Ugliness Subdued

This blog consists mostly of architecture, art, photography, and music

[artist-ernst]

Blind swimmers (Effect of a touch), Max Ernst

Medium: oil,canvas

[nevver]

The ‘Burbs, Robert Bowers

[hifructosemag]

Elisa Sanchez’s integrates notes of the human body into her “paper taxidermy” collection of insects. See more on HiFructose.com. 

[sioxh]

Ana Mendieta, Silueta Series, 1973-1978

[mymodernmet]

Honeybees Cover Porcelain Sculptures in Honeycombs

[mcgovern-wallawalla]

The Mary Gilliatt BOOK OF COLOR | ©1985

[deactivated-blog]

Sharon Lockhart - Models of Orbits in the System of Reference, Eshkol - Wachman Movement Notation System - Sphere Five at Three Points in Its Rotation - 2011

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection 

Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, from Monroe Park, Richmond, Va. February 1976.

[jimlovesart-deactivated20190109]

René Magritte - Voice of Space, 1931. 

[nemfrog]

“Simultaneous chromatic contrast.” Colour-sense training and colour using. 1908. 

[nevver]

Aerial, Niaz Uddin

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Postcard Collection 

Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Va.   Postmarked September, 1941

[decoarchitecture]

Asheville Citizen Times, Asheville, North Carolina Photo by Wendy Darling

I really like this old newspaper building. Very spiffy design, with lots of glass block.

[cgmfindings]

Art Deco Burleigh Library (Milwaukee Public Library)

[amalgammaray]

Jasper Johns (American, born 1930), Target 1970, 1971, Offset lithograph in colors with collage and rubber stamp, edition of 22,500,  261 x 215 mm

[eddierussia]

Ed Ruscha

Heaven; and Hell (diptych), 1988

two aquatints in colors, on Somerset paper, 44 1/8 x 32½ in each

[dennys]

if I wanted to spend $100 at Denny's what would be the best way to do so

$4 all you can eat pancakes$96 trying to win a plushie from the claw machine