Music Advent 16

Art by Aleksandr Eykert

Elizabeth Forbes (Canadian, 1859 - 1912): A game of old maid (via Sotheby’s)

Pastel moomin board ♡ in honor of Tove Jansson’s birthday and the official moomin day (+ it’s my dogs bday!!)

Witchy house full of cats🐈‍⬛ -watercolor painting by me

Gwen John - Self Portrait (1902)

Gwen John was a Welsh artists whose legacy mostly consists of portraits of anonymous female sitters. During her lifetime she was overshadowed by her bother Augustus, however, today it seems that his prophecy that “in 50 years I will be known as Gwen John’s brother” has come true since most contemporary art critics see her as the more talented of the two.

At 27 she permanently moved Paris since it was easier there for young women to make a living. She lived a fairly solitary life with her cats, devoted most of her time to painting and had several passionate love affairs with men and women. She created several thousand art works that have been praised for their atmosphere of serenity and a reduced colour palette, and are presented in major contemporary collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Tate Gallery.

metsänpeitto – forest blanket. In Finnish mythology, this is the name of a place or state of mind where you can be led by magical creatures of the forest (dwarves?) and where even a familiar forest can seem strange and deceptive. in the past, people who got lost in the forest for unexplained reasons said that they 'fell under the forest cover'. 'but there's a way out!' that's what my grandmother used to say, which her mother taught her once when they got lost in a cloudberry swamp. 'I need to turn my socks inside out!'

— Saara Alhopuro

Pictures by rubrum_one

Art by Maruša Gorjup

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Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867 - 1945): Death with his wife in his lap (via Dorotheum)

Nostalgia For The Silence IV  -  Annemarie de Groot

Dutch , b. 1952 -

Acrylic on canvas , 100 x 100 cm.