Month: December 2017

Emile Joseph Carlier

Emile Joseph Carlier, “Gilliat and the Octopus”, Marble, 1880-1890, Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon

Emile Joseph Carlier was a French sculptor born in Cambrai, France. He received his education at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts. He was a member of the Art Nouveau Movement in France. The white marble sculpture “Gilliat and the Octopus” was inspired by Victor Hugo’s book, “Les Travailleurs de la Mer” (The Workers of the Sea) in which Gilliat, a fisherman, fights an octopus in his attempt to retrieve a motor from a sunken wreck.

Broadcast Tower

Broadcast Tower and Visitor Centre, Turkey

International architecture firms Inter National Design and Powerhouse Company won a 2014 competition to design a 100-metre-tall broadcast and observation tower in Turkey, with a design that resembles a continuous ribbon. Planned for a forested hilltop on the outskirts of the historic city of Çanakkale, the proposal was based on an undulating loop that rises above the ground and stretches upwards to create the tower.

Visitors will be able to wander along a raised path that will loop around the site and lead to the visitor centre, which will be built above the treetops on the edge of the hill facing the city. The tower is deliberately located away from the visitor centre to reduce the danger of radiation from the transmitters fixed to its surface affecting visitors or staff, and is designed with a simple form that will enable it to accommodate future technologies.

By lifting the structure off the ground, the architects aim to minimise its impact on the surrounding forest. The space surrounded by the looping pathway will be dedicated to use as a park that visitors will be able to access at points where the path touches the ground, and from a staircase beneath the viewing deck.

The architects collaborated with infrastructure and engineering firm ABT on the design of the winning proposal.

Pekka Halonen

Pekka Halonen, “Mowing Men”, Oil on Canvas, 1891

Pekka Halonen was a landscape and figurative painter, one of the major figures of the Finnish “Golden Age”.  The son of a farmer, he first studied at Helsinki’s Finnish Art Society drawing school, and later traveled to Paris and Italy in pursuit of his artistic career.  In Paris, he studied at the Académie Julian and later with Paul Gauguin.  Gauguin encouraged him to find his own individual style, which would be based on a strongly nationalistic aesthetic.

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Michael Manomivibul

Book Illustrations by Michael Manomivibul

Michael Manomivibul is a freelance illustrator whose work thrives on mystery and atmosphere.  Born in Boston, raised in Bangkok, he has a BFA in Illustration from the California College of The Arts. He currently resides in Oakland California.

His inky illustrations are reminiscent of an updated Grimm’s fairy tale. In addition to having a mastery of sumi ink, he’s a fantastic storyteller. The moments he chooses to capture are at the height of suspense. He highlights natural movements with unusual, and sometimes unexpected, lighting solutions.

Marton Perlaki

Photography by Marton Perlaki

“I ususally take the picture that I’ve planned, but in the process of taking the photogrpah I also become very responsive to pleasant surprises. This means that after I took the picture that I’ve planned I immediately stir away from the original idea and start experimenting. This is when intuition and the unexpected comes in the picture.

I don’t use much of the capability of digital technology. I like making the effects in camera, whether it is a color tonality that I’d like to achieve or just moving things in or out of frame. I am not a very technical person in general and the same goes to photography. I am however drawn towards a certain kind of aesthetic which you can call precise or analytic…with a touch of sensitivity.”     – Marton Perlaki

Cy Twombly

Paintings by Cy Twombly

Edwin Parker “Cy” Twombly Jr. was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenber and Jasper Johns but chose to live in Italy after 1957.

His paintings are predominantly large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and grafitti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. Many of his works are in the permanent collections of most of the museums of modern art around the world, including the Menil Collection in Houston, the Tate Modern in London and the New York’s museum of Modern Art. He was also commissioned for the ceiling of a room of the Musee du Louvre in Paris.

Many of his later paintings and works on paper shifted toward “romantic symbolism”, and their titles can be interpreted visually through shapes and forms and words. Twombly often quoted the poets as Stephane Maliame, Rainer Maria Rilke and John Keats as well as many classical myths and allegories in his works. Examples of this are his “Apollo” and “The Artist” and a series of eight drawings consisting solely of inscriptions of the word “VIRGIL”.

Top Image: “Untitled”, 1972, Oil Based House Paint, Wax Crayon, and Lead Pencil on Canvas

Bottom Image: “Untitled I”, (Bacchus Series), 2005, Acrylic on Canvas