Beautiful
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Zhang Daqian: A guide to China’s most popular artist
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A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries
Catalan artist Maria Noguera Puig (1906-2002)
Self-portrait, c.1935 / Painting on canvas / Museu Comarcal de Manresa, Catalonia, Spain
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Lovely portrait!
“For its beauty, vivacity, freshness and lightness of palette,” Liotard wrote, “pastel painting is more beautiful than any other kind of painting.” Liotard is known for pressing pastel quite forcefully onto the paper to create extra brilliance in order to exaggerate these qualities. This peculiar technique and desire for luminosity is what set him apart from other artists working with pastel and makes his works unique.”
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Expert audio commentary on this portrait at St. Louis Art Museum
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Jean-Étienne Liotard at wikiwand
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Jean Étienne Liotard at Meisterdrucke
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I was introduced to this lovely pastel portrait in the post Jean-Étienne Liotard – Portrait of a Young Woman (c.1760) on the…
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Courtyard Gate, Devon, England
Always find wrought ironwork engaging- hen I remember my father used to make some.
Ich mochte gern dies atmospharisches Bilder
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Carl Schiesser (Karl Schießer) mit seiner Kamera, Aufnahme vermutlich zwischen 1912-1914 in Parramatta (Großraum Sydney), Fotograf unbekannt; Album Carl Schiesser, National Library of Australia, https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-153362071/view
Eine kurze Karriere auf See
Carl Schiesser aus Ochsenfurt hatte eine kurze Karriere als Schiffskoch. Sie kann nicht länger als zwei bis drei Jahre gedauert haben.
Der 1889 in Ochsenfurt (Unterfranken) geborene Schiesser ging nach Kochlehre und Militärdienst nach Australien.
Die Kosten für seine Überfahrt hat Schiesser wahrscheinlich auf dem NDL-Dampfer „Scharnhorst“ als Schiffskoch abgearbeitet. In Parramatta, Großraum Sydney lebt er bei Verwandten (Freunden?), wie viele Aufnahmen vom ihm nahelegen. Die meiste Zeit verbrachte er jedoch auf See. Er arbeitete als erster Schiffskoch (chief cook) auf dem Dampfer „Prinz Sigismund“.
Wir finden Schiesser auf Mannschaftlisten vom Dezember 1912 und März 1913. Im August 1914 war Schiesser immer noch (oder wieder) als Schiffskoch auf der „Prinz Sigismund“. Damit war seine Seefahrerkarriere auch schon…
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Franz Marc: The Foxes (1913)
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Franz Marc: The Painter Who Loved Horses
Franz Marc’s artist page at Guggenheim
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I enjoyed “Almost English”- chacun à son goût!
I’ve been having a bit of a binge on the M shelf: nothing to make a serious dent in it, but when I didn’t have room for Simon Mawer’s new novel Ancestry, I chose four books at random for the bedside table. I can’t imagine what possessed me to buy Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson and I abandoned it, but I enjoyed Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs (see my review); Andrew Miller’s Now We Shall Be Entirely Free is looking good so far, and Emily St John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel has turned out to be an excellent choice!
Quite apart from the subject matter, which is a splendid takedown of the amoral greed of neoliberalism, I really enjoyed the fractured narrative. The Glass Hotel is a cunningly structured jigsaw puzzle which reveals its interlocking parts over the course of its 300 pages. It’s a book that…
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Lovely!
“When, in 1893, Redon began to use colour, the nightmarish and macabre visions that had previously predominated in the drawings he called his Noirs gave way to a brighter vision of the world.
La Voile grise is thus emblematic of Redon’s lyrical seascapes in which he depicted small stranded boats, a theme he would later return to in dozens of paintings and pastels…As indicated by the sky shot through by a rainbow of dazzling multicoloured stripes, Redon shares with Mallarmé and the Symbolist poets the idea that Art should not describe the subject itself but rather the effect the subject produces. “He knew how to suggest an ambiance without spelling it out,” notes John Rewald, “how to indicate things without defining…
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December 23
A sip and a smoke on the back porch,
then its starts to snow;
it seems the night
has decided to number
its ghosts.
No snowflakes settle; beyond reproach,
all absolved — go, go, —
a cull of light;
as my birthday remembers
its lost.
Carol Ann Duffy (1955 -
December 23
pavlova and BBQ on the beach
the day full of light
and gives warmth
to all the cells
of my now
so many memories have rescinded
like missing snowflakes
that once came to my window
and momentarily settled
before melting away
Richard Scutter
Well interesting that I share a birthday with Carol Ann Duffy. And that she mentions the snow in relation to the passing years as people like ghosts are recalled before fading like disappearing flakes of snow.
It was snowing heavily when I was born. It was so cold, I got quite a shock…
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Doughboy & Other Poems
I’ve been reading “The Wasteland” recently so rather interested in decadence and pastiche.
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