Desert Archipelago

.: drifting cultural sands :. IG: @robbiesugg

[newloverofbeauty]

Francis Bacon: Two Figures (1952). Detail

[paintedout]

Zheng Chongbin

[gestaltjean]

I Like America and America Likes Me

Joseph Beuys

[oldbooklover]

fire by utagawa toyokuni , woodblock print dated 1832

[editor-in-grief]

Over 4,500 years old rare Egyptian beadnet dress, dating to the reign of King Khufu (2551–2528 BCE). The dress was meticulously reassembled from around 7,000 beads found in an undisturbed burial, making it the earliest surviving example of a beaded overgarment, once shimmering in blue and turquoise tones inspired by lapis lazuli and turquoise.

[mozertone]

The Finding of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Body, 2020

painting by Italian artist Nicola Verlato (b. 1965-)

[worldscoolest]

Thomas Hoepker

[1five1two]

Incised piece of conch shell depicting a seated noble with a cigar in his mouth. Maya civilization, ca. 600-900 AD. Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

[christianrichardrice]

Vincent Van Gogh, Patch of Grass, 1887.

[urgetocreate]

Oil on canvas

[robert-hadley]

The atelier of Paul Cézanne. Photo by René Stoeltie

Source: Living in Provence by Taschen

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[crocanti]

[miscosasalberto]

[desertarchipelago]

Ragini Bhow : Wood Entity, 2023, 24 x 30 inches, aluminum IG: @raginibhow

[artifacts-archive]

Obsidian Mirror

Aztec

1200-1521 CE (mirror) 16th century (frame)

Obsidian, a volcanic glass, was used to make cutting tools as well as delicate ornaments. It was valued for its reflective qualities and employed in the form of mirrors for divining. Such mirrors were associated with powerful rulers and divinities: the name of a major Aztec god, Tezcatlipoca, means "smoking mirror." The gilded wood frame of this example likely dates to the colonial period and is carved with alternating flower and step-fret symbols.

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[mmagpye]

from the Pattern Book of Samuel Fry, 1836

[almoststardust]

The Westbury Horse, 1939 by Eric Ravilious

Train Landscape, 1940 by Eric Ravilious