The Bohemian Star

🎵 📡 MASTER TRANSMISSION Bohemian Star presents our first single, "Bang it Out!"—a dark rock anthem targeting the police state & corporate greed. Available on Streaming 9/11. Available to Stream/Download on Bandcamp NOW: bohemianstar.bandcamp.com/track/bang-i... #Music #MusicSky #IndieMusic #VOTE

🥁 Frances Carroll & Her Coquettes "Snake Charmer" (1939) The pioneering all-female swing band Coquettes, features a solo by drummer Viola Smith, known for her massive drum setup and aggressive, theatrical swing style. #MusicSky #SwingMusic #BigBand #WomenInMusic

🎨 Evelyn De Morgan "Queen Eleanor and the Fair Rosamund" (circa 1901–1902) De Morgan uses Pre-Raphaelite symbolism to contrast the two figures. While Queen Eleanor is accompanied by imagery like bats & monkeys to signify jealousy, Rosamund is surrounded by white roses & cherubs representing purity.

🎨 Hanno Karlhuber "The Hermit's Friend" (1987) This piece belongs to Karlhuber's Energy of Space series. The Austrian painter utilizes oil tempera on wood to simulate a textured, alien terrain where a glowing celestial body hangs above the floating rocks of an asteroid belt. #art

🎨 Cab Calloway & The Nicholas Brothers "Jumpin' Jive" (1943) Cab Calloway was a legendary American jazz bandleader known for his energetic scat singing. This clip from Stormy Weather captures an explosive performance that captures the big band showmanship that he made him such an icon.

🎨 Edward Mason Eggleston "Isle of Dreamy Melodies" (1925) Eggleston was an American illustrator celebrated for his romanticized commercial portraits. This oil work, published by Brown & Bigelow as a calendar print, evokes a moonlit Hawaiian paradise that captures the era's fascination with escapism.

🎨 Paul Corfield "Ocean View" (2018) is a contemporary British painter known for his highly stylized, geometric landscapes. This oil piece builds a soft, blended glaze over rolling hillsides framing a vast sea, creating an idealized dreamscape of absolute stillness and order. #art #contemporaryart

🎨 Paul Evans "Meadow and Moon" utilizes a complex mixed-media technique, blending watercolor, acrylic, & ink to paint contemporary British landscapes. This work highlights his signature attention to light, framing a wild meadow beneath the intense, glowing silhouette of a low-hanging night moon.

🎨 Christopher Nevinson "The Wave" (1917) Nevinson was a leading British figure in Vorticism and Futurism. The churning energy of a crashing ocean wave is transformed into a sleek, sensuous image.

🎨 Craig Everett "Nearly Home" (2024) Yorkshire artist Craig Everett brings an urban, graphic-design background to his contemporary landscapes. This work captures a nostalgic view of streets at dusk, balancing the textured brickwork with the warm glow of streetlights guiding the way. #art

🎨 Hanno Karlhuber "In the Red of the Night" (1985) This work belongs to Karlhuber's Energy of Space series. The Austrian painter uses oil tempera on wood to simulate a textured, alien terrain, where a large star hangs directly above the undulating ridges of a cooling planet. #art #artsky

🎷🎵 Louis Prima "Night Train" (1957) Originally a slow, sultry blues instrumental by Jimmy Forrest, Louis Prima and his backing band transformed this tune into jump blues classic. His version features blistering saxophone lines and a swing rhythm. #MusicSky #JumpBlues #SwingMusic

🎨 Paul Klee "Herbstblumen Stilleben" (1925) Klee painted this watercolor & oil still life while teaching at the Bauhaus. It reflects his theory of color relationships & geometric abstraction, transforming a vase of autumn flowers into an intricate patchwork of overlapping tones. #art

🎨 Ivan Aivazovsky "Moonlight in Naples" (1878) Aivazovsky painted this during his later career, returning to a favorite Italian setting that had brought him early fame. He relied on memory to construct the silhouettes of towering pines, and Mount Vesuvius puffing steam in the distance. #art #artsky

🎸 The Music Machine "Trouble" (1966) Sean Bonniwell’s crew laid down the blueprint for proto-punk with an aggressively dark, all-black aesthetic. This track hits hard with intense fuzz guitar lines and raw, snarling angst. #MusicSky #GarageRock #ProtoPunk

🎨 Dan McCarthy "Yellow Moon on the Rise" (2011) Dan McCarthy is a contemporary American artist based in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. To achieve the clean, velvety color separations of this print, he sketched his landscape with pen and ink before exposing individual films onto silk screen meshes.

🎨 Gilbert Spencer "Laundry Drying" (c. 1920) Overshadowed by his brother Stanley, Gilbert Spencer was a key twentieth-century landscape painter who taught at the Royal College of Art. He trained at the Slade School, focusing his work on the quiet rhythms of daily rural life. #art

🎨 Lisa Benson "Lunar Light" (2019) This striking piece is a handmade reduction linocut built from eight distinct layers of ink rolled from a single block. Somerset artist Lisa Benson carved the complex plate to capture the dramatic way silver moonlight fractures through heavy night clouds. #art

🌟 Mike will be in the Big Star Quintet lineup for this free show in Nashville. Hope you can check it out. ✨FREE NASHVILLE SHOW ALERT✨The Big Star Quintet play Nashville THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10 as part of the Neuhoff District River Steps Concert Series! @millsish.bsky.social

