#architectural art

[stone-cold-groove]

Illustration detail from an advertisement for Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company elevators - 1936.

[doshmanziari]

A completed piece from this year, entitled Holy Cave of Purgatorium. Colored pencil, pen, and watercolor on paper.

I took this as an opportunity to include a figurative element, although I fear it's a little too small for the figure's gesture to properly register. One more thing requiring further refinement.

[replicayouth-art]

scanned version

[erika-xero]

And the last one in this batch. Probably was the hardest one to paint. This place exist!

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[thejawsdevour]

Alyson Vega (Puerto Rican-American) - City Blocks (layered fabric and machine sewn, 2019)

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TilesOnTuesday :

Ceiling Tile (socarrat) with Design of a Lion

Paterna, Valencia region, Spain; Mudéjar period, c.1450-1500

Earthenware with red manganese oxide & black iron oxide pigments over white slip

14 x 17 5/16 x 15/16 in. (35.5 x 44 x 2.4 cm)

Saint Louis Art Museum 37:1939

“Overlaying the lively animal decorating the surface, this tile bears the stamp of the kilns at Paterna, just outside Valencia, Spain. It would have decorated a ceiling inside a local building, suspended between wooden rafters. The term for such ceiling tiles is socarrat, which means ‘burnt’ in the local dialect, referring to the process of baking in the kiln. Before they were baked, such tiles were painted with a white slip (clay thinned with water) and then with black and red pigments derived from manganese and iron. They were not glazed. The lion on this tile appears to be panting, while his tail swishes through the air.”

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Paul Sandby RA (English, 1731-1809) The Norman Gate and Deputy Governor's House, ca.1765 Yale Center for British Art, New Haven