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Aspiring writer, obsessive reader, amateur human. Home is the beautiful city of Oxford.
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Lonely postbox, Isle of Yell, Shetland, 2004, photo by Martin Parr (Magnum).
December 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Agricultural Czechoslovakian Matchbox Labels, 1971
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#matchboxlabels #illustration #graphicdesign
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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ahistoryinart.bsky.social
'Christmas Rose.' (1923) Piet Mondrian pioneered abstract painting. But he kept painting flowers, endless, boundless. timeless pictures. 'I find flowers beautiful in their exterior beauty, yet there is hidden within a deeper beauty,' he once wrote.
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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'Wish I had a river' by contemporary printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt
Print featuring two deers and a bird in silhouette by a frozen river in a snowy landscape with hills and pine trees
December 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Snow Removal, Dorchester Street, Montreal
Nora Collyer
c. 1930
December 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social
6 Mile Beach in the winter. #cloud #mountain That white line is the train tracks.
December 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 12
‘December’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
A view from inside a house looking out into a suburban garden in the snow. The cheerful window ledge with Christmas cactus and cyclamen contrasts with the chilly scene outside, including birds at a bird table
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 11
‘Mam Tor’
Artist: SR Badmin
Finally-detailed, mixed-media illustration looking down into a valley under light snow and a blue sky
December 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
archelect.bsky.social
If this Rothko lived in my house I would give it a whole room all to itself.
dailyrothko.bsky.social Daily Rothko @dailyrothko.bsky.social · 1d
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled (Orange and Tan), 1954
pigmented hide glue and oil on canvas
In the home or Mrs. Enid Annenberg Haupt in her home, with a baroque Louis XV console, a pottery urn, a Marino Marini bronze and various orchids (Photo by Horst P. Horst/Conde Nast)
December 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled (Orange and Tan), 1954
pigmented hide glue and oil on canvas
overall: 206.4 x 160.6 cm (81 1/4 x 63 1/4
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
𝚂𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚔𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚊𝚡 𝚍𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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'Kitchen Range.' (1984) As artists grow older, they can fall from fashion, but age also brings gravitas if we have the imagination to see it. Anthony Eyton turned 102 earlier this year, and still, he paints compositions, which flood scenes with light and atmosphere.
December 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social
Between season #colour, at #dusk. #december
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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'Our land' by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt ##ArtAdvent
Circular artwork featuring seasonal changes and images of inuit life and local wildlife
December 12, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Winter trees with heron overseer.
Black and white photograph of tall, bare trees. A heron is perched on a branch roughly in the centre of the picture.
December 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Highway and byways https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/highway-and-byways-1929
Highway and byways
December 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Map of the heavens, featuring the Zodiac and the mansions of the Moon, by the Ottoman artist Ṣun'ī, from Luqmān's late 16th century universal history, Zubdat al-tawārīkh
December 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of a #Mouse
#AncientEgypt New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, c.1550–1295 BCE
Bone; L 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.); W3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.); H 1 cm (3/8 in.); Th. at head 0.5 cm (3/16 in.)
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official museum photo 1, side profile of outer spoon side “This cosmetic spoon is a fine representation of a crouching mouse. The artist, working with a very thin piece of bone, has created the illusion of a sculpture in the round. The spoon side clearly represents the right side of the mouse, while the back of the spoon is the animal's left side.” official museum photo 2, side profile of inner spoon side “This cosmetic spoon is a fine representation of a crouching mouse. The artist, working with a very thin piece of bone, has created the illusion of a sculpture in the round. The spoon side clearly represents the right side of the mouse, while the back of the spoon is the animal's left side.”
December 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social
December. #snowing #forest
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Another of the sgraffito pieces
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Day 8: 'The street singer: a gramophone charioted in a perambulator seems the last and most sordid victory of the Age of Science.'

An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925, 📷Donald Macleish. #AdventLondon100 #Day08
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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#AshmoleanAdvent Day 9: Star Tile

This star-shaped fritware tile was made in Iran in the 13th century. On the tile are two seated figures, dressed in richly patterned tunics and enjoying a drink together.

⭐ Star-shaped tile. 20 x 18.5 x 1.3cm. EA1978.1560
A star-shaped fritware tile, around the border of the star is blue with writing in white. In the centre there are two seated figures.
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 9
‘Evening Snow’
Artist: SR Badmin
A view over a rural scene dotted with winter trees, as the early winter evening casts a grey sky orange yellow, illuminating hard frozen ploughed fields
December 9, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Bayko was the first plastic construction toy, produced from 1933-1967. Museum Trustee, Phil, remembers being given this Bayko set when he was a boy in the 1950s. His collection grew thanks to several birthday and Chrismas presents.
#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
December 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🍐 The Herefordshire pomona, containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of apples and pears..
Hereford, [Eng.]Jakeman and Carver, 1876-85..

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Illustration from "The Herefordshire Pomona" showing five distinct varieties of pears with detailed coloration and texture. Two pears, labeled "Léon Leclerc de Laval" and "Gilogil," hang from leafy branches at the top, displaying yellow and orange hues with speckled skin. Below, three pears—"Colmar des Invalides," "Winter Thorn," and "Black Pear of Worcester"—are arranged on a light background. These pears range in color from pale yellow to deep brown, each with unique shapes and surface details, highlighting their diverse appearances. The botanical style captures both fruit and leaves with fine shading and realism typical of 19th-century pomological artwork.
December 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Nocturne: Labrador Gorge
Christine Koch
2011
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM