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Design, FIne Arts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Painting, Print, Puppies and Flowers, Typography, Vintage, Vintage Prints 1920s, art deco periodicals, art deco style covers, Art Magazine, Avant Garde, Broom, Cover Art, Dadaism, Enrico Prampolini, surrealist art, Vintage Magazine Covers, Woodcuts
Broom Magazine was a revolutionary publication that changed the art world in the early 1920s. It provided an outlet for avant-garde art movements and helped to spread their ideas across Europe. The magazine was founded by Enrico Prampolini, who wanted to create a platform for artists to share their work […]
Arts, Asia, Europe, FIne Arts, Painting, Print, Vintage Anna Ostroumova Lebedeva, Art Nouveau, Benois, Block Prints, Ilya Repin, Petersburg, Russia, Tolstoy, Vasily Mate, Woodcuts
Anna Ostroumova Lebedeva’s work rekindled an artistic interest in woodcuts—other than for print production. Lovely stuff. Check out 95 more pieces of her art on wikiart. I couldn’t help but notice the similarity between her monogram and the anarchist ‘logo’, coincidence? 😉 From Wikipedia article: Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (Russian: Анна […]
Arts, Creative, FIne Arts, History, Hmmn Interesting, Literature, Skills, Words etc 1847, Dublin, Eavan Boland, Ireland, Irish Poetry, Quarantine, Stanford, The Famine, Writing
Without any doubt Eavan Boland had been my favorite living Irish poet. Her poetry embodied the essence of Irishness, Ireland’s tragic and melancholic history, with it’s lovelorn and forelorn. I have posted two of her poems on puppies and flowers before: Amber and The Lost Land. This piece is a […]
FIne Arts, Fishing, Food, Graphic Arts, Print, The Planet Fish Art, Fish rubbing, Gyotaku, History, Homma Museum, Inks, Japan, Ocean, Prints, Research
Fish rubbing or Gyotaku is a printing technique invented by Japanese fishermen in the early nineteenth century to record the size of their catch. By inking the fish and printing it onto fine Japanese paper, the intricate markings and texture of the fish can be captured forever. As for that […]
FIne Arts, NSFW, Painting, Sex, Skills China, Gustav Klimt, Hangzhou, Modigliani, Moscow Academy of Fine Arts, National Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Paint, painting, Schiele, Shanghai, Xi Pan
Here is a small selection of my favorite Xi Pan paintings. And they are lovely. Without meaning to denigrate her, I used the word reminiscent in the title to describe the work. Actually it’s far more complimentary knowing the reminiscences are of Klimt, Schiele and Modigliani. You can read more […]
Asia, FIne Arts, Food, Illustration, Sculpture baby heads, Ceramics, Creepy, Cute, Holland, qimmyshimmy, Singapore
Lim Qixuan–or Qimmyshimmy as she goes by on instagram–is a Singaporean artist/illustrator thats creates these shocking yet delightful miniature clay sculptures. To get a full appreciation of how she arrived here I’d recommend following the progression of her insta posts from the beginning. Whether contrived or not (the first post […]
Creative, FIne Arts, History, Performing Arts, Photography 1964, Andy Warhol, David McCabe, NYC, Salvador Dali, St Regis
Photographer David McCabe remembers the artists’ first meeting: I went with Andy to see Dalí at the St. Regis Hotel. Dalí used to paint his suite at the St. Regis. He was working on two enormous paintings at the time. He greeted us at the door, ordered up all […]
FIne Arts, Illustration, Print, Skills Brooklyn, Colors, Fine Arts, Linocut Prints, New York, Reduction Print, Skyline
I love the colors in this print but I’m still not sure how many were used, 4 maybe? From the Etsy page: This is an original reduction linocut in a limited edition of 7 copies. The print is of a New York City tugboat viewed from Red Hook Brooklyn. Each […]
Americas, FIne Arts, Painting, Sculpture Broken Things, Ceramics, Chile, Livia Marín, Nomad Patterns, Plaster, Resin, Sculpture, Silk Screen, Transfers
Livia Marín is a London-based Chilean artist. The Broken Things series began in 2009 and Nomad Patterns in 2012. Livia describes her work: My artistic practice has been characterized by large-scale installations and the appropriation of mass-produced and consumer objects. I employ techniques and strategies that are characteristic of […]
Arts, Creative, FIne Arts, Painting, Print, Skills 1906, Bauhaus, Chicago Sunday Tribune, Comic Strip, Cubism, Dada, Kin-Der Kids
Expressionist, Cartoonist, Caricaturist, Cubist Painter, Dadaist, Composer, Bauhaus Master Printer and Degenerate Artist to list just a few of Lyonel Feininger‘s creative talents. Lyonel Feininger is best known as a painter and a founder of the famous Bauhaus school of art and architecture, he was also a pioneer of the […]