[nevver]

Forest animals come dangerously close, Katrien De Blauwer

[enchantedbook]

"Under Milk Wood" by Emily Wood

[70sscifiart]

Lift off.

The images are chapter headings from a 1970 Ukranian children’s space book, but I think they work well in this order.

[70sscifiart]

Happy new year

[dailyclassicart]

Henry Pether - "Harbour scene at Moonlight"

[nemfrog]

Cold front. Science Activities 2. 1959.

[ymutate]

Theodor Severin Kittelsen (1857 – 1914) Norwegian

Skovtrold, 1899

[dailyclassicart]

Laura Makabresku - "The Flame of Contemplation"

[kevc]

[garadinervi]

Zdenek Košek, Untitled, (felt-tip pen and colored pencil on paper), 1990 [Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Estate Zdenek Košek. Photo: Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Joseph Banderet / Dist. GrandPalaisRmn]

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday

In 1990, Sebastian Carter (b. 1941), the producer of many exquisite fine-press publications at his Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge, England, printed this simple little pamphlet of Eight Buildings: Architectural Drawings, for Letterheadings et cetera in an edition of 175 copies with no explanatory text. No particular reason, just eight minimalist, decorative renderings of well-known and not so well-known buildings. It should be noted that Carter did study architecture and the fine arts at King's College, Cambridge.

Rampant Lions Press was established as a commercial press in 1949 by Sebastian's father Will Carter (1912–2001), although Will was printing under that imprint since he was 12. Sebastian Carter joined his father in the business in 1966, becoming a partner in 1971, and taking over the business in 1991. He closed the press in 2008 on his retirement. This small book, a gift from our late friend Jerry Buff (1931-2025), is a testament to the simple pleasure Sebastian Carter found in printing books.

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[lascitasdelashoras]

Herman Melville - Moby Dick Ilustración de Rockwell Kent para la edición de The Lakeside Press de Chicago, 1930

[artist-nikolaige]

Last Supper, 1863, Nikolai Ge

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/nikolai-ge/last-supper

[mendelpalace]

Selection of cover art for S-F Magzine by Naoyuki Kato

[philamuseum]

Artists have long experimented with how to capture light and shadow. Some were so skilled at portraying light that they showcased their technical mastery by painting scenes set at dusk, evening, or in the dead of night. Here are a few of our favorite nighttime paintings from our collection.

“Rocky Seashore,” 1876, by Ivan Konstantinovisch Aivasovsky 

“Bivouac before Waterloo,” c. 1827, by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps 

“Untitled (Dark Seascape),” c. 1975, by Paul Thek 

“Night (Two Stags Battling by Moonlight),” by 1983, by Sir Edwin Landseer 

[archatlas]

Hiroshi Sambuichi

Hiroshi Sambuichi’s approach to a site entails long-term study and reflection upon the qualities and forces of nature embedded within. His understanding is “deeper and with a finer grain,” explains American architect and member of The Daylight Award jury James Carpenter as one of several reasons why Sambuichi was recently announced as the latest laureate of the nearly 50-year-old Daylight Award in 2018. In Sambuichi’s hands, “light becomes timeless, fluid and rich.”

[writeonthesand]

[twdy]

It begins #newalbum

[paulmakesnoise]

Thank you