The migration is complete, with many thinks to @rimu@piefed.social there. This community is done but thanks to all the lemm.ee admins for making the last couple of years possible, especially @sunaurus@lemm.ee .

Come share your appreciation for art from all ages over there.

https://piefed.social/c/artporn

or

!artporn@piefed.social

Since piefed is on the fediverse, you can use your existing account to access/subscribe to the new community from most instances.

Hey all, I was hoping the mod of this community @craftyindividual@lemm.ee would surface with the recent news of lemm.ee closing down on June 30 but no.

I have taken up the offer from @rimu@piefed.social (its creator) to migrate the posts from this community over to piefed.social though anyway, so they're not lost. The community will live on.

Please don't post any more on this instance now. I can update this post as soon as the migration is complete.

Cheers,

So this community's instance (and mine!) -- lemm.ee -- is shutting down on June 30.

https://lemm.ee/post/65824884

I received an invitation to move the posts over to piefed.social. Unless someone feels like that's a bad idea, that will happen. If anyone knows how to reach the mods, that seems like a good idea. @craftyindividual

Thanks so much to everyone who made this a great place to share beauty for the last couple of years.

Chen Peiqiu (29 December 1922 – 26 June 2020) was a Chinese calligrapher and guohua painter, often acclaimed as the foremost Chinese woman painter. She and her husband Xie Zhiliu were one of the most famous couples in Chinese visual arts. The government of Shanghai opened a museum in Nanhui New City dedicated to them.

https://prabook.com/web/chen.peiqiu/1300362

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Peiqiu

(American, 1887-1986)

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of American modernism".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O%27Keeffe

(English, 1835-1907)

Henry James Johnstone (1835–1907) was a leading portrait photographer in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia during the 1870s and 1880s, and also a prominent artist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_Johnstone

Among Salvador Dalí’s many memorable works, perhaps none is more deeply embedded in the popular imagination than Venus de Milo with Drawers, a half-size plaster reproduction of the famous marble statue (130 /120 BC; Musée du Louvre, Paris), altered with pom-pom-decorated drawers in the figure’s forehead, breasts, stomach, abdomen, and left knee. The combination of cool painted plaster and silky mink tufts illustrates the Surrealist interest in uniting different elements to spark a new reality.

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/185184/venus-de-milo-with-drawers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD

After decades as a representational painter, in her seventies Alma Thomas turned to abstraction, creating shimmering, mosaic-like fields of color with rhythmic dabs of paint that were often inspired by forms from nature. The artist had been fascinated with space exploration since the late 1960s, and her later paintings often referenced America’s manned Apollo missions to the moon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Thomas

Thomas Hill (September 11, 1829 – June 30, 1908) was an American artist of the 19th century. He produced many fine paintings of the Californian landscape, in particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hill_(American_painter)

Edward Chalmers Leavitt, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, was an early New England painter said to be the most renowned still life painter of his day in Providence, although today he is largely forgotten.

Little is known of Leavitt's career. Most of his paintings featured tabletop arrangements of flowers, fruit, antiques and vintage bric-a-brac, and were sought after by the Victorian middle class. The oil on canvas paintings often were marked by their sense of texture. During the 1870s and 1880s Leavitt frequently exhibited at the National Academy of Design. But as the new century approached, Leavitt's output and quality declined, and his reputation faded.

More grapes: https://artvee.com/artist/edward-chalmers-leavitt/

Artist: miapensa

so good I had to create a wallpaper

Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

Super high res photo of the painting at wikipedia:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Claude_Monet_-_Flower_Beds_at_V%C3%A9theuil_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Jaume Plensa i Suñé (born 23 August 1955) is a Spanish visual artist, sculptor, designer and engraver. He has also created opera sets, video projections and acoustic installations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaume_Plensa

Hasui Kawase was a Japanese artist who was one of 20th century Japan's most important and prolific printmakers. He was a prominent designer of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement, whose artists depicted traditional subjects with a style influenced by yōga (Western-style painting). Like many earlier ukiyo-e prints, Hasui's works were commonly landscapes, but displayed atmospheric effects and natural lighting.

More: https://artvee.com/artist/kawase-hasui/

240x200 cm, canvas

Luciano Castelli (born 28 September 1951 in Lucerne) is a Swiss painter, graphic artist, photographer, sculptor and musician.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Castelli

Artist's web site: https://www.lucianocastelli.com/painting/

Albert Samuel Anker (1 April 1831 – 16 July 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss social life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Anker

More Al: https://artvee.com/artist/albert-anker/

Scottish, 1871–1935

Samuel John Peploe was a Scottish Post-Impressionist painter, noted for his still life works and for being one of the group of four painters that became known as the Scottish Colourists. The other colourists were John Duncan Fergusson, Francis Cadell and Leslie Hunter.

More: https://artvee.com/artist/samuel-john-peploe/

Thérèse Schwartze (20 December 1851 – 23 December 1918) was a Dutch portrait painter.

This is a portrait of her friend, Lizzy Ansingh, a painter in her own right.

Self portrait by Ms. Schwartze:

Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history. Unlike most Dutch masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of style and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, and biblical and mythological themes as well as animal studies.

More van Rijn: https://artvee.com/artist/rembrandt-van-rijn/

Anders Leonard Zorn was one of Sweden's foremost artists. He obtained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etcher. Among Zorn's portrait subjects were King Oscar II of Sweden, and three American Presidents, Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt. At the end of his life, he established the Swedish literary Bellman Prize in 1920.

More Zorn art: https://artvee.com/artist/anders-zorn/

John William Waterhouse RA was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter. His artworks were known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend.

More romans:
https://artvee.com/artist/john-william-waterhouse/

Helena Sofia (Helene) Schjerfbeck was a Finnish painter. A modernist painter, she is known for her realist works and self-portraits, and also for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, her work changed dramatically beginning with French-influenced realism and plein air painting. It gradually evolved towards portraits and still life paintings.

More beauty: https://artvee.com/artist/helene-schjerfbeck/

Gustave Moreau was a major figure in the French Symbolist movement, whose main emphasis was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. Moreau's paintings appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists. He is recognized for his works that are influenced by the Italian Renaissance and exoticism. Many of his works are on display at the Musée Gustave Moreau, a museum in Paris dedicated to his works.

More symbolism: https://artvee.com/artist/gustave-moreau/

She is lovely. No blurb unfortunately! Looks like it was auctioned off.

https://www.artnet.com/artists/jusepe-de-ribera/maria-maddalena-in-meditazione-3dbk0HO-xH3P6NBMsLwgwg2

Oil on canvas, 245 x 300 cm

Bobbi Essers (Enschede, 2000) is a Dutch painter. In 2022, Essers graduated from HKU. That same year, she won the Buning Brongers Prize and the audience award of The Best of Graduates of Galerie Ron Mandos. The following year she received the Royal Prize for Modern Painting. After winning this prize, her work was exhibited at the Royal Palace on Dam Square.

More info: https://unitlondon.com/exhibitions/bobbi-essers-the-world-at-our-command/