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Dr Elena Lonergan

@elenalonergan.bsky.social

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Sydney writer, Accredited Nerd (AN).
Communications and SEO.
I love words, music and foolishness in equal measure.
Sometimes I go through the rubbish bins of important people and lovingly retrieve the poetry they discard.

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Dr Elena Lonergan @elenalonergan.bsky.social · Jul 28

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“Moonlight and Love Songs” by Patsy Chingwile. A wonderful artist with a very distinctive style. I am so lucky because I bought this beautiful painting! She lives at my house now and her blue eyes follow me around the room.

#painting #art #Sydney

Head and shoulders of a woman who is lying down, her arms stretched up and folded behind her head, her face turned to the viewer, a blue sky behind her. Her large blue eyes gaze in our direction dreamily. The woman’s face has shading in a number of colours - blue and purple above the eyes, green below the eyes, then the red of flushed cheeks below the green, yellow traces on the nose and around the eyebrows. All of these colours are visible in small traces on the woman’s skin, on her arms, neck, shoulders and torso.
A longer version of the title is handwritten on the back of the painting: “Moonlight and love songs are never out of date”. It refers to a lyric in a song from the film Casablanca, “As Time Goes By” sung by Dooley Wilson:

You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by

And when two lovers woo
They still say, "I love you."
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by

Moonlight and love songs are never out of date
Hearts full of passion, jealousy and hate
Woman needs man and man must have his mate
That no one can deny

It's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by

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⚢ Maha ♡ •°.

@mahaslaoui.bsky.social

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© Martin Dobeš 🖤

November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM

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the artist formerly known as 'that guy'

@oh-that-guy.bsky.social

Vanish, Port Townsend | David Burdeny

November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM

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Matt Snee

@mattsnee.bsky.social

"The Tenacity Of Water." #photography #photograph #nature #photo #photos #abstract #abstractphotography #art #artsky

Square format color photo shows the ends of multiple, rain-damped palm fronds with drops of water on their tips.

November 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM

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Pepa 🌚

@pepaortga.bsky.social

'Ventana con lluvia'
🎨 1970
Isabel Quintanilla 👩🏻‍🎨

November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM

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Melissa

@laneutrina.bsky.social

Ladies in the Cafe
by Emil Nolde

November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM

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Natscute

@bluesky2020.bsky.social

Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923), peintre espagnol.
Il est connu pour ses scènes de genre alliant réalisme et lyrisme, pour ses scènes de plage et sa maîtrise de la couleur blanche. Son style a été qualifié d'impressionniste, de post-impressionniste ou de luministe.
#peinture
#luminisme
#JoaquínSorolla

August 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM

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Dean Frey

@dean.bsky.social

Erik Satie by Paul Signac

Khatia Buniatishvili's wonderful performance of the
Gymnopédie No.1

youtube.com/watch?v=TL0x...

November 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM

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Davesphotos 🇨🇦 🍁🍁🍁

@davesadventures.bsky.social

A determined Japanese Maple leaf isn't going to let a little snow stop it from its blazing glory! #Photography #EastCoastKin

a single red maple leaf stuck in the snow

November 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social

@womensartbluesky.bsky.social

"Marlene Dumas [South African painter] has become the first contemporary woman artist to join the Louvre's permanent collection...."
(The Art Newspaper, 2025)
Continued 'Firsts' for women in the arts show that a quest for equity is still necessary.

Painted portrait of a semi stylised face of a Black woman surrounded by a dark background

November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM

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Natscute

@bluesky2020.bsky.social

Nickie Zimov, pseudonyme de Nikita Zimov (Никита Зимов), peintre. Il serait né en 1993 en Crimée. Il vit et travaille actuellement à Moscou. Son travail est figuratif, souvent centré sur le corps humain, la sensualité, l’érotisme subtil.
#peinture
#NickieZimov

November 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM

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Natscute

@bluesky2020.bsky.social

Le Tub, 1886 - Edgar Degas (1834-1917), peintre, graveur, sculpteur, photographe naturaliste et impressionniste.
#peinture
#nudeart
#Impressionnisme
#EdgarDegas