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Valentin Serov (1865 – 1911) 

“Abduction of Europa” 1910

[jugendmagazine]

JUGEND | October 2, 1897. N° 40.

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Houtouwan - Abandoned fishing village in China [1400x974]

[millpondpottery]

Wood fired stamped yunlmi.

[psikonauti]

Cat,1966 by Rinjirō Hasegawa

Apparently it took 6 years to complete this painting. The artist did not paint the subject unless he was actually looking at the target….

In “Memories of Tallow” by Jirojiro, he wrote that the cat takes this pose and sleeps like this for only about 9 minutes on only a few days in mid-September each year. It seems to depend on the temperature and cat’s feeling. Therefore, “I have to wait until September next year to continue the painting.” He was so keen to show the beauty of the cat’s that he forgot to paint the whiskers. He added whiskers on one side, but while waiting for the next year, Taro seems to have died from old age.

[psikonauti]

Anemones 1830-1835 

by Untei Sekine

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Hilma af Klint - Primordial Chaos, No. 25, Group I, 1906-07, oil on canvas, 52.5 x 37.5 cm 

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Fish and butterflies - Winslow Homer - c.1900 - via The Clark

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Anemones and Lovers, Faye Wei Wei

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Church “Kirche am Lietzensee” (1956-59) in Berlin, Germany, by Paul Baumgarten

[spring2000]

compare + contrast for the style con: series 7 hrvoje majer (2012) x “high camp” by bruce weber for w magazine (1997)

[psikonauti]

Located on the French riviera at the tip of Saint Jean Cap Ferrat is the magnificent Santo Sospir villa. Constructed from 1931 - 1935 in the regional Mediterranean style the villa was used by Alec and Francine Weiseiller as a holiday retreat. From 1950 Jean Cocteau was a frequent guest for almost a decade and started painting the walls resulting in the extraordinary monumental artwork.

“When I stayed at Santo Sospir in the summer of 1950, I hastily decorated a wall. Matisse told me that if you decorate one wall you should do the others as well. He was right. Picasso opened and closed all the doors. All that was left to do was to paint the doors. But the doors lead into rooms. The rooms have walls. And if the doors are painted, the walls have an empty look. I spent the entire summer of 1950 working on ladders. An old Italian worker prepared my pigments, immersed in fresh milk. A young woman lives at Santo Sospir. I didn’t need to dress the walls. I had to draw on their surface. That’s why I made line frescoes, with a few colours that echoed tattoo art. Santo Sospir is the tattooed villa.” 

[aura-eden]

Joan Miró, Two Figures and a Dragonfly (1936) and Woman Doing Her Hair before a Mirror (1938)

[nemfrog]

Figs. 25-28. Measurement of intelligence by drawings. 1905.

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