Pseudo Aesthetics

You know you like it even though you really shouldn't.

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

Roman sculpture of Isis made with black and white marble, 2nd century A.D., Wien Museum [1384×2962]

[artist-boldini]

Wild game in Gray tone, Giovanni Boldini

https://www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-boldini/wild-game-in-black

[zinaida-serebriakova]

Tata with vegetables, Zinaida Serebriakova

https://www.wikiart.org/en/zinaida-serebriakova/tata-with-vegetables-1923

[barcarole]

Sternschnuppen, Franz von Stuck, 1912.

[desimonewayland]

Edward Hald

‘Fyrverkeriskålen’ (Fireworks) vase, model no. 248

Engraved overlay coloured glass, designed 1921.

Produced by Orrefors Glassworks, Sweden

Having studied arts and started his career under Henri Matisse, Edward Hald’s long collaboration with Orrefors began in 1917. Despite Hald’s inexperience with glass, he soon understood the potential and properties of this material and applied his figurative compositions to Orrefors’ production.   

The  ‘Fireworks’ vase was first exhibited in 1913 at the Gothenburg Jubilee Exhibition, where it was an immediate success, and declared by the esteemed advocate of Swedish design, Erik Wettergren as 'Halds masterpiece’. The present version in deep blue glass is one of the most remarkable examples of the model, which was introduced in 1921.

via: Phillips

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

Wreath from Ur (gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian), 2500 BCE.[1600x1616]

[desimonewayland]

Oiva Toikka

Pair of ‘Pom Pom’ bottles, model no. N526

designed 1970, executed 1970-1972 Coloured glass.

Produced by Nuutajärvi Notsjö, Nuutajärvi, Finland.

via: Phillips

[jennrg]

(credit to the makers)

[desimonewayland]

Edward Hald

Ceiling light

circa 1937 Engraved coloured glass, patinated brass

Manufactured by Orrefors Glassworks, Sweden

via: Phillips

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

Reliquary arm of Saint Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, 1500s, Museu de São Roque, Portugal [574 x 1200]

[wherearewedamfino]

[kukashkin]

Bronzino

[arthistorycq]

Saturnalia (1783) by Antoine Callet

Happy Saturnalia! Celebrate wisely 

[desimonewayland]

Poul Henningsen

Unique chandelier 1932 - Designed as a wedding gift for Axel Madsen, who was then an employee at the Louis Poulsen’s sales department and worked together with Poul Henningsen between 1931-1933.

Painted copper, patinated brass, painted wood.

via: Phillips

[fyeahgriffins]

Title: Initial S: A Griffin and Rider Artist: Unknown Origin: German, Germany Date: about 1240 - 1250 Medium: Tempera colors and gold and silver leaf on parchment Description: “Playfully inventive, the artist transformed the opening letter S of Psalm 68 into a pink griffin. This dragonlike creature captures in its fearsome jaw a winged beast, which in turn bites the top of the griffin’s snout. The young man struggling on the griffin’s back twists as much as the letter itself, his actions emphasized by his billowing drapery. Within the tendrils of the vine scrolls that encircle the S, various objects–small animals, a small griffin, a doglike creature, and two heads attached to vines rather than to bodies–contribute to the sense of conflict. This struggle of intertwining forms introduces the cry for help in the psalm’s opening line at the bottom of the page: Salv[u]m me fac Deus q[uonia]m intraverunt aqu[a]e usq[ue] ad animam meam (Save me, oh God, for the waters come in unto my soul). In Christian liturgical practice, the psalms are repeated on a weekly basis according to a set program, the liturgy of the Divine Office. Illuminated psalters facilitated this recitation by signaling each of the eight major textual divisions with large initials. The large initial S marks one of those eight textual divisions in this psalter. ” Source: The Getty

[medievalart]

A few more wall paintings from Espoo Cathedral (Finland). This stone church was built in the 1480s and murals were painted in the 1510s. Biblical scenes and daily life of common people are portrayed in these wall paintings. They were  also meant to be instructive

July 2016

[desimonewayland]

Alvar Aalto

Rare ‘Café’ chair, model no. 10,68, designed for Rautatalo Café, Helsinki

circa 1954 Leather, brass.

“True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.”

via: Phillips

[frequencebariole]

David Plunkert - illustration