my-ear-trumpet: treselegant: National Police Gazette...
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1246 Ma lin…. Listening to the wind in the pines.
1246 Ma lin…. Listening to the wind in the pines.
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A Scholar in a Meadow, Chinese Song Dynasty, 11th century.
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El Greco. Lamentation. I have two dates for this, 1576 or...
El Greco. Lamentation. I have two dates for this, 1576 or 1598…
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Fan Lung. An Arhat in the forest (12th century). Freer Gallery,...
Fan Lung. An Arhat in the forest (12th century). Freer Gallery, Washington DC.
Arhat (Sanskrit: अर्हत arhat; Pali: arahant), in Buddhism, signifies a spiritual practitioner who has realized certain high stages of attainment. The implications of the term vary based on the respective schools and traditions.
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momentry: Isadora Duncan on the Lido in Venice (Raymond Duncan...
Isadora Duncan on the Lido in Venice (Raymond Duncan 1903)
“To seek in nature the fairest forms and to find the movement which expresses the soul in these forms—this is the art of the dancer. … My inspiration has been drawn from trees, from waves, from clouds, from the sympathies that exist between passion and the storm.”
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And then we saw the daughter of the minotaur. Leonora...
And then we saw the daughter of the minotaur.
Leonora Carrington, 1953.
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poisonwasthecure: The Greeks and Trojans Claiming the Body of...
The Greeks and Trojans Claiming the Body of Patrocles (detail)
Antoine Wiertz
1836
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Oldřich Kulhánek was born on the 26th of February 1940, in...
Oldřich Kulhánek was born on the 26th of February 1940, in Prague. From 1958 to 1964 In 1971 he was arrested by the StB (the Czechoslovak Secret Police) and was accused that with his prints of 1968–1971, he had disgraced the representatives of the communist countries (in particular his images of the face of Stalin). This Kafka-esque situation was to continue until 1972 and on the 5th of July 1973, he was tried in court. At this farce, like in a scene out of the writer Hašek’s “Good Soldier Schweik”, eleven of his prints were sentenced by the judge to be destroyed, i.e. burnt. However the “gentlemen” of the court, did no such thing, and kept the prints for themselves – which was tantamount to government sanctioned theft. Kulhánek later commented “I realised that one’s situation in life, even if a tragic one, never lacks a touch of humour – though, usually very black humour!” Despite the toughness of the regime, thanks to a number of friends in the United States, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria and France, he did not lose contact with the European After the collapse of the communist dictatorship, in 1989, the situation in Czechoslovakia In addition to his art and teaching, one of his many accomplishments is that he created the designs of the new Czech Banknotes, which was a commission that came with a great deal Oldřich Kulhánek, presently lives and works in Prague, and is the President of the
he studied at the Prague Academy of Applied Arts, in the studio of Professor Karel Svolinský. The years of his apprenticeship there, provided the foundation and inspiration of his artistic career.
and world art scene, during these his darkest years.
and later the Czech Republic changed irrevocably; artists (and the nation at large) were finally free to express themselves and travel. Following the changes he was later invited to give a series of workshops at various universities in the United States as a visiting professor (such as the University of Houston – Clear Lake, Texas, the Art Center – New Smyrna Beach, Florida).
of prestige. He has also become one of the principal designers of Czech stamps, which has included designing a stamp of the present President of the Czech Republic: Mr. Václav Klaus, among other Czech personalities.
Hollar Foundation. (from the artist’s own site)
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the favorite music piece of the night (so far)… Stan Getz...
the favorite music piece of the night (so far)… Stan Getz and Kenny Barron doing First Song (for Ruth).
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Title: A Daimyo’s wife and her attendants fording a river...
Title: A Daimyo’s wife and her attendants fording a river in a palanquin
Creator: Toyokuni, Utagawa (1769-1825)
Date: 1794
Note: One frame from triptych
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mediumaevum: A zairja (also...
A zairja (also transliterated za’irajah, zairajah and zairdja) was a device used by medieval Arab astrologers to generate ideas by mechanical means. The name may derive from “a mixture of the Persian words for horoscope, astronomical table”
Ibn Khaldun describes it as: “A branch of the science of letter magic, practiced among the authorities on letter magic, is the technique of finding out answers from questions by means of connections existing between the letters of the expressions used in the question. They imagine that these connections can form the basis for knowing the future happenings they want to know.“ He suggests that rather than being supernatural it works “from an agreement in the wording of question and answer…with the help of the technique called the technique of breaking down.” (ie algebra).
It used the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet to signify 28 categories of philosophic thought. By combining number values associated with the letters and categories, new paths of insight and thought were created.
*A manuscript in Rabat recounts Ibn Khaldun’s introduction to the machine by Al-Marjānī in 1370 (772 AH), and claims that it was a traditional and ancient science. When Ibn Khaldun expressed skepticism, the pair asked the instrument how old it was, and was told by the machine it was invented by the prophet Idris (identified with the Biblical Enoch).
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mediumaevum: Homo Zodiacus in: ‘Guild Book of the Barber...
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The Ancient Egyptians were aware of the significance of the Sun,...
The Ancient Egyptians were aware of the significance of the Sun, Moon and Stars as shown in this papyrus painting. This calendar is a wonderful example of the mythology of Ancient Egypt. The Egyptian Calendar was originally discovered in Temple of Dandara in Luxor.
In this calendar the 12 signs of the Zodiac are in the center, along with people and animals. Supporting the zodiac is the god Horus (8 times) and 4 female goddesses. Horus represents the 4 directions, the goddess represent the 4 seasons. The months are represented by the adding the goddesses and Horus, for a total of twelve. If we add the total number of hands it is 24, or the hours in the day. If we take the number of fingers(10) and multiply it by 12 (8 Horus, 4 goddesses) the answer is 120. Dividing 120 by 2 we get 60 - 60 for the 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 for the 60 seconds in a minute. The hieroglyphics on the side tell the story.
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worldpaintings: Teun Hocks (b. 1947) For over a quarter of a...
Teun Hocks (b. 1947)
For over a quarter of a century, the Dutch photographer and painter Teun Hocks has been performing as the “everyman” in his photographs, inventing scenes that are confrontations with failure, puzzlement and wonder. His single-figure studies are pictures of a middle-aged man caught in variously absurd circumstances.
Hocks’ photographs are cinematic in their process and mood. First, he constructs scenes in his studio and takes a black and white photograph. He then hand colors the photographs with transparent oil paint, taking precise care in the coloring in order to create specific emotions and atmosphere. The accumulation of these elements makes the environments seem like surreal portals.
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"Worringer on Egyptian Art…. Every observer of Egyptian culture has remarked that by Oriental..."
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- Worringer of Egyptian Art (english edition 1928) p. 5
Worringer on Egyptian Art….
Every observer of Egyptian culture has remarked that by Oriental standards sex plays an absolutely in significant part in it.
”- Worringer of Egyptian Art (english edition 1928) p. 5
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Probably from Karnak, Thebes, Egypt25th Dynasty, about 750-700...
Probably from Karnak, Thebes, Egypt
25th Dynasty, about 750-700 BC
Scribe of ‘The Divine Adoratrice Amenirdis’
Peshuper adopts one of the classic poses of an Egyptian scribe, seated at work with a papyrus spread over his lap. The two cakes of ink that form the central part of a scribal palette are visible on his left shoulder.
On his right arm is written the cartouche of his patroness, the ‘Divine Adoratrice Amenirdis’. These women, also known as ‘god’s wives’, became the focus of the cult of Amun in Thebes during the Third Intermediate Period (about 1070-661 BC), as the male high priests were becoming increasingly involved in the political dealings of the time. A whole bureaucracy grew up around the divine adoratrices, and many of these officials were to build some of the largest tombs ever seen in Egypt.
The statue probably came, like others of this official, from a chapel in the temple enclosure of Karnak, but we cannot be certain.
The statue is an excellent example of how the artists of the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Dynasties (about 747-525 BC) adopted styles from earlier eras; the wig is in the style of the Ramesside period, and the pose had been in use from the Old Kingdom (about 2613-2160 BC). The two rolls of fat in Peshuper’s abdomen are a sign of his prosperity.
Height: 52.500 cm
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"Didactic poem written by Duauf to his son Pepi….”It is a misfortune to become a soldier (…) for ..."
“Didactic poem written by Duauf to his son Pepi….”It is a misfortune to become a soldier (…) for welfare consists of only in attention to books by day and reading at night” (Worringer, s. 7)”
- Worringer on Egypt, p. 7
- Worringer on Egypt, p. 7
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a new day: laws of Ma'at
a new day: laws of Ma'at:
Ma’at translated is “what is”.
0. Law of Amen (Amen Ra) You were created in the likeness of a peace which cannot be disturbed. Regain your original state of peace to attain to your reason for coming into existence—the enjoyment of life.
1. Law of Ausar (Osiris) Your nature is an unconquerable…
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missfolly: Girl with Cherries, attributed to Giovanni Ambrogio...
Girl with Cherries, attributed to Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis
Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis (c. 1455 – c. 1508) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Milan, who is known for having collaborated with Leonardo da Vinci, and with his own brother Evangelis, in the altarpiece of the Virgin of the Rocks for the Confraternity of the Conception. Born in Preda, he gained a reputation as a portraitist, including miniatures, for the court of Ludovico Sforza.
Before emperor Maximilian I agreed to marry Ludovico Sforza’s niece, he requested a portrait (painted by Predis) to get an idea of her appearance. After her wedding, Predis followed her to Innsbruck in 1493. After a year he returned to Milan, where he designed coins for the mint, designed and supervised tapestry works, and prepared stage scenery. In 1502 he produced his only surviving signed and dated work, a portrait of the Emperor Maximilian. Much of Predis’s artistic output remains in dispute. The side panels for the Virgin of the Rocks, now in the National Gallery, London were stated by the brothers to have been painted by them during the legal dispute over the altarpiece, and this is accepted by art historians.[1]
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