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[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko # 16 (Orange, Purple, Orange), 1960  Oil on canvas 94 ½ x 70 inches 240 x 177.8 cm © 1998 by Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, Artists  Rights Society (ARS), New York  

[dailyrothko]

There are about three scans of this painting I know of, all bad. It’s likely an issue of it not being photographed for years but the pictorial descriptive we read don’t quite fit for any version. This one has orange, and purple but it seems magenta. It’s a bit distressed. There’s a dark version and a light one, very pink. The light one is more lower resolution than this.

I suspect this is the closest of the three, all are gallery sources. Someday we’ll get a good one, and i don’t post this one (and many others) much as i wait for better materials, but occasionally it’s nice to look at something we don’t see all the time, however imperfect.

[occultbleed]

The komusō (literally “priest of nothingness” or “monk of emptiness”) were a group of Zen Buddhist mendicant monks who wandered the roads of Edo period Japan. They would play elaborate tunes on their bamboo flutes as they begged for alms, their faces (and thus, their ego) completely concealed by a distinctive hood woven from straws or reeds. Unsurprisingly, many were recruited as spies or were actually ninja or ronin in disguise, and eventually their temples and their schools were abolished for meddling in material affairs instead of spiritual ones.

[sonimage1965]

Andreas Feininger

Coney Island, 1948.

[art-and-design-black-and-white]

Gio Ponti

[punkrockhistory]

49 years ago today

Johnny Rotten and Johnny Ramone backstage at the Roundhouse in London before a Ramones show (with Talking Heads and The Saints as support acts) on June 6, 1977.

Photo by Jill Furmanovsky

[100punksrule]

Bad Brains 1979.  I love this picture.

[jcsnyc3]

Hard Headed Woman Us Warren and The Genghis Pea

[lostfunzones]

Robert Smith photographed by his wife Mary Poole.

[jazz-improvisation]

Gerry Mulligan - The Lonely Night (Night Lights 1965 Instrumental Version)

@YouTube

[academic-vampire]

𝔯𝔢𝔴𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔬 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔰𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔱𝔢𝔯

[jcsnyc3]

Just Loving You Small Society

[kafkasapartment]

Untitled, 1960-1970. Ferdinando Scianna. Gelatin silver

[joeinct]

New York City, Photo by Helen M. Stummer, 1976-80

[kitschmelange]

by Mike Strouth from Things to do While Getting Well (1971)

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Star Trek (1967)

[japaneseaesthetics]

Itō Jakuchū, Coquilles, 1761-1765, Tōkyō, Musée des collections impériales (Sannomaru Shōzōkan), Agence de la Maison impériale.

[babeimgonnaleaveu]

Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival, Monterey California, 1967.

“I was in the audience and I was appalled! It wasn’t the sexuality of the show that appalled me, it was what he did to his instrument. Here he was throwing lighter fluid on his guitar and setting it on fire… and… I had never seen anything like this in my life.” - Michelle Phillips, member of The Mamas and the Papas.