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Data Analyst | Coding | Writing | Video Editing | Digital Art | Game Design | Psychology | Philosophy | Art History
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Mym
@mym111.bsky.social
· Feb 19
🎨🔥 Did Baldur’s Gate 3 sneak a classical masterpiece into its art? In my latest Retroglyphs, I compare Zariel in Avernus with a 19th-century vision of chaos. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0B3...
#Retroglyphs #BaldursGate3 #ArtHistory
#Retroglyphs #BaldursGate3 #ArtHistory
Classical Art Inspiration in Baldur's Gate 3 - Retroglyphs
YouTube video by UhVyn
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I had a lot of fun comparing @larianstudios.com work on this to luminist paintings in this video. Is there anyway to confirm who specifically worked on this piece - Zariel in Avernus/Fall of Elturel?
#BG3
#BG3
#TakeAHikeDay may sound like a throwaway slogan, but studies show hiking lowers stress and boosts mood. Just like Friedrich’s Wanderer, you get to stand above the fog for a moment and feel like the protagonist. A small hike, a little science, a bit of peace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
#TakeAHikeDay may sound like a throwaway slogan, but studies show hiking lowers stress and boosts mood. Just like Friedrich’s Wanderer, you get to stand above the fog for a moment and feel like the protagonist. A small hike, a little science, a bit of peace.
On August 24th, 79 CE, Vesuvius buried Pompeii.
Among its survivors: the Alexander Mosaic (c.100 BC), a vivid Roman copy of Hellenistic art. Alexander charges Darius, frozen in stone. It's an ancient drama preserved by ash, still confronting us across millennia.
#art #arthistory
Among its survivors: the Alexander Mosaic (c.100 BC), a vivid Roman copy of Hellenistic art. Alexander charges Darius, frozen in stone. It's an ancient drama preserved by ash, still confronting us across millennia.
#art #arthistory
August 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
On August 24th, 79 CE, Vesuvius buried Pompeii.
Among its survivors: the Alexander Mosaic (c.100 BC), a vivid Roman copy of Hellenistic art. Alexander charges Darius, frozen in stone. It's an ancient drama preserved by ash, still confronting us across millennia.
#art #arthistory
Among its survivors: the Alexander Mosaic (c.100 BC), a vivid Roman copy of Hellenistic art. Alexander charges Darius, frozen in stone. It's an ancient drama preserved by ash, still confronting us across millennia.
#art #arthistory
Edmonia Lewis’s Forever Free (1867) breaks chains and conventions.
A self-liberated Black couple rises as triumphant equals. Sculpted in white marble, this radical vision defied racist norms and declared: freedom belongs to us, not gifted by them.
#ArtHistory #art
A self-liberated Black couple rises as triumphant equals. Sculpted in white marble, this radical vision defied racist norms and declared: freedom belongs to us, not gifted by them.
#ArtHistory #art
July 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Edmonia Lewis’s Forever Free (1867) breaks chains and conventions.
A self-liberated Black couple rises as triumphant equals. Sculpted in white marble, this radical vision defied racist norms and declared: freedom belongs to us, not gifted by them.
#ArtHistory #art
A self-liberated Black couple rises as triumphant equals. Sculpted in white marble, this radical vision defied racist norms and declared: freedom belongs to us, not gifted by them.
#ArtHistory #art
It's Chess Day! Meet Sofonisba Anguissola: a Renaissance pioneer who painted her sisters mid-match in "The Chess Game" (1555)
More than play, it's legacy: a quiet checkmate against the idea that strategy belongs to men. Art, like chess, is a game of foresight.
#art #chess #arthistory
More than play, it's legacy: a quiet checkmate against the idea that strategy belongs to men. Art, like chess, is a game of foresight.
#art #chess #arthistory
July 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It's Chess Day! Meet Sofonisba Anguissola: a Renaissance pioneer who painted her sisters mid-match in "The Chess Game" (1555)
More than play, it's legacy: a quiet checkmate against the idea that strategy belongs to men. Art, like chess, is a game of foresight.
#art #chess #arthistory
More than play, it's legacy: a quiet checkmate against the idea that strategy belongs to men. Art, like chess, is a game of foresight.
