'(Blue) Screen Calligraph' diptych from 'Golau / Nos (Night / Light)' series (intangible gestural calligraphy ©2011) #art #drawing #photography

📝 🚗 ✍️ 'Animating the Mind's Eye' What does the art of thinking look like? Ed Holland finds an answer in an surprising medium: #animation 🛣️ medium.com/signifier/st... #art #drawing #movies #philosophy #illustration

🐭 🐸 🐿️ "In the late C19th, mushrooms began to fascinate a young woman, who studied & painted meticulous illustrations of fungi still consulted by mycologists today..." Her name was Beatrix Potter 🎂 born OTD 1866 🍄 medium.com/signifier/po... #art #booksky #illustration #botany #ChildrensBooks

👽 ⭕ 🧠 The Universal Circle of Mariko Mori: The #Art of Loving the Alien & Connecting with the Other @kimvertue.bsky.social finds hope in the cyber-art of the #Japanese contemporary #artist who seeks to unify humans with their environment & the greater universe 🛸 medium.com/signifier/th...

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We've thrown open the floodgates 🌊 #writers - please consider contributing to Signifier #artists - please consider showcasing your #art with us submission guidelines 👁️ medium.com/signifier/si... #ArtHistory #illustration #イラスト #photography #drawing #painting #FolkArt #writing #ContemporaryArt

🥫🥫🥫 "The humble can of Campbell’s soup was notable even before Andy Warhol painted it in the 1960s..." 'Art Can Do' @remydean.bsky.social explores how the soup tin became a #PopArt icon to rival Marilyn & Elvis… 🥫 medium.com/signifier/ar... #art #history #design #food #ArtHistory

📷 ⚰️ 🖼️ 'From Beyond the Grave — Unearthing Japan’s Forgotten Photographer' @remydean.bsky.social looks into the eyes of ghosts in the lost (& found) #photography of Ukai Gyokusen - pioneering photographer who, in 1883, buried his #art 🔲 medium.com/signifier/fr... #ArtHistory #Japan #history

👞 🩰 👢 'Whose Shoes?' @remydean.bsky.social takes us on a quick-step through some shoe symbolism in #art & #culture along the path from innocence to experience... from #FairyTales to #horror films 👠 medium.com/signifier/wh... #art #ArtHistory #shoes #illustration #イラスト #fashion #movies #history

'The Object of Art' @remydean.bsky.social on the Surrealists of the mid-1930s and how they used art to elevate everyday objects and give them new meanings beyond function medium.com/signifier/th... #Surrealism #art #ArtHistory #History

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💗 #KizunaAI 10th Birthday Single #キズナアイ "I wonder if there's anything that never ends, ...that never changes, a reason I was born, the story began as I searched for the answer: My Love" the #JPop #Art of Kizuna Ai @signifier.bsky.social 🔊 medium.com/signifier/wh... 🎶 youtu.be/6RCe4n8ic5I?...

Kizuna AI 10th Birthday Single「My Love」Official Music Video【キズナアイ】

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😪 ♨️ 🎎 💁‍♀️ 🍢 it's #WorldEmojiDay #Japanese Characters that Became a Global Language @yuriminamide.bsky.social explores the origin of emojis & looks at a few that are often misunderstood 🛋️ medium.com/signifier/em...

Emoji: Japanese Characters that Became a Global Language

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🎨 🍶 🖌️ "Morandi Taught Me: Creativity Isn’t About Chasing Novelty" learn how to take the slow road & build a language only you can speak — that's the way to stay creative in our hyped-up, AI-assisted world... by Beauty-Of-Creation 🏺 medium.com/signifier/mo... #art #ArtHistory #painting #history

🍃 👁️🖌️ 'The Dürer Tree' "Trees are a gauge of time passing ... at a multi-generational timescale..." @kimvertue.bsky.social finds #history & meaning in the shade of Dürer’s lovingly rendered Linden study 🌳 medium.com/signifier/th... #art #painting #ArtHistory #history #folklore #illustration

🐜 🪑 🐦‍⬛ "By presenting an object in the arena of #art, removed from its normal context, the mind opens up to new relationships with that object and we question the nature of its reality." @remydean.bsky.social explores the question, "What’s Really Surreal?" ⌚ medium.com/signifier/a0... #ArtHistory

