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Crab, by Qi Baishi (1864-1957), a leading exponent of the Chinese freehand style of painting.
Detail of a mural in a Pompeii house, reconstructed in the National Archeological Museum at Naples.
@tonythorne007 @WIRED Sometimes clothes have to be adapted to what we're carrying.
Volební Plakát, poster for Czech Communist Party, 1928, Prague National Gallery. Plakát made many striking posters after the Communists came to power.
@samhwilson @Ned_Donovan "Had a bit too much to drink, have we, sir?"
@ancientnmodern My old Post Office clock stopped, so we set the hands at 12 and left it on the wall. I came in several years later to find that it had started again AND WAS TELLING THE RIGHT TIME!
Jean Carriés, another of the French artist potters of the 1890s. Originally a sculptor, he was a friend of John Singer Sergeant, who painted this handsome portrait of him.
One – the second from the left in the picture – formed chocolate cups for Tiffany’s of New York. In my picture it’s upside down in relation to the cup so that you can see the name of the thrower, S. Lawley. Here's a Tiffany chocolate cup that Mr Lawley may have made.
@artinsociety The pictures in that link look like adverts for cosmetic dentistry. And certainly "not decorous": Vigée Lebrun was castigated for painting her teeth in this self portrait.