Author: ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon

https://www.instagram.com/wolvesofgray This blog is a refugee and a survivor of the Great Tumblr Inquisition of December 17th, 2018. I am gay artist, who received training at the Rhode Island School of Design, and now, a retired high-end fine art framer living in Maryland, USA. My interests and studies in life run a wide gamut from art to history and from the scientific to the esoteric. I have been building this blog of images and texts for the last eight years. My wish is that my posts pique the interest of viewers and encourage them to experience more.

Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji

Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji:   Architecture Photography: Ceilings

Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji is a 24 years old photographer and physics student from northern Iran, qho is interested in Panoramic and Architecture Photography. He has been taking photos for seven years, and have learned much through talking to other photographers, sharing his pictures and receiving feedback, and watching tutorials on the internet. Most of his phootographs pics cover a very wide angle of view, often showing an entire building in one shot. They are are also shot in a high dynamic range,  emphasizing the use of light as a dynamic element. He always try to  to illustrate the stunning features of the buildings along with the details in architecture photography with artistic viewpoints.

The artist site with images for sale can be found at : Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji

Kaleo, “Way Down We Go”, Live

Kaleois an Icelandic rock band that formed at Mosfellsbaer in 2012. It consists of lead vocalist and guitarist JJ Julius Son (Jökull Júlíusson), drummer David Antonsson, bassist Daniel Kristjansson, and lead guitarist Rubin Pollock. They have released two studio albums, “Kaleo” in 2013 and “A/B” in 2016, as well as an EP “Glasshouse” in 2013.. “A/B“ has sold over one million albums worldwide. 

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Christian August Lorentzen

Christian August Lorentzen, “Model Class at the Copenhagen Academy of Arts”, Oil on Canvas, 1824

Christian August Lorentzen was born in August of 1749 as the son of a watchmaker. He arrived in Copenhagen around 1771 where he frequented the Royal Academy of Fine Arts; but it is unclear whether he received any formal training. From 1779 to 1782 he went abroad to develop his skills, visiting the Netherlands, Antwerp and Paris where he copied the paintings of the masters. In 1792 Lorentzen traveled to Norway to paint.

In a number of paintings, such as “Slaget på Reden” and “Den Rædsomste Nat”, Lorentzen documented key events from the English Wars between 1801 and 1814. Later in his career he mainly painted portraits, landscapes and scenes from Ludvig Holberg’s comedies. As a professor at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen from 1803 and until his death in 1828, he exercised great influence on the next generation of painters such as Martinus Rørbye among others.

Kate Morton: “The Lake House”

Photographer Unknown, (The Cabin at the Lake)

“Sunlight was everywhere, glittering gold off the bright green leaves of the garden. A blackcap, concealed within the foliage of a nearby willow, sang a sweet fanfare and a pair of mallards fought over a particularly juicy snail. The orchestra was rehearsing a dance number and music skimmed across the surface of the lake. How lucky they were to get a day like this one! ”

― Kate Morton, The Lake House

Gino Severini

Gino Severini, “War Train”, Oil on Linen, 1915, Museum of Modern Art, New York

This painting depicts a fast-moving train with soldiers shooting long, powerful guns. It is in the style of Futurism, an Italian modern movement that glorified technology, war, the dynamism of new objects, and the fast pace of urban life. It was founded by Marinetti, an Italian poet, and practiced by Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, and Severini.

WWI was raging on in Europe at this time and there was new military technology such as machine guns, chemical weapons, and cannons that were used to devastating effect. The painting has an aerial view, which reflects Severini’s Parisian studio that overlooked a train station. The fast movement of the train is broken down into flat, broad color planes that exemplify Cubism’s multiple perspectives seen simultaneously.

The smoke from the guns masks the background of ridged fields, which may hint at the destruction of the Italian countryside. The five shooters are a faceless, menacing, and threatening mass. There are also many interesting, specific details such as the rivets on the train and on the cannon.

“Armored Train” is similar to Francisco Goya’s “Third of May”, painted in1808, which shows a wall of unrecognizable oppressors shooting a defiant subject. However, unlike the Goya rendition, Severini’s painting has no identifiable victim; it’s just general chaos. Despite the violence, the colors are uplifting and the central line of composition thrusts upwards.

The Window’s Display

Through Time and Space: When Art Enters the World of the Window Display

“I discovered windows one afternoon and after that, nothing was ever the same.” – The Shape of Water

“A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“But Einstein came along and took space and time out of the realm of stationary things and put them in the realm of relativity—giving the onlooker dominion over time and space, because time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.”
― Dimitri Marianoff, Einstein: An Intimate Study of a Great Man

V. E. Schwab: “When the Warmer-Blooded Gods Began to Stir”

Photographers Unknown, (Ten Images for a Day in March)

“March is such a fickle month.
It is the seam between winter and spring—though seam suggests an even hem, and March is more like a rough line of stitches sewn by an unsteady hand, swinging wildly between January gusts and June greens. You don’t know what you’ll find, until you step outside.
Estele used to call these the restless days, when the warmer-blooded gods began to stir, and the cold ones began to settle. When dreamers were most prone to bad ideas, and wanderers were likely to get lost.”

― V. E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

 

Montaigne: “Behold the Hands, How the Promise”

Photographer Unknown, (His Hands / His Skin)

“Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.” 

― Montaigne

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier, “Bull”, Collage of Colored Paper and Newspaper, Gouache, Indian Ink and Charcoal on Paper, 1963

Le Corbusier was visionary writer, theorist, and architect, and a lesser-known painter. Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, he adopted his moniker when he began to author architectural designs and paintings. He had a fascination with proportion, modularity, and geometry, often taking his cue from classical architecture theory. His designs, however, were modernist and industrial. He fondly called houses “machines for living in,” and said that the base principal for design is that “it must be beautiful.”

Le Corbusier was interested in solving what he called the problem of urban co-habitation, and produced a great number of designs for houses and apartment buildings. Le Corbusier worked at the atelier of Peter Behrens, the training grounds of other architectural masters like Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius.