I enjoyed Jackie Wullschlager's new biography of #Monet so much I wrote this (glowing) review of it for @NWBylines, which extends the micro-review that appeared here a couple of weeks ago.
✨#Wunder? #Magie? Der #Legende nach, sollen die Ärzte und Brüder Cosmas und Damian viele Menschen geheilt haben. So auch diesen Kranken, dem ein Bein abgenommen und durch ein Bein eines Verstorbenen ersetzt wurde 🦵 .
Aufgrund ihrer selbstlosen Taten (sie haben kein Geld für ihre Hilfe verlangt) wurden sie #heilig gesprochen. 😇
Dieses Tafelbild aus dem 16. Jh. zeigt die Szene des Beinwunders: https://www.landesmuseum-stuttgart.de/sammlung/sammlung-online/dk-details?dk_object_id=309
Jackie Wullschlager wonderful Monet: The Restless Vision (2023) is the best #arthistory book I've read for a long time. Her account of Monet, his relations with 3 key women (two wives & a step daughter) & how they shaped his work, balances biography with a compelling/insughtful account of the development of his work. Like all good #art books this just makes you want to see his #painting in the flesh. I cannot recommend it highly enough
Virgil Finlay book jacket for this Andre Norton edited anthology from World Publishing Co., 1953. Plus a preliminary painting for same which was completely rethought. #FinlayFriday
If you're interested in the relation between #painting & #photography, Barbara Savedoff's short(ash) Transforming Images: How Photography Complicates the Picture (2000) is worth reading. She explores the relations between #art & the photo, including some fascinating stuff on photographic reproductions' impact on #arthistory, although the warnings about #digital photography now seem commonplace. But still its full of great insights!
There have been some wonderful new book prizes set up in the last few years: the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, the Cercador Prize which honors literary translation and is selected by indie booksellers, and now one set up by the Interlochen Center for the Arts to honor fiction or nonfiction about the creative arts and can be nominated by readers.
Day 18 of #Repostober where you share old art during the month of October
🎨 Watercolor & ink, by me
An Illustration for the short story "Zero Sum" by the talented J. Daniel Stone. The story + art will be included in his 2024 collection RAGING IN THE DARK.
James Elkins, What Painting Is (2000) is a strangely compelling discussion of the practice(s) of #painters using the extended metaphor of alchemy. Elkins manages to convince you that this is an interesting way of understanding what painters do when #painting by illustration of painterly practices & alchemic ones. Focussing on the surface of paintings, Elkins offers a idiosyncratic approach to understanding painting as process #arthistory @bookstodon
Sept 7 and these are on their way to the paint shop … patio sofa and all window shutters except those under roof … that sofa will be carefully restored, antique as it is from the original furniture of the Gothenburg university building. #sarassummer23 @gardening#renovation#painting
Try @mattround 's web app which lets you paint a replica of the Mona Lisa. The app will then tell you how accurate your painting is compared to the original :D
''Oohh this new piece is so different from your 'usual' work!''
Nah bro, its always different, I am 100 different artists in one body I guess :'D
I have developed a few styles I am comfortable with but other than that, I never see concepts in my head all in the same style, as each idea requires something else, the style is also an aspect of the story and feeling/mood of the piece?
:blobfoxwinkmlem:: (reup part 5) sorry for the wait I had some exams and I forgot to keep posting here’s a really old paining I worked on that I adore!!!