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C E Jackson
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Basic Midwest broad hanging out with grown progeny, assorted pets, books & art supplies.
Paintings w/o attribution are mine.
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#BlueSkyArtChallenge #art #sculpture
20/20
Liberty Enlightening the World (1886) by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (French, 1834-1904)
Copper-clad, height, incl. pedestal: 305 ft
Liberty Island, New York Harbor, US
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 AM
ce-jaxon.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtChallenge #art #sculpture

19/20
Fireflies on the Water (2002) by Yayoi Kusama (Japanese, b. 1929)
Mirrors, plexiglass, lights, and water, 281.9 × 367 × 367 cm
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
December 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by C E Jackson
societyschild.bsky.social
Call me crazy but I'm beginning to think that appointing a heavy day drinker to oversee our nation's entire military complex wasn't such a great idea afterall.

#SignalGate
#MurderInTheCaribbean
December 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
ce-jaxon.bsky.social
I should have noted that - per Wiki, edited by humans, not AI - Ms Janin is delightfully alive & productive. Please cheer on her career with interest!
ce-jaxon.bsky.social C E Jackson @ce-jaxon.bsky.social · 2d
What an infant prodigy! Clearly lost far too soon! Thanks for the info, Google AI!
The image shows an installation a non-figurative sculpture, either made from or made to resemble branchless short trees. The artist's birth & death dates are both listed as 1961, suggesting somehow an infant too young to walk created this. I believe the artist, Zazunna Janin of Poland, is actually (hopefully) still alive.
December 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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TThe FFog of WWar? Or the fog of DeWars? Just when you thought details mattered in life & death situations... (An Admiral Bradley special ops?)
The picture shows Pete Hegseth at a cabinet meeting (next to Trump) with a name plate that is supposed to say Secretary of War, but there's a double capital S. The captions on the image read: "Pete Hegseth's cabinet meeting nameplate has a typo" & "OMG the incompetence."
December 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Reposted by C E Jackson
theotheralice.bsky.social
Art challenge part 2:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture

12/20 Isaac Cordal, Politicians Discussing about Climate Change, 2011
A group of men standing together debating standing in water up to their chests/noses.
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Reposted by C E Jackson
missy-misanthrope.bsky.social
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.

#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#sculpture

16/20 - La civilización occidental y cristiana by León Ferrari
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
ce-jaxon.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtChallenge #art #sculpture

18/20
Red Shadow (2006) by Selma Gürbüz (Turkish, 1960-2021)
Iron, 91 × 130 × 25 cm
Istanbul Modern, virtual exhibit "Selma Gürbüz: This Place We Call World"
December 3, 2025 at 5:04 AM
ce-jaxon.bsky.social
What an infant prodigy! Clearly lost far too soon! Thanks for the info, Google AI!
The image shows an installation a non-figurative sculpture, either made from or made to resemble branchless short trees. The artist's birth & death dates are both listed as 1961, suggesting somehow an infant too young to walk created this. I believe the artist, Zazunna Janin of Poland, is actually (hopefully) still alive.
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
ce-jaxon.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtChallenge #art #sculpture

17/20
Portrait of Georgia O'Keefe with Dogs (1977) by Marisol (Venezuelan-American, 1930-2016)
Graphite and oil on wood, 52 5/8 x 53 x 60 3/4 in.
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo NY
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
ce-jaxon.bsky.social
Trump picked Hegseth in part because he advocated for pardoning war crimes. Republican senators (even Rand Paul) confirmed him knowing that. Let's not pretend there's going to be an honest investigation.
Fox News host Pete Hegseth has privately encouraged Trump to pardon servicemen accused of war crimes | CNN Business
Fox News host Pete Hegseth has privately encouraged President Donald Trump to pardon some United States servicemen accused of war crimes, a person familiar with the conversations told CNN on Tuesday.
www.cnn.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
ce-jaxon.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtChallenge #art #sculpture