#art #chess #arthistory
Today is Rembrandt's birthday (b. 1606); a master of shadow and spectacle.
The Night Watch (1642) wasn’t set at night at all, as restorations reveal that it's a daylight march, frozen in chiaroscuro. Commissioned by the guards themselves, breaking tradition by having natural motion and story. #art
The Night Watch (1642) wasn’t set at night at all, as restorations reveal that it's a daylight march, frozen in chiaroscuro. Commissioned by the guards themselves, breaking tradition by having natural motion and story. #art
July 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Today is Rembrandt's birthday (b. 1606); a master of shadow and spectacle.
The Night Watch (1642) wasn’t set at night at all, as restorations reveal that it's a daylight march, frozen in chiaroscuro. Commissioned by the guards themselves, breaking tradition by having natural motion and story. #art
The Night Watch (1642) wasn’t set at night at all, as restorations reveal that it's a daylight march, frozen in chiaroscuro. Commissioned by the guards themselves, breaking tradition by having natural motion and story. #art
Bastille Day recalls not just revolt, but resistance to rule that crushes the self. Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People shows her barefoot and bold: a symbol that rights are not granted by power, but seized from those who would hoard them.
July 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Bastille Day recalls not just revolt, but resistance to rule that crushes the self. Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People shows her barefoot and bold: a symbol that rights are not granted by power, but seized from those who would hoard them.
Young Girl Reading (c.1770) - Jean-Honoré Fragonard
On #MalalaDay, we reflect on how reading itself can be revolutionary. To seek knowledge is to resist a world that thrives on silence. This Rococo portrait whispers a truth: the act of learning is defiance.
#GirlsEducation #ArtHistory #Art
On #MalalaDay, we reflect on how reading itself can be revolutionary. To seek knowledge is to resist a world that thrives on silence. This Rococo portrait whispers a truth: the act of learning is defiance.
#GirlsEducation #ArtHistory #Art
July 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Young Girl Reading (c.1770) - Jean-Honoré Fragonard
On #MalalaDay, we reflect on how reading itself can be revolutionary. To seek knowledge is to resist a world that thrives on silence. This Rococo portrait whispers a truth: the act of learning is defiance.
#GirlsEducation #ArtHistory #Art
On #MalalaDay, we reflect on how reading itself can be revolutionary. To seek knowledge is to resist a world that thrives on silence. This Rococo portrait whispers a truth: the act of learning is defiance.
#GirlsEducation #ArtHistory #Art
Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge (1857)
First published in 1857, just before Japan’s ports opened to the West, Hiroshige’s print captures Edo in flux.
As summer rains swept the city, so too did change. This fleeting moment of shelter and motion embodies elegant impermanence.
#ArtHistory #Art
First published in 1857, just before Japan’s ports opened to the West, Hiroshige’s print captures Edo in flux.
As summer rains swept the city, so too did change. This fleeting moment of shelter and motion embodies elegant impermanence.
#ArtHistory #Art
July 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge (1857)
First published in 1857, just before Japan’s ports opened to the West, Hiroshige’s print captures Edo in flux.
As summer rains swept the city, so too did change. This fleeting moment of shelter and motion embodies elegant impermanence.
#ArtHistory #Art
First published in 1857, just before Japan’s ports opened to the West, Hiroshige’s print captures Edo in flux.
As summer rains swept the city, so too did change. This fleeting moment of shelter and motion embodies elegant impermanence.
#ArtHistory #Art
On Canada Day, I look to Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore.
Her nindinawemaganidog series transforms past performances into portraits of grief, resistance, and matriarchy. Echoes of care for stolen land and stolen lives.
We are all witnesses. You can witness too rebeccabelmore.com
#CanadaDay
Her nindinawemaganidog series transforms past performances into portraits of grief, resistance, and matriarchy. Echoes of care for stolen land and stolen lives.
We are all witnesses. You can witness too rebeccabelmore.com
#CanadaDay
July 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
On Canada Day, I look to Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore.
Her nindinawemaganidog series transforms past performances into portraits of grief, resistance, and matriarchy. Echoes of care for stolen land and stolen lives.
