#Costa Rican art

[arthistoryanimalia]

For when it’s still #FintasticFriday but #Baturday is just around the corner…

Jade pendant, bat with shark wings

Costa Rica, Central Caribbean Region, 500 BCE - 800 CE

Jade, H 15.5 x W 3 cm

Museo del Jade, Costa Rica

#animals in art #animal holiday #Museo del Jade #Costa Rican art #Central American art #ancient art #Indigenous art #jade #carving #precious stones #pendant #bat #shark #Baturday #Fintastic Friday #Fish Friday #composite creature #chimera

[killyridols]

el azar como destino by melissa ríos, 2023, oil on canvas, 25 × 20 × 2 centimeters

#melissa ríos #costa rican art #painting #oil painting #2020s

[thunderstruck9]

Federico Herrero (Costa Rican, 1978), Perro triste [Sad Dog]. 2001. Oil, acrylic, tempera and ink on canvas, 49 x 86 3/4 in.

#federico herrero #costa rican art

[theartofdyingtogether]

Happy New Fear, Mario Battaglini, 2022

#mario battaglini #costa rican art #costa rican artist #need to point out that the original piece asking price is 31k #no fucking way my dude you stole most of it

[number1yisuchongfan]

A kiwi bunny🐇🥝

This is a piece that relates to my Prince Sniper of Aotearoa AU but instead of being a normal Prince Sniper of New Zealand AU… it’s Māori cuz I hc him (and his bio family) as Māori.

It’s a very fun au that I’ve made some more art for, and I’m willing ask any questions (about him, the au, his design, etc.) about it and I’m open to any criticism; since I’m not Māori.

My main universe hc of Sniper is that he’s Māori (hence why he doesn’t have full Moko) that was raised in an Aboriginal Australian community and Scout is Costa Rican-American just so you know. Here’s them right here:

(Scout isn’t Māori; he just Sniper’s consort/lover (Bill-Bel and Lar-Nah weren’t fans of Scout that much))

Close up under the cut

They’re so cute Omfg- dies on the spot

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 scout #tf2 sniper #sniper tf2 #scout tf2 #sniperscout #speeding bullet #headcanon #costa rican scout #māori sniper #prince sniper au #might make a fic about this au #maybe #definitely post my art #my art

[birdstudies]

December 21, 2023 - Costa Rican Ground-Sparrow or Cabanis's Ground-Sparrow (Melozone cabanisi) Found only in central Costa Rica, these New World sparrows live in lowland and mountain forests, woodlands, coffee plantations, and thickets. Foraging on or near the ground alone or in pairs, they feed on seeds and insects, though the details of their diet are unknown. They build cup-shaped nests from grass, rootlets, stems, dry leaves, and horse hair in grass tussocks, hollows, or bushes. Females lay clutches of two or three eggs. Classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN, their population is declining slowly due to residential and commercial development in their small range.

#costa rican ground-sparrow #cabanis's ground-sparrow #new world sparrow #melozone cabanisi #bird #birds #illustration #art #woodland #birblr art

[nugothrhythms]

“Arte pl​á​stico” by San José, Costa Rica-based post-punk and darkwave act MOLT off of their upcoming 2024 album Estados Latentes, to be released this June

#darkwave music #postpunk #dark post punk #altwave #MOLT #Arte pl​á​stico #Estados Latentes #music #first share #2024 #upcoming album #next month #San José Costa Rica #Costa Rican goth #Central American goth #Latin American goth #Latino goth #San Jose Costa Rica #Bandcamp

[jazz-beans]

Following my Sonic OC redesigns I figured I'd redesign my other long standing OCs starting w my One Piece OC: Magnolia.

#my art #one piece #one piece oc #straw hat pirates #magnolia #feel free to ask me about her #I've had her 'real world' nationality as Costa Rican for ages but she was so white in all my previous versions of her #like what was 15 y/o me thinking

[arthistoryanimalia]

For a belated #WorldLizardDay 🦎:

Lidded Bowl with Iguana

c. 600–1100 (Thermoluminescence date, 995–1395)

Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region, 7th-12th century

Ceramic, slip

The Cleveland Museum of Art

“It is believed the iguana's regional symbolism was linked to both rulership and the solar realm, and here we see the iguana is portrayed as if basking in the sun, but also with an aggressive stance of bared teeth and fully fanned dewlap.

Even though it is a stylized rendering, the maker still included enough real-life details to allow us to identify it as a male Green Iguana (Iguana iguana). The single large round scale, called a subtympanic plate/shield, is a feature unique to this species, and the enlarged dewlap and jowl is typical of the male.”

