Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 / is on Nostr

Middle-aged gay nerd. A country boy currently based in #Baltimore, currently working in public transit advocacy. A poet with a mean right cross. Single (Hi, guys!), reads too much, hoping life has more to offer. Anxiety sufferer. He/him.

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2024-09-02 23:24:12

Musical Interlude: My 59th birthday was Saturday. I fell in love with this song during the COVID lockdown and it's never been completely out of mind ever since. I dedicate this to myself for making another year.
"I'm Still Here," performed by Yvonne De Carlo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79TNvSSv0I4
#MusicalInterlude #Broadway #YvonneDeCarlo #StephenSondheim #MyBirthday #AnotherYearDown #Follies

2024-07-08 22:51:15

"Yellow Roses," Helene Schjerfbeck, 1942.
Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) was a Finnish Modernist/Expressionist painter known for self-portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. She began as a French-inspired Realist and plein air painter, but as times passed and she developed as an artist, she began to experiment boldly with new styles. She often used a delicate color palette, as she does here. This is one of her last paintings, and one can feel a sense of mortality.
Her birthday is coming up! July 10th, which is also Finland's national day for the painted arts!
From a private collection.
#Art #WomenArtists #Floral #Modernism #Expressionism #FinnishArt
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2024-07-08 22:51:15

2024-07-03 00:06:32

"Still Life with a Book and Oranges," Paul Signac, 1883.
Signac (1863-1935) was a post-Impressionist who developed the style of Pointillism with Seurat. He started off as an architecture student but when he saw a Monet exhibition in 1880, he abandoned it for art. This is one of his earlier works...amazing to think he was only twenty!
I'm usually not much for Pointillism, but I do appreciate his style here, which is more based on dashes than dots. This was a period when he was experimenting heavily with technique and material; I'm told artists like to use still lifes as a medium for experimentation.
SIgnac had a long and successful career as an artist, and was famous for his depictions of France's Mediterranean coast. An avowed anarchist, he had dreams of forming an anarchist utopia in the south of France; he would probably be appalled at what is there now. He also wrote a number of books on art history, theory, and technique, which are still influential today.
From the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
#Art #StillLife #Pointillism #PaulSignac
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2024-07-03 00:06:32

2024-06-26 23:48:38

Musical Interlude: And now for something a bit bracing and lovely; you can just feel a breeze against your face as you listen to this.
"Montcalm à Chicoutimi" performed by Genticorum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjeaH8OEIyw&list=OLAK5uy_m8nij_sdV8OmpQ-wRWNHtyKnRCTYe0NOc&index=1
#MusicalInterlude #FolkMusic #Genticorum #FreshAir

2024-06-26 23:48:38