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The print was initially created by Hokusai around 1830, but the publishing date is 1832. It was printed in a new and exotic color, Prussian blue, unknown to Japan prior to this work.

Under The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai is one of the most immediately recognized artworks. A woodblock print, using the traditional Japanese ukiyo-e technique was created as a part of his series titled 36 famous views of Mount Fuji, a sacred mountain in Japan.

Some flowers by Claude Monet to cure your Sunday Scaries 🫱

Can you feel the sizzling summer sun on your skin? ☀️ 🌾 In 1888, Vincent van Gogh left Paris and moved to Arles in the south of France. That summer, he painted a series of vibrant wheat fields, including this stunning piece. 🚨rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/dut…

Hello world 🖐️

Artist’s painting of a hippopotamus on a flake of limestone. From Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt, c.1479–1425 BC. Perhaps a practice sketch, or a template, or maybe just a doodle of a hippo from 3,500 years ago! 🦛❤️ 📷 The Met metmuseum.org/art/collection… #Archaeology

Red and a blue parrot, by Ohara Koson, 1925-1936

Let's put on our pj's and break down van Gogh's The Starry Night ... 🧵

“In 2020, only 17% of 13-year-olds surveyed said they read for fun almost every day. That figure was 27% in 2012 and 35% when data collection began in 1984.” Well this is utterly depressing. Is This the End of Reading? chronicle.com/article/is-thi…

This is what The Magic Words can do! For teachers, parents, anyone. Copies are available here: smarturl.it/TheMagicWords

🌊 Van Gogh sought a really ‘blue sea’ and ‘blue sky’ at the French coast. He travelled from Arles to Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a fishing village on the Mediterranean. He observed that the sea had ‘a colour like mackerel', its colours continually changing.

Few things bring more joy than the way Claude Monet painted nature. 🌱

Teachers do so much, and play so many roles in the classroom for their students. Sometimes, they even play trivia host! This #TeachersAppreciationWeek, we're sharing a fun, new 10-question quiz as an introduction to #NASAWebb science: create.kahoot.it/details/85925a… #ThankATeacher

Vincent wrote to Theo 📝 ‘In my view I’m often very rich, not in money, but rich [...] because I’ve found my work — have something which I live for heart and soul and which gives inspiration and meaning to life.’ 🖼️ © Detroit Institute of Arts

Japanese children, 1900s.

Born #OnThisDay in 1785, #JohnJamesAudubon traveled thousands of miles to watch, hunt and draw his birds. In the 1830s, just like today, people marveled at his birds’ liveliness, as if they might fly off the page in a ruffle of feathers 🕊️ 🐦"Plate 102, Blue Jay" (1824–38)

There’s nothing like seeing a kid develop a love for art right before your eyes. 🖌 Jackson Pollock, "Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)," 1950

Vincent van Gogh, Bridges across the Seine at Asnieres

Exciting news! We have just won *four* Webby Awards, including one for this animation of an Anne Vallayer-Coster that was missing for centuries. A huge congratulations to our social media and production studio teams! @TheWebbyAwards

@ngadc @TheWebbyAwards Congrats!