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Brindo y agradezco por mi familia, porque en una época donde mucha gente ha perdido a sus seres queridos, mi familia sigue completa.
— Jared S.
Here are the blog’s nine most reblogged pictures of 2018, in no particular order:
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Ginevra Cantofoli (Italian, 1608 - 1672): A sea-nymph, possibly Galatea
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Barbara Regina Dietzsch (German, 1706 - 1783): Dandelion with butterflies and a caterpillar
- Anna Gardell-Ericson (Swedish, 1853 - 1939): Woman sitting on staircase amongst flowers
- Antonietta Brandeis (Czech, 1848 - 1926): Venice, a view from the Piazzetta towards San Giorgio Maggiore
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Emilie Preyer (German, 1849 - 1930): Still life with peaches and grapes on a table
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Helen Allingham (English, 1848 - 1926): Gathering flowers (c. 1889)
- Barbara Regina Dietzsch (German, 1706 - 1783): A study of a thistle
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Diana De Rosa, called Annella di Massimo (Italian, 1601 - 1634): Lucretia
- Emily Carr (Canadian, 1871 - 1945): Forest Landscape No. 1 (1939)
As for the most reblogged post of 2018, it is this great quote by Caitlin Dover about Swedish painter Hilma af Klint:
Imagine a woman in the long skirts and high collar of the early 20th century standing in front of the painting she created. It is a massive piece—about 10 feet tall by 8 feet wide—and it is not a landscape, a portrait, a still life, nor a scene from myth or history. Dominating the composition is a bold yellow form reminiscent of a plant or sea creature, glowing amid colorful, biomorphic shapes and vigorous lines. This is just one of 10 such works that she has created almost entirely alone—sometimes walking on her work as she lays down the paint—and one of 193 radically abstract paintings that she has made in a few short years, between 1906 and 1915.
None of these details fit with the story told in museums and art history courses. We know the first abstract painters so well that we often refer to them by last names alone: Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian. We know who is celebrated for doing “action painting” on giant canvases laid on the floor—Pollock. Each of these men has been lauded for opening a way into new territory. As it turns out, that territory had already been explored by another artist. Her name was Hilma af Klint.
‘Mary Magdalene as Melancholy’ by Artemisia Gentileschi, 1622-1625
Mexico City, 2019
