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Coral reefs captured in textile art, Vanessa Barragão

Artist I Like Series

Vanessa Barragão 1992 - ???? a Portuguese an environmental textile artist who uses recycled yarn to create tapestries and carpets. Vanessa’s artworks focus on textile industry pollution and how it is deeply affecting coral reef environments.

An Egyptian rock crystal of a chonky hinpopotamus amulet

(Middle Kingdom, ca. 2050-1650 BCE)

Amulets were worn by ancient Egyptians for their protective and regenative properties. Used in both in daily life and during funerary rites, amulets represented animals, deities, symbols or objects thought to possess the magical powers of warding off evil spirits.

As animals were popular representations, the hippopotamus was known for its apotropaic (e.g. ability to avert bad luck) qualities and was associated with rebirth.

♡ sappho - étienne adolphe piot  -1910  ♡  oil on canvas

Étienne Adolphe Piot (1831–1910), A Golden-Haired Beauty (detail)

Perseus & Andromeda by Frederic Leighton (1891)

“Portrait of a Lady”, 

detail, by William Oliver (British, 1804-1853)

Opera di Piero del Pollaiolo identificata come possibile ritratto di Lucrezia Landriani

guo pei ss20 haute couture

guo pei ss20 haute couture

Aigana Gali — Alakai (oil and acrylic on canvas, 2023)

Viktor & Rolf Haute Couture Fall 2019

Kim Tschang-Yeul - 김창열

For more than 40 years, artist Kim Tschang-Yeul has persistently painted only one thing, water drops. Though it is hard to comprehend at first glance why the artist, better known as a “water drop painter,” spent the better part of his life painting them, one can naturally assume they must mean a lot to him.

via @iseesigils 

In Full Sunlight, James Tissot, ca. 1881

La Plaine de Gennevilliers, groupe de peupliers, 1883, Gustave Caillebotte

Thorvald Erichsen - Wooded Landscape (1900)

Cristian Lacroix Romance of the Maiden Collection 1998

Changing Pastures

Rosa Bonheur

oil on canvas, 1863