November 27, 2012
November 15, 2012
More French drugs
Collection of Jérôme Dubois.
November 13, 2012
Frank Mechau Jr.
Stumbled on this artist while googling another Frank Mechau, one who illustrated a book by Aldington in 1931.
See Frank crouching in front of a mural sketch.
November 11, 2012
October 30, 2012
Marvel and misspell
During the hurricane (not so bad in Philly) I posted some NASA photos of past storms on But Does it Float. (Unusually topical for me, I know.) I used a Goethe quote found in Auden's A Certain World: A Commonplace Book. Here's the full quote:
Many years ago, as now, my mind strove with eager delight to study and discover the creative life of Nature. It is eternal unity in manifold manifestation; the great is little, the little is great, and everything after its kind; ever changing and yet preserving itself, near and far, and far and near, and so shaping and re-shaping itself—to marvel at it is what I am here for.
The reason why I prefer the society of nature to any other is that nature is always right and the error, if any, can only be on my side. But if I hold converse with men, they will err, then I will, and so on forever, and we never get to see matters clearly.
Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.
On the next page Auden gives a fun Lichtenberg aphorism:
If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add to it our own errors of spelling and opinion.Image: Hurricane Dean, 2007, NASA
October 28, 2012
October 26, 2012
Zhang Handong
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| Harmony Music, 1998 |
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| Southern Region Series -Static Cloud, 1998 |
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| Southern Region Series - Nocturne, 2000 |
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| Magic Dance, 1998 |
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| Fairy, 2002 |
Chinese, b. 1964 Born in the hometown of prints, Yunnan in 1964. Zhang is a talented painter. He graduated in fine arts department from Yunnan Arts University. He had been vice-director in fine arts department of Yuxi Normal University, he is currently the vice-principal of Nieer Arts University. His way of creating is passionate but conscientious and careful at the same time. The style is simple but touching. He constantly conveys the characteristics of people, events, places and objects that he'd experienced vividly through his tactful academic skills. No matter in China or abroad, we could find his gorgeous work in many significant architectures. He's one of the artists whose works are quite popular for collection. Zhang is still in his summer of life, won several important art prizes in these years. All reveals his infinite artistic potential. In 1998, his oil painting works participate in "Art Taipei 98", in 2004, Zhang participated in the first Gallery Fair in Beijing. In 2006, he's one of the invited artists of Munich oil paintings exhibition and held "Revitalized Homeland-Zhang Handong Solo Exhibition" in Taipei.
October 24, 2012
Bat Woman
In case you thought Fini's Cat Woman from my previous post was strange, I present this 1968 Turkish film poster (from the Efraín Barradas collection)
October 23, 2012
Cat Woman
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| Leonor Fini, Cat Woman |
October 20, 2012
Jack in the box
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| "Boekillustratie voorstellende een duveltje uit een doosje" [psychotic jack-in-the-box] 1920ish via Geheugen van Nederland |
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| 1900-1940 also via Geheugen |
Endochondral Ossification in Knee Joint of Kitten
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| circa 1916, classroom drawing (no memory of where I found this) |
October 19, 2012
Jan Toorop's 1924 calendar
Via the Wolfsonian. The image right above is my fave.
Also see Folkert's Toorop post on But Does it Float
October 12, 2012
August 30, 2012
Izas, Rabizas y Colipoterras
Via Galderich found while working on Catalonian Book Fetishists 3
May 13, 2012
Illustrated by Fish
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| From "The Noah's Ark Book" illustrated by FISH (1918) via Full Table and Animalarium |
May 7, 2012
Santa Claus delivers a new child into a world of violence and death
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| China Sketch, January 1937 "Santa Claus delivers a new child into a world of violence and death" Illustrator: Zhu Jin-lou |
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| Modern Sketch, November 1935 |
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| China Sketch, November 1936 "China as sleeping giant. 'Give me Liberty or Death.'" Illustrator: Li Xuan |
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| "A Typical Chinese," 1936 photomontage |
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| "Assorted Pictures from the North," 1934 Photomontage artist: Fen Zi-li |
March 27, 2012
February 19, 2012
Sanya's Cat
I bought this print from Sanya Glisic and it looks even better in real life (as most things do). Via her etsy shop.
I featured Sanya's Struwwelpeter on 50 Watts last year.
