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Wildlife Highlight: Hummingbirds

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Post date June 4, 2023
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Interesting information!

Hummingbirds are small, colorful birds that are known for their unique ability to hover in mid-air by rapidly flapping their wings. Here are some interesting facts and information about hummingbirds: There are over 300 species of hummingbirds found in the Americas, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. They are important pollinators for many plants, as they transfer pollen from flower to flower while feeding on nectar. Overall, hummingbirds are fascinating birds with many unique adaptations that make them well-suited to their environment.

What do hummingbirds eat?

Hummingbirds primarily feed on nectar from flowers, which provides them with the high levels of energy they need to sustain their rapid wing beats and high metabolism. They have long, thin beaks that are perfectly adapted for feeding on the nectar deep within the flowers. In addition to nectar, hummingbirds also eat small insects and spiders for protein, which makes up a small portion…

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Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, Summer 3

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Post date June 3, 2023
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Lots of movement in both pieces!!

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Chu Teh-Chun (1920 – 2014), Mature Season, lithograph, signedChu Teh-Chunin Chinese and Pinyin (lower right), numbered136/150(lower left), this work is number 136from an edition of150, unframed: 59.5 by 75.5 cm; 23 ⅜ by 29¾ in., Image Source: Sotheby’s

The Los-Angeles-based chamber orchestra Delirium Musicum and director Etienne Gara present the electrifying “Summer 3” by this contemporary composer on their SEASONS album. Discover here: https://w.lnk.to/seasonsLY

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CHU TEH-CHUN at Christie’s

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CHU TEH-CHUN at Bonham’s

CHU TEH-CHUN at wikiwand

10 things to know about poet painter Chu Teh-Chun

Chu Teh chun: The Man Behind the Legendary Painter

Chu Teh-Chun in Three Works: Symphonic, Calligraphic, Lyrical

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Sonia Delaunay: Nature morte portugaise (1916)

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Post date May 31, 2023
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Love both the Delauney’s work

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SONIA DELAUNAY (1885-1979), Nature morte portugaise, signed and numbered ‘SONIA DELAUNAY 564’ (on the stretcher), oil and wax on paper laid down on canvas, 26 1⁄8 x 37 1⁄4 in. (66.4 x 94.6 cm.), Painted in Portugal in 1916, Image Source: Christie’s

“A joyful testament to Sonia Delaunay’s fruitful and happy years on the Iberian peninsula, Nature morte portugaiseis a powerful expression of colour, movement and light that immerses the viewer in the raucous, sensual atmosphere of the sun-drenched Portuguese marketplace. Painted in the challenging new medium of wax, this work is a superb example of the pictorial experimentation that led the artist and her husband Robert Delaunay to attain new means of expression during their exile in southern Europe, taking inspiration from their new surroundings to blur the lines between the figurative and the abstract, creating a veritable visual tour de force.”
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London Wall EC2: the hanging bridge

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Post date May 29, 2023
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Another excellent exposition!!

Jane Sketching

Here is an amazing sight: the hanging bridge over London Wall.

London Wall, hanging bridge. 24 May 2023, about 1pm, 7″ x 10″ in Sketchbook 13

The large building in the centre of the picture is City Tower, 40 London Wall. In front of it is a demolition site where City Place House used to be. The bridge used to connect to City Place House. Now this building has gone, the bridge hangs in space.

In my previous drawing I sketched while listening to the guitar music of Hidè Takemoto. For this drawing, the acoustic accompaniment was mostly percussion. The building site was active. Spasmodic grinding and crashing signalled the removal of concrete. Metallic hammering came from scaffolding under construction.

The big red grid on the right of my picture was hauled upwards and out of sight before I finished drawing it. It was going to be part of…

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Odilon Redon: Christ et ses disciples (c1905)

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Post date May 29, 2023
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Odilon Redon, *Le Christ et ses disciples*, Signed Odilon Redon (lower right), Oil on canvas, 12 3/4 by 9 5/8 in., 32.5 by 24.5 cm, Painted circa 1905, Image Source: Sotheby’s

“The present work draws on the theme of discipleship and the divine nature of Christ rather than a specific episode of the New Testament. Though he was not an orthodox Christian, Redon mixed in Catholic circles and was clearly attracted to the figure of Christ who features frequently at this time.”
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Odilon Redon at wikiwand

Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho, ‘Decorative panels’, in Odilon Redon
and Andries Bonger: 36 works from the Van Gogh Museum collection,
Amsterdam 2022, FREE PDF HERE

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Odilon Redon at Sotheby’s

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My 20 Books of Summer 2023

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Post date May 29, 2023
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Terrific effort!!

Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More

Here’s my summer reading list, now I’m all set up to take part again in Cathy’s annual 20 books of summer challenge.

My first five selections were inspired by reading The Shelf, a 2014 book by Phyllis Rose subtitled Adventures in Extreme Reading. I’ve been much-derided for enjoying this book by my children – reading is hardly bass-jumping – but the premise really appeals to me. Rose went to the New York state library, and picked a shelf (almost) at random, pledging to read her way through it. The book was a fascinating exploration of the results of this exercise, and took her away from reading directed by reviews, hype and the canon.

So, off I went to Dulwich Library in South London, and picked up 5 random books off the very first shelf, comprising authors from ABB to ALL.

I know next to nothing about these…

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Autoportrait Day 340~ Dana Scruggs

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Post date May 29, 2023
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The Misty Miss Christy

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

American photographer Dana Scruggs

Self Portrait, 2020 / Inkjet print / Image: 28″x38-1/8″ / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

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Marie Berrio: A Universe of One (2018)

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Post date May 27, 2023
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Marie Berrio, A Universe of One (2018), Collage, watercolor, and charcoal on canvas, Image Source: Whitney Museum of American Art

Hat Tip

Many thanks to Deborah J. Brasket for introducing me to this artist in the post Maria Berrio and the Art ofMyth-Making

“María Berrío”. The Georgia Review.

Maria Berrio at wikiwand

Marie Berrio, The collage artist creating women she wants to see in the world

At The Guardian: ‘Like magical realism’: María Berrío on her surreal collages

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Maria Berrio Portfolio – free pdf

Maria Berrio at Victoria Miro

Maria Berrio at Kohn Gallery

Maria Berrio at Christie’s

Maria Berrio at Sotheby’s

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~Sunnyside

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Autoportrait Day 336~ Eliza Ransonnet-Villez

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Post date May 26, 2023
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Very elegant!!

The Misty Miss Christy

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

Austrian painter Eliza Ransonnet-Villez
or Eliza Nemes-Ransonnet (1843-1899)

1. Self portrait, 1873 / Oil on canvas / Hungarian National Museum Historical Gallery, Budapest

2. Self portrait, 1878 / Oil on canvas / Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

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Poetry West Cornwall (and local history)

The Seasons being Out of Joint

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Post date May 26, 2023
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Three ladies settle in front of the Portugese Coffee House
in Market Jew Street.
I'm glad in a way,they are only taking drinks.
A teapot heralds a certain degree of bourgeois comfort, whilst the lady on the left sips her milkshake like a teenager.
They seem oblivious to the marauding prospect of seagulls.
The effect this sunshine spell on older skin doesn't bother them.
Above pound-stretcher a gull stretches his wings.
The black and yellow pennants flutter wildly in the in the incipient breeze.
A single-decker spreads a cascade of pollutants.
The outspread Guardian announces Johnson to be referred to the police by his own lawyers.
To me it feels like a temporary delicate interregnum.

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