We are all witnesses. You can witness too rebeccabelmore.com
#CanadaDay
Her nindinawemaganidog series transforms past performances into portraits of grief, resistance, and matriarchy. Echoes of care for stolen land and stolen lives.
We are all witnesses. You can witness too rebeccabelmore.com
#CanadaDay
🎨 Paint with Pride at #PrideToronto is a living canvas of queer joy.
One standout: Here, Together, Always by Caylen Monroe, bold portraits that demand space for 2SLGBTQ+ life, loud and bright. We are the art. Always have been.
www.pridetoronto.com/art-zone
caylenmonroe.com
#StART #QueerArt
One standout: Here, Together, Always by Caylen Monroe, bold portraits that demand space for 2SLGBTQ+ life, loud and bright. We are the art. Always have been.
www.pridetoronto.com/art-zone
caylenmonroe.com
#StART #QueerArt
June 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🎨 Paint with Pride at #PrideToronto is a living canvas of queer joy.
One standout: Here, Together, Always by Caylen Monroe, bold portraits that demand space for 2SLGBTQ+ life, loud and bright. We are the art. Always have been.
www.pridetoronto.com/art-zone
caylenmonroe.com
#StART #QueerArt
One standout: Here, Together, Always by Caylen Monroe, bold portraits that demand space for 2SLGBTQ+ life, loud and bright. We are the art. Always have been.
www.pridetoronto.com/art-zone
caylenmonroe.com
#StART #QueerArt
Outsider art - works by self-taught creators once sidelined - is finally getting its due.
Bill Traylor, born into slavery, drew Woman with Umbrella and Man on Crutch in his 80s. No training, just vision. Raw, rhythmic, and real. The canon is cracking open.
#OutsiderArt #Art #ArtHistory
Bill Traylor, born into slavery, drew Woman with Umbrella and Man on Crutch in his 80s. No training, just vision. Raw, rhythmic, and real. The canon is cracking open.
#OutsiderArt #Art #ArtHistory
June 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Outsider art - works by self-taught creators once sidelined - is finally getting its due.
Bill Traylor, born into slavery, drew Woman with Umbrella and Man on Crutch in his 80s. No training, just vision. Raw, rhythmic, and real. The canon is cracking open.
#OutsiderArt #Art #ArtHistory
Bill Traylor, born into slavery, drew Woman with Umbrella and Man on Crutch in his 80s. No training, just vision. Raw, rhythmic, and real. The canon is cracking open.
#OutsiderArt #Art #ArtHistory
🧵The quilts of #GeesBend bold and deeply rooted in African American tradition, turning scraps into stories. Made by generations of Black women in rural Alabama, these fiber masterpieces now hang in museums.
This is craft as resistance, memory, and art. #Art
www.soulsgrowndeep.org/gees-bend-qu...
This is craft as resistance, memory, and art. #Art
www.soulsgrowndeep.org/gees-bend-qu...
June 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🧵The quilts of #GeesBend bold and deeply rooted in African American tradition, turning scraps into stories. Made by generations of Black women in rural Alabama, these fiber masterpieces now hang in museums.
This is craft as resistance, memory, and art. #Art
www.soulsgrowndeep.org/gees-bend-qu...
This is craft as resistance, memory, and art. #Art
www.soulsgrowndeep.org/gees-bend-qu...
On this Summer Solstice, we celebrate Indigenous wisdom. Morrisseau’s Shaman and Disciples (1979) shows a guide linking spiritual realms: lines radiate between figures and divided circles symbolize cosmic balance. A vivid statement on ancestral knowledge passed down. #NIPD #IndigenousArt
June 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
On this Summer Solstice, we celebrate Indigenous wisdom. Morrisseau’s Shaman and Disciples (1979) shows a guide linking spiritual realms: lines radiate between figures and divided circles symbolize cosmic balance. A vivid statement on ancestral knowledge passed down. #NIPD #IndigenousArt
Thornton Dial’s Top of the Line (Steel).
A tornado of grief and rage. Rope-bodies claw through chaos, red slashes like open wounds. Patriotism flickers, faint and frayed. It’s not just memory, it’s now. We haven't learned. It never ended. #art #RodneyKing #LA
A tornado of grief and rage. Rope-bodies claw through chaos, red slashes like open wounds. Patriotism flickers, faint and frayed. It’s not just memory, it’s now. We haven't learned. It never ended. #art #RodneyKing #LA
June 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Thornton Dial’s Top of the Line (Steel).
