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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
“The Blue Wave”

By British artist Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, 1917

#art
#artsky
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
"Freedom"

By Colombian-born French photographer Rodrigo, 2021

#art
#photography
#artsky
October 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“Not Guilty” or “The Acquittal”

By British artist Abraham Solomon, 1857

#art
#artsky
October 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
“Protest Elmo”

By California artist Jonathan Crow, 2020

#art
#artsky
#resist
October 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
“Art Is Resistance”

- Anonymous, Shared by Portland Street Art

#art
#artsky
October 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"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
September 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"The Library"

By Black Harlem artist Jacob Lawrence, 1960

#art
#artsky
#resist
September 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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
September 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“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
September 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"American Flag"

By unknown poster artist, 1970

#art
#artsky
#resist
August 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
August 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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."
August 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
August 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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
"Misery (in Need)"

by German artist Käthe Kollwitz, 1897

#art
#artsky
#famine
August 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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
July 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“Pay Up or Shut Up”

By LA artist Shepard Fairey, 2015

#art
#artsky
#resist
July 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“Make Good Trouble: Marching for Change”

Mural by Baltimore artist Jacob Patton Addo

#goodtrouble
#protest
#resist
#artsky
July 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“Modern Human Sacrifice”

By Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco

#art
#artsky
#resist
July 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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.
July 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
From "Requiem"

By Russian poet Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, 1963

#poetry
July 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
“Freedom”

By Oregon artist @sarahgoodnough.bsky.social

#art
#artsky
#july4
July 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
“Army of Melting Ice”

By Brazilian street artist Nele Azeveo

#art
#artsky
#meltice
July 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“Prairie Storm”

By Montana photographer Craig Edwards

#art
#artsky
#photography
July 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Eat the Rich”

By UK artist Toby Moate

#art
#artsky
#resist
June 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM