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Paper Bullets
@pprbllts.bsky.social
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A collective for creative resistance 🖌️🎨 📷📎 Our account name is inspired by queer French Surrealists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, who conducted a psyops campaign on Nazi occupiers during WWII using avant-garde art. #artsky #booksky #resistance
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“The Blue Wave”

By British artist Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, 1917

#art
#artsky
Lithograph of a massive blue wave crashing toward the viewer in a cloud of white foam
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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"Freedom"

By Colombian-born French photographer Rodrigo, 2021

#art
#photography
#artsky
A photo depicts two a series of neat white cabins with pastel roofs on a gray pebble beach, against a background of a cloudy sky. In front of two of the cabins, two white-haired women in brightly colored robes are seated on plastic chair with their feet up, reading.
October 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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“Not Guilty” or “The Acquittal”

By British artist Abraham Solomon, 1857

#art
#artsky
An image of Solomon’s oil painting “Not Guilty.” Description from the Getty website: A young man is reunited with his relieved family outside the courtroom after being acquitted. The mother of the accused holds up one of his children to greet him and his wife embraces him, while his father thanks the lawyer on the right. In the background, an arched doorway leads outside—a sign of freedom for the innocent man.
October 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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“Protest Elmo”

By California artist Jonathan Crow, 2020

#art
#artsky
#resist
Painting of a Black protestor with one fist raised, wearing a white tank top and sneakers, dark pants, and a giant Elmo head. In the background is a dark rectangular shape overwhelmed by a golden, fiery glow, suggesting a burning vehicle or perhaps a dumpster.
October 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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“Art Is Resistance”

- Anonymous, Shared by Portland Street Art

#art
#artsky
A black spray painted graffiti image of a woman in a shawl with black birds to her left. To her right, the word ART in red, with IS RESISTANCE below in black.
October 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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"The sun was setting, and the clouds turning blood red. I sensed a scream passing through nature; it seemed to me that I heard the scream. I painted this picture, painted the clouds as actual blood. The color shrieked. This became The Scream."

- Edvard Munch 1892

#art
#artsky
Edvard Munch's famous work "The Scream" depicts a genderless figure on a pier, with a blue-white face distorted in a gaping expression of horror. The figure's hands are on either side of the face, perhaps clutching the head or covering the ears. Swirls of blue and red tones in the background depict water and the blood-red sunset of Munch's description. There are two other figures walking on the pier in the distance, but their features are indistinguishable.
September 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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"The Library"

By Black Harlem artist Jacob Lawrence, 1960

#art
#artsky
#resist
Modernist painting in bright, bold colors and active lines of a crowded library. Brown- and black-skinned figures hunch over books, magazines, and newspapers in postures of deep concentration. A figure that appears to be a woman in the left-central foreground is holding one book, with two others facedown to mark her place. Another figure in the center foreground is wearing a hijab and poring over what appears to be a book of African art.
September 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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During the 1940 German takeover of the Channel Islands, artists Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore — who had fled Paris to escape the coming war — looked out and saw Nazis in their backyard. Realizing they couldn’t escape, they began their resistance by taking this picture.

#artsky
#caturday
#resist
Black and white photo of a cat in a window, overlooking a beach. Several soldiers can be seen in silhouette on the beach.
September 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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“In the Arsenal”

Fresco by Diego Rivera, 1928

Text on the banners includes excerpts from revolutionary songs called corridos. “So will be the proletariat revolution… it’s the rude workers’ voices that can… give them my honor…”

#laborday
#workersoverbillionaires
#resist
A colorful fresco mural by Diego Rivera depicts the arming of revolutionary forces to emphasize the power of the common people. Key figures and elements include: Frida Kahlo: The artist, and Diego’s future wife, is prominently featured at the center, wearing a red blouse with a red star on the bodice. She stands beside a table and hands ammunition to revolutionary soldiers. A red ribbon inscribed with the lyrics of a revolutionary song floats above her. Tina Modotti: An Italian photographer and communist activist is depicted to the far right, holding an ammunition belt. Julio Antonio Mella: The founder of the Cuban Communist Party, stands next to Modotti, wearing a light-colored hat. Vittorio Vidale: An Italian-born Stalinist sympathizer, stands behind Modotti and Mella wearing a black hat.
September 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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"American Flag"

By unknown poster artist, 1970

#art
#artsky
#resist
A pop-art style poster image of an American flag, with the stars on the flag replaced with bomber planes and the stripes replaced with rifles.
August 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Preach @abbetuck.bsky.social

