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Edvard Munch (1863-1944) "Love and Pain" (1895) Oil on canvas Expressionism Located in the Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway The painting shows a woman with long flame-red hair kissing a man on the neck, as the couple embrace. Although others have seen in it "a man locked in a vampire's tortured embrace – her molten-red hair running along his soft bare skin," Munch himself always claimed it showed nothing more than "just a woman kissing a man on the neck."

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Belleville, le haut de la rue des Envierges

Paris 1960's

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Ada Bird Petyarre, Awelye, from the portfolio Crossroads 1997

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Un Chêne au Bas-Bréau, Le Bodmer, 1865, Claude Monet

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A Lighthouse on Fire at Night by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797)

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Dormitory (1999-2002) in Ingolstadt, Germany, by Wilhelm Huber

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高島野十郎「蝋燭」 Takashima Yajuro “Candle"

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Jules Olitski Graphics Suite Number One, 1970 silkscreen 35 x 26 inches edition of 150

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Philipp Götze

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Gray Area 2.2

10x10 cm. oil on paper, ink, acrylic powder

Nickie Zimov

Instagram

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Isa Marcelli

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MWW Artwork of the Day (3/11/23) Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954) Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the U.S. (1932) Oil & other media on tin, 31 x 35 cm. Private Collection

In this self-portrait, the sun and moon hold sway only over Mexico, which was, this painting tells us, where Frida wanted to be. While Diego Rivera was busy eulogizing modern industry on the walls of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Frida was yearning for the ancient agrarian culture of Mexico. In her painting she is dressed up in an uncharacteristically sweet pink frock and lace gloves. But she herself is far from demure. As in her first self-portrait, her nipples show beneath her bodice. Her face is poised for mischief, and, again in defiance of propriety, she holds a cigarette. She also holds a small Mexican flag, which tells us where her loyalties lie.  In the painting a fire-spitting sun and a quarter moon are enclosed in cumulus clouds that, when they touch, create a bolt of lightning. By contrast, the single cloud over the United States is nothing but industrial smoke spewed from four chimney stacks labeled FORD.

Kahlo is a featured artist in this two MWW exhibit/gallery: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.327655050673204&type=3

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Vanessa Smith — Red Comet Dust  (oil and acrylic on canvas, 2021)

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Photography by Xuebing Du

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Wanderer above the sea of fog, Caspar David Friedrich, 1818

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agnes-briosch: stained glass window at petit palais, paris.

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Etude d'homme, 1852-56, Thomas Couture