A tornado of grief and rage. Rope-bodies claw through chaos, red slashes like open wounds. Patriotism flickers, faint and frayed. It’s not just memory, it’s now. We haven't learned. It never ended. #art #RodneyKing #LA
A tornado of grief and rage. Rope-bodies claw through chaos, red slashes like open wounds. Patriotism flickers, faint and frayed. It’s not just memory, it’s now. We haven't learned. It never ended. #art #RodneyKing #LA
🎨 Montreal's MURAL Festival (June 5–15) turns Saint-Laurent Blvd into a living art gallery. The city’s walls become stories painted in color, history, and heart. Wish I was nearby to go see. This 2022 video is great!
muralfestival.com
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
#MURAL2025 #MontrealArt
muralfestival.com
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
#MURAL2025 #MontrealArt
Exploring Mural Festival | Montreal
YouTube video by Mr. & Mrs. K
www.youtube.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🎨 Montreal's MURAL Festival (June 5–15) turns Saint-Laurent Blvd into a living art gallery. The city’s walls become stories painted in color, history, and heart. Wish I was nearby to go see. This 2022 video is great!
muralfestival.com
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
#MURAL2025 #MontrealArt
muralfestival.com
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
#MURAL2025 #MontrealArt
Isaac Julien’s I Dream a World at SF’s de Young cuts deep. Queer memory, Black futurism, and sensual defiance, all in motion. It’s art that shows and claims identity. During Pride, it reminds us: we don’t just belong, we shape the world.
www.famsf.org/exhibitions/...
#Pride2025 #IsaacJulien
www.famsf.org/exhibitions/...
#Pride2025 #IsaacJulien
Isaac Julien: I Dream a World
This retrospective of Isaac Julien’s immersive video installations explores race, class, gender, and sexuality through poetic narratives spanning continents and decades.
www.famsf.org
June 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Isaac Julien’s I Dream a World at SF’s de Young cuts deep. Queer memory, Black futurism, and sensual defiance, all in motion. It’s art that shows and claims identity. During Pride, it reminds us: we don’t just belong, we shape the world.
www.famsf.org/exhibitions/...
#Pride2025 #IsaacJulien
www.famsf.org/exhibitions/...
#Pride2025 #IsaacJulien
Skawennati’s She Gathers the Rain (2018) reimagines Indigenous futures through a cyberpunk lens. Now on view in Welcome to the Dreamhouse at the National Gallery of Canada, it blends Haudenosaunee storytelling with virtual worlds.
textilesandmateriality.com/2025/05/22/t...
#art
textilesandmateriality.com/2025/05/22/t...
#art
T&M Member Skawennati Solo Exhibition “Welcome to the Dreamhouse” at the National Gallery of Canada
Skawennati, She Gathers the Rain, 2018. From Words Before All Else, machinimagraph. Co-produced by AbTeC. Collection of the artist. © Skawennati. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist D…
textilesandmateriality.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Skawennati’s She Gathers the Rain (2018) reimagines Indigenous futures through a cyberpunk lens. Now on view in Welcome to the Dreamhouse at the National Gallery of Canada, it blends Haudenosaunee storytelling with virtual worlds.
textilesandmateriality.com/2025/05/22/t...
#art
textilesandmateriality.com/2025/05/22/t...
#art
On Memorial Day, we remember the fallen and how we hold them.
Maya Lin carved their names into stone, not to freeze them in time, but to let us see ourselves in their reflection. A black granite scar. A silent chorus. 58,000 stories, still speaking. #MemorialArt #Vietnam #Art
Maya Lin carved their names into stone, not to freeze them in time, but to let us see ourselves in their reflection. A black granite scar. A silent chorus. 58,000 stories, still speaking. #MemorialArt #Vietnam #Art
May 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
On Memorial Day, we remember the fallen and how we hold them.
