MOHOCKS @mohocks - Tumblr Blog

Moseley Street, Manchester.

November 2016. Barrie Leach.

Limited edition run of 10 A3 numbered prints available, Giclée archival print on Hahnemühle Bright White Photo Rag paper.

£40

Contact me for availability, payment and postage details at [email protected]

mohocks

Prints for saaaaale.

art-of-swords-deactivated201705

Bronze Letter Opener

Dated: 1890

Culture: French

Measurements: overall length 10 ½" (26.67cm)

This French ‘dagger’ letter opener is crafted of chased doré bronze (or ormolu, signifying ground or pounded gold, is an English term, used since the 18th century for the technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold–mercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and for objects finished in this way. The mercury is driven off in a kiln leaving behind a gold-colored veneer. The French refer to this technique as bronze doré, while in English, it is known as “gilt bronze”).

This instrument features a handle in the form of a robed skeleton standing atop a cross guard in the form of a bat with wings outstretched. Emblems of fleeting time and death, the hour glass and the owl, adorn the scabbard. Also, the scabbard is engraved and dated “R. Gourmel / Paris / 1890”.

ronaldcmerchant

DRACULA (1931)

ryanscumbag666

atomic-chronoscaph

Cloud City - Concept art by Ralph McQuarrie (1978-1979)

70sscifiart

Syd Mead

escapologie

cafecoton

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. - Jean-Luc Godard

giacomobagnara

Personal / Black Swan

3vidently80s

historical-nonfiction

Soviet Fabrics from the 1920s and 1930s

There are nods to Russia’s imperialist past, with the lush colors and the style of the imagery in some designs. The modern communist nation is clearly visible throughout. The CCCP and red star are common motifs. The other main image is modernization: factories, trains, machinery, and hardworking citizens carrying everything through. Unfortunately these colorful and aesthetic fabric patterns were replaced soon enough with more streamlined communist propaganda designs.