having the world’s smallest capital with a population of 0. She has a dragonfly ring.
There was a guy with astronomical sigils and an alchemical glyph and a dragon tattooed on his arm. A passenger had a crescent moon with a face on their arm and a brittle star (at least, I thought it was a brittle star. Their tattoo artist said it was a work in progress) and glitter on their face.
The Van Gogh exhibit was larger than I thought it’d be. I didn’t photograph the MFA’s paintings because I can see them whenever. I did photograph the other ones because I’m not planning to go to Chicago, not if Trump plans on taking federal control of the place.
there were a few other things too.
Pierre Bonnard - The Red Cupboard
He was part of a group called the Nabis, or Prophets, who rejected the idea that a painting was a window onto a world because photography had taken that role.
Jean Dubuffet - Still Life With Ham
Here’s a poem.
I don’t like blobs.
They’re not an image, they’re just a blob.
Get rid of them.
Maria Blanchard - Still Life
Szu-Chieh Yun - Untitled
It got clipped. That’s my fault.
This is the Community Arts Initiative for the season, in which kids use the forest as a metaphor for their path in life. It’s the 20th anniversary for the project, which is meant to introduce kids from all over Boston to making art and the museum’s collection, and a chance to showcase your art in a major important museum.
Morgan Bulkeley - Blue-Wing Warbler
He grew up in the Berkshire and his parents took care of injured and orphaned wildlife
The painting is done on carved maplewood.
These are various animal shapes from Egypt, Japan, and Sudan.
Darrel Austin - The Vixen
Doron Langberg - Merge
Steve Locke - Homage to the Auction Block 70
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
The Flag Year 13, Color Code Venice.
She’s wearing an antique Chinese theatrical robe because her ancestors were coerced over from China and made to work in Spanish Cuba sugar industry along with her Yoruba ancestors.
Nesting IV
Betye Saar - The Good Old Days
I think I’ve posted this one before. But nay, I only posted something by the same artist. It’s the same thing, though. A bunch of gathered materials from her family’s past and from flea markets and yard sales.
Kahlil G. Gibran - Bouquet
Hand-hammered lilies.
Sanford Biggers - A Deeper Form of Chess
The quilt behind it, a found object, is part of the work.
Peter Halley - Kirk
Shapes meant to evoke both the electronic age and prison cells.
Sandow Birk - White Out
A triumphal arch celebrating the contributions of people of color. The white out in the title refers to how white people just kind of take over the narrative.
Avery Singer - Studio
Christian Boltanski - Lumières (blue square––Sylvie)
This photo he found at a flea market. This isn’t the work in which the lightbulbs burn out one after another. You’re thinking of Intent.
Look hard. You can see it.
Shazia Sikander - Pathology of Suspension no. 6
A scaled up Persian miniature.
Tammy Nguyen - Ngô Đình Diệm
It’s actually part of a series depicting the four seasons along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Demeter, and Jesus. The whole thing was at the ICA a few years back but I missed it.
Frans Hals - Wilhelm van Heythuysen
Van Gogh brings this painting up somewhere.
Van Gogh - Self-portrait 1887
He would often paint himself when no one else was available
Van Gogh - the Yellow House
He rented this house in Arle, which I spell like that because the Occitan language doesn’t stick a silent letter at the end like French does.
Frans Hals - Merry Drinker
Adriaen van Ostade - Portrait of a Family in an Interior
Van Gogh never painted all five Roulins in the same scene. Maybe he just prefered the closeness of a portrait. Maybe he never had the opportunity. Maybe the canvas it required was impractically large.
Van Gogh - Camille Roulin
Maybe some people care about the frame but I don’t.
Van Gogh - Madame Roulin and her Baby
One of two double portraits
Van Gogh - Joseph Roulin
There’s six of them. The backgrounds are based on Provençal textile work and Japanese woodblock prints. This one is the Museum of Modern Art’s.
Van Gogh - Armand Roulin
Paul Gaguin - Madam Roulin
Hey, wait a minute!
Van Gogh - Madame Augustine Roulin and Baby Marcelle
Frans Hals - Fisherboy
Van Gogh - Marcelle Roulin
<img=https://i.imgur.com/uxfpam2.jpeg>
Van Gogh - Camille Roulin
Hey, wait a minute, this looks a lot like the other painting of Camille. It’s a duplicate he made so he could make adjustments.
Van Gogh - The Schoolboy (The Postman’s Son - Boy in a Cap)
Émile Bernard - The Artist’s Grandmother
Vincent Van Gogh - The Dance Hall in Arle
A rare crowd scene.
Van Gogh - Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle
Van Gogh - The Raising of Lazarus (after Rembrandt)
Van Gogh - Enclosed Field with Ploughman
Van Gogh - Marcelle Roulin
Van Gogh - The Bedroom
Van Gogh - Self-Portrait
This one was done near the end of his life.
Mark Branford - Backward C
Robert Thompson - Untitled (Paris)
David Paul Bradley - Greasy Grass Premonition no. 2
A victory of Lakȟóta, Tsétsėhéstȧhese, and Nank'haanseine'nan warriors over Custer’s forces.
Beverly Buchanan - Four Shacks in the Neighborhood
Robert Colescott - Marching to a Different Drummer
Ambreen Butt - Untitled, from Cirque du Monde
Ambreen Butt - Shah Jahan
Bony Ramirez - MACHETAZO!
Jan Knight - Lumumba’s Harp
Patrice Lumumba, who was elected first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was actually both pretty popular and pretty decent and betrayed by Mobutu Sese Seko and handed over to Belgium-backed separatists (Belgium’s colonial policy was basically “do evil”) where he was executed six months later. And then things went to complete shit. It’s doing better than it was as of 2018 but there’s still some issues in the east. Most of it is the fault of Rwanda. The mask is from South Sudan, the figure is from Nigeria, the pot holder baskets from Cameroon, and the harp from Gabon.
Dana Chandler Jr. - Fred Hampton’s Door 2
The door is scarred with bullet holes
Yoan Capote - Maleable
The colors on the Rubik’s Cube are replaced with photographs of Cubans in crowds. We are all but toys in someone’s game.
???
More of those animals. I’m sure you can tell which ones come from the Nile civilizations and which ones come from Japan.
Qí Báishí - Peaches
Rock on Wood Pedestal
Qí Báishí -Browsing by Candelight
Qí Báishí -Dove of Peace
Qí Báishí -Fish and Crabs
The titles are all nice and obvious.
Qí Báishí -Autumn Sound
Qí Báishí -Lotus and dragonfly
Qí Báishí -Ear picking
Qí Báishí -Back scratching
Qí Báishí -Old yet strong
Qí Báishí -Lifting the hat
Qí Báishí -Demon queller Zhong Kai
Qí Báishí -Statement in Running Script
Qí Báishí -Red crowned crane
Qí Báishí -Daoist immortal Li Tiegua
Qí Báishí -Little ghost scratching Zhong Kui’s back
Qí Báishí -Chicks and small fish
Qí Báishí - Shrimps
Qí Báishí - Shrimps in a mountain stream
Qí Báishí - Borrowing mountains from nature
Qí Báishí - ??work of insects
I'm not super-familiar with Charlie Kirk but I figure he's an important cog in the meme machine but he's no Trump or even Rogan.
burning question: Aren't there other people who deserve flags at half mast more than Charlie Kirk does?
