Monday, April 22, 2024

portraitist and self-portraitist francien krieg ... entering a tussle with anxiety and mortality ... and winning

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  https://www.francienkrieg.com/ https://www.francienkrieg.com/about https://www.wg-gallery.com/ https://www.wg-gallery.com/lifebeyondthefle...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

bluestones and modes of haulage ...

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  a series of ifs ... if stonehenge stood at a crossroads of neolithic and bronze age trade routes ... if there were already large scale sea...
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albert hoffman ... through the prism of time and human ingenuity ...

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MY TEXT superimposed on a famous image shamelessly derived from alex grey's lovely portrait and from XXXX??????'s clever lash-up BIC...
Monday, April 15, 2024

Leda ... as a theme for an ornamental funerary vase ... The Apulian Red-figure Loutrophoros, Southern Italy, 350.BC-ish

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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103WEG https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/artifact?name=Malibu+86.AE.680&object=Vase https...
Sunday, April 14, 2024

When he was fifty-ish ... William Blake got two drawing commissions to illustrate Milton's Paradise Lost ... the first commission was from the Reverend Joseph THOMAS in 1807 ... the second, for a set of much larger sheets, was from Thomas BUTTS ... Wikipedia present the sets very well, although their numbering of Butts & Thomas seems to contain a transcription error at one point ... ... I'd just like to show the first and second versions that have survived as comparable pairs ......

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the full text of the wikipedia article seems very helpful ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake%27s_illustrations_of_Paradise_Lost...
Monday, April 1, 2024

prob'ly the best celadon moon flask you will ever see ...

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  https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/the-dragon-emperor-chinese-art/a-superb-and-possibly-unique-celadon-glazed-dragon
Sunday, March 31, 2024

yatagarasu hopes you've found your easter egg ...

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Friday, March 29, 2024

william orpen ... prolific self-portraitist

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i never knew his name until, in my late twenties, i was awe-struck by a large allegorical painting in the national gallery in dublin ... onl...