🍑 🍋 🍐 'Not Your Average Joe' Rodrigo S-C explores personal connections with Canadian artist Joe Plaskett & how he helped bring one of his paintings into the light… 🍎 medium.com/signifier/no... #art #ArtHistory #painting #Canada

🏚️ 🩸 🏛️ 'When Brit Art was the ‘It’ Art' @remydean.bsky.social remembers when, suddenly, in the final decade of the C20th, #art in Britain became vitally important again & considers a few high-profile pieces that became emblematic of the movement 🦈 medium.com/signifier/wh... #ArtHistory #culture

🌟次回の出展イベントは7月26日(日) スプラス5周年感謝展です。 似顔絵ワークショップもします🙇‍♀️ nanaekawahara.blogspot.com/2026/06/even... #illustration #イラスト

🌄 🏡 🌊 'Paul & Helen, Mountain & Sea' “changing views, motions caught...” @kimvertue.bsky.social considers the #paintings of Cézanne and Frankenthaler where #landscape, actions & re-actions meld Impressionism with Abstract Expressionism... 🖌️ medium.com/signifier/pa... #art #ArtHistory #history

"All the chairs mentioned in this article, the №14, the Ant, the №7 & those of Charles and Ray Eames are all still available today, either as expensive artisan replicas or in mass-produced versions." 'Bent into Shape: Arne Jacobsen's Ant Chair' by @remydean.bsky.social 🐜 medium.com/signifier/be...

🎨 💭 🪨 "Rather than recreate or imitate nature, he wished to extract from it, & create his own worlds, often walking the thin line between abstraction & figuration..." 'Getting to Know Jean-Paul Riopelle' by Rodrigo S-C 🧊 medium.com/signifier/ge... #art #ArtHistory #painting #history

👁️‍🗨️ 🦓 👀 'Op or Pop? What’s the Difference?' "...both offer a non-elitist primary experience of #art ... with an immediate pay-off." @remydean.bsky.social explores how Bridget Riley plays with perception to make us see things that aren’t really there 🏁 medium.com/signifier/op... #fashion #design

🥩 🍗 🍷 Bruegel’s 'Land of Cockaigne’ & its legacy in #ArtHistory & #illustration Samuel Belleville-Douelle decodes the famous #painting uncovering the #folklore & #history behind its scenes of hedonistic excess. Fancy some porridge? 🥧 medium.com/signifier/br... #art #folklore #illustration

Why Kubrick’s Filmic Future Feels Plausible 'Beauty-of-Creation' reveals the 5 essential rules of #SciFi world-building in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1968) "Audiences intuitively sense when a device extends real research rather than being invented for aesthetic effect" 👨‍🚀 medium.com/signifier/wh...

🥀 🍇 🦎 ‘Our Sublime Art Heroine’ 💐 @kimvertue.bsky.social rediscovers Rachel Ruysch, the accomplished C18th court painter who preserved the transient beauty of nature for us to savour 🍑 medium.com/signifier/ou... #art #ArtHistory #painting #history #botany

"He discarded his past self and became something new: an artist and shaman, who communes with animals on behalf of humanity, to help heal the social wounds that he knew all too well and all too personally."

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🛩️ 🧈 🐴 'Shaman for a New World' The Atavistic #Art of Joseph Beuys "Artists have always been looked to as shamans: as clerical Others who hold some sort of sacred knowledge or truth that the layman no longer has access to" Ed Holland navigates myth in search of truth 🦌 medium.com/signifier/co...

⛰️ 🎨 🐎 'Blue Mountains, Blue Riders' - Gabriele Münter & the evolution of an extraordinary sense of colour & form @kimvertue.bsky.social celebrates the spirit of innovation among the avant garde artists of Der Bleu Reiter 💙 medium.com/signifier/bl... #art #ArtHistory #painting #history

#OTD in 1878, Eadweard Muybridge took historic sequential photographs revealing how a racehorse gallops, settling a long-running (pun intended) debate @remydean.bsky.social tracks the invention of ‘motion pictures’ & the early conventions of #cinema It's Still Moving 🐎 medium.com/signifier/it...

Farewell David Hockney. Huge inspiration and #LGBTQ+ legend (the film A Bigger Splash was a big influence on younger me). “I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling.” artscouncilcollection.org.uk/artwork/we-t...