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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-10-05 08:24:00

Incredible light and detail in this oil painting...
Hans Gude, Fjordlandskap fra Balestrand, 1848
(Norway Nasjonalmuseet)
#Art #Painting #Landscape

Late summer morning in a fjord landscape with a small settlement surrounded by rocks and small golden fields reaching down the hill until the shore line. Two children are standing in the shade on a small path leading between the wooden houses, roofs covered with grass and moss. Massive mountain peaks with near vertical slopes in the background. A large glacier on one of them. Bright hazy day with light reflecting on individual blades of grass, leaves, presumably still covered in dew.
@smashtie@mas.to
2025-10-05 12:55:59

Here are my favourites from the National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Award 2025. It's a fantastic selection this year, and free to see as always.
#art #portraits #painting

Mother, by Diego José Aznar Remón Composed in muted tones, with momentary flashes of pink, this portrait of the artist's wife and son shows them on an unkempt bed, the exhausted mother asleep, the baby awake and looking directly at the viewer. It is a moment of gorgeous intimacy.
The Echo - Self-Portrait, by Pippa Hale-Lynch This self-portrait has the quality of a doubly exposed photograph, or one that has slipped and smudged in the process of development. Your eye slides over the detail, unable to lock on. Her face is pale, but with flushed cheeks, against a black background. The painting explores themes of solitude and grief stemming from the loss of her mother.
Ukrainian Girl, by Nelson Hernandez A female figure with her back to the viewer stands at a window, through which shines a wintry light illuminating individual strands of her light blonde hair. Chilean artist Nelson Hernandez's spectral portrait of his Ukrainian friend, Kseniia, captures a brief moment in time: 'I was moved by her stillness as she gazed out the window. Suddenly, the drawing in her hoodie evoked in me a scene of war, a metaphor of her past and the burden she carries.'
Portrait of a Sculptor, by Dide Blasting out bright red, the surface of Dide's portrait of the sculptor Laurence Edwards seems alive with a kinetic, electric energy. The sculpture sits in a brightly patterned armchair, looking directly at the viewer, with legs crossed and grubby boots prominent. It explores 'the messy plaster-splattered existence of artists in their studios'.
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-10-18 01:01:37

How to identify the #artist who did a #painting.
#artHistory

How To Recognise Famous Painters According To The Internet
Art history has never been so easy! A redditor DontTacoBoutIt posted this series of famous paintings and gave short but hilariously accurate explanations on how to recognize their authors. Commenters on Reddit and Imgur also started sharing their own ideas for artist identification. Check out the following examples, and don't hesitate to add your own!