Michelangelo was so passionate and emotional. I love the mannerist style. The reaching of the two hands toward each other is a pinnacle of humanist iconograhy. This gorgeous photo was blogged from flickr.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Sunday, February 18, 2007
La Belle et la Bete
This movie has put me to sleep in the past, but not today. I finally appreciated its magic, romance, and enchantment. It is very beautiful, very simple.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Submarine Lagoon
It was a blast from the past to see this on flickr. I used to go on this ride and thought it was really under the ocean!
Friday, February 09, 2007
Psychiatry podcast
Welcome to the Intitute of Psychiatry audio feeds. We aim to bring to you all public lectures and events at the Institute of Psychiatry, this includes, the popular Maudsley Debates series. These are entertaining, interesting podcasts. The British speakers are so articulate and witty. Plus I'm interested in the subject.
http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/podcast/default.aspx?type=items
Lewis Chessman, British Museum
The Lewis Chessmen in the British Museum were probably made in Norway, about AD 1150-1200
Found on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
The chess pieces consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory and whales' teeth in the forms of seated kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns in the shape of obelisks.
(Written by RobRoyAus on Flickr)
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Marilyn Horne
I downloaded a podcast from Premier Opera Podcast featuring the mezzo-soprano, Marilyn Horne. She is a showstopper! I absolutely adored her renditions of You're a Grand Old Flag and God Bless America. But the podcast mainly featured her coloratura work. Thanks, Marilyn!
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Ivan Bilibin (2)
DOBRYNIA NIKITICH FREES ZABAVA PUTIATICHNA FROM GORYNYCH THE DRAGON. Illustration to "The Tale of the Capital City of Kiev and of the Russian Bogatyrs" by N. Vodovozov. 1941. http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/art
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Christmas in Germany
Because of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale associations, I think of Germany as the embodiment of Christmas. It seems to go with the gingerbread house of Hansel and Gretel. (Photo from flickr - I need to find the credit.)
A Christmas Carol
Okay, I've pretty much forgotten the story, but this is an adorable Victorian illustration for it.
Friday, December 01, 2006
Kawase Hasui
Hasui was a brilliant artist, reaching his height (I think) in the 1920s and 30s. Traditional Japanese woodblock prints that are astonishing in their technical power and beauty.
Zojoji, Shiba (Snow) 1925
Kikyo, Gate of the Palace, 1929
Iten Pond, Shiba, 1929
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Ornamentation madness
Segaud, Armand -- Artist
Pluviôse : les poissons.
From Album de la Décoration. (Paris : Librairie des Arts Decoratifs,) Calavas, A., editor.
Art Nouveau door design
Kühnel, Richard -- Artist
Moderne Wanddekoration mit Kunstverglasungen (1889-1928)
Persian rug
From Das polychrome Ornament : hundert Tafeln, Gold-, Silber- und Farben-Druck . . . antike und orientalische Kunst : Mittelalter Renaissance, XVII und XVIII Jahrhundert : eine historische und praktische sammlung. (Stuttgart : Paul Neff, 1874.) Racinet, A. (Auguste) (1825-1893), author.
All at NYPL Digital gallery.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
NYPL Digital again
Grüner, Ludwig, 1801-1882 -- Artist
Part of an ancient pilaster in the Villa Medici at Rome.
The French bean and the convolvolus from nature.
In: Specimens of ornamental art, selected from the best models of the classical epochs. (created 1850)
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