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Bibliophile. Stargazer. Photographer.
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“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. … But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be.” #RobertHeinlein #AugusteRodin #Rodin #TheOldCourtesan
November 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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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
#sculpture
2/20: The Old Courtesan (La Belle qui fut heaulmière- The Helmet-Maker’s Once Beautiful Wife) by Rodin
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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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
1/20: David,by Michelangelo, and my best friend David, by His Mom.
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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"She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope. She suddenly caught herself. "Misanthrope" is someone who dislikes everybody, not just men. And they certainly had a word for someone who hates women: "misogynist." But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word." - Carl Sagan (Contact)
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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"We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are." - Carl Sagan (Contact)
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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"You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other." - Carl Sagan (Contact)
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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"Do you know what your kindness does?" "No, what?" "It teaches people who thought love was a lie that maybe it isn't. It shows broken souls that there's still someone who cares without asking for anything back. You think you're just being nice, but you're actually re-introducing love to people who had forgotten it exists."
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting #TomAdams
20-20- “The Mirror Crack’d From Side To Side” - Tom Adams
November 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting #EdmundBlairLeighton #theshadow #lovers
19/20-“The Shadow”-Edmund Blair Leighton
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting #NormanRockwell #RubyBridges
18/20- “The Problem We All Live With”, Norman Rockwell, 1964
October 28, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting #NormanRockwell #TheRunaway
17/20- “The Runaway”, Norman Rockwell-1958
October 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting #FabianPerez #tango #dancers
16/20- “Tango” by Fabian Perez
October 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting #Bosch
15/20- “The Garden of Earthly Delights”- Triptych- Hieronymus Bosch -1490-1510
October 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting #Lilith #JohnCollier

14/20- “Lilith “-John Collier - 1892
October 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting
#EdwardHopper #NormanBates #AddamsFamily
13/20 -"House by the Railroad" - Edward Hopper
1925
October 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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I did not know about the life mask, had to look it up. While I see what you’re talking about I still think Alleaume’s drawing has more expression, as if lost in deep thought, where the mask looks like sleeping.
Just the thought of having plaster on my face gives me anxiety. 😫
October 22, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting
12/20 -“Tristram and Isolde”-1916 - John William Waterhouse
October 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting
11/20 -"Beethoven Listening to a Muse" 1928 -Ludovic Alleaume
October 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting
#Delaroche #Napoleon
10/20-"Napoleon I at Fontainebleau on March 31, 1814"
- Paul Delaroche
October 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting
#DiegoVelazquez
09/20- “Las Meninas”- Diego Velázquez - 1656
October 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting
#GustaveDoré

08/20- "Les Saltimbanques" - Gustave Doré -1874
October 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting

07/20- "Picture of Dorian Gray"- Ivan Albright
www.artic.edu/artworks/937...
October 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting

06/20- “Miranda - The Tempest”-1916, by John William Waterhouse
October 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyartchallenge
#art
#painting
5/20-"Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs" by Frederick William Burton
October 12, 2025 at 6:07 AM