Art and arty stuff

Medium: oil,canvas

Medium: oil,canvas

‘The Marble Polisher’, c.1882-1887 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901). French Post-Impressionist painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator. oil on canvas

Knowledge makes you interesting, taking and posting selfies doesn’t.

Amalia de Llano y Dotres, condesa de Vilches por Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, 1853

The Haymarket was especially provocative because it showed lavishly dressed women entering a well-known dance hall unaccompanied by male companions. These women were independent and pleasure-seeking, defying society’s expectations. This type of realism in art shocked many viewers who were accustomed to idealising and genteel subjects.

‘George Warrington Stevens, War Correspondent’, by John Maler Collier (1850–1934). British painter and writer. oil on canvas.

Hans Makart. Detail from Musikalische Unterhaltung, 1874.

A ride along the Avenue des Champs-Elysées,  1875

Sebastian Haquin (Australian, b. 1991), Shirtless self-portrait, 2016

Martin-Jan van Santen

“flowers and mirror” - abbott fuller graves

https://www.wikiart.org/en/frans-hals/family-group-in-a-landscape-detail

Michaël Borremans, The House of Opportunity (The change of a lifetime), 2003

https://www.wikiart.org/en/frederic-leighton/the-villa-malta-rome-1865

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436961