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Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

20/20 Mountain Summit, Bob Ross, 1983

A formulaic painting of the Alaskan wilderness, with a mountain centred in the background flanked by happy trees. A stream flows from the bottom right foreground. Largely painted with blues and greens with gold highlights.

November 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

19/20 A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1886

A very large pointillist painting of people standing and sitting in a park beside a lake in the summer. The main couple stand in the shade. The main colour is green, with red highlights.

November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

18/20 Amor Vincit Omnia, Caravaggio, 1602

A cupid figure with eagle wings holds a handful of arrows. He is naked and surrounded by musical instruments. Illumination comes from the upper left and the figure stares out gently from the canvas. Browns predominate, with white and gold highlights.

November 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

17/20 Saturn Devouring his Son, Francisco Goya, 1823

A grey haired monstrous naked man with wild eyes eats a headless male corpse. He is crouched and stares out of the canvas directly at the viewer. The background is black, the main figures are illuminated from an upper left light source. They are rendered in muddy yellow browns with blood red highlights.

November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

16/20 Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937

A greyscale painting of people and farm animals being injured and killed in war violence. An eye floats overhead watching the carnage.

November 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

15/20 Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow, Piet Mondrian, 1930

Large black grid on white background. Three squares are filled in - the largest takes up most of the painting and is done in primary red. A smaller primary blue square is in the bottom left corner and the littlest primary yellow square is in the bottom right corner.

November 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

14/20 Lawren Harris, Lake Superior, 1923

Sun shines through the clouds and illuminates a trio of rocks in Lake Superior. The painting utilizes smooth textures and is predominantly grey, green and blue with cream highlights.

November 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

13/20 Christina’s World, Andrew Weyth, 1948

A young woman leans braced in a farm field looking into the distance at a barn and old farmhouse.

October 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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 The Happy Accidents of the Swing, Fragonard, 1768

A luminous woman dressed in pink is swung by a servant from a rope tree swing while a lecherous man lies below and looks up her skirt. The painting is predominantly done is shades of blue green with both men blending into the background.

October 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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 Liberty Leading the People, Eugene Delacroix, 1830

A bare breasted woman climbs a pile of bodies while hoisting what will become the French flag. She is surrounded by freedom fighters from various backgrounds. The woman is luminous white, blue highlights are in the fighter’s clothes and sky.

October 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

10/20 The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781

A woman in a white nightgown is sprawled across a bed. There is a brown imp sitting on her stomach. A spectral horse’s head sticks out of the curtains in the background. Primarily dark brown and red, with a luminous white figure.

October 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

9/20 The Dream, Henri Rousseau, 1910

A nude woman lounges on a velvet couch in the middle of the jungle. Two lions and a striped bird watch her from the bushes. She is surrounded by lotus like flowers. Mostly dark greens, with sky blue highlights.

October 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

8/20 The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait, Jan van Eyck, 1434

A man and a woman stand clasping hands in front of a small convex mirror. A tiny dog stares out of the portrait from the foreground. The man is dressed in drab brown, the woman in bright green, with red furniture behind her.

October 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

7/20 The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889

A nighttime landscape oil painting with swirls around the stars. Predominantly blues and yellows with black highlights.

October 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

6/20 Temperance (Thoth Tarot), Lady Frieda Harris, 1943

October 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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 Voice of Fire, Barnett Newman, 1967

A single red stripe centred on an indigo background.

October 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

4/20 Auf Weiss II, Kadinsky, 1923

Scattered abstract shapes, lines and flourishes meant as a visual expression of music. The colour palette includes gold, red, purple and dark green with black and white highlights.

October 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

High noon at the marsh. Cattails on display. #photography #landscape

A field of autumnal brown cattails with the sun shining down in a blue sky.

October 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

3/20 Madonna with the Long Neck, Parmagianino, 1540

A mannerist painting, depicting a madonna figure with an anatomically unrealistic ling neck hold a similarly unrealistic child meant to represent a young Jesus. Carmine red, gold and teal blue feature predominantly.

October 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

2/20 Albrecht Durer, Melancholia, 1514

An angel, a cherub and an ox sit despondently in sunlight they are clearly not enjoying.

October 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM

Angela

@hestia77.bsky.social

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

1/20 The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch, 1510