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Joseph Blanc, “Perseus”, Oil on Canvas, 1869, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
Paul- Joseph Blanc was a French painter who specialized in scenes from ancient history and mythology. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts with Emile Bin and Alexandre Cabanel. He was awarded in 1867 the Prix de Rome in the category of painting for his work “The Murder of Laius by Oedipus” and was named a Professor at the Ecole in 1889. His studio in Montmartre also seved as an art school.
Tyler Haywood, “Hesitation” from His Series “Daily Gif”
Tyler Haywood is a freelance 3D artist currently living and working in Los Angeles, California. He has a background in traditional animation thechniques and experimental film making. His design challenges involve crafting dynamic camera animations, establishing intelligent compositions, and creating focus driven motion.
He has directed, done animation and design for clients: HBO, Cinmax, the NFL, Audli, the NBA, Toyota and others. He is also the owner of the longest running every day GIF blog on Tumblr: four years.
Gif reblogged with thanks to his GIF blog: https://angulargeometry.tumblr.com
Olafur Arnalds live with the RNCM Symphony Orchestra at Bridgewater Hall Manchester on July 1, 2010.
The Solitude of the Pines
“The pines taught me to talk to myself.
In that garden I learned to send myself off.
Later there were no gardens. ”
―Octavio Paz, A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems
A Year: Day to Day Men: 24th of November
Lion King
Mont Granier is a limestone mountain located between the departements of Savoie and Isere in France. It lies in the Charteuse Mountains range of the French Prealps. At 900 meters tall, Mont Granier has one of the highest cliffs in France.
In the year 1248, in the evening of November 24, a mass of limestone resting on marls slid into the valley, causing a massive landslide that destroyed many villages. This event created the sheer 700 meter north face of the mountain. Five villages were partly or completely destroyed by the avalanche: Cognin, Vourey, Saint-Andre, Granier, and Saint-Perange. Modern estimates calculate about 1000 local residents died due to this night time landslide, making it one of the biggest and deadliest landslides in Europe.
The Glory Window, Stained Glass, Dallas, Texas
The “Glory Window” is located inside the public, spiral-shaped Chapel of Thanksgiving. The Chapel of Thanksgiving is the spiritual center of Thanks-Giving Square open to visitors of all faiths. The spiraling shape rises 90 feet above street level, suggesting the infinite upward reach of the human spirit.
The Chapel’s design takes its inspiration from the Great Mosque in Samarra, Iraq, (itself derived from the square, spiral Pillar of Gor in Persia). The entrance to the chapel is at the end of a 125 foot bridge that runs over a cascading waterfall. The chapel ceiling contains the stained glass “Glory Window”, one of largest horizontally mounted stained-glass pieces in the world. The 73 panels of faceted glass were designed by Gabriel Loire of Chartres, France, featuring warmer and brighter colors as the spiral reaches its apex in the center.
Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!
“The morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm; everything gray. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells, seemed fixed, and was sleeked at the surface like waved lead that has cooled and set in the smelter’s mould. The sky seemed a gray surtout. Flights of troubled gray fowl, kith and kin with flights of troubled gray vapors among which they were mixed, skimmed low and fitfully over the waters, as swallows over meadows before storms. Shadows present, foreshadowing deeper shadows to come.”
—Herman Melville, Benito Cereno
Per Elof Nilsson Ricklund, “Two Sides of a Coin”, Oil on Canvas
Per Elof Nilsson Ricklund was born in 1987, in Örnsköldsvik, a small town in northern Sweden. Surrounded by vast mountains, also painted by his grandparents, and inspired by the magical atmosphere of the landscape and people around him, Per Elof began drawing at a young age. He became interested in conveying stories that were more than the visual experience he actually perceived. Discovering that his eyes weren’t sharp enough to recreate a convincing reality, he began searching for people who were willing to share their knowledge, first by studying illustration, and later the 19th century masters. It was then that he understood only in nature would he find a way to convey a story as truthfully as he perceived it.
He began his studies at The Florence Academy of Art in 2007, where he was awarded Best Figure Painting of the Year for 2010 and 2011, as well as Honorable mention for Advanced Portrait Painting in 2011. By his second year he began teaching Anatomy in Mölndal before moving to Florence to direct the Anatomy and Ecorché programs there.
Photographer Unknown, (The Consciousness of Darkness)
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”
– C. G. Jung
Photographer Unknown, (Two Towels and a Man), Selfie
“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
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Enrico Robusti, “The Tall Hawk Lifted”, Oil on Canvas, 2015
Enrico Robusti was born in Parma, Italy, in 1956. After completing a classical studies diploma and a degree in law, he didicated himself to the study of the pictorial technique, with particular reference to the 17th century school of Van Dyck and Rubens.
Reblogged with thanks to redlipstickresurrected
Photographer Unknown, (Gray Straps and Black Gloves)
Moderat, “Reminder”
Moderat are an electronic music group originating in Berlin between Sascha Ring, also known as Apparat, and Modeselektor members Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary. The band has released three studio albums to date. This video to “Reminder was released in February of 2016, a month before the release of their third album “III”.
Photographer Unknown, (A Matter of Transparency)
Photographer Unknown, The Treasury of Petra