The lunatics are running the asylum, and they’ve mistaken chaos for leadership.

Willem Koekkoek (1839-1895), #Dutch street scene #oilpainting #art #painting

The Artist's Garden " date unknown By Henri Martin #oilpainting #painting #neo-impressionist

Henri Martin 1920 #oilpainting #art #painting

Henri Martin was a very successful #neo-impressionist in his time. Strangely though, his fame was recognized in France only. For many decades he was virtually unknown outside of France. #oilpainnting #painting #art Saint-Cirq Lapopie (1926)

Tomas Sanchez (Cuban Artist, born 1948) "Adoracion", 2005. #oilpainting #art

Sergei Peredireev , (Russian painter, b.1958), "The Cold Spring. Ivankovo." #oilpainting #art

Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow (British, 1850-1919) Caught on a thorn (1881) #art #oilpainting

Fifth Avenue at Twilight, ca. 1910 by Lowell Birge Harrison #oilpainting

The Old Inn at Cos Cob, 1914 by Lovell Birge #oilpainting

Bryant Park at Evening, New York by Lowell Birge Harrison (1854 – 1929) #oilpainting

Ingeborg Westfelt-Eggertz (Swedish, 1855 - 1936): Garden scene from Meudon (1887) #art #oilpainting

Pablo Picasso (ca. 1902) #oilpainting

Alfred Kappes - Tattered and Torn (1886) #misery #oilpainting #art

Cristobal Rojas - #Misery (1886) #oilpainting

Adriaen van de Venne - Allegory of #Poverty (1630s) #oilpainting

#silentsunday

Humanity’s survival depends not on dominance and destruction but on cooperation and a shared commitment to peace. Until we reject violence as a means of problem-solving, we will remain trapped in a destructive cycle, unable to reach our fullest potential as a global community.

William Blair Bruce (8 October 1859 – 17 November 1906) was a Canadian painter. He studied in France and became one of Canada's first #impressionist painters. #oilpainting

Thomas Benjamin Kennington was a British #genre, #social #realist and #portrait #painter. #oilpainting #art

Charles Courtney Curran (13 February 1861 – 9 November 1942) was an American #impressionist painter.[1] He is best known for his canvases depicting women in various settings #art

#silentsunday

There is no way forward through hatred. When governments—and especially religions—spread hateful behavior, progress stops. Humanity, it seems, has learned nothing throughout its entire existence.

I have couple of pieces in that issue about the US being run by geriatrics.

Julien Dupre French #academic #realism #oilpainting #art

Valery Shmatko was born in the industrial city of Kharkov, Ukraine in 1965. #art #oilpainting #fineart

#forestfriday

#silentsunday

Trillium patches mark places where spirits pass through. Stepping carelessly among them could bring strange luck or disorientation. #folklorethursday

In sum, Victorian landscape painting spans a gamut of styles united by a fascination with nature. It reflects the tensions of its time—between past and progress, faith and science, tradition and innovation—and laid groundwork for the modern art that followed.