In your area/country, did you have a word or phrase to describe the static white noise on a television set not tuned to a channel? ( upload.wikimedia.org )
Bonus points if there’s a known onomatopoeia to describe the sound.
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son - Claude Monet (1875) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, sometimes known as The Stroll (French: La Promenade) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Claude Monet from 1875. The Impressionist work depicts his wife Camille Monet and their son Jean Monet in the period from 1871 to 1877 while they were living in Argenteuil, capturing a moment on...
The Lady with the Veil (the Artist's Wife) - Alexandra Roslin (1758) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
Noon, Neighborhoods of Moscow - Ivan Shishkin (1869) 🇷🇺 ( upload.wikimedia.org )
I have to admit the larger pictures, especially landscape and multi part tryptchs suffer on a mobile format... so hard to see detail. But I do look for taller portrait pieces where you can have some sense of scale
Ship on a Stormy Sea - Ivan Aivazovsky (18th century) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
The White Cow - Julien Dupré (1890) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
AA78 - Zdzislaw Beksinski (1978)🇵🇱 ( upload.wikimedia.org )
The Cobbler, Tangiers - Jean Discart (c.1844-1920) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
Woodland Pond - Henri Biva (1848-1929) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
I like this image because of the stillness and warmth. No humans, emotions or strife, past or present - just a calm nicely observed moment of nature. Places like this have brought me peace in times of difficulty.
Nordic Summer Evening - Gothenburg - Richard Bergh (1899-1900) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
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A Cat in the Window - Pierre-Albert Begaud (1945) 🇫🇷 ( upload.wikimedia.org )
The Reaper - Mykola Pymonenko (1889) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
Two Boys Blowing Up a Bladder - Joseph Wright of Derby (1769-70) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
"Though wonder is doubtless the energy that pulses through the brush of every committed painter, in truth, only a rare few have managed successfully to capture its essence as a palpable property in their work. The recent rediscovery in 2019 of a work by the British Enlightenment artist Joseph Wright of Derby that was hitherto...
View Through a Window - Konstantin Somov (1934) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
Self portrait https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/K._Somow.jpg