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“Blue Interior” (1883) by Norwegian painter Harriet Backer reflects her fascination with the relationship between light, color, and everyday life. Dominated by shades of blue, the painting captures the quiet atmosphere of an interior, showcasing Backer’s skill in portraying the subtle effects of natural light on surfaces. Known for her intimate interior scenes, Backer combines realistic details with delicate color transitions, transforming an ordinary moment into a poetic visual experience.

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“Walking Panther” (1903) by Rembrandt Bugatti

He was named after Rembrandt, but he made his name with animals. Rembrandt Bugatti, born in Milan on 16 October 1884, got his first name from his uncle, the painter Giovanni Segantini. He spent hours at the zoos of Paris and Antwerp modelling panthers, elephants and big cats in bronze. One of his elephants later rode on the radiator of the Bugatti Royale, the luxury car designed by his brother Ettore.

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The most famous “tapestry” in the world isn’t a tapestry at all. 🧵 On 14 October 1066, King Harold fell at the Battle of Hastings, and an anonymous team stitched the story in wool on linen: about 70 metres long, roughly 50 cm high. It’s embroidery, not weaving. Right now it’s on show at the British Museum, the first time it has left France in more than 900 years. Scene 57 reads: “Here King Harold is slain.”

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Is it wrought iron? A cathedral ornament? No, it’s a plant. Karl Blossfeldt taught “Modeling from Plants” at a Berlin art school for 31 years and photographed stems, buds and seed pods as teaching aids, using homemade lenses that magnified them up to thirty times. He didn’t publish his first photo book, Urformen der Kunst, until he was 63. It became an international bestseller, and nature has looked like architecture ever since.

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He was so late with his homework that the Academy invented a new genre for it. Antoine Watteau, baptised on this day in 1684, was accepted by France’s Royal Academy but kept failing to deliver his required reception piece. When he finally handed in “The Embarkation for Cythera” in 1717, it fit no existing category, so the Academy created one: the fête galante. Watteau died four years later, aged just 36.

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This quilt sold for five dollars. Today it’s a national treasure. Harriet Powers, born into slavery near Athens, Georgia, in 1837, stitched eleven panels of Bible stories in bold appliqué, from Adam and Eve in Eden and Jacob’s Ladder to the Holy Family. She showed it at a Georgia fair in 1886. An art teacher, Jennie Smith, saw it and later bought it when Powers was struggling. It now belongs to the Smithsonian, and in 2026 her quilts appeared on US postage stamps.

#quiltart #textileart #folkart #arthistory #womeninart by @squintmagazine

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Han van Meegeren was a Dutch painter and one of history’s most famous art forgers. He became wealthy by creating convincing fake paintings in the style of Johannes Vermeer and selling them as genuine masterpieces.

During World War II, he sold a forged “Vermeer” to Hermann Göring, one of Hitler’s most powerful officials. After the war, Van Meegeren was arrested for collaborating with the Nazis and faced the possibility of execution.

To prove that he was not a traitor but a forger, he painted another fake Vermeer under supervision. His deception was eventually confirmed, saving him from the death penalty. He was sentenced to one year in prison but died in 1947 before serving his sentence.

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Squint Magazine meets German artist Bettina Nölle-Budka, who entered the professional art world in 2024 after 35 years in cultural education. Her expressive portraits blend figuration and abstraction, guided by color, intuition, and experimentation. Read the full interview on Squint Magazine.

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In our new interview, Squint Magazine meets German artist Bettina Nölle-Budka, whose path into the professional art world has been anything but conventional. For more than 35 years, Nölle-Budka worked in cultural education near Munich, organizing art history classes, exhibitions, and creative workshops, while quietly continuing her own artistic practice. It was only in 2024 that she decided to step into the professional art world. Her emotionally charged portraits bring together figurative imagery and abstract gestures, with color serving as a language for feelings that words cannot always express. Drawing inspiration from Renaissance art, Expressionism, Pop Art, Street Art, nature, culture, and everyday life, she embraces experimentation rather than committing herself to a single style. In this conversation, Nölle-Budka reflects on intuition, authenticity, creative blocks, social media, and the courage to follow an artistic path at her own pace. Read the full interview with Bettina Nölle-Budka on Squint Magazine.

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Yutaka Sakano’s 1983 photographs capture Jean-Michel Basquiat during a pivotal moment in his career, when the 22-year-old artist was rapidly gaining international recognition. Shot in Tokyo for a fashion magazine, the series shows Basquiat wearing Issey Miyake designs while playfully interacting with the studio, even splashing paint onto the clothes. Beyond a conventional fashion shoot, the images reveal a spontaneous and youthful side of Basquiat, offering a rare glimpse of the artist before his transformation into one of the most influential icons of contemporary art.

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“Midsummer Shadows” (1911) by Willard Leroy Metcalf

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René Magritte’s Le Jockey perdu (1942) depicts a lone jockey riding through a mysterious, dreamlike forest where reality and imagination seem to merge. With no racetrack, destination, or clear sense of direction, the rider appears both in motion and completely lost. The strange tree-like forms surrounding him further blur the boundary between nature and illusion. Like many of Magritte’s works, the painting transforms familiar elements into an unsettling mystery, inviting us to question what is real and where we are actually going.

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