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Cher Pizzi
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I really like the compositions of Balthus!

#balthus #art #painting #oilpainting #artists
May 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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zenosfrudakis.bsky.social
President Zelenskyy is a great inspiring leader of enormous character, contrasted by Trump/Vance/Musk as Putin‘s shameful boot-licking toadies and “useful idiots”.
www.zenosfrudakis.com/blog/2025/3/...

#Zelenskyy #PresidentZelenskyy #sculpture #sculpting #ZenosFrudakis #portrait #Ukraine
Sculptor Zenos Frudakis with sculpture of President Zelenskyy.
March 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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freedomsculpture.bsky.social
Like T.S. Eliot and other artists, I have put many personal elements in my work. My cat, who lived with me for 20 years, my mother, father, and my self-portrait are in the work.

#cats #bskycats #sulpture #ZenosFrudakis #animals #FreedomSculpture #art #sculptors #Philadelphia #artists
Sculpture of cat head in wall of the Freedom sculpture in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sculpture is by Zenos Frudakis.
January 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Looks just like my dog with eyes peeking over the table.
April 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Typography, by Cher Pizzi, inspired by Matisse's White Torso and Blue Torso. Left shape is front view of torso, and right is side view of torso. Shapes are flat but atom or planet-like spheres create a sense of dimension and relationship. Type kerned to reflect the forms.

#Matisse #artists #art
“Expression, for me, does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive; the place occupied by the figures, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything has its share.” Henri Matisse
January 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Transcription of Balthus "The Dream," gouache on paper, 5.5" x 7.5". I enjoy the rhythmic patterns of colors and shapes in this composition. I am also intrigued by the theme of dreams or times of transition.

#Balthus #thedream #transcription #gouache
January 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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gauguin.bsky.social
Pears and grapes, 1875
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/11366
Pears and grapes
January 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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tate.bsky.social
George Jones, Untitled,
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1078247
Presented by the artist's widow 1888
January 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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gauguin.bsky.social
Tahitian pastorale, 1898
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/13226
Tahitian pastorale
January 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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moma.bsky.social
Paul Cézanne, Pines and Rocks (Fontainebleau?), c. 1897

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134585
Lillie P. Bliss Collection
January 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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pierrebonnard.bsky.social
Dining Room Overlooking the Garden (The Breakfast Room) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79604
Given anonymously
January 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
cherpizzi.bsky.social
Love the composition and rhythms set up in this painting "Le Jour" by Georges Braque.

#Braque #paintings #art #artists
January 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Wonderful landscape by Gustav Klimt.
gregorderntl.bsky.social Gregor Derntl @gregorderntl.bsky.social · Jan 7
Litzlberg am Attersee by Gustav Klimt

Amalie Redlich inherited the painting Litzlberg am Attersee (1915) by Gustav Klimt from her brother Victor. In 1941, Amalie Redlich and her daughter Mathilde were deported by the National Socialists to Łódź and murdered.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustav_Klimt_-_Litzlberg_am_Attersee.jpg More information: : https://www.museumdermoderne.at/ueber-uns/standorte-einrichtungen/amalie-redlich-turm/
January 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. on his birthday, his life, and continuing inspiration. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Freedom sculpture is by Zenos Frudakis.
zenosfrudakis.bsky.social Zenos Frudakis @zenosfrudakis.bsky.social · Jan 15
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Freedom is the first public sculpture in Australia honoring the life and legacy of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. It integrates my bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. with the Freedom sculpture, which depicts the concept of breaking free.
#MLK #King #art
Martin Luther King Jr. and Freedom bronze sculpture by Zenos Frudakis. The sculpture is shown, installed in Australia, on a light stone base with King's quote, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."
January 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Meaningful and timely message.
officialmlk3.bsky.social Martin Luther King III @officialmlk3.bsky.social · Jan 15
Our statement on the proposed ceasefire between Israel and Hamas:
January 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
cherpizzi.bsky.social
Wonderful painting by Georges Braque! I am currently reading an excellent book about this artist, "Georges Braque--The Great Painter for the 20th Century--A Work in Progress. It is written by Bernard Jacobson. It is a great read with active language and thorough research.
#Braque #books #artists
January 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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The Billiard Table http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/braque-the-billiard-table-t07992
Purchased with assistance from the gift of Gustav and Elly Kahnweiler, the Art Fund, Tate Members and the Dr V.J. Daniel Bequest 2003
January 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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robertmason.bsky.social
These beautiful 17th century Iranian iris tiles are in the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, but my research with Lisa Golombek eventually reconstructed an entire frieze filled with peacocks.

(see my other #TileTuesday posts on the project)

🏺 #IslamicArt #MuseumWork #SafavidTiles
See https://archive.agakhanmuseum.org/collection/artifact/tile-panel-akm590
December 11, 2024 at 2:28 AM
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kaysunahara.bsky.social
Lots to see here @romtoronto.bsky.social and I am loving the colour matching from the tiles to the surrounding display!
robertmason.bsky.social Dr. Robert Barry Mason @robertmason.bsky.social · Dec 3
A combined #TileTuesday and #ToxologyTuesday post! The display of 17th century Iranian tiles at the Royal Ontario Museum with some contemporary contextualizing objects including a composite recurve bow! 🏺
My image of display at the ROM My image of bow at the ROM Tile from ROM Collection Online: https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/457699/tile-from-frieze-for-archway-with-picnic-scene
December 4, 2024 at 2:44 AM
cherpizzi.bsky.social
"I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships."
- Georges Braque

If I try to paint an apple, it may only be a symbol of an apple that resides in my mind. When I look, really look at what is present, that is when the journey and excitement of discovery begins.

#art #braque #quotes
"I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships." - Georges Braque
January 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Painting of the "diamond ring effect" of the eclipse when the sun just begins to emerge.

#art #artist #eclipse #paintings #airbrush
January 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Paper and painted collage after Georges Braque's Nature morte à la grande cruche, 1955. Braque's work is masterful, and I love his composition and color palette. In my collage, I painted our Egyptian coffee pot which also has style and playful shapes.

#art #braque #CherPizzi
January 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Typography, by Cher Pizzi, inspired by Matisse's White Torso and Blue Torso. Left shape is front view of torso, and right is side view of torso. Shapes are flat but atom or planet-like spheres create a sense of dimension and relationship. Type kerned to reflect the forms.

#Matisse #artists #art
“Expression, for me, does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive; the place occupied by the figures, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything has its share.” Henri Matisse
January 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
cherpizzi.bsky.social
Transcription of Balthus "The Dream," gouache on paper, 5.5" x 7.5". I enjoy the rhythmic patterns of colors and shapes in this composition. I am also intrigued by the theme of dreams or times of transition.

#Balthus #thedream #transcription #gouache
January 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM