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Take a close look at #ReligiousArt from the past 700 years. Notice anything consistent? Mary is almost always decked out in blue while #Jesus typically wears red. #DidYouKnow Marian blue, as the shade has become known, became the Madonna’s official color? https://t.co/ZaEJ4EICS2
Stunning color-enhanced #space #photography from NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s #JunoProbe look like beautiful paintings.... and a dolphin swimming in Jupiter's clouds! Do you see it? 😍 🐬☁️
Keep up with the Juno Mission here: https://t.co/ieuG9ubIn4
A Space of Their Own will feature works by 600+ overlooked women, compiling the most comprehensive resource to date on female painters, pastellists, printmakers, and sculptors active in the U. S. and Europe during the 15th and 19th centuries.
Read more: https://t.co/y7VpBOtge4
Look closer... these aren't photographs. Self-taught Nigerian artist Arinze Stanley draws #hyperrealistic graphite #portraits so accurate in detail, he says the process is “like energy transfer."
https://t.co/11sAtWM4YY
#Mannerism is a style that emerged in the 1530's #Renaissance and lasted until the end of the century. It is named after maniera, an Italian term for “style” or “manner,” and refers to a stylized, exaggerated approach to painting and sculpture. Read more https://t.co/BajfnpPsYQ
The Art Practice #DrSeuss Kept Hidden from the World
The Art of Dr. Seuss Collection celebrates works that span his original book #illustrations, midnight #paintings, and what he called his “unorthodox taxidermy," mounted papier-mâché #sculptures
https://t.co/s90xcpYyCZ
Known as the “Mona Lisa of the North,” this painting represents the best of Dutch art. Though Girl With a Pearl Earring is shrouded in mystery (much like its Leonardo da Vinci counterpart), it has become one of art history's most beloved paintings.
https://t.co/2tDnmpWDlN
Artist Melissa McCracken has a neurological condition called #Synesthesia, which causes her sense of hearing to trigger colorful depictions of songs and genres... #jazz music appears as iridescent blues, whites, and golds, while an upbeat pop song is bright pink and purple.
#Nature + #imagination = #art Raku Inoue created a scorpion-shaped arrangement from seeds, sticks, and a pepper found at Antelope Canyon in Arizona, and utilized a fallen cactus segment near Horseshoe Bend as the abdomen in a prickly tarantula.
https://t.co/fMaJszxFWv
Drawn from the @ngadc’s collection, new exhibit #SenseOfHumor celebrates humor in art, an incredibly rich though easily overlooked tradition through works including Renaissance caricatures, biting English satires, and 20th-century comics.
https://t.co/zF11iWH4te