From the beginning, this community has only allowed images as posts.

Recently with the community getting more activity there have been a number of users posting articles as posts. I've had a user ask where the appropriate place to post art articles is, and I didn't have a good answer for them. As far as I can see there isn't a true fit.

After giving it some thought, I'm going to trial a new post rule and see how it goes with the community.

Articles as posts WILL be allowed, so long as the article focuses on traditional art or traditional artists in relation to their art. Articles as posts must be tagged in the title with [ARTICLE].

Sidebar will be changed to match.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49445116

Another piece by my GF Her mastodon

In 1677, the area of California that the Chumash historically live in experienced a total eclipse. This eclipse also happened to have Mars and Antares (a red supergiant) align in a visually distinctive way near it, and these pictographs are believed to be their record of the event. The painted crosses are believed to depict stars, with a black circle representing the eclipse itself. The star at the bottom right is interpreted as Mars, having been depicted with legs: a ‘wandering’ star due to its irregular path across the night sky through the year.

You can explore the fully 3D scanned cave here: https://www.cyark.org/projects/chumash-painted-cave/3D-Explorer

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49326381

From the display:

Depictions like this one of a boy blowing on a burning ember were popular among European painters studying illumination. Artists such as Michelangelo and El Greco used this subject to showcase their skills at imitating nature, particularly the fleeting reflections of firelight. After spending several successful years working in Rome, Gerrit van Honthorst brought this theme back to the Netherlands, where it was appreciated by sophisticated collectors who recognized its origins in an ancient Roman text.

This table was painted in 1522 and was part of the use of the Matter of Britain by HenryVIII. The Tudors celebrated their descent from the Welsh Kings to secure better support for themselves. Note the Tudor Rose in the centre.

Photographer: Christophe.Finot (2006)

CC BY-SA 2.5

Artist: Vincent van Gogh

Artist: J. M. W. Turner

Author: unknown

Artist: Claude Monet

Depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore. The seashell she stands on was a symbol in classical antiquity for a woman's vulva. Thought to be based in part on the Venus de' Medici, an ancient Greek marble sculpture of Aphrodite.

Artist: Sandro Botticelli

This painting is an example of the genre of history painting. It shows George Washington crossing the Delaware River in 1776. History painting was a major movement in art from the 17th to 19th centuries.

Leutze's depiction of Washington's attack on the Hessians at Trenton on the morning of December 26, 1776, was a great success in America and in Germany. Leutze began his first version of this subject in 1849. It was damaged in his studio by fire in 1850 and, although restored and acquired by the Kunsthalle Bremen, was again destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942. In 1850, Leutze began this version of the subject, which was placed on exhibition in New York during October of 1851. At this showing Marshall O. Roberts bought the canvas for the then-enormous sum of $10,000. In 1853, M. Knoedler published an engraving of it. Many studies for the painting exist, as do copies by other artists.

Artist: Emanuel Leutze

An oil painting made by my girlfriend. Hope this is the right community for this

This painting depicts the storming of the Bastille in 1789, which marked the beginning of the French Revolution. Visible in the center is the arrest of Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay.

Watercolour, 37.8 x 50.5 cm

Artist: Jean-Pierre Houël

From: https://www.illustrationhistory.org/illustrations/the-eighth-wonder-of-the-world

Profile: https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/thomas-blackshear

Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blackshear