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#womenartists

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moonlightmyst
"I Dreamt of Brighter Days", 2012

I continue to transition my #art from #deviantart to #Pixelfed. #AIhasDestroyedArtPlatforms such as Deviant Art for me. And unlike most other platforms, I greatly appreciate the freedom of the #Fediverse, including the lack of data collection, or the lack of algorithms dictating what we see, think or feel. #HelloPixelfed. #GoodbyeDeviantArt.

This is more of a #photomanipulation than a #digitalpainting - though there are touch ups. Originally, when I created this, it was meant to represent how I was feeling at the same, particularly during February, one of the most #depressing months. And now I reflect on how much has changed. Though I have experienced #dark days, I have also learned the value and necessity of finding meaning (i.e., finding #alifeworthliving). This can be anything from arts, nature, crafts, activities, hobbies, meditation, relationships and so on. Reflecting back on 2012, I am happy to say that life is much more bright nowadays. However, life would not be so bright without those dark days.

"Suffering should be creative.
Should give birth to something
good and lovely." -Chinua Achebe

#art #digitalart #death #depression #mentalhealth #despair #sadness #emotionalart #medieval #womeninart #womenartists #vultures

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CREDITS:
#Woman - https://www.deviantart.com/faestock
#DeadTree and background - https://www.deviantart.com/the-night-bird/art/Dead-Tree-BG-262525390
#Vulture - https://www.deviantart.com/piratelotus-stock/
#Rats - https://www.deviantart.com/harpyen/art/rats-147716090
#Skull - https://www.deviantart.com/aleuranthropy/art/Skull-Stock-Photo-05-41426441
#Bones - https://www.deviantart.com/mjranum-stock/art/Bones-2-66682764
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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

"Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop," Rachel Ruysch, 1716.

Rachel Ruysch's still lifes are always worth revisiting. I've talked about her before, so I won't repeat myself, except to say the basics: She was a painter of florals and still lifes who was enormously popular and charged high prices in her lifetime, and is also the best-documented female artist of her time, thanks her to habit of adding her age to her signature on all her paintings. She is regarded as one of the greatest still life artists of all time.

Here we have a lovely bouquet with roses, pansies, irises, calendula, dianthus, and others, with a few insects buzzing about or landing on the petals. Her father was a teacher of anatomy and botany, so she learned to look at flowers and insects closely and examine their structure, to recreate them realistically on the canvas.

A perfect painting for Flower Friday!

From the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

A still life from the Dutch Golden Age. A tall bouquet of flowers sits in a green bowl on a marble table. The flowers include roses, poppies, pansies, irises, dianthus, and calendula, but there's also a number of insects visible.
#Art#DutchGoldenAge#RachelRuysch
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Rebecca Nordquist

This tile artwork by Maria Keil, "Pastores" (Shepherds) is at the Museu Nacionaldo Azulejo in Lisbon. Walking through the museum, I came across this, which was easily the coolest piece in the gallery.

And that led me down the rabbit hole of wikipedia, where I learned more about this amazing person, who many among other things designed the tile for the Lisbon subway:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ke

Photo of an artwork in tile, with green, orange and white triangles, with in between people in a pastoral scene, kneeling next to a goat, laying as if in a field. People are black and white.
#womenArtists#tiles#art
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Laura G, Sassy 70’s

By Slava Gerulak (born 1933), Girl (Decorative Plate), n.d., ceramic, The Ukrainian Museum, New York. #womenartists #ukraine #ceramics

From the museum: “A given work can be about functional design or about purely creative art, and occasionally about both. Befitting her roots, Gerulak imaginatively continues to use beguiling imagery in her ceramic work, reflecting the same fascination with her heritage and the richness with which it can be translated into clay. She adapts iconic likenesses of mermaids, nymphs, protectresses, mother and child, villagers in folk costumes, and head adornment with floral wreaths to the style of her own figural ceramics so successfully that they manifest the unmitigated embodiment of womanhood. Gerulak draws upon lush imagery and abundant Ukrainian customs, but creatively renews and revises these traditions as well.”

A semi-abstract portrait of a woman, her collar and hair decorated with Ukrainian motifs.
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Laura G, Sassy 70’s

Your art post for today: Spring time: Olesia, oil on linen, by contemporary Ukrainian artist Iryna Kalyuzhna (Ирина Калюжная), currently living in the Netherlands. #ukraine #womenartists

From Saatchi Art: ‘Looking at classical painting with modern eyes, she is inspired by a kind of 'modern realism', in which the influence of impressionism is visible.

