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The Public Domain Image Archive and more from The Public Domain Review
Infinite View, Shuffle View, and Catalogue View are three ways to explore the Public Domain Image Archive recently announced by The Public Domain Review. Coverage at Open Culture and Hyperallergic. More details about the project. Bluesky account to follow for updates. Also at The Public Domain Review this week: "The public airing of grievances continues in the next and final issue of 391 ... Picabia describes Surrealism as 'Dada disguised as an advertising balloon for the house of Breton & Co.', and Breton as 'an actor who wants all the leading roles in the theatre of illusionists'"--Daisy Sainsbury on "Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia's 391 Review (1917–1924)." Bluesky account for The Public Domain Review.
The Dark Fantastic & Michael Hutter
"From that period, Hutter has been exhibiting in numerous art galleries both in Germany and abroad. In his abysmal, detailed works, he focuses on eroticism, religion and the cosmic horror. His passion and commitment for art resulted in remarkable surreal and magical pieces." Hutter's official site and Instagram. A little writeup over on John Coulthart's website.
Visions of Christmas
Covey's Christmas Owl. Weir's Christmas Eve. Hunt's Approach to Christmas. Low's Christmas Morn. Kerrigan's Still Life (Christmas Ornaments). Lauren Ford's Christmas Book. Van Gogh's At Eternity's Gate. Moses' Christmas at Home. Newman's Spirit of Christmas.
Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris 1900-1939
"The brilliant exiles it refers to, those creative American women who went to Paris between 1900 and 1939, were not really exiled in the French capital. Rather, they were liberated from convention and expectation in the US, finding new freedom to live their lives as they wished in early 20th-century Paris." [more inside]
Artist Spotlight: Colleen Barry
"Many of the figure compositions look like clusters or bundles of flesh, encompassing a feeling of tightness, bonding, holding. I feel the need to keep the bodies close together. I think that’s the protection instinct.” [NSFW] [more inside]
"That's a wonderful approach"
Senay Boztas (The Art Newspaper, 09/03/2024), "Rijksmuseum acquires controversial early botanic book on Suriname" (ungated): "Maria Sibylla Merian's 1705 Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium [Latin, Dutch, Dutch counterproof] is considered a 'high point' of early printing ... More recently, the contemporary artist Patricia Kaersenhout superimposed images of prominent Carribbean-born people onto images from the book, and made a series responding to the 'erasure' of local people's names from the botanist's work." Intros to Merian: The British Museum, The Natural History Museum, The Royal Society, and the NYT (ungated). Overview of her books. Other works online. Intros to Kaersenhout: Kunstverein Braunschweig, AWARE, The Bonnefanten, and metropolis m. Other works and video online.
Ghost of Your Guitar Solo
Language of the Rococo
"Step into Flora Yukhnovich's studio." Profile in Vogue: "Stroke of Genius: How 34-Year-Old Flora Yukhnovich's 21st-Century Spin on Rococo Turned Her Into an Art-World Phenomenon." Imagination, Life is Your Creation. Warm, Wet 'N' Wild. Tu vas me faire rougir. "The Venice Paintings." "Thirst Trap." Artist's website. "Interview: Through the Language of the Rococo." Paintings by Boucher. Paintings by Fragonard, famous painter of games or play--like "The Swing," discussed with Flora Yukhnovich at the end of a conversation about the color "Pink" particularly in the Rococo, e.g. a "Fête Champêtre" by Pater (00:37:46), but also in a 1977 painting by de Kooning (00:17:44).
Lincoln Obscura (penny post #002/100?)
Sandor Bodo is an artist who collects and then photographs heavily distressed U.S. pennies. You can find 16 of them on that project page, or scan through this video montage for a whole bunch more. [more inside]
The Fantastical Worlds of Paul Lehr
Paul Lehr was a science fiction artist whose work appeared on many book covers. Lehr at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. A broader look at Lehr's work on Artnet, including non-SF art. The Paul Lehr Estate website includes the sort of thing you'd expect, and also information about two Lehr-related films, one of which involves Lehr being "resurrected through AI technology." More about Lehr over at Amazing Stories. Finally, a Lehr appreciation post over at the illustration blog Muddy Colors by Dan Dos Santos. [more inside]
Adolphe Appian
"19th century French printmaker and painter Adolphe Appian trained at a small specialized art school in his home town of Lyon, and worked for a time as a graphic designer." [more inside]
The great cloud built form of the Giant
"The Giant by N. C. Wyeth (1882 – 1945) has hung in the Dining Room of Westtown School since 1923, a memorial from members of the Westtown Class of 1910 to their deceased classmate, William Clothier Engle (1891 – 1916). Commissioned by the class, the painting pays tribute to an artistic young man lost in the prime of his life." A short film was recently released to explore the painting and its significance further. "Headmaster James Walker and his wife picked up the painting at Wyeth’s studio and carried it back to the school in an orchard truck." At the Brandywine Museum of Art.
