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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?"
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.
@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.
'Cricket and Convolvulus' by Qi Baishi (1864-1957) one of the greatest exponents of this style of painting. Qi didn't start painting until he was in his twenties. I learned of him in a painting class at Guanghwa, London, which, to my surprise, was conducted entirely in Mandarin.
SEASIDE MORRIS DANCING. An uncomfortable back story. https://t.co/lNSk5FbRbM