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Gustav Klimt Philosophie 1899–1907. Destroyed 1945

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Fragments of Realities.

Paintings by Italian artist, Marco Tirelli.

Tirelli’s abstract paintings suggest a metaphysical time and place. In explaining the roots of his work, Tirelli speaks about growing up in Rome: “I never felt entirely a part of it. And this has had a big effect on my work because I’ve always sensed a tension between places […] and what lies unseen beyond.” His monumental canvases are rendered with a soft sfumato and the highlights and shadows are created using a pointillist technique with airbrushes. (Text Source)

Tirelli is represented by Louise Alexander Gallery.

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A scythe is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or reaping crops. The scythe was invented in about 500 BC and appeared in Europe during the 12th and 13th centuries. Initially used mostly for mowing grass, it replaced the sickle as the tool for reaping crops by the 16th century.

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Photographic images from the interior of a German UB-110 submarine, c. 1918.

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[linactuel]

The last bookstore in Los Angeles.

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William A. Radford - Polygons and Miters, “Cyclopedia of Construction”, 1909.

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Alchemy Basil Valentine, Keys of Wisdom

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Hermann Eaither Ryff. Book of Geometric Büxenmeisterey. 1547.

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Sailing Vessels, 1561–65.

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‘’Unfathomable’’  New, Intricate Work and Exhibition from   Carol Prusa

Opens at Alan Avery Art Company (gallery) in Atlanta on October 2, 2015, currently at the University of North Carolina-Asheville gallery and is on view there through Sept. 17, 2015

I create worlds sustained by logic internal to the work; a download-of-sort of what I feel like to be alive, at least in this moment, while consuming contested cosmologies.  Merging pre-industrial craft methods with contemporary strategies, curved surfaces are articulated to create liminal skins between known and unknown. These thresholds express my sense of euphoria when glimpsing the interconnectedness that surrounds and binds. I look to mathematicians and scientists for grand theories and poets for language to express the strangeness and vital beauty of what is possible. Like the actor Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of a Third Kind, I resolve to make the most rigorously articulated pile of mashed potatoes I can sublimate from the unfathomable.

Recent work consists of fiberglass forms, acrylic circles, acrylic hemispheres and spheres ranging from bowl-sized to five feet in diameter, articulated with silverpoint drawing and ground graphite washes heightened with white, often punctuated by patterns of light (from fiber topics, internal programmed lights, video or reflections on aluminum leaf). ( 2 photos by Terri Covington Dilling )

Many thanks Carol.

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reblog from cerceos:

Cao Hui - If I Were 

Via - iGNANT

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Like organic statues

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Wenceslas Hollar, The Greek gods, N.d.

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(via Space, time, and deity : the Gifford lectures at Glasgow, 1916-1918 : Alexander, Samuel, 1859-1938 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive)

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Robert Gumpert: Detroit Michigan, 1982-1992 - Race, Class and Capital

1. 1982: Detroit. Shift change at the Firestone plant.

2. 1982, Detroit. On the line.

3. 1982 Detroit. Check cashing window

4. 1982 Detroit. Family at the unemployment office

5. 1983, Detroit/Dearborn. Workers at Ford’s River Rouge plant

6. 1986, Detroit. Server, downtown cafe.

7. 1986 Detroit/Dearborn. The Ford River Rouge plant - once it employed 150,000 line workers.  Raw materials for steel came in one end and finished cars out the other.

8. 1986 Detroit along the Detroit River.

9. 1992 Detroit. Old GM headquarters surrounded by burnt out and abondoned buildings.

10. 1992 Detroit. One of Detroit’s many churches, a source of faith, hope and community action.

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* I really can’t explain the fascination and tenderness i feel about Detroit, never been there and probably never will. 

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The Temperance Society

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"Black Abstraction", by Georgia O’Keefe,1927.

"Nous exprimons [obscurément] le monde entier à l’infini, chacun de nous l’exprime, et le monde n’existe pas hors de nous tous qui l’exprimons. Mais chacun de nous a une petite région privilégiée, ce que Leibniz appelle son département, sa zone, son quartier. Qu’est-ce que c’est? C’est la part du monde que nous exprimons clairement. […] Que j’ai un département c’est à dire que mon âme exprime clairement une petite région du monde, c’est la raison suffisante d’avoir un corps." — Gilles Deleuze, Leibniz, 12/05/1987