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teamlab unearths digital artworks across mifuneyama rakuen park

teamlab has added more than a dozen, deeply-immersive digital installations to mifuneyama rakuen park — a 500,000-square meter garden and forest in japan.

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Gino De Dominicis : Tentativo di Volo

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Decoration zu der Oper : Die Zauberflöte.

Art by Karl Friedrich Schinkel.(1781-1841).

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Universe, Architecture, and Dessert by Miao Zhao

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Si tratta di una nozione ampiamente accettata tra i pittori che non importa ciò che si dipinge, finché è ben dipinta. Questa è l'essenza di accademismo. Non esiste una cosa come un buon quadro per nulla. Noi affermiamo che il soggetto è fondamentale e solo argomento è valido che è tragico e senza tempo. È per questo che noi professiamo una parentela spirituale con l'arte primitiva e arcaica.

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Sintrax coffee maker, 1930/31. Schott, Germany.  Via Collection Soehlke

Contrary to an often used description, the first device was not developed by the Bauhaus teacher Gerhard Marcks, but had been an in-house design by an unknown employee of Jena glassworks. It was first presented at the Leipziger Messe in 1926. The name Sintrax - a word creation from the terms of sintering and extracting - was registered as a trademark the same year.

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Wu Guanzhong

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Frogs taxidermy found inside French mansion that had been sealed for 100 years

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Between 1910 and 1915, Russian Futurist artists created a new form of art called zaum (“beyond the mind”) that fused words, visuals, and sound. Their hand-lithographed books emphasized “sound as such” and rejected logical meaning. 

Explore four of these unique books and hear 10 of the poems read aloud in Russian in a brand-new online interactive that also features Russian transliterations and English translations. The interactive is a companion piece to a new book about sound, image, and word in Russian Futurist book art.

Cover and poem from Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards), 1912, Natalia Goncharova, cover design; Velimir Khlebnikov and Alexei Kruchenykh, poetry; Mikhail Larionov, Nikolai Rogovin, and Vladimir Tatlin, lithography. The Getty Research Institute, 88-B27486. Cover of Pomada (Pomade), 1913, Mikhail Larionov, lithographer. The Getty Research Institute, 88-B26240

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Galileo’s Moon Drawings, the First Realistic Depictions of the Moon in History (1610)

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This drawing was made 700 years ago by a 7-years-old boy named Onfim who lived in Novogrod.

Read the story

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How Experimental Were the Andy Warhol Piss Paintings Actually?

In this feature Andy Warhol piss paintings are observed through discourses on social divisions, experimentations with body, abstraction, and eroticism.

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Dido Building Carthage, or The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire by Joseph Mallord William Turner

1815

oil on canvas

The National Gallery, London 

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“Head of Medusa”, c.1617-18, Peter Paul Rubens (detail)

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Happy New Year from Janus, the two-headed god of beginnings and endings. This Roman deity, from whom we get the word January, is able to simultaneously look ahead to the new year and reflect back on the year past.

“Feasting Two-Headed Man Representing the Month of January, from a Church Doorway,” 1250–75, France