Art Contents Archive

'January Rooks' by artist Kerrie Ann Gardner, contemporary mixed -media artist and writer #WomensArt https://t.co/u9m5ddDxVd

Happy birthday to Cai Guo-Qiang! The Guggenheim's 2008 retrospective “Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe" was designed by the artist, and presented art as a process that unfolds in time and space, dealing with ideas of transformation, expenditure of materials, and connectivity. https://t.co/TYNgMKrX6c

Challenge! There are four auspicious characters—fortune (fu), longevity (shou), peace (ning), and health (kang)—hidden among the pine trees, bamboo, and plum blossoms on this 16th-century pot. Can you spot them? 🔍 Learn more: https://t.co/bFHCAyy8Wa #MetChineseMasters https://t.co/kmvxdMmIOF

William Hogarth is best known for his satiricial & scandalous depictions of city life. Here are five things to know about the 18th century artist before visiting #HogarthAndEurope at Tate Britain ➡️ https://t.co/eZOAlaHTvO https://t.co/8Tmty0rX0w

A woman walks in the snow at dawn in winter Torez, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 2007 📷 © Carolyn Drake https://t.co/4QyzokOiCh

#AuctionUpdate This delightful miniature bouquet painted in 1748, when Dutch artist Rachel Ruysch was eighty-three years old, is one of the artist’s last known creations. It sells for £390,100 in its auction debut, more than tripling its estimate. #SothebysMasters https://t.co/gy42TDhJtG

Central Park, 1905 🎨William James Glackens (American, 1870 - 1938) https://t.co/4BgTXri70b

The woman wears a green wool overdress trimmed with a white fur. Despite popular assumptions, she is not pregnant. Instead she holds her bulky gown up in front of her, as ladies commonly did at the time. https://t.co/jcK84IBVLw

In addition to “Still Life of Fish and Cat,” on loan from @WomenintheArts, Peeters' "Still Life with Flowers Surrounded by Insects and a Snail" from c. 1610 is on view a few galleries away in our exhibition “Clouds, Ice, and Bounty.” See it in person: https://t.co/ayvDFDsqB7 https://t.co/aLDImM3kmd

It’s the 99th birthday of Lucien, a hoopy Freud who really knows where his towel is. https://t.co/9pFmw5zKs2 @NML_Muse https://t.co/Hn0JntRvZm

#AuctionUpdate These beautifully preserved portraits of Jacob de Witte & Maria Nutius are supreme examples of Sir Anthony van Dyck's proficiency as a portrait painter. Last sold at Sotheby's in 1976 for £38,000, tonight they brought £6,172,800 #SothebysMasters https://t.co/l0NzKCTHNn

Wet hair 2, Me, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 2021

I’m 13 and I have no absolute idea what I did but yeah can someone tell me what to draw?

A feline fond of fish. 😼 https://t.co/WPzZ4NEG9H

Looks like we have a winner! Let’s take a closer look at ‘Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife’, by Jan van Eyck. 🔍 Here van Eyck depicts a richly dressed couple thought to be merchant Giovanni di Nicolao di Arnolfini and his wife. (Whose identity is unknown.) https://t.co/zE1BVH6Pny