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"Nāhiʻenaʻena" (Sister of Kamehameha III) by Robert Dampier (British) - Oil on canvas / 1825 - Honolulu Museum of Art (Hawaii) #WomenInArt #RobertDampier #Dampier #HonoluluMuseumofArt #art #BlueskyArt #HawaiianRoyalty #KānakaMaoli #BritishArtist #BritishArt #HawaiianArt #PortraitofaGirl #artText
The sitter is Harrieta Keōpūolani Nāhiʻenaʻena, an aliʻi of the House of Kamehameha and the sister of Kamehameha III (Kauikeaouli). Painted in 1825 by British artist Robert Dampier, the portrait balances Western oil-portrait conventions (modeled face, atmospheric distance, framed “view”) with Hawaiian symbols of sovereignty. The ʻahuʻula and kāhili are not decorative props. Instead, they are declarations of genealogy and chiefly authority, and place her within sacred protocol. She is a young Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) girl standing, facing left while meeting us with a steady, composed gaze. Her skin is warm medium-brown and her features are softly modeled, with dark eyes and closed lips. Her hair is dark and thick, gathered high with a narrow red band and falling in loose curls. She wears an ʻahuʻula (feather cape) in vivid blocks of red and golden yellow, arranged in angular shapes and edged with a deep black border. In both hands she holds a kāhili, the royal standard (a slender staff angled upward, topped with a full plume of pale, tawny feathers that flare like a soft fan). Behind her, the right side of the canvas is dense with shadowed greenery. To the left, the landscape opens to a low coastal plain with scattered palms, small thatched structures, and a wide band of ocean under a gray-blue sky streaked with faint pink clouds. The contrast of bright regalia against a subdued horizon keeps attention on her presence: a girl presented with the dignity and visual language of chiefly rank. Her direct, unsentimental gaze can feel quietly resistant because she is rendered for non-Hawaiian viewers, yet the featherwork insists on an Indigenous center of power. Seen against the coastal horizon with land, sea, and arriving ships, she becomes a reminder that the kingdom’s future was being negotiated in real time. Youth and rule coexist in this portrait via a girl holding the emblems of state as both an individual and a living continuation of her people.
January 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Male Hula Dancer by the Ocean
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January 7, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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Tommervik Cubist King Kamehameha Statue Painting | Original Hawaiian Art | eBay
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December 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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“Olympia of Hawaii (with Apologies to Manet)” by Madge Tennent (British American) - Oil on canvas / c. 1927 - Honolulu Museum of Art (Hawaii) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #MadgeTennent #Tennent #HonoluluMuseumofArt #art #artText #BlueskyArt #arte #HawaiianArt #WomenPaintingWomen
Tennent stages a pointed conversation with Édouard Manet’s Olympia … not by copying it exactly, but by aligning ts charged geometry in Hawaiʻi and changing what power looks like. Here, a reclining figure is clothed and self-possessed. The emphasis shifts from spectacle to presence. A young woman with medium-brown skin reclines across pale bedding, her body angled diagonally so her shoulder and hip form a long, quiet line. She wears a simple sleeveless white slip that catches soft green and lavender shadows with the paint laid in broad, chalky strokes that leave the weave of the surface faintly present. Her dark hair is gathered up, and she turns her face toward us with a steady, assessing gaze that is calm, unflinching, and slightly weary, as if she has been interrupted mid-thought. At the right edge, a second figure is cropped at the torso showing a warm, earth-toned shoulder and arm, and hands lifting a bright blue-and-white floral bundle hovering near the reclining woman’s body. The cropped attendant at the margin recalls Manet’s scene of display while also inviting Hawaiʻi-specific symbolism for hospitality, gifting, adornment, and the complicated economies that shaped how island bodies were looked at and marketed. Painted in the late 1920s, when Tennent was re-committing herself to figure painting after years of portrait commissions, the work shows her testing how European modernism could be reworked to center an island subject. Her thick hatch-like marks and palette-knife passages don’t prettify skin; instead, they build weight, heat, and motion, insisting that this woman is not a decorative “type” but a person with interiority. As critic John Charlot put it, Tennent pursued a beauty made of “imposing mass with grace … power with finesse, of form with flow.” In “Olympia of Hawaii,” that ideal becomes an ethics of looking as the gaze is returned, the body is dignified, and the old template is turned … still recognizable, but no longer under control.
December 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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"Hawaiian Girl with Dog" by John Mix Stanley (American) - Oil on canvas / 1849 - Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #HawaiianArt #IndigenousArt #PacificArt #BishopMuseum #DogArt #GirlAndDog #BlueskyArt #JohnMixStanley #PortraitofaGirl #AmericanArtist
