Saturday, September 23, 2023

STRAVINSKY ... THE FIREBIRD, 1910, and the various FIREBIRD SUITES

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firebird There is a performance conducted by GERGIEV on YouTube The sound is remarkably clear https://www....
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Kuniyoshi ... Six Courtesans

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  This last one has a dealer's description ... Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) [Signed as Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi]  Title: A Portrait ...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Federico Beltran Masses ... skilled painter of exotic cheesecake ... makes a loosely-bound sort of a sub-cultural trio with Angel Zarraga X ? and Y ? Julio Romero de Torres ... arguably? / possibly ? / maybe ?

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Beltr%C3%A1n_Masses

Utagawa Kuniyoshi ... fan prints ... all in the British Museum

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https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/592554001 https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/592558001 https://www.britishmuseum....
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

ANGEL ZARRAGA ... just leapt off the page, so to speak ... can't think why i hadn't noticed him until now ...

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 “I believe it is not difficult to convince anyone of the expressive power of color. Without a doubt, each color has its greatest virtue of...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

PULP COVERS DOT COM ... is one of the best blogs ... and I've downloaded four images of original artwork by Robert G. HARRIS ... my favourite cowboy artist back in the 1930s ...

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  ... to be continued, possibly, maybe ...  but later ... until just this minute, i hadn't connected the pre-war "cowboy" pain...
Friday, September 15, 2023

THE ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH ... verses written by William Combe, published in 1816 ... setting the bar for Dickens and Thackeray ... with fabulous illustrations by thomas rowlandson

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the whole thing can be read and admired in exquisite detail here ... https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark%3A%2F13960%2Ft1zd1jg5k...
Friday, September 8, 2023

THE RITE OF SPRING

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  https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/photographs-3/igor-stravinsky-new-york https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring https...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

The Riace bronzes ...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riace_bronzes https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/february-2022/mystery-of-the-missing-bronze/