For more info, including additional photos and interpretive videos, click here: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1995.72

Male Green Iguana (Iguana iguana). As seen here, the common name is a bit of a misnomer, as they come in a variety of colors!

photo: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/2020622

#animals in art #World Lizard Day #animal holiday #lizard #iguana #Green Iguana #species ID #Cleveland Museum of Art #bowl #ceramics #pottery #indigenous art #Costa Rican art #Central American art

[lethargicmoth]

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

#Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk #illustration #digital art #digital illustration #digital artist #fanart #vidya #indie #doodle #costa rica #costa rican #milk #lethargicmoth

[haunted-deer]

• The variable harlequin frog (Atelopus varius)•

(I just had to add multiple pics cause look at these guys)

fun fact: Dorsal color is usually black or brown overlaid with a mosaic of spots and streaks that can be almost any combination of orange, red, yellow, blue, or green earning them the nickname “clown frogs.” A deadly infectious disease called chytridiomycosis is an important reason for the rapid disappearance of this species from the Costo Rican forests.

1 - 2 - 3

(KO-FI)

#hmmm i snuck in a h and d on the disco bois back #can you see it #costa rican the variable harlequin frog #Atelopus varius #harlequin frog #frog #frogs #amateur artist #digital art #art #jj draws #artists on tumblr #Avoid Pesticides in Your Lawn and Garden #Donate to a Frog-Friendly Conservation Effort #froggy

[folk-lore-emporium]

In the shop now: An authentic, vintage, hand-painted & signed Costa Rican “carreta” in a smaller size suitable for a serving cart in a covered deck or patio area. Complete with matching, painted wooden handled box and grid for serving and holding bottles. As an added bonus, the cart can be completely disassembled and reassembled like a puzzle.

Larger ox carts became a significant means of transportation for rural Costa Ricans after they were introduced to the area circa 1840. Farmers used ox carts to transport valuable crops like coffee beans or sugar cane. The carreta was valued for its ability to maneuver over all types of hazardous terrain.

Over the centuries, cars & trucks replaced the ox cart as transportation. However, ox carts then gained new life as a celebrated form of artwork. The ox cart has even taken on a symbolic significance, commemorating Costa Rica traditions and agricultural history, and was officially declared a national symbol of Costa Rica some 30 years ago. Visitors to Costa Rica can witness carretas in all their traditional glory during the "Día del Boyero" (Day of the Drover) parade, which is held in the city of Escazú every year on the second Sunday in March.

Carretas are now decorated with bright colors and intricate designs. They often boast floral motifs, and the wheels are emblazoned with mandala-like patterns. The artisans who craft carretas also painstakingly choose the pieces of wood from which the wheels will be crafted, specifically so that the carts will make a pleasant sound as they roll through the streets. The wheels consist of sixteen wedge-shaped pieces of wood arranged in a circle and bound with a metal ring.

This example features cheerful colors on a black background. It is in good vintage condition. Come check it out at Folklore Emporium in Ruckersville Gallery. #costarican #carreta #cart #margaritacart #patiocart #servingcart #paintedfurniture #folkart #ruckersvillegallery #cvillevintage #albemarlecounty #virginiavintage #charlottesville #folkloreemporium

#virginia vintage #ruckersville #vintage #ruckersville gallery #albemarle #charlottesville #antiques #cville vintage #costa rican #carreta #folk art #margarita cart #drinks cart #patio cart #patio decor

[birdstudies]

August 14, 2023 - Costa Rican Warbler (Basileuterus melanotis) Found in parts of Costa Rica and western Panama, these warblers live in and around mountain forests. They feed on insects, foraging in the understory in pairs and small groups and often joining mixed-species flocks. Only one of their nests has been described, it was domed with a side entrance and constructed from dry leaves, twigs, live fern leaves, grass, roots, and moss. Females build the nests and incubate the eggs and males help care for the chicks.

#costa rican warbler #warbler #basileuterus melanotis #bird #birds #illustration #art #tropical #birblr art

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

SLAPPING HAPPY FACES ON BUILDINGS -- A GENIUS IDEA IN AN UGLY WORLD

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on "Gussa," Costa Rican street artist's "smiley face" work, c. 2016. 📸: Naty Aguirre & Alberto Font for the Rich Times.

TICO TIMES: "Why did you choose a happy face as your image?"

GUSSA (street artist): "Actually, the face wasn’t going to be a face. At first I thought it would be some rectangles with awesome colors, but once I made the rectangles it was impossible not to make a happy face… The one located at Circunvalación [highway] en route to Escazú will always be the best one. When I try to do something that’s not a happy face, I always end up making the happy face. All artists have a line. It’s very hard not to continue with that line. It’s a happy face that varies: there are 3D faces made with cardboard."

TICO TIMES: "How do you choose your color palette?"

GUSSA: "The color palette is the most important part. It’s about the brightness that light gives to the color. After various years I’ve noticed that I end up using the same colors. They repeat themselves. I’ve always liked yellow. After studying it, I realized that it’s the color that reflects the most light, but it’s also the hardest one to cover. I also like blue and light blue because of how they reflect the light. The only color that represents something to me is pink, because it’s super stigmatized by society with the idea that it’s for women only. It’s important to me because of the anarchy [it can create]: I try to use it so that people are wrong when they emit an opinion about it. If you were told that yellow is a “woman’s color,” you would’ve thought that, because you were told so. That’s what happens when you don’t question things."

Source: https://ticotimes.net/2016/02/28/5-questions-for-a-costa-rican-street-artist-we-came-to-this-world-to-be-happy.

#Gussa Artist #Street Art #Photography #Costa Rica #Costa Rican Street Art #Smiley Face #Smiley Face Street Art #Urban photography #Street culture #Street photography #Gussa Street Art #Gussa #Gussa Street Artist #Costa Rican #Urban Culture #Costa Rican Urban Art #Central America #Happy Face #Tico Art #Graffiti Art #Tico Times #Urban Art

[artifacts-archive]

Bird Pendant

Costa Rica

4th–7th century

Tropical Costa Rica is the habitat of an enormous number of bird species, many of which acquired symbolic dimensions in depictions in stone. This pendant, made of a jadeite of great clarity, features a toucan. Yet its upright stance and folded arms indicate that the figure is anthropomorphic, implying perhaps that it is a masked or transformation figure. Adding to the complexity of the image is a trophy head where the figure's feet should be. Disembodied heads are frequent in Precolumbian Costa Rican art. This pendant is said to be from the Atlantic Watershed region, one of the two primary areas of jade use in ancient times. The other is the northwestern province of Guanacaste. Each area is generally associated with characteristic stylistic features in jade and other antiquities.

source

#artifact #Costa Rica #pre Columbian #pendant

[queerasfact]

Queer Calendar 2023

We put together a calendar of key (mostly queer) dates at the start of the year to help us with scheduling - so I thought I’d share it around! Including pride and visibility days, some queer birthdays and anniversaries, and a few other bits and bobs. Click the links for more info - I dream one day of having a queer story for every day of the year!

This is obviously not an exhaustive list - if I’ve overlooked something important to you, feel free to add it in the reblogs!

January

3 - Bisexual American jazz-age heiress Henrietta Bingham born 1901

8 - Queer Australian bushranger Captain Moonlite born 1845; gay American art collector Ned Warren born 1860

11 - Pennsylvania celebrates Rosetta Tharpe Day in honour of bisexual musician Rosetta Tharpe

12 - Japanese lesbian author Nobuko Yoshiya born 1896

22 - Lunar New Year (Year of the Rabbit)

24 - Roman emperor Hadrian, famous for his relationship with Antinous, born 76CE; gay Prussian King Frederick the Great born 1712

27 - International Holocaust Remembrance Day

February

LGBT+ History Month (UK, Hungary)

Black History Month (USA and Canada)

1 - Feast of St Brigid, a saint especially important to Irish queer women

5 - Operation Soap, a police raid on gay bathhouses in Toronto, Canada, spurs massive protests, 1981

7 - National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (USA)

18 - US Black lesbian writer and activist Audre Lorde born 1934

12 - National Freedom to Marry Day (USA)

19-25 - Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week

March

Women’s History Month

1 - Black Women in Jazz and the Arts Day

8 - International Women’s Day

9 - Bi British writer David Garnett born 1892

12 - Bi Polish-Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky born 1889 or 1890

13 March-15 April - Deaf History Month

14 - American lesbian bookseller and publisher Sylvia Beach born 1887

16 - French lesbian artist Rosa Bonheur born 1822

20 - Bi US musician Rosetta Tharpe born 1915

21 - World Poetry Day

24 - The Wachowski sisters’ cyberpunk trans allegory The Matrix premiers 1999

April

Jazz Appreciation Month

Black Women’s History Month

National Poetry Month (USA)

3 - British lesbian diarist Anne Lister born 1791

8 - Trans British racing driver and fighter pilot Roberta Cowell born 1918

9 -  Bi Australia poet Lesbia Harford born 1891; Easter Sunday

10 - National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (USA)

14 - Day of Silence

15 - Queer Norwegian photographer and suffragist Marie Høeg born 1866

17 - Costa-Rican-Mexican lesbian singer Chavela Vargas born 1919

21-22 - Eid al-Fitr

25 - Gay English King Edward II born 1284

26 - Lesbian Day of Visibility; bi American blues singer Ma Rainey born 1886

29 - International Dance Day

30 - International Jazz Day

May

1 - Trans British doctor and Buddhist monk Michael Dillon born 1915

7 - International Family Equality Day

7 - Gay Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky born 1840

15 - Australian drag road-trip comedy The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert premiers in 1994

 17 - IDAHOBIT (International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia)

18 - International Museum Day

19 - Agender Pride Day

22 - US lesbian tailor and poet Charity Bryant born 1777

22 - Harvey Milk Day marks the birth of gay US politician Harvey Milk 1930

23 - Premier of Pride, telling the story of the 1980s British activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners

24 - Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day; Queer Chinese-Japanese spy Kawashima Yoshiko born 1907

26 - queer American astronaut Sally Ride born 1951

29 - Taiwanese lesbian writer Qiu Miaojin born 1969

June

Pride Month

Indigenous History Month (Canada)

3 - Bisexual American-French performer, activist and WWII spy Josephine Baker born 1906

5 - Queer Spanish playwright and poet Federico García Lorca born 1898; bi English economic John Maynard Keynes born 1883

8 - Mechanic and founder of Australia’s first all-female garage, Alice Anderson, born 1897

10 - Bisexual Israeli poet Yona Wallach born 1944

12 - Pulse Night of Remembrance, commemorating the 2012 shooting at the Pulse nightclub, Orlando

14 - Australian activists found the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands in 2004

18 - Sally Ride becomes the first know queer woman in space

24 - The first Sydney Mardi Gras 1978

25 - The rainbow flag first flown as a queer symbol in 1978

28 - Stonewall Riots, 1969

28 June-2 July - Eid al-Adha

30 - Gay German-Israeli activist, WWII resistance member and Holocaust survivor Gad Beck born 1923

July

1 - Gay Dutch WWII resistance fighter Willem Arondeus killed - his last words were “Tell the people homosexuals are no cowards”

2-9 - NAIDOC Week (Australia) celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture

6 - Bi Mexican artist Frida Kahlo born 1907

12 or 13 - Roman emperor Julius Caesar born c.100BCE

14 - International Non-Binary People’s Day

23 - Shelly Bauman, owner of Seattle gay club Shelly’s Leg, born 1947; American lesbian cetenarian Ruth Ellis born 1899; gay American professor, tattooist and sex researcher Sam Steward born 1909

25 - Italian-Australian trans man Harry Crawford born 1875

August

8 - International Cat Day

9 - Queer Finnish artist, author and creator of Moomins Tove Jansson born 1914

9 - International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

11 - Russian lesbian poet Sofya Parnok born 1885

12 - Queer American blues musician Gladys Bentley born 1907

13 - International Left-Handers Day

22 - Gay WWII Dutch resistance fight Willem Arondeus born 1894

24 - Trans American drag queen and activist Marsha P Johnson born 1945

26 - National Dog Day

30 - Bi British author Mary Shelley 1797

31 - Wear it Purple Day (Australia - queer youth awareness)

September

5 - Frontman of Queen Freddie Mercury born 1946

6 - Trans Scottish doctor and farmer Ewan Forbes born 1912

13 - 1990 documentary on New York’s ball culture Paris is Burning premiers

15-17 - Rosh Hashanah

16-23 - Bisexual Awareness Week

17 - Gay Prussian-American Inspector General of the US Army Baron von Steuben born 1730

23 - Celebrate Bisexuality Day

24 - Gay Australian artist William Dobell born 1889

30 - International Podcast Day

October

Black History Month (Europe)

4 - World Animal Day

5 - National Poetry Day (UK)

5 - Queer French diplomat and spy the Chevalière d’Éon born 1728

8 - International Lesbian Day

9 - Indigenous Peoples’ Day (USA)

11 - National Coming Out Day

16 - Irish writer Oscar Wilde born 1854

18 - International Pronouns Day

22-28 - Asexual Awareness Week

26 - Intersex Awareness Day

31 - American lesbian tailor Sylvia Drake born 1784

November

8 - Intersex Day of Remembrance

12 - Diwali; Queer Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz born c.1648

13-19 - Transgender Awareness Week

20 - Trans American writer, lawyer, activist and priest Pauli Murray born 1910; Transgender Day of Remembrance

27 - Antinous, lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian, born c.111; German lesbian drama Mädchen in Uniform premiers, 1931

29 - Queer American writer Louisa May Alcott born 1832

December

AIDS Awareness Month

1 - World AIDS Day

2 - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

3 - International Day of Persons with Disabilities

8 - Pansexual Pride Day; queer Swedish monarch Christina of Sweden born 1626

10 - Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners host Pits and Perverts concern to raise mining for striking Welsh miners, 1984

14 - World Monkey Day

15 - Roman emperor Nero born 37CE

24 - American drag king and bouncer Stormé DeLarverie born 1920

25 - Christmas

29 - Trans American jazz musician Billy Tipton born 1914

#calendar #queer calendar #queer observances #pride days #queer history #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbt history #gay history #trans history #queer #gay #trans #lesbian #lesbian history