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j9collier@j9collier.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Happy birthday to Vincent van Gogh, born March 30, 1853. He painted the moth from a drawing he made of what he believed was a death's-head moth, depicting a small skull on the insect's thorax. But the moth's four large eyespots are distinctive of the giant peacock moth, Europe's largest moth.

Perched on green leaves and chartreuse jack-in-the-pulpits, a large moth with outstretched wings displays four prominent eyespots, a defensive adaptation. Stems of small red berries rise in the background. Van Gogh unifies the scene with a vivid blue-green palette and bold brushstrokes.
j9collier@j9collier.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've been lax in posting art, so I'll share something by a highly imaginative artist I enjoy: Charles Burchfield. I love this portrayal of the seasons as a literal passage through time. I just wish I could see a hint of sunlit spring in the snow swirling outside my window. #art #spring

From the Krannert Art Museum: The foreground of this wooded scene is a shadowy winter landscape. A rich autumnal passage between the two foremost trees marks not only seasonal transformation but also a transition from the exterior to a bright, cathedral-like interior space and a spring landscape of yellows and greens. In the middle ground, a screen of trees forming pointed Gothic arches opens onto a summer landscape in the distance. The arches also point toward a life-giving sun that imbues the interior space with warmth and energy. As rays of light fall on the foreground trees, their branches fairly burst into orange flame. Burchfield's pictorial language of semi-abstract, calligraphic brushstrokes lends a sense of animate presence to this pictorial meditation on seasonal and spiritual metamorphosis.