A little slide that @rocketsandrayguns and I put together, after Dedra's lessons in clean desk policies and infosec in episodes 2.10-2.12 of Andor.

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JBB: An Artblog!

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A little slide that @rocketsandrayguns and I put together, after Dedra's lessons in clean desk policies and infosec in episodes 2.10-2.12 of Andor.
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SO THERE’S NO SHORTAGE OF THINGS TO UNPACK ABOUT MR. ROBOT 4.07 but I wanted to talk about the paintings (prints) in Krista’s apartment.
These are works by Hilma af Klint, a Swedish artist and mystic. In her lifetime, she was known primarily as a botanical illustrator, but while she was doing that, she was also part of a group of women who called themselves “The Five” (De Fem). They were heavily into the spiritualism of the late 19th/early 20th century, particularly Helena Blavatsky’s Theosophy, and their activities included seances and communion with beings they called “The High Masters”.
af Klint brought this and her scientific reading and background into a series of paintings for “The Temple”, and she believed her direction for this came from the High Masters. She created 193 paintings for the The Temple, and spent the rest of her life after that diving further into abstract art. When she died at 82 in 1944, she left her paintings to her nephew, with the strict instructions that they not be shown until 20 years after her death. Since their first public exhibition, her work has been growing in renown, and the Guggenheim hosted a massive retrospective of her work in 2019.
The first of the two works in Krista’s apartment, in the living/dining room where the action begins, is one of the “altarpiece” paintings, specifically Group X, No. 1, Altarpiece. The second, in the room where The Shit Really Hits the Fan in Act Four, is from the “SUW/UW series”, and is called Group IX/UW, The Dove, No. 12. Both date from 1915.
Now I’m not an art history person, so all I have to go on is the exhibition catalogue, Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future, edited by Tracey Bashkoff.
Here’s what Bashkoff writes about the Altarpiece paintings:
The works appear to relate to Theosophy’s version of evolutionary theory, in which all the cosmos is undergoing an evolutionary process. Evolution can occur in two directions, elevating from the physical to the spiritual and descending from a higher level of being to the limitations of the material world.
On the Dove paintings:
The imagery in The Dove relies on Christian symbols for peace and unity, figuratively and abstractly, in combination with the allegory of St. George and the Dragon, and the signs of the Zodiac.
You’ll notice that The Dove No. 12 includes the zodiac symbols for (clockwise from top right) Pisces, Gemini, Taurus, and Aries. I will let someone better versed than me in zodiac symbology pick that one apart.
So. It’s not exactly subtle of Esmail to have picked a couple of deeply spiritually-imbued artworks reflecting themes of evolution, peace, etc. (and dragon-slaying!), but at least he did so with an artist who is really quite extraordinary, and whose work deserves to be much better known.
Of all of my efforts in Janky Joke Photoshop, I feel that this is one of my better ones.
Ramagon, 1979.
John Cage.
John Foxx.
Puce Mary (Posh Isolation) “Yours”
@ La Vitrola, Montreal, QC
March 30, 2017
The Met Cloisters, Heavenly Bodies exhibit.
Met Breuer restaurant.
cocteau twins, 1983 by martin whitehead
On Manuals Monday we featured the manual is for Dupont Imaging Systems by Vignelli Associates copyright 1990. Yesterday we shared a mockup version of the manual. But we couldn’t resist sharing some of the presentation boards for this project!
See the final standards manual: http://vignellicenter.tumblr.com/post/174345608162/vignelli-dupont-manualsmonday
The mockup for the manual: http://vignellicenter.tumblr.com/post/174442068757/vignelli-dupont-manualmockup
Here’s one more presentation board for Dupont: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZE-xn-A_8A/?taken-by=vignellicenter
Dupont Imaging Systems presentation boards, circa 1990 Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers Vignelli Center for Design Studies Rochester, New York
avant-garde sound art label and/OAR has a kickstarter to raise money for their next batch of releases, including “a sound study featuring field recordings collected at various Tadao Ando’s architectural spaces” https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/365793969/tadao-ando-adventure-and-magic
TRON (1982): sceneries.
Tim Blake, Crystal Machine era, 1976/77.
Dazzle camouflage
Also known as razzle dazzle, designed not to conceal ships from submarines, but to make the estimation of their speed, heading and range difficult, resulting, in theory, in a poor estimation of their position, and therefore, poor accuracy of any torpedo launched at them.
Implemented during World War 1 after its conception by the British artist Norman Wilkinson, but during its use it was never successfully proved as effective, or ineffective for that regard, and so by the start of World War 2 it had been effectively passed out for more conventional paint schemes.
Jean Patou and Louis Süe, Cocktail Bar Perfume Presentation, 1929. Made by Brosse Glassworks. Via Cooper Hewitt
This set held a selection of liquor bottle-like perfume bottles entitled Bittersweet, Sweet, Dry and Angostura no. 1 through no. 7 that equated the sensuality of perfume with drinking in a not-so-subtle reference to the illicit cocktail culture during American prohibition. In 1928 Patou installed a women-only cocktail bar in his Paris boutique for clients, many American, to enjoy while waiting for fittings and alterations.
Raf Simons X Robert Mapplethorpe
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