Daily bunny no.2559 steals from the rich
Will Quinn posts daily bunnies over on BlueSky, also posting them to his website, Instagram, and (not so much anymore on) Twitter. Quinn also does comics. [more inside]
if you understand this youre a giant nerd
100 years of Haskell's House
Edward Hopper - Haskell's House - 1924. The house IRL. Haskell's House at Hopperhead. Haskell's House for the Hopper fan. Hopper previously.
Digital manipulation with surreal consequences…
"Lissyelle is a photographer and art director based in Brooklyn, New York and Los Angeles, California. She grew up in rural Ontario where her interest in photography began at the age of 12, spurred by an obsessive fear she would one day forget her entire life were she not to document it. Her body of work is often still inspired by this compulsion to photograph, as well as by the vivid colors of early childhood, reoccurring dreams, the blurry way we see things when we are either too happy or too sad, and the soft hands of the high renaissance." [NSFW]
A Notably Eponymous Watercolorist
John Sell Cotman was known for his paintings and drawings, especially watercolor. Wikipedia has the bio and suggested further readings, as well as information about others in his artistically-inclined family. Likely most people who know the name "Cotman" know it in the context of watercolor paints available from Winsor & Newton, which have appeared previously a number of times in discussion on Ask.
An Interview with Painter Daniele Serra
"I think my first impact with horror images could be traced back to my childhood. I was used to leaf through my father’s art books, I saw that Giotto as well as many other painters, flemish and Reinassance painters, often painted Hell, demons, obscure atmospheres, where death and popular beliefs shroud their magnificent paintings." [more inside]
Meet Patricia Piccinini
Meet Patricia Piccinini. She's the mother of Skywhale and a much-loved artist. The artist shares why her work is driven by a fascination for the frontiers of science and its potential — and her fears of what we're doing to the world.
Simon Palmer: the Wensleydale watercolourist
"Simon’s paintings are figurative but not photographic. Semi-abstract, they are a blend of abstraction in the shapes – rectangles, curves, circles – and identifiable features. The colour palette is muted; he says he is more interested in tone and texture than colour." [more inside]
"Teacher Spice."
The Art of the Benshi: "Full-fledged artists in their own right"
The Art of the Benshi: World Tour trailer. Tour dates (Brooklyn, this afternoon; DC, Apr. 12-14; Chicago, Apr. 16-17--sold out?; LA, Apr. 19 and 20-21; Tokyo, Apr. 26): "During the silent film era in Japan ... film screenings were accompanied by live narrators, called benshi ... [who] enlivened the cinema experience." Films include The Dull Sword (1917; animated); Jiraiya the Hero (1921; see fights at 3:48, 11:37 to see frog magic, and 14:09 for frog vs. snake); A Page of Madness (1926; one of "The 100 Best Horror Movies"; helpful screenplay [PDF] co-authored by Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata); and The Golden Flower (1929; animated). Previously. See also Jess Nevins's 2020 Twitter thread on Japanese horror movies, 1898-1949.
"No meaning, no magic, just the work of it: the work of art"
Adam Moss (Vulture, 04/04/2024), "How'd You Make That? Three masterpieces from glimmer through struggle to breakthrough": "So I began talking to creators ... here are three of those conversations with the artists Cheryl Pope and Kara Walker and the poet Louise Glück." Of related interest: Dungeons & Dragons (early draft; see the upcoming book). A first draft of Finnegans Wake. The first page of 1984. Story Synopsis and Rough Draft [PDF] for Star Wars. The Creative Process: A Symposium. For checkout, The Making of The Pré. Plus "Work in Progress: Notes, Drafts, Revision, Publication," "... Check Out These Drafts From Famous Authors," "Surprising secrets of writers' first book drafts," and "First drafts of famous novels."