16/20
La Valse (The Waltz) (1889-1905) by Camille Claudel (French, 1864-1943)
Flamed Sandstone, 41.5 x 37 x 20.5 cm
Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine, France
December 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Reposted by C E Jackson
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December 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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"A cartoon, titled "Quiet Piggy" by Steve Nease, depicts a Canadian beaver character applying duct tape over the mouth of a man identified as U.S. Ambassador Hoekstra. The beaver is holding a roll of tape and saying "Quiet Piggy," while the ambassador is holding a paper labeled "Anti-Canada Rhetoric". The cartoon is a political commentary on U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, and his undiplomatic comments regarding Canada."
December 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
ce-jaxon.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow #warmth
Turtles lined up on a log
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #warmth

Bingley Sunning Self while Draping Self
Opaque watercolor
November 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Reposted by C E Jackson
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November 30, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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mdstamper.bsky.social
“Selbstbildnis (Self-portrait), 1897” by Paula Modersohn-Becker (German) - Gouache on paper / 1897 - Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum (Bremen, Germany) #WomenInArt #PaulaModersohnBecker #ModersohnBecker #artText #art #BlueskyArt #SelfPortrait #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #PaulaModersohn-Becker
Painted when German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker was about 21, soon after her studies in Berlin and first visits to the Worpswede artists’ colony, this small gouache work already shows her refusal to idealize herself. Her frontal pose echoes academic portrait rules, yet the blunt contours, thinly painted skin, and dark, indeterminate backdrop point toward the Expressionist styles that would define her later work. Her very close-up self-portrait fills the frame from the base of the neck to the top of the head. At the center is a young white woman with an elongated oval face, straight nose, and wide brown eyes that look directly at us. Her skin is pale, modeled with blue-grey shadows along cheeks, nose, and chin so the face seems to glow against the dark background. Reddish-brown hair is brushed back and loosely gathered, parted by a vertical streak of light paint at the middle of her head. Her small, closed mouth is softly outlined in muted plum, neither smiling nor frowning. Behind her a mottled field of olive and brown brushstrokes suggests foliage or shadow without a clear setting, letting the steady, searching gaze dominate the image. Shown without jewelry, costume, or props, she tests the idea of a modern woman artist in 1897 whose authority rests in her gaze and hand. Now in the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen, the first museum devoted to a woman painter, the image introduces an oeuvre that, in barely a decade, helped reimagine how women and children could appear in modern art. Modersohn-Becker helped pioneer early Expressionism and modern self-portraiture by women. Painting in Worpswede and Paris, she showed everyday women, children, and herself with radical honesty, influencing later modernists even though full recognition came only long after her early death on November 20, 1907, at the age of 31, just days after giving birth to her daughter Mathilde Modersohn (often called “Tille”).
November 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
ce-jaxon.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtChallenge #art #sculpture

Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument (2016) by Alan LeQuire (American, b. 1955)
Bronze
Centennial Park, Nashville TN
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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#BlueSjyArtShow #warmth

Last of the Light, Last of Fall's Warmth
November 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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What a lovely technique!
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Sarah L. Luginbill (American, b.1952)
"Tea for One,"
Watercolor batik (watercolor and wax on special rice papers)
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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#BlueSkyArtChallenge #art #sculpture

14/20
Harriet Martineau (1886) by Anne Whitney (American, 1821-1915)
Marble
Originally installed in Wellesley College Hall, but was destroyed by fire in 1914.
November 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Reposted by C E Jackson
gtconway.bsky.social
“The National Guard is stranded somewhere on this battlefield of partisan politics. They are not ready for this arena, and we should never have asked them to be. Politics is not a military mission.” @juliettekayyem.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
A Terrible and Avoidable Tragedy in D.C.
Trump was warned that members of the military could be attacked.
www.theatlantic.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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#BlueSkyArtChallenge #art #sculpture
13/20
Mother and Child (1965-75) by Elizabeth Catlett (American, 1915-2012)
Mahogany, 19 1/8 x 13 x 8 1/4 in.
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester NH
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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#BlueSkyArtChallenge #art #sculpture
12/20
Tower of Freedom , International Memorial to the Underground Railroad (2001) by Ed Dwight (American, b. 1993)
Bronze & granite, 703 x 340 x 340 cm
Civic Esplanade, Windsor ON, Canada
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM