Jay Troyer

Jay Troyer

@gr8flbluejay.bsky.social

Don't ask me nothin' about nothin' l just might tell you the truth - Bob Dylan Indiana wants me Lord, I can't go back there - R. Dean Taylor 'I am a pilgrim and a stranger, Passing through this wearisome land' - Traditional

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27 October 1923 - 29 September 1997 Roy Lichtenstein, American (1923-1997), Live ammo (Ha! Ha! Ha!), 1962, oil on canvas, 172.7 x 172.7 cm, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

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Despite the daily hilarity I will be happy to see Trump's "I Should Have Stopped Touring Years Ago" come to an end. The greatest hits section is just full of sad & the new tunes are too avant garde for mainstream.

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The more things change, the more we're reminded of the pantheon of fascists past.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

"Leaflets distributed on the Stalinallee Which stated that the people Had squandered the confidence of the government And could only win it back By redoubled work. Would it not in that case Be simpler for the government To dissolve the people And elect another?" -Bertolt Brecht

Emiliano di Cavalcanti, Brazilian (1897-1976), Mulata sentada na frente da mesa com pandeiro, 1954, oil on canvas, 100 x 81.3 cm, private collection

Fernando Botero, Colombian (1932-2023), Pedro on a Horse, 1977, epoxy resin and synthetic hair, 152.4 x 83 x 72 cm, edition four of six, private collection

Thomas Hart Benton, American (1889-1975), Romance, 1931-32, egg tempera, gesso, and oil varnish glazes on board, 115 x 84.5 cm, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA

Julia Feininger, German-American (1880-1970), Circus Ring with Woman on Elephant and Baboon, 1914, watercolor and ink on paper, 37.4 x 31 cm, private collection

26 October 1862 - 21 October 1944 Hilma af Klint, Swedish (1862-1944), The Large Figure Paintings, No. 4 (The Rose), Group 3, 1907, oil on canvas, 150 x 118 cm

25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973 Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881-1973), The Remains of Minotaur in a Harlequin Costume, 1936, tempera on canvas, 900 x 1200 cm, Espace d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Toulouse, France

Michael Lenson, Russian-American (1903-1971), Deaf Man Heard the Dumb Man Say That the Blind Man Saw the Lame Man Run, 1940s, oil on canvas, 61 x 71.1 cm, private collection

25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973 Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881-1973), Les Femmes d'Alger, 1955 oil on canvas, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA

Walford Graham Robertson, British (1886/87-1948), The Cat Folk (A Tale of Sorcery), ca 1900-15, pen and black ink, brush and wash, sheet: 14.3 x 10.2 cm, The Met, New York City, New York, USA

25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973 Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881-1973), La Nageuse, 1929, oil on canvas, 130 x 162 cm, Musée national Picasso, Paris, France

Salvator Rosa, Italian (1615-1673), The Finding of Moses, late 1650s, oil on canvas, 134.6 x 96.5 cm, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

25 October 1881 8 April 1973 Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881-1973), La Famille Soler, 1903, oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liège, Belgium

DFS-194, experimental rocket aircraft Germany, 1940 PM Model 1/72 scale Designed by Alexander Lippisch, its excellent handling at high speeds led directly to the development of the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, the world's first, and only, operational rocket fighter. (Ignore the canopy, it's awful!)