A Scottish landscape painter living in Shetland
Ruth Brownlee's evocative work is described as 'very much about Shetland and its elements' [more inside]
The scenes he paints are ghostly and dream-like
Ukrainian painter Vachagan Narazyan is an inspiration to many, including artist Vanessa Lemen, who has written about him a couple times. He's shown at various galleries, including just pre-pandemic at James Yarosh. He came of age as a painter as a Soviet nonconformist artist. His work has been described as "symbolic visions of a deeply personal nature." If video is more your thing, check out this video that James Yarosh shared on YouTube that evokes the feel of Narazyan's work. [more inside]
An amazing African-American artist you may not be familiar with
AN EXHIBITION BY Houston-based artist David McGee is always a cause for celebration. A master of portraiture, modernism and abstraction, with works in the permanent collections of museums across the country, McGee, like many artists, clung to his practice like a lifeline throughout the worst months of the pandemic and the political upheaval that still plagues the country today. His new and highly anticipated show at Inman Gallery, The Tarot Cards and The Gloria Paintings (Sept. 16 – Nov. 1), is infused with that resilience, and is his most politically charged, and deeply personal exhibition to date. [more inside]
I know damn well it's not going to go over
Lessons from artist Hannah Höch
She found freedom from society’s limiting views by employing fantasy, or assuming the perspectives of non-human creatures and objects. “Most of all I would like to depict the world as a bee sees it, then tomorrow as the moon sees it, and then, as many other creatures see it,” she continued. “I am, however, a human being, and can use my fantasy, bound as I am, as a bridge.”
An interview with painter Lee Krasner
"Now then, this is what was happening to me: as I had worked so-called, from nature, that is, I am here and Nature is out there, whether it be in the form of a woman or an apple or anything else, the concept was broken and you faced a black canvas. Well, with the knowledge that I am nature and try to make something happen on that canvas, now this is the real transition that took place. And it took me some three years and what began to emerge in the first of these, which was around '46, were very small canvases, these things around here, what I refer to as the little image, were the first and as I gained confidence and strength, it expanded – it grew bolder in time." [Audio excerpt at link, with 45-page PDF transcript of interview] [more inside]
Berthe Morisot comes into her own
"It is almost impossible to believe that these paintings have been overlooked. The qualifying statements people often make about their so-called domesticity and how Morisot did the best she could within a limited sphere, even when meant as a defence of the work, are entirely unconvincing: what is ‘the domestic’ but the core of life, of eros, and of work?" [more inside]
An interview with painter Dorothea Tanning
[NSFW] "It’s just the way I am and the way I’ve thought all my life. I did a lot of reading. I’ve always been drawn towards esoteric phenomena: the illogical, the inexpressible, the impossible. Anything that is ordinary and frequent is uninteresting to me, so I have to go in a solitary and risky direction. If it strikes you as being enigmatic, well, I suppose that’s what I wanted it to do." [more inside]
An interview with artist Richard A. Kirk
"I just really like the way ink looks on paper. I like its nuances and character. In some ways drawing with ink can feel like writing – it’s that same connection with a point against paper that I find incredibly expressive. I also like the fact that there is very little room to mess up. Ink does not erase well." [more inside]
An interview with (psychedelic) (surrealist) painter Hannah Yata
"I grew up in a highly controlled and religious family where women’s sexuality and freedom to express oneself was highly suppressed. As I matured and recognized how women were objectified, demonized, and dehumanized by my old religion and society I wanted to take these uncomfortable issues and channel them into an artistic dialogue. One of the significant ways I found my voice was through the body. Through this vessel I began by creating a world where feminine nudity and sexuality felt free, unashamed, celebrated, and powerful." [all links in this post NSFW] [more inside]
An interview with painter Jenny Saville
Painting on the floor is good because it takes away your conventional skill and ability to see. The material itself is playing with gravity and I make marks and merge paint with a certain energy. It’s like a way to trap nature; to hold on to a sense of time. When you crash or slide colors together they are forever frozen in that moment. [NSFW]
An interview with painter Amy Bennett
About a quarter of the paintings in Open Season were begun before the pandemic. I made a substantial model inspired by attending a 4H fair, and noting with curiosity that it seemed to attract both extreme ends of the political spectrum. I wanted to challenge myself to make images outside of the domestic realm. Painting crowds in the open air seemed like a counterbalance to the isolated interiors I had been immersed in. But it wasn’t long into lockdown that the theme felt too disconnected from our alarming new reality. We could finally see what a paradise we’d lost. [NSFW]
Jennell Jaquays, 1956-2024
Rebecca Heineman on Blue Sky today: "Until we meet again… Jennell Jaquays 10/14/1956 - 01/10/2024." Intro to a 2022 interview: "an accomplished artist whose works were published in many D&D and other products; her adventures the Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia are held up to this day as examples of the best in dungeon design, and after working in the tabletop industry moved over to computer gaming where she worked on the Quake franchise." In 2017, she was inducted into the Gaming Hall of Fame. RPGGeek entry listing her many publications. Memorial threads at EN World, r/RPG, and r/OSR.
