Mixtape

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Andrej Barčík :: Biela figúra / White Figure, 1974

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Orest Dubay :: Sediaci akt / Sitting Act, 1945

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Ellsworth Kelly :: Window. Museum of Modern Art, Paris 1949.

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To whom it may concern: this is awesome. 

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Alexej von Jawlensky :: Aleksandr Sacharov, 1909

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Honoré Daumier

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John Constable :: Rainstorm over the Sea, 1824-1828

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Image from page 542 of "Catalogue of Sharp & Smith : importers, manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in surgical instruments, deformity apparatus, artificial limbs, artificial eyes, elastic stockings, trusses, crutches, supporters, galvanic and far

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Atomized Modernity

Short animation shows 100 years of architecture evolution in Czechoslovakia. It is a story of large housing complexes, individual vs collective styles, political influence on architecture during the century. Journey starts in Bata's Zlín, continues in Ostrava Poruba through the story of Most city, building of Petržalka in 70s, Velká Ohrada in 80s and ends in contemporary suburbia. It is based on book „2x100mil.m2“ by Martin Hejl & Collective, which is the main exhibit of the Czech pavillon at La Biennale di Venezia 2014.

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Kamal Rasool :: Flamingods (Lauren Poor)

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Rachel Hodgson :: Shapeshifting

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In 1692 an artist known only as “A. Boogert” sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two, or three parts of water. The premise sounds simple enough, but the final product is almost unfathomable in its detail and scope.

Spanning nearly 800 completely handwritten (and painted) pages, Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau, was probably the most comprehensive guide to paint and color of its time. According to Medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel who translated part of the introduction, the color book was intended as an educational guide. The irony being there was only a single copy that was probably seen by very few eyes.

It’s hard not to compare the hundreds of pages of color to its contemporary equivalent, the Pantone Color Guide, which wouldn’t be published for the first time until 1963.

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Steve Cutts :: Man Everything wrong with humanity in a short animated film. 

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Jaroslav Rössler :: Skylight (1922)

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Untitled (Woman smoking cigarette), gelatin silver print

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Life may be compared to a piece of embroidery, of which, during the first half of his time, a man gets a sight of the right side, and during the second half, of the wrong. The wrong side is not so pretty as the right, but it is more instructive; it shows the way in which the threads have been worked together.

Arthur Schopenhauer