The works made in the oil painting technique combine a traditional and decorative approach. The main field of the artist's research are female images. It always preserves the portrait likeness of the model, but adds an element of individuality to the conceived image. Characteristic themes are clearly traced in the artist's work: the national identity of Ukrainian women, Ukrainian traditional clothing and culture, the theme of motherhood and the female body. The war forced her to leave Ukraine, but her work continues. “It is important for everyone to decide and understand what you must do and to what you dedicate yourself,” she says, continuing: “I would like to bring more beauty and positive emotions into this world.”’

Her Instagram: instagram.com/ikalyuzhnaart/

A portrait of a young girl, a white flower in her hair. Head in three-quarter view. She looks slightly downward, chin tucked, and to our right.
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Art History Animalia

Grace Hudson (USA, 1865–1937)
Mr. Jack or Jackie, 1930
Cast Ceramic with Glass Eyes
On display at Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA (10428)
“[This] was a #jackrabbit sculpture to be marketed as a garden statue, a prototype of which you see here. Indeed, this very ‘Mr. Jack’ (or ‘Jackie’), can be seen in various locations outside the Sun House in a number of photographs from the Museum's collections.”
#WomenArtists

photo of the ceramic sculpture on display at museum: jackrabbit in upright position with very tall ears, front profile view, brown color, has look of a wood sculpture but made of ceramic
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Laura G, Sassy 70’s

Your art history post for today, by Ukrainian artist Tetiana Yablonska (1917-2005), The Enemy is Approaching. Painted in 1944, it could be a scene in Ukraine today. #ukraine #womenartists

“The canvas stands alone in the artist’s work: she never again painted paintings with a developed plot and frankly dramatic content. This work reflected her personal life experience: the difficult road to evacuation, bombing, confusion, human tragedies... Everything she saw then was war.

The plot is dedicated to the tragic events of 1941. The main theme of the canvas is the feeling of war. Every detail speaks of it: a column of refugees, faces, a harsh sky with ominous clouds. The whole picture is permeated with grief, anger and indignation. War is everywhere, it is a common enemy and evil for everyone, even if the front line is still far away. The endless column of refugees stretches and dissolves in the twilight. The viewer is immersed in the difficult trials that fell to the lot of people in the first days of the war. The canvas is designed in a dark, strict color, which fully corresponds to the artist's ideological plan. The author brings several figures as close to the viewer as possible, thus turning him into an involuntary participant in the movement of this column, in which women and children lead hungry cattle in search of salvation from the enemy. For the first time in this picture, T. Yablonska used the technique of diagonal composition, which will later be present in many of her paintings. The painting "The Enemy is Approaching" was highly appreciated not only by ordinary viewers, but also by critics and the government.” — Marina Popkova

A painting of people fleeing a war zone. In the center and right foreground a mother, running, carries one child on her back as her young daughter follows, looking back. In the middle ground behind her a woman looking back, a large truck loaded with people and belongings. We see a calf as well. In the left foreground, more people, walking, pushing a cart. And we see a Red Cross truck and power lines.
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Laura G, Sassy 70’s

Your art history post for today: by Tetiana Yablonska (1917-2005), Self-portrait, 1945, oil on canvas, 78 × 52 cm., National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev. #ukraine #womenartists

From USA Art News: ‘Yablonska had not only a successful creative life but also an active career. During her lifetime she held many high positions and more than 30 solo exhibitions in the Soviet Union and beyond. However, her political position as an art official and deputy did not affect her active life position. She was a very brave woman who defended the artist’s right to self-expression. This attitude was seen as opposing the “will of the party” and led to numerous clashes with bureaucrats and party bosses. Yablonska was deprived of exhibitions, her paintings were removed from expositions, and she was removed from her posts. But even punitive measures could not change her attitude to art.’

