സുധിർ/सुधीर/Sudhirさんのイラストまとめ

Barthélémy Toguo's visceral series influenced by Billie Holiday's painful cri de coeur..

Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves & blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
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One of my favorite Audubon plates - what a spectacular capture of the unfolding drama.

”Brown Thrasher, Ferruginous Thrush, defending nest against Black Snake, from Audubon's The birds of America”
John James Audubon
1838
Lithography
American Museum of Natural History

Such a beautiful rendition of routine activities of rural life in Japan - catching loaches, shrimp, working at the duck coop etc., all captured so well in this Nihonga quadriptych.

"Four Marsh Scenes"
Usen Ogawa
1922
Japanese ink on paper
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

Morris was a member of the "Washington Color School" - members of this group practiced "soak staining": pour colors on canvas and let it sit..so you don't see many brushstrokes in such works.

Splendid!

"Point of Tranquility"
Morris Louis
Acrylic resin on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum

The coloration & drawing of Nandi is simply outstanding here-notice how the artist drew its dewlap - amazing realism in simplicity.

"Shiva and Parvati Riding on Shiva's Mount, Nandi"
ca.1800
Guler, Punjab Hills
Opaque watercolor & gold on paper
Brooklyn Museum
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What a gem!

“Banana. Costume design for
the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)”
Diego Rivera
1927
Watercolor, pencil, and colored pencil on paper
MoMA

@emswam @dpanikkar @KS1729 Correct. Also, it was featured in the Royal Insignia of Mysore Kingdom and it is possible that they borrowed it from Vijayanagara Empire which issued coins with double-headed eagles similar to the one in the painting (holding 4 elephants) in the 16th century.

Puerto Rican painter Francisco Oller's works covered several movements: realism, naturalism & impressionism and he oft worked on Caribbean themes like this wonderful still life - what a beauty!

"Still Life with Coconuts"
Francisco Oller, ca.1893
Oil on Canvas
Private Collection

@dpanikkar @kamlesm @PunjabiRooh @KS1729 So beautiful.
According to Claudio - "This rendering has no comparison in European paintings of the period."
The closest he thought was the Sienese Primitives -an example👇🏽Giovanni di Paolo

"Saint John the Baptist Retiring to the Desert"
Giovanni di Paolo
~1454
National Gallery

@KS1729 And it was Maria Sibylla Merian, a German-born naturalist, who documented Metamorphosis for the first time.
In 1799, she sailed to Suriname from Europe looking for insects - something no ladies were permitted to do back then.The results were a spectacular treasure for Science!