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Art

“The extension of our sympathies”

February 28, 2014

The greatest benefit we owe the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies… Art is the nearest thing to life, it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

George Eliot

Filed Under: Art, Books Tagged With: George Eliot, quotes

Picasso: I am always doing what I cannot do

August 29, 2012

I am always doing what I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso (via)

Filed Under: Art, Creativity, Writing Tagged With: Picasso, quotes for writers

Lartigue again

August 14, 2012

Lartigue

Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986)
“Etretat” (1907)
Silver gelatine, print around 1965

Via Galerie Berinson

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Lartigue

July 28, 2012

Lartigue - The ZYX takes off

Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986)
“The ZYX takes off… Piroux, Zissou, Georges Louis and Dédé try to fly, too, Rouzat, September 1910”
Silver gelatine, print around 1965, 60,1 x 74 cm

Via Galerie Berinson

Filed Under: Art, Photography Tagged With: airplanes, Lartigue

Whale and Calf

July 24, 2012

“Whale and Calf,” artist unknown, ca. 1830.

“Whale and Calf,” artist unknown, ca. 1830.

“What it shows is a whale calf in the mouth of its mother. She is not, of course, eating it. (Those teeth are useless.) She is trying to rescue it. And that, my friends, was all part of the whalers’ fiendish plan. If whalers — big drivers of the economy in early industrial America — could get their harpoons into a whale calf they never missed their chance, because harpooning the baby was a perfect way to lure in the adult. The bigger the whale, the more oil.” More on this painting here.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: New England, painting, whaling

Still lifes by Christopher Stott, cont’d

June 2, 2012

Chris Stott - Inner Conflicts

Christopher Stott
“Inner Conflicts”
24” x 48” Oil on canvas, 2012

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Christopher Stott, painting

Iconic images colorized

January 18, 2012

Lincoln

Iconic images restored and colorized. (via NPR)

Filed Under: Art, Photography Tagged With: colorized images, history, Lincoln

Harlem, 1946

December 28, 2011

Pierce Arrow

Mr. Perkins Pierce Arrow, Harlem, New York
1946
Todd Webb

Filed Under: Art, Photography Tagged With: New York, Todd Webb

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