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A carefully curated collection of art that I think is dope.
arsagugli: Naissance d’une galaxie (Birth of a Galaxy) by Max Ernst, 1969. Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm.

arsagugli:

Naissance d’une galaxie (Birth of a Galaxy) by Max Ernst, 1969. Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm.

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cavetocanvas: St. George and the Dragon - Paolo Uccello, c. 1470

cavetocanvas:

St. George and the Dragon - Paolo Uccello, c. 1470

cavetocanvas: Lovers In An Upstairs Room, from Uta Makura (‘Poem of the Pillow’) - Kitagawa Utamaro, 1788 From the British Museum: Written on the fan is a suggestive verse by the comic poet Yadoya no Meshimori: Hamaguri niHashi o shikka toHasamareteShigi tachikanuruAki no yūgure Its beak caught firmlyIn the clam shell,The snipe cannotFly awayOf an autumn evening The ‘Poem of the Pillow’ is the first of a series of de luxe printed books produced by Utamaro in partnership with the publisher Tsutaya Jūsaburō. The variety of themes - birds, shells, snow, moon and flowers - widened the range of subject-matter and styles in Ukiyo-e of the time.

cavetocanvas:

Lovers In An Upstairs Room, from Uta Makura (‘Poem of the Pillow’) - Kitagawa Utamaro, 1788

From the British Museum:

Written on the fan is a suggestive verse by the comic poet Yadoya no Meshimori:

Hamaguri ni
Hashi o shikka to
Hasamarete
Shigi tachikanuru
Aki no yūgure

Its beak caught firmly
In the clam shell,
The snipe cannot
Fly away
Of an autumn evening

The ‘Poem of the Pillow’ is the first of a series of de luxe printed books produced by Utamaro in partnership with the publisher Tsutaya Jūsaburō. The variety of themes - birds, shells, snow, moon and flowers - widened the range of subject-matter and styles in Ukiyo-e of the time.

cavetocanvas: Winter, Yosemite Valley - Ansel Adams, 1933-34 From the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: A man whose name is, for many, synonymous with landscape photography, Adams was one of America’s most well-known photographers by the mid-1930s, just a few years after his decision to pursue photography as a career. He came to the medium from a background in music and a profound love of the western landscape, particularly that of the High Sierra and Yosemite Valley, where he made the vast majority of his negatives, as well as this photograph. Both influences are clearly evident in this work: the strong vertical dark lines of the tree trunks create a base-line grid for the delicate melody of horizontal, snow-tipped branches, while the clean precision of the print mimics crisp mountain air. As a result, this, like most of Adams’ photographs, functions as the graphic equivalent of natural experience.

cavetocanvas:

Winter, Yosemite Valley - Ansel Adams, 1933-34

From the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History:

A man whose name is, for many, synonymous with landscape photography, Adams was one of America’s most well-known photographers by the mid-1930s, just a few years after his decision to pursue photography as a career. He came to the medium from a background in music and a profound love of the western landscape, particularly that of the High Sierra and Yosemite Valley, where he made the vast majority of his negatives, as well as this photograph. Both influences are clearly evident in this work: the strong vertical dark lines of the tree trunks create a base-line grid for the delicate melody of horizontal, snow-tipped branches, while the clean precision of the print mimics crisp mountain air. As a result, this, like most of Adams’ photographs, functions as the graphic equivalent of natural experience.