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#artsky
#resist
A quote that reads: “I see the chance for artists of all ages, disciplines, backgrounds, and geographies to put aside ego, selfies, and personal agendas to unite for a common cause. At the same time, I see the ordinary: the chores at home, the health to maintain, the marriage to hold dear, the places and people I still want to visit.”
August 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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In 1933, Mexican painter Diego Rivera was commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller to create a fresco depicting capitalism v. socialism. The media called it "anti-capitalist propaganda," so Rockefeller ordered it destroyed. Rivera recreated it in Mexico and called it "Man, Controller of the Universe."
A vibrant, colorful mural with a man at the center surrounded by dual orbits, holding a globe. Cosmic bodies spin in the orbits. Beneath him is a small row of trees and greenery representing the earth. To his right are the masses of a capitalist society, backed by soldiers in gas masks. To his right, the masses of communist society look on in orderly fashion. Three of them are sitting on a cannon.
August 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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#resist
Black-and-white photo of a dandelion seed puff with the caption “Speaking up [is] an act of creation. - Maria Ressa”
August 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Käthe's works depicted the impacts of poverty, hunger & war on the working class. She was the 1st woman admitted to the Prussian Academy of Arts and became a professor. But she was forced to resign by the Nazis. The regime banned display of her work, but also appropriated & used it as propaganda.
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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"Misery (in Need)"

by German artist Käthe Kollwitz, 1897

#art
#artsky
#famine
Woodcut with harsh, coarse black lines depicting a mother in a cramped cottage, sitting beside a skeletal figure of a malnourished child, hands clutching her head in despair. In the back right corner there appears to be another shadow-like female figure, possibly representing death.
August 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Shepard is an artist, graphic designer, DJ and activist who came out of the skateboarding scene. His art became internationally acclaimed with this image of Barack Obama in 2008
The iconic “HOPE” Poster of then-presidential-candidate Barack Obama looking upward. The poster is in muted red, white, and blue tones, including Obama’s face.
July 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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“Pay Up or Shut Up”

By LA artist Shepard Fairey, 2015

#art
#artsky
#resist
Pop art style poster image of a man in a dark suit with an arm dressed in an Uncle Sam “flag” suit reaching in from out of frame to cover his mouth. In the background to the right of the “silenced” man, a faint newspaper print appears with headlines like “Economic ties grow stronger” and “SALE.” To his right is a bold, elegant font caption that reads “All The FREE SPEECH MONEY CAN BUY!”
July 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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“Make Good Trouble: Marching for Change”

Mural by Baltimore artist Jacob Patton Addo

#goodtrouble
#protest
#resist
#artsky
Mural depicting streets with double-yellow and white-dashed lines down the middle, with figures in red and green marching on them, raising fists and megaphones. Along the streets are written the names Freddie Gray, George Floyd, Ahmado Arbady, Michael Brown, and more victims of police violence. The phrase BLACK LIVES MATTER is etched along one road in black, green, and red.
July 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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“Modern Human Sacrifice”

By Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco

#art
#artsky
#resist
Surrealist-style painting of a skeleton lying in state, wearing heavy black boots and a black suit coat, with a multicolored flag draped over his face and wreathes of pale roses covering his midsection. His hands are clawed like they’re clinging to the table on which he lies. To his right, a tiny bald man with mirrored spectacles conducts a consortium of brass instruments and drums representing a military band. To his left are more flags decorated with symbols like large blue stars and blue-and-white striped cones. In the background is a white marble-like grave marker topped with a dark metallic statue of a soldier charging with a bayonet.
July 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Anna's work was censored by Stalinist authorities. However, she chose not to leave the Soviet Union, despite risking arrest, imprisonment, and worse. She stayed to bear witness to the atrocities of Stalinism.
Oil portrait of Anna Akhmatova. She has fair skin, dark hair with short, blunt-cut bangs and the rest pulled back in a small braid or bun. Her face is rectangular, with light-blue eyes, a long, pronounced nose, and angular lips pressed tightly together. She is wearing a dark, collared dress or blouse. The background behind her is cornflower blue. There is an indistinct figure blending in with the background over her left shoulder. The figure appears to be a young person with a shaved head bowed in prayer.
July 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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From "Requiem"

By Russian poet Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, 1963

#poetry
An excerpt from the poem "Requiem." They took you away at daybreak. Half wak- ing, as though at a wake, I followed. In the dark chamber children were crying, In the image-case, candlelight guttered. At your lips, the chill of an ikon, A deathly sweat at your brow. I shall go creep to our wailing wall, Crawl to the Kremlin towers.
July 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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“Freedom”

By Oregon artist @sarahgoodnough.bsky.social

#art
#artsky
#july4
Watercolor of a gold-breasted bird with turquoise wings taking flight from a cage
July 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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“Army of Melting Ice”

By Brazilian street artist Nele Azeveo

#art
#artsky
#meltice
Dozens of small, faceless human figures made of ice sit on concrete steps, slowly melting away.
July 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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“Prairie Storm”

By Montana photographer Craig Edwards

#art
#artsky
#photography
Photo of a storm cell looming over a prairie. Concentric masses of dark-blue clouds rise into the sky, obscuring a golden sunset over a dry, flat grassy plain.
July 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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“Eat the Rich”

By UK artist Toby Moate

#art
#artsky
#resist
A painting of a regal Victorian woman defaced with a crude red mohawk and a cartoon speech bubble in blue saying “Eat the rich.” The rest of the painting is similarly defaced with dripping red, white, and blue paint saying things like “No surrender,” “Mind the gap,” and “There is no future.”
June 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM