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A poet with a mean right cross. RPG nut. Reads too much. Perversely wholesome. Gay as a picnic basket. Liberal AF. A nice guy but not a pushover or a doormat. Public transit advocate by profession. He/him. No crypto/OF/camgirls/etc.; you will be blocked.
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"Still Life with Golden Goblet," Pieter de Ring, 1640-60.
A Dutch Golden Age painting. On a table, partly covered by a blue cloth, a number of objects are gathered, dominated by a golden goblet in the back. There's also a silver stand with a blue plate balanced on it, a silver or pewter plate, and a basket containing peaches and grapes. On the table are arranged some oranges, one partly peeled, a crab, more grapes, bread, and a lobster. The backdrop is a curtain, with a tasseled pull hanging to the left.
November 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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"Spanish Landscape with Mountains," Dora Carrington, c. 1924.
A Surrealist painting, depicting impressions of a landscape in Spain. In the foreground are orange hills and green cacti. In the middle distance are flesh-colored hills that resemble breasts or raised knees, while in the far distance is a rugged, jagged hill.
November 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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"Fukusa (Gift Cover)," Unknown artist, 1840-70. An embroidered cloth used to drape over a gift box in Japan.
A blue cloth, embroidered with metallic thread creating images of many golden cranes. This would be draped over a box containing a gift as it's presented to the recipient.
November 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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"Madame X," John Singer Sargent, 1884.
A Realist portrait of a woman against a pale brown background, with her right hand resting on a table. Her skin is pale, possibly powdered, and her head is turned to the viewer's right, showing her profile. Her auburn hair is piled up high, and she wears a clinging black gown with a plunging neckline and jeweled shoulder straps.
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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"How Well We Go Together," Adriaen van de Venne, c. 1614-1662.
A Dutch Golden Age painting, of two owls, dressed in human garb, ice-skating on a frozen pond. Over them is a scroll with words that translate to, "How well we go together."
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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"Blue Nude II," Henri Matisse, 1952.
A Modern Art collage. Cutouts of blue paper are arranged on a white background to create the form of a nude woman, seated with legs crossed and an arm over her head. All is suggested by forms and is not detailed or realistic.
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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"Unter den Linden Street in Berlin," Anna Bilińska, 1890.
A Realist painting. We have a view, as if from a high window, of Unter den Linden street in Berlin, in the winter. A line of bare trees go down the center. There are various people walking the sidewalks and a few wagons and carriages visible. The sky is hazy and there is fog obscuring the distance; the dome of the French cathedral, the tower of St. Peter's, and the Passage-Panoptikum building (now gone) are visible.
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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"Autumn," Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1573.
An Italian Mannerist painting, showing a surly man with rough features looking to the left. The neck, made up of two pears and some vegetables, emerges from a partially destroyed vat, whose wooden slats are bound together with willow branches. His face is made of apples and pears, especially the cheek and nose, his chin is a pomegranate, while the ear is a mushroom, with a fig-shaped earring. The lips and mouth are made of chestnuts. His hair is made up of bunches of grapes and his bonnet of a pumpkin.
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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"Waterlilies, or The Water Lily Pond (Nympheas)," Claude Monet, 1904.
An Impressionist painting, of a pond of water lilies, in full bloom. The water reflects the trees surrounding the pond, and we see grass and bushes on the backs. The lilies themselves are in patches and are dotted with blossoms.
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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"The Dike," Leon Spilliaert, 1909.
A Symbolist illustration. The image is split diagonally, with land on the right and sea on the left, with a small shed or cabin in the middle distance. There is no sign of human activity; in the far background some lights shine, and there's some ripples on the water, but otherwise it's a still, silent image.
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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"Cats, Red and White," Franz Marc, 1912.
An Expressionist painting. Two cats, one white, one orange/red, snuggle up against each other against a green background. The white one faces us, the red one faces away, forming almost an inverted heart, with their tails crossed.
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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"Leaving Montmartre Cemetery," Jean Béraud, 1876.
An Impressionist painting. We see an overcast day with either light rain or just after a rain. People in mourning clothes are walking down a street, evidently leaving a funeral. To the left we see a man and woman, and just to the right of center is a man, and in the background are more people. Everyone is walking separately, alone or in pairs, as if lost in thought or grieving privately. Meanwhile, in the far background, we can see city denizens going about the business of life.
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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"The Bowl of Milk," Berthe Morisot, 1890.
An Impressionist painting. In the midst of a green field, with trees in the background, hinting of summer, a young girl stands in the middle, somewhat awkwardly holding a bowl of milk to her chest, and looking out at us. She wears a blue dress and green jacket, has short dark hair, and looks at us with a direct, unwavering gaze.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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"Autumn Leaves," Mary Vaux Walcott, 1874.
A botanical illustration of five red-and-yellow autumn leaves against a cream-colored background.
November 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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"Falling Leaves," Olga Wisinger-Florian, 1899.
A painting of the Viennese Impressionist school. We have a view of a path in a park, with colorful trees on either side shedding leaves. In the background, we can make out a woman strolling with an umbrella, her back to us. Near here is a dog, alertly aware of us.
October 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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"Coffee Grinder and Glass," Juan Gris, 1915.
A Cubist painting; what can be made out are a glass, a coffee grinder, and a folded newspaper on top of a table. A repeated pattern in the background seems to be a representation of a venetian blind, out of proportion and perspective.
October 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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"The Stevedores in Arles," Vincent van Gogh, 1888.
A Post-Impressionist painting. On a riverbank, a group of stevedores carry cargo from a small boat onto the shore; we see them almost as nothing but outlines. On the other side of the river we can see the outline of a town, and the sky is blazing with a colorful sunset.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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"Madame Desbassayns de Richemont and Her Son," Marie Benoist, 1802.
A Neoclassical portrait. A woman in a white Empire dress sits on a chair with a red cloth over the back, against a brown backdrop. She is seated sideways but looks directly at us. Half in her lap is a young blond boy, as if in the act of climbing up to her lap but also looking at us curiously.
October 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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"Flower Still LIfe," Adolphe Monticelli, 1875.
A Romanticist still life of a vase of flowers. The vase is footed and cylindrical, with a multicolored body. The flowers emerge as bright patches of color; only forget-me-nots are depicted clearly, the rest are abstractly portrayed.
October 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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"View in Venice - The Grand Canal," Édouard Manet, 1875.
An Impressionist painting, showing the Grand Canal of Venice. We see the front half of a gondola to the left, and in the center are a row of receding blue-and-white poles. Another gondola is partly obscured on the right. A row of buildings is visible to the left, and to the right is the dome of a church, with a shadowy outline of the same dome next to it; a remnant of an earlier version that was painted over but began to be visible.
October 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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"Fulfillment (Lovers)," Gustav Klimt, 1910-11.
An Art Nouveau painting of an embracing couple. The man's back is to us and all that is really visible of him is a small portion of the back of his head, and the rich robe he wears. The woman's arms are about him and her face is turned upwards, eyes closed with a serene expression. Only a tiny portion of her robe is visible. The man's robe is patterned with large images, circles and squares, while the woman's is much smaller. The backdrop of made up of many spiral curlicues.
October 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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"The Enchanted Castle," Francis Danby, c. 1841.
A Romantic painting depicting the Greek myth of Psyche, who is shown here in the center foreground, approaching a castle, the facade of which is to the left edge. She is moving through a grove of trees, by the edge of a pool, and the scene is lit by a setting sun, casting a golden hue over the entire scene.
October 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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"Rollande," Prudence Heward, 1929.
An Expressionist portrait. A young woman leans against a fence, her hands on her hips. She wears a black dress with white collar, and over it an acidic pink apron. She has short dark hair and a dour expression, and looks downward and to our left. In the background, on a green field, sits a white farmhouse, and above it a cloudy sky.
October 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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"Plum Blossoms," Jin Nong, 1757.
A Qing dynasty Chinese ink-on-paper drawing of plum blossoms bursting from the branches of a tree.
October 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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"Autumn," Franklin Carmichael, 1940.
A modernist Group of Seven landscape painting of rolling hills under unsettled clouds, with autumn foliage being represented by bands and areas of color, rather than having the trees be realistically portrayed.
October 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM