Commission from a friend for a friend of theirs. It’s about 9x11, gauche, ink, watercolor paper and wood canvas.

According to a new survey, high-net-worth 20-somethings are emerging as the most active members of the global art trade, outspending other generations by wide margins. Their habits are changing how the art world works

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall. (Aldous Huxley)

Photograph: Matthew Millman/Matthew Millman Photography

I am looking for suggestions where you learning to paint/draw? I would love to take online free class for me and my kido too. Where to start?

All Hail the Em-purr-or!Available on Threadless (meowvellous.threadless.com)If this design happened to make you smile, it's up for voting here! threadless.com/designs/em-purr#mastoArt #mastocats #catsOfMastodon #caturday #art #mastoart #fediart #illustration #design @visualarts @drawing @design

Hi everyone! Newbie here (just moved over from mastodon.social). My name is Meowvellous and I draw cat art (rather obsessively). You can find my designs on meowvellous.threadless.comLooking forward to seeing all the cool art out there!#mastoArt #caturday #mastocats #catsOfMastodon #illustration #art #artistsonmastodon @visualarts @drawing

Cross-posted from ""Look up": A panel from my comic" by @jjj@lemmy.blahaj.zone in !art@lemmy.blahaj.zone

I drew this panel for my MSPFA Failbent a day or so ago. It's the first large scale outdoor panel I've made and I'm overall really happy with the background at least.

I'm not so sure about the trees' texture/density/etc. It's supposed to be in a dream so I guess I can write it off...

Drawn with GIMP.

Valley of Aosta: Snowstorm, Avalanche, and Thunderstorm by Joseph Mallord William Turner (c.1836-7)@visualarts Art Institute of Chicago 🖼#ArtHistory #AnimalsInArt #MuseumArchive #galleries #glam #ArtMuseum

The Sawos people of the Middle Sepik River region of New Guinea are divided into a number of clans, each of which is associated with specific ancestors and totemic species. These ancestral and totemic beings are represented by wooden figures kept in the men's ceremonial houses. Wooden figures such as this represent a category of powerful and dangerous ancestral beings called wan or waken and each figure owned by a specific clan is named for an important clan ancestor.

This figure which bears the name Minjemtimi and is reputed to be ten generations old. It is said to have been made in the village of Kwalunggei. When warriors from neighboring Yamok village raided Kwalunggei, the figure is said to have come to life and fought the invaders until hit by a spear, which broke off its left arm (the wound is still visible as a repair). The wounded Minjemtimi fell to the ground and turned back into a wooden figure that was carried off by the raiders. In Yamok the figure was kept by the Ainggun clan in a ceremonial house in the hamlet of Wolembi. The marks on the abdomen represent rooster heads joined by a length of intestine and are similar to the ritual scarifications made on the bodies of initiated Sawos men.

The Met.

This painting conveys Rembrandt’s meditation on the meaning of fame. The richly clad Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 BCE) rests his hand pensively on a bust of Homer, the epic poet who had attained literary immortality with his Iliad and Odyssey centuries before. Aristotle wears a gold medallion with a portrait of his powerful pupil, Alexander the Great—perhaps the philosopher is weighing his own worldly success against Homer’s timeless achievement. Although the work has come to be considered quintessentially Dutch, it was painted for a Sicilian patron at a moment when Rembrandt’s signature style, with its dark palette and almost sculptural buildup of paint, was beginning to fall out of fashion in Amsterdam.

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The Music Lesson by Gerard ter Borch the Younger (c.1670)@visualarts Art Institute of Chicago 🖼#ArtHistory #AnimalsInArt #MuseumArchive #galleries #glam #ArtMuseum

Though it's traditionally meant 'last in a progression or series,' as Merriam-Webster puts it, the word ultimate has been more often used in recent decades to mean 'the best or most extreme of its kind.' The name of a recently launched digital archive performs a rare inversion, labeling as last a creation marked not by finality but extremity. Open Culture, openculture.com