From Backderf to Munch; Crumb to Pollack; Kirby to Xbox
In 1999 Olmstead v. L.C. Gave Us the Right to Live At Home
Lois Curtis’ legacy lives on in the people with disabilities whose lives she’s transformed Few people outside of the disability community know Lois Curtis' name. But for those whose lives her Supreme Court case touched and transformed, her impact will never be forgotten.
“There is an unapologetic joy and authenticity that shines through in all of the portraits Lois created,” Johnson said. “Artists like Lois inform so much of my work that solely centers on art activism. Uplifting neurodivergent joy and caregiving are important acts of resistance in a society that so often devalues disabled communities.” “I am a person with a vision and a spirit” - Lois Curtis
A gig is a gig is a gig.
" 'I made twenty-five million dollars playing ten birthday parties.' That used to be seen as 'You **** sellout.' Now it’s 'How do I get me some of those?' " How to Hire a Pop Star for Your Private Party
ALIENS CALLING....okay, not really, darn it.
Earth Will Receive an 'Alien' Transmission From Mars This Week Called A Sign in Space, the scientific art experiment invites the public to help decode the signal, which is meant to emulate a message from extraterrestrials. [more inside]
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Singer, Songwriter, Indigenous Activist and more
Where to Start with Buffy Sainte Marie (And Why You Should) by Andrea Warner "Buffy Sainte-Marie is a living legend and a musical genius. But she’s also “Buffy who?” to a lot of people who have never heard of her before." [more inside]
The reawakening of Stormzy
Three years after that album and that Glastonbury performance, Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr. – the man you know as Stormzy – is back, and a changed man [GQ] [more inside]
Kim Jung Gi (1975-2022)
Dreams. Nature. Personal experiences.
Not, to the best of my knowledge, woven underwater
"When I began making baskets in the 1980s, I made very useful baskets. Now I make very useless baskets." Lois Russell is a basketweaver, but this is definitely not basket weaving 101. [more inside]
always
George Perez, comic book artist and cornerstone of the industry, has died aged 67. George had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in 2021. Official obituary at CBR. DC comics remembers him. Marvel pays tribute.
“I’m not convinced that it’s my place to exhibit those faces. . .”
Luvia Lazo is a Zapotec photographer whose recent work focuses on portraiture that doesn't show the faces of the subjects [timewalled New Yorker] and incorporates aspects of the historied fabric dying industry in Teotitlán del Valle. [more inside]
These boots were made for narrative photographic essaying
100 Boots is a narrative work of photographic art by Eleanor Antin, made of 51 postcards over the course of 1971-1973, telling a visual story of a collection of rubber boots making a pilgrimage from San Diego to New York. Additional bits at MoMa; kadist.org; getty.edu.
"I appreciate the beauty, intricacy, and hard work"
Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto (Barbareño Chumash), "When I first met this remarkable basket, it was like meeting an old friend ... I was perplexed by the date 1711 ... [W]e concluded that Juana Basilia had copied the year from the coin she used for the design." In a unit on "Native American art after 1600," Khan Academy has a ~4 min. video on the same Coin Basket made by Juana Basilia Sitmelelene, ca. 1815-1822 [YouTube]. More recently, a different Chumash basket "... Returns to Chumash Land": "Are you sitting comfortably? We have a long story to tell you." Related: Kaitlin M. Brown, et al., on communities of practice in Chumash basket weaving [PDF]; and Yve Chavez on "Indigenizing Southern California Indian Basket Studies" and "Indigenous Artists, Ingenuity, and Resistance at the California Missions" [PDFs].
Matilda Betham's Miniature Portraits: Artistic, Poetic, Biographical
In 1809, Matilda Betham painted miniature portraits of Sara Fricker Coleridge ("Romantic but hardly romantic: Sarah Fricker's life ...") and her daughter Sara Coleridge [PDF] (~30 years later, author of the fantasy novel Phantasmion--"Its supernatural beings have no English originals ... Feydeleen the Flower Spirit ... Oloola the Spirit of the Storm," etc.--which has one copy annotated autobiographically). Betham was a Romantic poet whose Poems / Vignettes addressed Ann Radcliffe, the Ladies of Llangollen ("... who were famous for wanting to be left alone"), M.I., Belinda, and others. Betham also wrote an enormous collective biography [plain HTML] of celebrated women--an alternative to the work by Mary Hays mentioned in her preface and published in the same year as a work in French by Fortunée Briquet (see also Collective Biographies of Women).
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