DontLetBugsBite

🌟✨ Art//Literature//Music Blog🌟

[ymutate]

Sophie Grandval - Dandelions, 1990.

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday 

Today we are highlighting Islamic and Persian decorative art from the design portfolio Ornamental Treasures: a Collection of Designs from India, China, Japan, Italy, France, Germany &c. of all styles and times comprising 100 plates with explanatory letterpress by German architect Heinrich Dolmetsch (1846-1908), published ca. 1900 in New York by Bruno Hessling. The plates presented here were printed by Stuttgart lithographers Julius Hoffmann, Emil Hochdanz, Max Seeger.

Explanation of the plates we are featuring today:

1.      Mosaic work and glazed clay work. 2.      Architectural ornaments. 3.      Ornaments in wood and metal. 4.      Weaving, embroidery, and painting. 5.      Architecture. 6.      Wainscot in glazed clay.

View more posts about decorative arts and pattern books. 

–Sarah, Special Collections Senior Graduate Intern  

[parsabad]

Shah abbasi karavansara/ Kermanshah/ Iran

Photographer: Farzad menati

[newguineatribalart]

Aboriginal Dot Art by Various Artists

[viktorbezic]

Aleksander Znosko Studio 

[nemfrogfilms]

In orbit. The Earth In Motion. 1936.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Nemfrog Films Top 10 / 2020 / #5

[tapireye-deactivated20220708]

Vintage Jean Paul Gaultier Tops Inspired by Paintings:

‘The Three Graces’ by Peter Paul Rubens ( 1635 )

‘The Creation of Adam’ by Michelangelo ( c. 1512 )

‘The Birth of Venus’ by Sandro Botticelli ( c. 1480s )

[garadinervi]

Karel Teige, 1928 [MoMA, New York, NY]

[sumfiend]

old iranian cassette tapes: marjan, googoosh

[kojad]

[s-h-o-w-a]

The rooftops of Ginza, 1958

by Seiichi Nagano

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

“I’m been walking around like a dream.”

Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins, 1982)

[tapireye-deactivated20220708]

Liv.e by Walter W. Brady

Styling / Art Direction: Ruth Thao

Hair / Makeup: Fesa Nu

[huariqueje]

Winter, Drawings   -     Slawomir Elsner  , 2011

German,b.1976  -

color pencil on paper, 15 x 21 in.

[nietp]

Boucherouite rugs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) 

[creativeanchorage]

I was going through my mom’s stamp collection and automatically started organizing them in categories.  Here’s nature: flowers & animals.

[jareckiworld]

František Hudeček — Lamps in the Fog  (oil on cardboard, 1946)