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March 2006
03/30/2006
Bird's Eye View Of Solar Eclipse
This is a great picture of bird during the recent solar eclipse taken by
Aamir Qureshi in Islamabad.
Bird Silhouette
Pierre
Bonnard
I happened to see this article,
Pierre Bonnard Retrospective at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, in the
New York Times and then found this Australian exhibit with the wonderful
painting below.
Woman In Front of a Mirror (1908)
03/27/2006
Film Fun Magazine Covers
These are large scans of the beautiful magazine covers from the art deco era
magazine Film Fun.
January (1928)
Kagedo Japanese Art Gallery
There are some wonderful art objects and paintings on this site. I
particularly liked the Nihonga (Japanese-style) paintings.
Fair Wind by
Miki Suizan (1933)
Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) Magazine Covers
I always liked Wonder Woman, and this
site has tons of images from
her Lynda Carter's career.
Starlog Japanese Version (1979)
Raising Cupid
This exhibit of French engravings are from the Age of Gallantry
collection at the Hermitage.
Jupiter And Io
by Marin Bonnet (1783)
Souther Salazar
Frog Jump
Penelope
Dullaghan (AD)
A very talented artist.
Bowl and Chopsticks
Girodet:
Romantic Rebel
The James Dean of the 18th century?
Danaë (1798)
Michael
Baumgarten (Neurastenia)
This guy is pretty weird, but I like his sense of humor.
Untitled
Recent Scans From Schaukasten
I love these pulp style movie posters.
Man Bait
Yet More Cult Posters (Bedazzled!)
These are scans from the early movie seriels.
Superman
Liberty Meadows
(PCL)
I liked the covers
best.
Liberty Meadows Cover #5
03/20/2006
Henry Clive
These are some of the most beautiful magazine cover illustrations I've ever
seen.
Singapore (1938)
Lauren's Alice in
Wonderland Page
This is a large collection of samples from various Alice in Wonderland
illustrators. There are lots of links to other Alice sites as well.
Edward John Prittie (1923)
Masami Teraoka's Art Theatre
I happened to see a special on PBS about this very talented artist.
Geisha (2003)
31 Flavors Invading Japan
Series/Today's Special (1982)
Manfredi Beninati
I really like the color composition in these paintings.
Aziz (2004)
Phyllis Plattner
Legends #14
Lori Earley (Neurastenia)
Belladonna
sally bennett
88
mr. imagination
33
03/16/2006
The
Marx Brothers (PCL)
This is a nice collection of Marx Brothers images and MP3 recordings.
Duck Soup
03/13/2006
Cali Rezo
(Geisha)
Excellent artwork! I like Cali's subject selection, use of colors, and
especially those fascinating stylized eyes that seem to look right through the viewer.
Marianne
Samuel Palmer Vision
and Landscape
"A major retrospective marking the 200th anniversary of the great English
Romantic painter." This exhibit is now at the
Met, who could have a put up
a better web page if they weren't so damn lame. ;-)
The Magic Apple Tree (1830)
Russian Woman
in Engravings and Lithographs
I think Countess Samoilova is a hottie!
Countess Samoilova
Hay In Art
(Scout)
"A collection of great works of hay."
Rest in Harvest
by Adolphe Bouguereau (1865)
Uncle Tom's Cabin & American
Culture
Magazine Ad 1940
Nuremberg Chronicle
"The Chronicle is probably the most sophisticated printed book published
before the year 1500 because of its use of different graphic layouts that
integrate text and image in more varied ways than anything that had
previously been attempted."
The Apocalypse
Children
Books of the Early Soviet Era
Nazagel (1931)
Kevin Hauff (Neurastenia)
The Work Ethic
03/09/2006
Gordon Parks
In memory of
Gordon
Parks, here is a sampling of his photography.
Department Store
Birmingham, Alabama, 1956
03/06/2006
Zhang Hongtu
"The colors and brush works are impressionist and post-impressionist, the
images are from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing, the media are oil and
canvas." This makes a wonderful combination!
Shitao (album)-van Gogh #2 (2002)
Egypt And Nubia Lithographs (1846-49)
These beautiful lithographs were created from drawings made on the spot by
David Roberts give a stylized picture of what Egypt and Nubia looked like
over 150 years ago.
The Great Temple of Aboo Simble, Nubia
Nubian women at Korti
A Francesca Woodman Gallery
This is a collection of the stunning and sensitive photo artwork of
Francesca Woodman, whose life was cut tragically short by suicide.
Italy (1977-78)
Chin Chin Kobakama
This particular fairy tale reminds a bit of the soot balls in Spirited Away.
These are complete scans of the originals which could be printed.
Also, here are more wonderful Japanese fairy tales at the NYPL:
The Goblin Spider,
The Boy Who Drew Cats,
The Fountain of Youth and
The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling.
The fairies of the floor-mats (1926)
Jueves Magazines and
Cabral Covers (Neurastenia)
These magazine covers are great!
Jueves Magazine
America
In Caricature
This is an interesting collection of early American political cartoons.
McClellan and Davis (1864)
Michael
Parkes
The Golden Serpent (2000)
Hiroshi Sugimoto
(Scout)
The Hirshhorn Smithsonian Museum exhibits key works of the great
photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. I love the Sanjusangen-do Temple photo
(below) in particular, because it really captures the experience of being in
the Temple Hall itself. If you are ever in Kyoto, you have to visit
this temple! It is simply an amazing experience.
Sanjusangen-do Temple
of 1001 Kannons or
Bodhisattvas statues
Andrew Brandou
(Bibi's)
Hell The Blue Room
February 2006
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