Painted during American artist John Mix Stanley’s 1848–49 stay in the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, this portrait gently stages an encounter between Indigenous presence and Western academic portraiture. The young woman, unrecorded by name but rendered with individualized features, carefully observed dress, and ceremonial lei, embodies Native Hawaiian dignity amid rapid cultural change. The young girl sits frontally before a pale masonry wall, her warm brown skin and dark eyes illuminated by even, gentle light. She wears a soft yellow holokū with a high yoke and long sleeves, accented by a green ribbon at her throat, a thick orange lei draped around her neck, and a vivid pinkish shawl folded over her lap. A fresh flower crown circles her neatly parted black hair. Resting securely in her arms is a small white dog whose alert face and bright eyes turn toward us, its body nestled into her lap. Sparse grasses and a shadowed plant at the left edge subtly anchor the young woman in the Hawaiian landscape while keeping the focus on her steady, composed gaze and the quiet intimacy between girl and animal. Her confident posture and direct gaze reject the exoticizing stereotypes common in Euro-American images of the Pacific. Instead, she appears as a poised young woman of status, possibly connected to elite or mission-educated circles, claiming space with her companion animal. The dog, a cherished pet rather than a specimen, underscores affection, domestic security, and a shared life rooted in this place rather than on a distant frontier. For Stanley, already known for painting Native nations in North America, Hawaiʻi offered another chance to document people he believed were at risk of being misunderstood or erased. During nearly a year in Hawaiʻi, he painted King Kamehameha III, Queen Kalama, and members of the aliʻi. "Hawaiian Girl with Dog" centers a Native Hawaiian subject with unusual tenderness, reinforcing her individuality instead of relegating her to background ethnography.
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Wearing centuries of Hawaiian textile artistry in dress form 🌺 This hibiscus print honors Polynesian cultural traditions while giving you that paradise energy for any Tuesday. Sometimes the best therapy is just putting on something beautiful.
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September 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Ho'okupu~The Offering, circa 1930 by Frank Macintosh originally designed for the Matson line in Hawaii
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August 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Drew fanart of Nami Hula dancing with coconut and skirt for a summer theme #onepiece #nami #animeart #oppai ##fanart #traditionalart #Watercolorpaint #sketch #waifu #huladancer #hawaiianart #coconutandskirt #summervacation
July 19, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Planning my trip to Europe where my relatives are. Not impressed with the art here. It’s technically amazing but I just don’t vibe with it. Absolutely no taking pics or video. Poke’s amazing tho. #hawaii #hawaiianart #poke
July 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I drew a watercolor fanart of @aliciaxlife.bsky.social hula dancing with Lilo and Stitch in anime style as a summer theme #watercolor #sketch #liloandstitch #fanart #nostalgiaart #aliciaxlife #vtuberart #summer2025 #hawaiianart #huladancerart
July 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Native Hawaiian artist Nanea Lum 🌊 🌺 talks about her powerful public art project—a large-scale video projection flowing down Nuʻuanu Ave, honoring ancestral water practices & resisting ongoing water diversion in Hawaiʻi. 🌴
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“Nuʻuanu Streaming” with Nanea Lum
Native Hawaiian artist Nanea Lum shares the story behind her powerful public art project—a large-scale video projection flowing down Nuʻuanu Ave, honoring…
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May 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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April 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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40x30 oil on canvas #KathysArt #painting #art #HawaiianArt #Portraits #FigurativeArt
January 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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November 26, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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Aloha Bluesky! I’m Quinton, an artist who loves creating portraits that often reflect my Hawaiian heritage and love for vintage. Here’s my latest piece that I feel captures my work. Excited to connect and see what everyone’s creating!

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November 12, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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Talofa lava! This my first post on @bsky.app !

Pasefika.com showcases my artwork with an island style heritage rooted from Sāmoan and other Polynesian cultures.

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Sāmoan Art, Polynesian Art, Pacific Island Art :: Pasefika
Sāmoan art, Polynesian art and Pacific island art from Pasefika, with a foundation of Polynesian Culture
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September 17, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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Talofa lava! This is our first post on @bsky.app !

Pasefika.com showcases artwork of Jon Apisa @pacificislandart.bsky.social with island style heritage rooted from Sāmoan and other Polynesian cultures.

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September 17, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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These custom playing cards feature work from beloved Hawaiʻi artist Dietrich Varez, who created block prints depicting Hawaiian legends and myths for decades.
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Playing Cards: Art of Dietrich Varez
These custom playing cards feature work from beloved Hawaiʻi artist Dietrich Varez, who created block prints depicting Hawaiian legends and myths for decades. Twenty-five inspiring prints will provide...
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May 20, 2024 at 9:19 PM