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🎨 Nicholas Roerich "Shadow of the Teacher" (1932) Roerich painted this Symbolist landscape using intense crimson and deep blue tempera. The work belongs to his Banners of the East series, capturing a spiritual presence within the stylized geography of the Himalayas #art #artsky #painting

🗃⚠️✝️ The term Christian Nationalism isn't a modern badge of honor. It was explicitly pioneered in the 1940s by fascist demagogue Gerald L.K. Smith, emerging directly from clerico-fascism and pro-Nazi propaganda. #ChristianNationalism #Project2025 #History

🎨 Romare Bearden "Circe" (1977) This collage is part of Bearden's Black Odyssey series, which reframes Homer's epic poem through the lens of African American culture. He depicts the mythical sorceress as a powerful conjure woman, using layered paper & foil to explore themes of ancestry, and survival

🎨 Edvard Munch "The Wave" (1921)This piece showcases Munch's late Expressionist style through fluid brushstrokes. The sweeping lines of the terrain create a rhythmic movement across the canvas, using a muted palette to turn a shoreline view into a deep emotional state. #art #artsky

Cut yourself loose. Get a little fresh air.

🎨 Diego Rivera "The Embrace" (1923) Rivera painted this as part of his mural cycle at the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City. The composition depicts his early style, focusing on regional themes of unity & sculptural forms that became foundational to the Mexican Muralism movement. #art

🎨 József Marszewski "Nocturnal Landscape with Windmills" (1864) Marszewski was a 19th-century Polish artist who traveled widely across Europe to paint atmospheric nocturnes. This piece showcases his focus on the interplay between the bright moon & the heavy silhouettes of rural structures. #art

🎨 Giovanni Grubacs "Piazza San Marco by Moonlight, Venice" (by 1919) Giovanni Grubacs specialized in vedute, a highly detailed genre of city landscape painting. His composition focuses on the contrast between the glowing moon and the intricate gothic architecture of the Doge's Palace. #art

🎨 August Malmström "Dancing Fairies" (1866)August Malmström was a Swedish painter known for historical works and folklore illustrations. In this romantic landscape, he transforms morning mist above a body of water into a swirling ribbon of ethereal, dancing figures beneath a low-hanging moon. #art

"The Ladies Of" is probably my favorite regional rock band, right now. James Hall is just as intense as he ever was. We are the WuWu, The heretic clerics, Preaching universal love, In the streets of America.

🎨 Margaret Preston "Mosman Bridge" (1927) This hand-colored woodcut reflects Preston's goal of building an Australian national aesthetic. She printed the black template from a single block, coloring the landscape with gouache. Her asymmetrical design is inspired by patterns from native flora. #art

🎨 Ivan Aivazovsky "The Galata Tower by Moonlight" (1845) He was renowned for his ability to recreate images from memory. He painted this dramatic landscape of Istanbul without using a live reference, relying instead on his recollections of his travels through the Ottoman empire. #art #painting

This is a wonderful example of Open Impressionism. The bold, unblended oil strokes and the luminous light make this slow-moving creek look. Love the rich palette and the sense of movement in the stillness.

🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw, a self-taught artist from Leeds, left his job as a railway clerk to focus on night scenes. James McNeill Whistler famously noted that he considered himself the inventor of nocturnes until he encountered Grimshaw’s moonlit compositions. #art #artsky

🎨 American painter N.C. Wyeth's (1933), "The Doryman (Evening) Port Clyde, Maine," shared by Edward. As a giant of the Brandywine School, Wyeth brings a powerful, narrative realism to the rugged coast. He captures a sense of atmospheric perspective, washing the sea in a warm twilight glow. #art

🎨 British artist Jacqueline Osborn’s intimate 2014 oil on canvas, "Table in the Corner," shared by Frances Avery. Her structured composition and soft handling of interior tones create a magnificent, peaceful setting.

🎨 Zdzisław Beksiński’s untitled masterpiece "AA78" (1978). Painted in oil on fiberboard during his "Fantastic Period," he constructs a rich, melancholic monument, balancing deep textures with a horizon of twilight color. #art #painting #blueskyart #artsky #artist #surrealism

🎨 Georgia O'Keeffe’s legendary early masterpiece, "Blue and Green Music" (1919-21), shared by Women's Art. Painted in oil on canvas, this spectacular work highlights O'Keeffe's fascination with Synesthesia—the blending of different senses. #art #georgiaokeeffe #modernism #americanart

An elegant, atmospheric piece by artist Je Shen, shared by pmamtraveller. Shen’s distinctive style relies on subtle color shifts and structured compositions to explore a deep sense of stillness. #art #painting #blueskyart #artsky #artist #contemporaryart #fineart

🎵 Dropping some hard bop for our #TGIF moment. A live performance of "Moanin'" by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers. The call-and-response structure and deep, swinging pocket provide the perfect grounding rhythm to close out the workweek. Have a great weekend! 🥁🎷 #music

🎨 British artist Reginald Brill’s mid-1950s work depicting an orange seller at Sudbury, Suffolk, shared by Richard. Brill's distinct style uses strong, grounded lines to capture a fleeting moment of street commerce, preserving the social heritage of post-war England. #art

🎨 Vincent van Gogh’s Arles masterpiece, "Vase with Five Sunflowers" (1888). This oil on canvas was meant to decorate Paul Gauguin's bedroom during his visit to Arles. Tragically, this painting was destroyed during an air raid in Japan during WWII, #art #painting #artist