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Hiraa @hiramaa3.bsky.social · Jun 20
Anaïs Nin ❤️
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"Red Wash Edition" by 劉虹 Hung Liu (Chinese American) - Mixed media on panel / 2014 - Art Museum of the Americas (Washington, DC) #WomenInArt #art #artText #BlueskyArt #HungLiu #劉虹 #Liu #BlueskyArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #ChineseArtist #ChineseAmericanArt #AMOA #ArtMuseumoftheAmericas
A young woman’s face fills this square panel, centered against a field of saturated red that is scraped, streaked, and left to drip like wet dye. Her skin is painted a cool, porcelain pale with bluish shadows as thin, dark lines run down her forehead and cheeks like fine cracks or rain trails. She looks straight out at us with heavy-lidded, dark eyes and sharply arched brows, her expression steady and unreadable. Her lips are a deep carmine red. Her dark hair frames her face and is dotted with small, thick clusters of white, lavender, and blue blossoms pressed into the paint. Below her chin, pale shapes (like a high collar or maybe hands) rise into the frame, while translucent washes and gravity-pulled drips spill downward. To the left, a simple green ring floats on the red ground like a stamped mark. Chinese American artist Hung Liu (劉虹) built her practice from the friction between images that look authoritative as archival portraits or propaganda-era photographs and the ways memory refuses to stay fixed. She often begins with a found photograph of an anonymous woman and then “unfinishes” it with drips, stains, and veils of wash to make time visible, turning certainty into something felt. The title’s “red wash” can be taken two ways: red as luck and celebration or red as the color of revolution and violence. Is the background halo or warning ... or both. The spare green ring interrupts the field like a seal or target, hinting at what has been erased or left unsaid. Created in 2014, when Liu was widely known for her “weeping realism,” the work also echoes her passage between worlds. Trained in Socialist Realism in China and reshaping her language after emigrating to the United States in 1984, she used portraiture to ask who is granted dignity in the art world. The blossoms threaded through the hair feel like offerings, but they sit on a surface that keeps slipping. To me, "Red Wash Edition" reads as a steady gaze inside a world that won’t stop dissolving.
December 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another.”

~ Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)

#Painting, John White Alexander, ‘Study in Black and Green,’ 1906.
October 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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"I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences."
~ Virginia Woolf

'Autumn, collecting firewood' (1915)
🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted
October 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Vincent van Gogh :
L'Allée des Alyscamps, 1888

A pair of paintings ("pendants") by van Gogh. Painted in Arles, France, it depicts autumnal scenes in the Alyscamps, an ancient Roman necropolis in Arles which is lined with poplars and stone sarcophagi.
Les Alyscamps (F569) Les Alyscamps (or 'L'Allée des Alyscamps') is a pair of paintings ("pendants") by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in 1888 in Arles, France, it depicts autumnal scenes in the Alyscamps, an ancient Roman necropolis in Arles which is lined with poplars and stone sarcophagi. Oil on canvas | 92 cm × 73.5 cm Les Alyscamps (F568)
October 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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'Harvest Fox Spirit' (messenger of Inari, kami of the crops) - Shoson Ohara, ca. 1910.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe
A fox dancing on hind legs with a leaf on its head.
October 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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City, 1913 by Avant Garde painter Alexandra Exter #WomensArt
Colourful cubist style painting with semi abstract rectangular forms which suggests multiple buildings in a cityscape
September 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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September 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Mahmoud Darwish trans. by Mohammed Shaheen
September 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul."
~ Jean Cocteau

image:
Charles Robinson -
The Black Cat Holiday, 1905
September 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Gustav Klimt :
Lady with a Fan, 1917-18

Oil on canvas

100.2 × 100.2 cm | 39.4 × 39.4 in
September 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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In times of darkness
keep sowing
the seeds of goodness.

》Vincent van Gogh
September 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Suchitra Bhosle ~
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Shiva Shakti - 2017

Oil.
September 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Amrita Sher-Gil,
Little Girl in Blue, 1934
Indian modernist painter
#WomensArt
Painting featuring a girl in blue in the foreground right and a woman in pink in the background left
September 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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“We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”

~ Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

Book cover #art
September 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Pen and ink drawing by US poet Sylvia Plath #WomensArt
Drawing of the head of a cat peeping from behind a wall with the text 'Curious French Cat"
September 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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February 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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#Drawing by Shinji Ihara #art
September 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Japanese artist Uemura Shōen, 'Woman Waiting for The Moon to Rise', 1944 #WomensArt
Painting of the upper half of a Japanese woman in a blue kimono, part back view, leaning on a fence looking up to a greyish sky
August 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Let it be a solace
that you have the bravery
to go where the beautiful
is to be found.

🎨 John Henry Twachtman
August 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”

~ Victor Hugo, ‘Les Misérables’ (1862)

#Photography, Claude Monet in his garden at Giverny, just outside Paris.
August 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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#Painting by Hans Heyerdahl (1857-1913) #art
August 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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‘Girl in the Sunlight,’ (1888), ‘Mika Morozov’ (1901) & ‘Portrait of Henrietta Girshman’ (1904). #Painting by Valentin Serov #art
August 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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“It is a famine that asks ‘but what did you do?’ A famine that will and must haunt us all,” said UN aid chief Tom Fletcher.

Read @premthakker.bsky.social's latest on the UN-backed report declaring famine in Gaza as Israel's genocidal campaign continues: zeteo.com/p/famine-gaz...
August 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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"We have been warning about this for 22 months now.. this could have been prevented.. mothers are in tears, they are watching their children die & there is nothing that they can do about it"

Tess Ingram from UNICEF speaking from Gaza on famine being declared there
August 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM