#Watts is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 9 people shared 71 posts with it — around 2 a day. Activity is down 85% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 15 with 8 posts.

Posts with #Watts

Guido

@guidoleonardi.bsky.social

about 11 hours ago

In salita lungo il pendio del bosco. Negli ultimi anni sono stati tagliati molti alberi nei boschi #Photography #ECK #ForestFriday #GfrillnerAlm #bealpine #Italy #ClassicMono #bnw #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #Hipstamatic #Watts #BlacKeysSuperGrain

Il tronco spoglio di un albero morto in primo piano. Il terreno terreno scosceso e disboscato con alti alberi di abete sullo sfondo

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Guido

@guidoleonardi.bsky.social

7 days ago

Alla ricerca di un sentiero nel bosco #Photography #ForestFriday #VoellanerGall #bealpine #Italy #ClassicMono #bnw #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #Hipstamatic #Watts #BlacKeysSuperGrain

Il sottofondo del bosco con un prato e diversi rami rotti. I tronchi spogli degli alberi in luce ed ombra

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Michael

@mdstamper.bsky.social

11 months ago

“Hope (second version)” by George Frederic Watts (British) - Oil on canvas / 1886 - Tate Britain (London, England) #WomenInArt #art #hope #artText #Symbolism #Watts #GeorgeFredericWatts #TateBritain #Tate #BritishArt #BritishArtist #allegory #BlueskyArt #FineArt #bskyart #artwork #oilpainting #1880s

A young light-skinned woman, blindfolded, sits on a small cloud-wreathed globe that tilts under her bare feet. Her body curls inward; head bowed, cheek turned toward a simple wooden lyre cradled in her lap. All but one of the lyre’s strings are broken; her right hand lightly plucks the lone survivor while her left steadies the frame. Pale, classical drapery clings to her shoulders and knees, its folds rendered in muted blue-greys that merge with the atmosphere. The background is an expansive, mottled blue with no clear horizon; faint light rims her form and grazes the globe’s edge. The mood is hushed and strained as if suspended between despair and endurance. Nothing distracts: no landscape, crowd, or architecture, only the figure, the globe, the nearly silent instrument, and the enveloping blue.

British artist George Frederic Watts’s “Hope” redefined a time-honored allegory. Rather than anchor or flowering rod, he gives Hope a nearly voiceless lyre and a blindfold that make expectation feel precarious and inward. In 1885, he described his vision as “Hope sitting on a globe… playing on a lyre which has all the strings broken but one… trying to get all the music possible,” a picture of listening as much as believing.

He created multiple versions, but it was this second version which became the best-known iteration and was transferred to the new Tate Gallery in 1897. Its simplified setting, restrained palette, and dissolving edges situate the work within late Victorian Symbolism while resisting easy consolation.

“Hope” quickly entered public consciousness through studio photographs and prints, provoked debate among critics, and later resonated in religious and civic life; preachers and politicians alike drew on its image of tenacious listening in the dark. Yet its power remains painterly as much as emblematic: the composition compresses world, body, and sound to a single, straining line, asking what music or meaning can be made when almost everything is broken.

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Guido

@guidoleonardi.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Prima dell'imbrunire scende la nebbia nel bosco #sharemondays2025 #Photography #Italy #bnw #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Hipstamatic #Watts #BlacKeysSuperGrain

Alcuni tronchi di alberi nel bosco con la nebbia

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BobS

@landsteward.earth

5 months ago

There's nothing you can cling to. No refuge. Just let go, man. ~ Alan Watts #Kalaloch #RubyBeach #Life #Watts

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BobS

@landsteward.earth

4 months ago

Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it. ~ Alan Watts #quote #Watts #whatis #photography

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Guido

@guidoleonardi.bsky.social

5 months ago

Prima della partenza al passo nevicava. Alla malga splende il sole, ma tra poco ricomincerà a nevicare per tutto il pomeriggio #Photography #Stunday #fence #Mandlspitz #CimaOmetto #LaureinerAlm #bealpine #Italy #ClassicMono #bnw #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #Hipstamatic #Watts #BlacKeysSuperGrain

Neve sul prato con uno steccato in legno e le cime delle montagne innevate in lontananza

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Guido

@guidoleonardi.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Ghiaccio e acqua #Photography #Italy #bnw #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #Hipstamatic #Watts #BlacKeysSuperGrain

Due forti gettiti di acqua escono dal muro della sorgente con dei lunghi ghiaccioli che pendono da una trave

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Guido

@guidoleonardi.bsky.social

almost 2 years ago

Il salice piangente vicino al lago dopo la pioggia 📷 #Photography #trees #Italy #bnw #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Hipstamatic #Watts #BlacKeysSuperGrain

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Russell Contreras

@russcontreras.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Black History Month this year falls on the 60th anniversary of many crucial moments of the Civil Rights Movement that would transform the nation and spark new fights still being played out today #bhm2025 #blackhistorymonth #selma #malcolmx #votingrights #watts www.axios.com/2025/02/12/b...

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In photos: Black History Month's 60 year anniversaries

Photos of 1965 highlight last days of Malcolm X and marches in Selma

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Pepa Montero

@pepamontero.bsky.social

5 months ago

#cuadrodeldía Ellen Terry, 1864 (Eligiendo) George Frederick #Watts (1817–1904) #NPGLondon Londres #art Simbolista inglés, decía que pintaba ideas, no cosas. Es famoso por obras alegóricas. La modelo debe elegir entre vanidad (camelias) y nobleza (humildes violetas) #FelizViernes