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matt1308:

Realistic Urban Paintings by Nathan Walsh

I see my school!

mucholderthen:

NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATIONS

from  Albertus Seba
Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri Accurata Descriptio et Iconibus Artificiosissmis Expressio per Universam Physices Historiam

AMSTERDAM: 1734-1765

The most complete record of any of the eighteenth-century cabinets of natural history.

Albertus Seba was an apothecary in Amsterdam who became rich in the service of the Dutch East India Company. During this time the Dutch, through the Company, commanded the most extensive network of trade and colonies in the world, and it was by exploiting this that Seba managed to acquire his collection.

Accordingly, Seba gathered a vast array of specimens from Sri Lanka, Greenland, Indonesia and other far-flung places. Many specimens were South American, particularly Brazilian; these came to him via the Dutch colony in Surinam.

The present work is a catalogue of his second and grandest cabinet of natural rarities, including mammals, birds, plants, insects, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians, fish, crustaceans, shells, minerals and fossils.

Seba’s cabinet played an important part in Linnaeus’s classification of the natural world. …  Maria Sybilla Merian made use of the cabinet in her great work on Surinamese insects.

 Many of Seba’s specimens still survive in European museums.

( Sotheby’s )

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junkculture:

Clever hanging cups arrangement above the counter of a coffee shop in Bucharest, Romania.

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indigenousdialogues:

Ram Singh I of Kota Hunting Rhinoceros [in my opinion, one of the greatest paintings ever made]
Attributed to Kota Master A [see below for details]
c. 1700
India (Kota, Rajasthan)
Opaque watercolor on paper

“Although badly damaged, this hunting scene is one of the most dramatic known examples of the genre. The elephant as combatant was a favored subject in the court painting of Bundi, from which the Kota school evolved following the creation of that state by Shah Jahan in 1631. The subject of this painting, the elephant and two noble riders, are united as a single force, pitiless in pursuit of their prey. The Kota Master created one of the most powerful renderings of the hunt in Indian art, with skilled tonal modeling of the beasts and restrained use of color that is confined to the elephant’s harnessings and blankets. Stuart Cary Welch [American scholar and curator of Indian and Islamic art] wrote of this work that such is its compelling energy that it makes us “feel the thud of feet and the lashing of ropes, and hear the clang of bells.”

Painting from Kota between the middle of the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century is very poorly documented, yet there are a handful of pictures bearing artist names, including Niju or Shaykh Taju. Stuart Cary Welch assigned the pictures from Kota and Bundi, all of them very similar in both style and subject matter — generally hunting or battle scenes — to three artists: the Master of the Elephants, the Kota Master, and Shaykh Taju. Milo Beach’s [historian of Indian art] recent research has resulted in a different set of attributions. He recognized the Hada Master (active in Bundi and subsequently in Kota) and three styles from Kota attributed to individual artists whom he refers to as Artists A, B, and C. The B group shows the influence of the artist Niju.

Artists like the Hada Master had a major influence on the development of painting in Kota, in both style and content. For example, motifs such as the lion climbing a tree in Ram Singh I of Kota hunting at Makundgarh were prefigured in the repertoire of Bundi painting. Yet the technique is different. Short brushstrokes predominate, notably in the foliage, and also wet washes, as seen in the bushes in the background. A most unusual technique was used to render the water splashing against the hunting platform; there, the pigments were sprayed onto the paper rather than brushed. The faces, by contrast, are formulaic, and they can be traced back to late works of the Hada Master. Instead of occupying the foreground, the actual hunting scene is embedded in a detailed landscape.”

- Metropolitan Museum of Art [http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/]

lifestyleoftheunemployed:

Lifestyle of the Unemployed

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artchipel:

Tumblr Artist

Daniel James Leznoff | on Tumblr (Canada)

Daniel James Leznoff is a collage artist based in Montreal, Canada. Graduate from Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and inspired to experiment with decoupage after discovering the visual art of Robert Pollard, his material is at once humorous, psychedelic, quizzical and eye-catching. Daniel James Leznoff has appeared in several magazines and websites. Please follow artist’s Tumblr for more work.

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2headedsnake:

Isaac Cordal - ‘Cement Bleak’

Isaac Cordal uses strainers not as kitchen toosl but as a means to create street art.

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valscrapbook:

Palacio de la Duquesita by joaquinpadillaromero on Flickr.

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gacougnol:

Keith Carter

2013

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