First Amendment Girl
First Amendment Girl
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Retired librarian, lifelong Democrat, 2nd Wave Feminist, living in Land of Enchantment. Art soothes my political anxiety.
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Impression III (Concert) by Wassily Kandinsky, 1911, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau (München, Germany) #ArtHistory #ModernArt #AbstractA For more on this painting, the birth of Abstract Art, and their impact on art in general, see: interlude.hk/music-art-sc...
Iris by Claude Monet, c. 1924-1825, Private Collection #ArtHistory #ModernArt #Impressionism Recently auctioned to a private collector for $56 million. For more, see www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/a...
Embrace by Lee Krasner, 1974, limited edition screenprint #ArtHistory #ContemporaryArt #AbstractExpressionism For more on Krasner and this piece, see youtube.com/watch?v=ExZH...
The Bloody Massacre in King-Street, March 5, 1770 by Paul Revere, 1770 #ArtHistory #Rococo #Engraving For a full explanation of this work, see www.masshist.org/database/2
Before the Morphine by Santiago Rusinol, 1894, Cau Ferrat Museum (Sitges, Spain) #ArtHistory #ModernArt #PostImpressionism For more on morphine use in Europe at this time, and the artist's own morphine addiction, see hekint.org/2025/03/13/m...
In the Studio by Marie Bashkirtseff, 1881, Dnipropetrovsk Museum of Fine Arts (Dnipro, Ukraine) #ArtHistory #ModernArt #Realism For more on this work and its artist, see www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/s...
Mount St. Helens, Columbia River, Oregon by Albert Bierstadt, 1889, Private Collection #ArtHistory #Luminism See lewisandclarkresearch.org/art/mount-st... for more on this painting