Modern Art before Modern Art

[fragrantblossoms]

Maurice Tabard. Lis, 1929.

[thomasmartinnutt]

Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack. Reflected Light Composition, 1923 

[rolypolypellmell]

Thylacine mandible pincushion, made by Emily Ferrar ca. 1900.

[lesenfantsducinema]

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Lecture Diagram 11: Spheres at Different Distances from the Eye

[portalibis]

Perspectiva literaria, c. 1567 by Hans Lencker

Telegram / Facebook / Sacred Ibis fb group

[majorminorminormajor]

henry draper. glass positive of the sun. 1876. 

[equatorjournal]

hilma af klint

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Tantric painting from Rajasthan, India.

[pwlanier]

Beauty Revealed

1828

watercolor on ivory miniature

Sarah Goodridge

According to descendants of the statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852), this miniature is a self-portrait Goodridge made for him.

The Metropolitan

[nobrashfestivity]

Alexander Rodchenko, Points, Composition 119, 1920 

[zurich-snows]

Jakob Ottonowitsch von Narkiewitsch-Jodko, Fluidic photograph, Discharge of a Positive Current, 1883. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler.

As cited in pictures from the Walker Art Center essay series on paranormal photography:

https://walkerart.org/magazine/what-is-a-photographer-if-not-a-paranormal-investigator-in-conversation-with-patricia-voulgaris

https://walkerart.org/magazine/i-dont-pretend-to-have-the-answers-rik-garrett-and-kirlian-photography/https://walkerart.org/magazine/every-picture-is-a-ghost-photography-and-the-invisible/

[archiveofaffinities]

Georges Vantongerloo, Study, Brussels, 1918

[deathandmysticism]

Joannes de Boria Moralische Sinn-Bilder, 1698

[artspotting]

Iron wire explosion pattern, Anonymus 1798

[slickwhippet]

Richard Dadd, Songe de la Fantasie (1864), a pen, ink and watercolor version of The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke (1855-64)   via Fitzwilliam Museum

[transoptic]

Anonymous tantric drawing. Rajasthan, India. ca. 20th Cent.

[yama-bato]

Ocean waves from Momoyogusa–Flowers of a Hundred Generations (ca. 1909–1910) by Kamisaka Sekka. Original from the The New York Public Library. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.