Basinjom Outfit, Cameroon 1973

In Cameroon & Nigeria's Ejagham societies, Basinjom is a detective & diviner who combats deceit. Accompanied by music, a carrier exits the forest wearing this costume, which combines a crocodile, cat-skin shield, mirrored eyes for insight, & blue warbird feathers and porcupine quills for strength. His gown wards off danger. He uses the knife & wicker rattle to hear sounds from other worlds.

https://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2016/05/basinjom/

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Storm in the Rocky Mountains, measuring approximately twelve feet by seven, was completed in 1866 by Albert Bierstadt.

More here:
https://www.thehistoryofart.org/albert-bierstadt/storm-in-the-rocky-mountains/

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It has been a while since I continued this thread.

Used in only one Noh play, Yoroboshi (Blind Monk), this mask captures grief and spiritual deliverance.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/44880

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An early success for Ivan Aivazovsky was The Ninth Wave (shown in the header for this Mastodon account), which depicts an apocalyptic vision of the final flood, with stormy seas and lightning-split sky, overwhelming the remnants of mankind on the surface. In 1889's The Wave, he captures the vastness and isolation of what he described in a poem as "The great heaving ocean, striving with agitation and longing for the distant shore." - Eric Zafran
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In 1863, Church exhibited the picture in London, adding the cross-shaped wreckage of a ship's mast in the foreground. This reference was likely intended as a tribute to the British explorer Sir John Franklin. In 1845, Franklin and his crew had attempted to discover the Northwest Passage but failed to return. Church's painted narrative is told without human presence, permitting the awesome landscape to communicate the power of God. - Judy L. Larson

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Frederic Edwin Church's The Icebergs went on display in New York in 1861 and was hailed by critics as the most splendid work of art ever created by an American artist.

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The popularity of John Martin's apocalyptic scenes resulted at least in part from anxieties about the Industrial Revolution, which was just beginning to cause social change in England during Martin's lifetime. Martin himself appears to have been acutely aware of and disturbed by the visual transformation of the English landscape caused by industrialization. - David A. Brenneman

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On to #AWE.

This next work, 1851's The Great Day of His Wrath by British artist John Martin, is one in a series of three paintings depicting the Last Judgment. This particular scene depicts the terrible destruction of the Apocalypse as described in the Book of Revelation.

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After Guernica, Picasso continued creating "postscripts" based on figures from the canvas.

This work, Mother with Dead Child, was made less than two weeks after the mural, and revisits the weeping woman holding a child in the upper left of the painting. The mother's shriek shatters the tender pose. The upside-down position of the child's head and blank eyes convey the source of the mother's grief. - Carrie Przybilla

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In January of 1937, Picasso accepted a commission from the Spanish Republican government to create a mural for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris Exposition of 1937. The April 26 bombing of Guernica, a small northern city in Spain and the country's oldest center of democracy, evoked horror around the world and provided Picasso with the universal theme he sought. (1 of 2)

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The penultimate image in the #ANGUISH selections is Rembrandt's 166o painting, The Denial of St. Peter. More about the work here:
https://rembrandtpaintings.com/denial-of-st-peter.jsp

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It has been a few days since I posted, but I haven't forgotten this thread. The 1837 work, Echo of a Scream by Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, is truly intense, and certainly merits inclusion in the #ANGUISH section of #RingsFIvePassionsInWorldArt #FineArt

Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz created this sculpture, Cage, in 1986. You can read more about it here:

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/cage-magdalena-abakanowicz/bAHCXZPToIRliQ?hl=en

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For a more classical take on #ANGUISH, look to Judith Beheading Holofernes, a 1612-1613 work by Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi. She was known for being able to depict the female figure with great naturalism and for her skill in handling color to express dimension and drama.
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The #ANGUISH section of the #RingsFivePassionsInWorldArt exhibit was full of intense imagery, but for me, one of the most compelling pieces was Between the Lines, a 1993 work by Cuban painter Antonia Eiriz. This had to be one of the most recent paintings to be featured in this collection, as the Atlanta Olympics took place in the summer of 1996.

This powerfully claustrophobic image of a trapped figure is the reason I started this thread.

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More here:
http://www.aeiriz.com/html/about_the_artist.html

Munch led us out of the Love section of the #RingsFivePassionsInWorldArt exhibit, so I'll lead with his most famous painting, The Scream, to begin the #ANGUISH segment.

Learn more about this work here:
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-scream-edvard-munch/eQFdRTFKDtVQ1A

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Love can also be painful. Lovers accidentally or intentionally hurt one another; love can be lost for various reasons: people grow apart sometimes. Even in the best of circumtances, one lover will die before the other.

Norwegian painter Edvard Munch shows the pain of #LOVE is his 1856 work, Separation. More here:

https://www.edvardmunch.org/separation.jsp

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The Banjo Lesson is an 1893 painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner which depicts both the love expressed by a teacher passing knowledge to a student and the shared love of music. More information here:

https://artincontext.org/the-banjo-lesson-painting-henry-ossawa-tanner/

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In this painting by Tiziano Vecellio, better known as #Titian, Venus attempts to prevent Adonis from going on a hunt, as she fears he will be killed. Cupid seems concerned as he looks at the lovers. #LOVE #RingsFivePassionsInWorldArt #FineArt

This 1973 piece by John Tiktak of the Inuit depicts a different kind of #LOVE than the previous images: that of the love between mother and child.

More here:

https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/profiles/artist/John-Tiktak

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