Elements & Principles

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Yayoi Kusama, in her New York studio, 1960

Whitney Museum of American Art 

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Ekaterina Boguslavskaya  -  https://www.instagram.com/boguskatya  -  https://www.facebook.com/bogusekat  -  https://www.artstation.com/bogusekat

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Beau Travail (1999) dir. Claire Denis

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In the old days if someone had a secret they didn’t want to share…you know what they did? They went up a mountain, found a tree, carved a hole in it, and whispered the secret into the hole. Then they covered it with mud. And leave the secret there forever.

In The Mood for Love (2000) dir. Wong Kar-wai

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Quiche Font Family

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Frog on a Tile (detail)

Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro

1. private collection/Lisbon/photo cjmn

2. http://doreytiles.pt/

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe, likely independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.

The publication of Copernicus’ model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making an important contribution to the Scientific Revolution.

Copernicus was born and died in Royal Prussia, a region that had been part of the Kingdom of Poland since 1466. A polyglot and polymath, he obtained a doctorate in canon law and was also a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economist. In 1517 he derived a quantity theory of money – a key concept in economics – and in 1519 he formulated an economic principle that later came to be called Gresham’s law.

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The Fall (2006) dir. Tarsem Singh

Costume design by Eiko Ishioka

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Demetre Chiparus (1886-1947) - Thais, circa 1925.  Patinated, gilt, silver and cold-painted bronze, ivory, onyx base; 22 ½ in. (57.2 cm.) high; 25 ½ in. (64.8 cm.) long.  

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Fruit postcard, Paul Huf, 1983

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Daily Express Building, Fleet Street (1929-31) by Owen Williams and H.O. Ellis & Clarke

Former home of the Daily Express newspaper on Fleet Street, originally designed by Ellis & Clarke. Owen Williams was bought in to re-design the scheme, adding a concrete frame and the black vitrolite cladding to the design.

Modernist London

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Salima El Mahraoui and Patrice.K photographed by Mous Lamrabat, 2019

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Nvard Yerkanian

Italy-based, Armenian graphic designer and illustrator Nvard Yerkanian pays homage to her home country with an ongoing series of minimalist illustrations inspired by Soviet Modernist architecture. “It is an ode to the architectural heritage that is either lost or unfairly undervalued,” she explains. “The main aim of the project is to reveal the beauty and value of soviet-modernism to the indifferent public through the magic of colors that accentuate the simple yet fantastic forms of these monuments.”

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Dostoevsky Drama Theatre 

When the Dostoevsky Drama Theatre was built in Veliky Novgorod in the 1980s, it looked like nothing the city had ever seen before, here are some images of the amazing structure captured by Egor Rogalev.

“Ugly”, “surrealist”, “cosmic”, “out of this world” — this is how people usually describe the Dostoevsky Novgorod Academic Drama Theatre, a building sat on the embankment of the Volkhov River, a few kilometres away from the city’s old-world Kremlin. Veliky Novgorod is considered to be the “cradle of Russia”. The city celebrated its 1,150th birthday in 2009 and continues to attract tourists who come to see its Old Russian church architecture and postcard silhouette of the Kremlin — red brick walls and canopied towers framed with parapets.