Maya Lin carved their names into stone, not to freeze them in time, but to let us see ourselves in their reflection. A black granite scar. A silent chorus. 58,000 stories, still speaking. #MemorialArt #Vietnam #Art
Maya Lin carved their names into stone, not to freeze them in time, but to let us see ourselves in their reflection. A black granite scar. A silent chorus. 58,000 stories, still speaking. #MemorialArt #Vietnam #Art
Refik Anadol’s Unsupervised is an AI dreamstate built from 200 years of MoMA’s collection.
Not replacing artists, but rethinking authorship. Is this art to you? Because to me, it’s undeniable presence. It’s here with immensity, whether you admit it or not.
refikanadol.com/works/unsupe...
#art #AI
Not replacing artists, but rethinking authorship. Is this art to you? Because to me, it’s undeniable presence. It’s here with immensity, whether you admit it or not.
refikanadol.com/works/unsupe...
#art #AI
Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations — MoMA - Refik Anadol
Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations — MoMA
refikanadol.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Refik Anadol’s Unsupervised is an AI dreamstate built from 200 years of MoMA’s collection.
Not replacing artists, but rethinking authorship. Is this art to you? Because to me, it’s undeniable presence. It’s here with immensity, whether you admit it or not.
refikanadol.com/works/unsupe...
#art #AI
Not replacing artists, but rethinking authorship. Is this art to you? Because to me, it’s undeniable presence. It’s here with immensity, whether you admit it or not.
refikanadol.com/works/unsupe...
#art #AI
Stepping into Before Yesterday We Could Fly at The Met during #TeensTakeTheMet must feel like time-traveling through Black history and futures. A powerful blend of art and storytelling that speaks to our roots and dreams. #Afrofuturism #YouthVoices
www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
A Virtual Tour of Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Join curators Hannah Beachler, Michelle Commander, Sarah E. Lawrence, and Ian Alteveer for a virtual tour of the exhibition.
www.metmuseum.org
May 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Stepping into Before Yesterday We Could Fly at The Met during #TeensTakeTheMet must feel like time-traveling through Black history and futures. A powerful blend of art and storytelling that speaks to our roots and dreams. #Afrofuturism #YouthVoices
www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
Harriet Powers’ Bible Quilt (1886) is survival code stitched by a freed Black woman in Georgia. A cosmic patchwork of faith, folklore, and memory. Quilting here becomes archive, protest, and myth, all wrapped in cotton and truth.
www.si.edu/object/1885-...
#art #arthistory
www.si.edu/object/1885-...
#art #arthistory
May 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Harriet Powers’ Bible Quilt (1886) is survival code stitched by a freed Black woman in Georgia. A cosmic patchwork of faith, folklore, and memory. Quilting here becomes archive, protest, and myth, all wrapped in cotton and truth.
www.si.edu/object/1885-...
#art #arthistory
www.si.edu/object/1885-...
#art #arthistory
Saville’s The Anatomy of Painting shows the body in a confrontation.
It’s Bacon’s screaming pope if she were real, raw, and refused to shut up. Her work reminds us that reality is distortion. We’re not marble busts on pedestals. We’re sinew and pulse and breath. And we deserve to be seen that way.
It’s Bacon’s screaming pope if she were real, raw, and refused to shut up. Her work reminds us that reality is distortion. We’re not marble busts on pedestals. We’re sinew and pulse and breath. And we deserve to be seen that way.
May 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Saville’s The Anatomy of Painting shows the body in a confrontation.
It’s Bacon’s screaming pope if she were real, raw, and refused to shut up. Her work reminds us that reality is distortion. We’re not marble busts on pedestals. We’re sinew and pulse and breath. And we deserve to be seen that way.
It’s Bacon’s screaming pope if she were real, raw, and refused to shut up. Her work reminds us that reality is distortion. We’re not marble busts on pedestals. We’re sinew and pulse and breath. And we deserve to be seen that way.
Reposted by Mym
The Parakeet — one of several polychrome woodblock copies made in ca. 1900 from works by Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800), a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period notable for his striking modern aesthetic. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/polychrome-woodblocks-of-ito-jakuchu-birds
May 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The Parakeet — one of several polychrome woodblock copies made in ca. 1900 from works by Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800), a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period notable for his striking modern aesthetic. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/polychrome-woodblocks-of-ito-jakuchu-birds