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French painter Pascal Champenoy has completed a new oil on canvas, 110 by 80 cm, dated 2026, the third in a series of four works depicting the seasons. The painting represents autumn, and joins earlier pieces in the same series. It features motifs of nature, man and a nude figure, and the artist shared it with followers of his work in painting and art communities.

Chinese-born artist Je Shen, born in 1973, is gaining attention with 'Meditation 925', an oil on canvas dated 2026 that carries an autumn and fall theme. Art lovers are sharing the work and discussing its seasonal mood and painterly style.

The Wikipedia picture of the day is 'City of Workers', a 1920 oil-on-canvas painting by German artist Hans Baluschek. The work depicts a working-class district of Berlin, showing workers' housing beneath a smoke-filled industrial skyline crossed by railway tracks. Art lovers on Mastodon are sharing the image and discussing Baluschek's portrayal of industrial-era Berlin and the lives of the working class a century ago.

People are sharing a photograph of "Wooded Path by a River," an 1894 oil painting by Danish artist Peder Mørk Mønsted, marvelling that every leaf and water reflection was painted by hand. Commenters are praising the near-photographic precision of the landscape, with many noting they initially mistook the canvas for a real forest scene. The work has renewed attention on Mønsted, a landscape specialist from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

A developer has launched stillwet.art, a project that gives the Opus 5.5 AI model access to a simulated paint canvas, letting it produce painterly output rather than text. The project was shared on Hacker News under its Show HN format, drawing attention from the tech community interested in creative applications of large language models.