#central american art

[oncanvas]

Portrait of a Lady in White, Frida Kahlo, circa 1929

Oil on canvas 46 ½ x 32 in. (118.1 x 81.3 cm)

[caelstyx]

Re-posting from my old blog - ✨The New Explorer✨

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #SharkWeek 🦈:

Two Shark Pendants

Chiriquí culture (Panama / Costa Rica), 11th-16th c.

Cast gold alloy

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

[occvltswim]

A Zapotec Terracotta Figural Urn of the Butterfly God (Ītzpāpālōtl) found at Monte Alban in Oaxaca, Mexico, Circa 200-600 AD. Sold at sotheby's in 2017 for $200,000

[thunderstruck9]

Richard Combes (British/American, 1963), Central Park Reflection, 2023. Oil on canvas, 18 × 24 in.

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Armando Morales

Three nudes, 1972

Oil on canvas.

[proverbialschoolmarm]

[4eternal-life]

Johann Berthelsen (Danish/American, 1883-1972)

The Blue Bridge, Central Park, New York, NY

Oil on canvas

© Invaluable

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Howard Thain, Grand Central Station, 1927. Oil on canvas.

Photo: NY Historical Society

[kafkasapartment]

Sledding in Central Park, 1912. William James Glackens. Oil,canvas.

[briefbestiary]

A bizarre fearsome beast capable of unbridled ferocity. While the creatures can be solitary, they often live in groups or pairs.

[oncanvas]

Señor Presidente’s Wake, Alfredo Ceibal, 1988-93

Acrylic on canvas 38 ¼ x 70 ¼ in. (97.2 x 178.4 cm)

[caelstyx]

The Princess & The Historian

Some old character design stuff from an abandoned science-fantasy webcomic I worked on in 2021

The Princess comes from a Central American inspired world and the Historian is Chinese.

I bit off more than I could chew in terms of world-building, but I want to get back to this world one day and push more specific design and pattern work.

[arthistoryanimalia]

#WorldCoatiDay:

Coati effigy whistling vessel (vasija silbadora) Maya, Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala Preclassic, c. 1000 BCE - 250 CE H 16 x W 30.5 cm Museo Nazionale di Archeologia e Etnologia, Guatemala

[kemetic-dreams]

 Conjure canes in the United States are decorated with specific objects to conjure specific results and conjure spirits. This practice was brought to the United States during the transatlantic slave trade from Central Africa. Several conjure canes are used today in some African American families. In Central Africa among the Bantu-Kongo, banganga ritual healers use ritual staffs.

These ritual staffs are called conjure canes in Hoodoo which conjure spirits and heal people. The banganga healers in Central Africa became the conjure doctors and herbal healers in African American communities in the United States. The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida collaborated with other world museums to compare African American conjure canes with ritual staffs from Central Africa and found similarities between the two, and other aspects of African American culture that originated from Bantu-Kongo people.

[hydenine]

I really loved the movie Robot Dreams and I've seen it twice now, but there is something extremely jarring about the number of shots where the twin towers are prominently featured in the background, especially since the film seems to have nothing to do with 9/11 sjdjjdjf