An oil painting of a woman staring intently at the viewer. Seen from the hips up, she wears a blue shirt with a white collar. And she is wearing either white trousers or a white skirt.
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Laura G, Sassy 70’s

Your art history post today: by Ukrainian-American artist Ola Rondiak (b.1966), Together We Stand, acrylic collage on canvas, 39.4 x 47.24 in. The words in Ukrainian read, Slava Ukraine, Glory to the Heroes, and Heroes Never Die. The artist’s Instagram: instagram.com/olarondiakart and her website: olarondiak.com/
#ukraine #womenartists

From Nepenthe Gallery: “Ola Rondiak’s works can best be described as contemporary art with a historical conscience. Ola’s pieces stem from her family’s experiences living in Ukraine during the historical events of the 20th and 21st centuries. These events, from WWII and Stalin’s Iron Curtain to the current turmoil and struggle in Ukraine have shaped Rondiak’s world view. Emotional experiences surface in her artwork as her own history intertwines with Ukrainian history and tradition. “

A collage and acrylic depiction of three women. The words on their clothing are in Ukrainian and read, in English, They have words in Ukrainian on their clothing. From left to right, in English: Slava Ukraine, Glory to the Heroes, and Heroes don’t Die.
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Laura G, Sassy 70’s

Your art history post for today: by Ukrainian-Venezuelan artist Halyna Mazepa (1910-1995), The Blessed Virgin and Child, 1977, oil on board, 16 1/4 × 16 1/4 in., private collection. #ukraine #arthistory #womenartists

From Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine: “Her distinctive work is noted for its iconlike simplicity of line and composition and flat planes, gentle stylization, and vibrant, contrasting colors. Many of her paintings and drawings depict female figures and deal with Ukrainian historical, folkloric, or literary themes (eg, Taras Shevchenko’s poems).”

A cubist-modernist painting of Madonna and Child, reminiscent of Picasso.
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Laura G, Sassy 70’s

Your art history post for today: Portrait of Madame Lipska, known as Woman with a Turban, ca. 1920, by Chana Orloff (1888-1968), carved wood, Height: 31 cm (12 1/4 in.) Width: 30 cm (11 7/8 in.) Depth: 16 cm (6 1/4 in.), photo: Sotheby’s Paris 11 March 2014. #arthistory #Ukraine #womenartists

From AWARE (Archives of Women Artists Research & Exhibitions): “Chana Orloff’s family fled the Ukraine pogroms in 1905 and emigrated to Petah Tikva, where her father worked as a field hand. There, she helped her parents with sewing, at which she excelled. One year after coming to Paris in 1910 to perfect her skills with the fashion designer Paquin, she came second in the entrance examination for the École nationale des arts décoratifs. She also worked at the Académie Russe, practicing wood engraving then wood sculpting. She was able to live off her sculpture as from 1912 and began showing her work in major Parisian salons in 1913. It was shown for the first time at the Berhneim-Jeune Gallery alongside Matisse, Rouault, and Van Dongen. Réflexions poétiques, by the poet Ary Justman, whom she married in 1916, was published with reproductions of her sculptures. After her husband’s death in the flu pandemic of 1918, she was left alone to care for their child and became the portraitist of the Parisian elite, resulting in no less than 300 pieces. Women and children were also a central element of her work. Most notable is her sculpture of a modern, slender, sometimes pregnant woman (Femme enceinte, circa 1920). In 1923 she published Figures d’aujourd’hui, a collection of 41 drawn portraits of famous figures of the art world (Braque, Picasso, Matisse), with poems by Gaston Picard. In 1924 she showed her work at Eileen Gray’s very exclusive gallery. Her work was a success: the turkey, basset, ostrich, and fish of her strange, stylised bestiary was easily adopted by collectors and gained her constant praise. She was granted French citizenship in 1925, and had a studio and living space designed by the architects Auguste and Gustave Perret at the Villa Seurat.”

A golden toned wooden sculpture of a woman wearing a turban. Her head is tilted upward toward the sky.
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Penny Richards

started a #wikipedia article on US "cartoonist-reader" Evelyn Bargelt (1877-1957); toured on the #Chautauqua & Lyceum circuits, doing live painting WHILE doing literary recitations WHILE musicians accompanied her. She even took her act to Europe to entertain the troops during #WWI After her stage career, she was a portrait artist in #Chicago And now I really want to see a TV series, "Evelyn the Entertainer". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_B @wikiwomeninred #WomenArtists #LivePainting

Evelyn Bargelt, photographed in profile with one of her live paintings; a white woman wearing her dark hair in a wrap, and a dark dress; she is holding a paintbrush in her right hand
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