October 2007
10/22/2007
IWR Art Links For 10/22/2007
Virginia Frances Sterrett -
Arabian Nights [Bio
1900-1931]
These are wonderful illustrations by a woman whose life was cut short by
tuberculosis. In addition to Arabian Nights, I found these
two scanned books
Old
French Fairy Tales and
Tanglewood
Tales by the artist.
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Scheherazade Went on with Her
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Morgiana Danced with Much Grace |
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Camilla d'Errico [Bio]
These are great Betty Boop/Anime eyed subject illustrations. I want
one or two!
Cheshire
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Yanobe Kenji
I liked to see one of this dude's exhibitions. Giant Torayan
(below) is remote controlled so children can make him breath fire!
The Fire Breathing Giant Torayan
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Matthew Laznicka
I think Matthew's illustrations are way underpriced considering his
talent. Buy one of his paintings and then perhaps he'll eat, drink and be
merry tonight! ;-)
Maya 2002
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Gerard Daran
Here are some surrealist beauties from Gerard Daran.
L Illustioniste
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Ink Blotters
(Blort)
Blue Monday (1939)
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10/14/2007
IWR Art Links For 10/15/2007
Xi Pan
I blogged Xi Pan about two years ago, but her artwork keeps looking better
and better to me over time. Please click on the images below for the large
scans to see how beautifully detailed and colorful her oil
paintings really are.
Memory (2005)
Nu Couche (2005)
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Frank
Xavier Leyendecker [Bio
1877-1924]
Frank Xavier was a great American illustrator during the golden age of
magazine covers.
Collier's, "The Dragon Painter" (1905)
Life, "Rivals" (1921)
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Akane Koide
This budding 15 year-old Superflat artist is very talented.
Lonely Queen
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Pierre Jutand
I liked the painting below.
"La Parisienne"
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Namio Harukawa
NSFW
More Spam-free images
This dude is really into female dominance art (femdom). I wish he
would have created some non-bondage pinups of his idealized women.
He really is really a good artist.
Yikes!
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Hans
Baldung [Bio
1480-1545]
WebMuseum
(via
Little Hokum Rag)
Fascinating artwork.
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Three Ages of the Woman
and the Death (1510)
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Eve, Serpent and
Death (1512) |
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Gallery of Vintage
Mandobabes (via
Blort)
These mandobabes are kinda naughty.
A Real Mandolin Hottie!
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Majorettes (via
PCL)
Cute, Cute, Cute!
I Think I'm in Love!
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Teh
Holiez Bibul (b3ta)
The lolcat bible translation project. Below is a lolcat example, just in
case, like me, you weren't aware of this Internet phenomena.
Uh-oh!
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10/08/2007
IWR Art Links For 10/08/2007
Samuel Palmer [Bio
1805-1881]
Met
Exhibit,
British Museum and
Tate
These beautiful works are from one of the most important landscape
artists of the
Romantic Movement. Samuel Palmer's work was strongly influenced
of
William Blake.
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Garden in Shoreham (1820-30s)
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A Hilly Scene
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Classic River Scene
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The Lonely Tower (1879)
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Marie-Denise Villers (1771-1821)
I couldn't find any other painting archives or more information about
this French artist, by my god, what an enchanting painting it is.
The painting is in the
Met and is thought to be a self-portrait. Wikimedia Commons
also had this additional Villers portrait of
Madame Soustras.
Young Woman Drawing (1801)
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60's & 70's Asian Pop Record Covers
I found this great set of large Asian Pop album cover scans from David Greenfield
after I looked up an artist from
Go Go Asians,
which I saw on
PCL.
Judy Lee
Sakura
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Japanese Movie
and Opera Actresses 春光写真館 (English)
These are some great scans of Japanese Movie (left column) and Opera
(right column) from the 1920s and 30s.
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| Tsukuba Yukiko |
Manryu? |
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Japanese
Children's Records From the 1930s and 40s 音盤ノ友 (English)
There are some wonderful scans of Japanese Children's records during
WWII era. The only downside is I wish the scans were larger!
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10/01/2007
IWR Art Links For 10/01/2007
George Petty
[Bio 1894-1975]
The Pin-up Files
Archive and
American Art Archives
While watching
Ken Burns' "The War",
I wondered what kind of pinup girls these guys would have looked at
during WWII, and I bet a lot of the guys had Petty Girl Pinups.
Also, here are two of his Petty Girl calendars:
1947 and
Ridgid Tools Calendars 1952.
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Rita Hayworth, Time (1941) |
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Miki Suizan
I love good shin hanga bijin-ga woodblock prints.
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Preparing Tea at Miyako Odori
Festival (1924) |
Cherry Blossoms on a
boat on Oi River (1924) |
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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
According to
the BBC, this 13th Century mystical (Sufi) Muslim scholar is the most
popular
poet
in the United States. BTW, yesterday was Rumi's birthday.
Below is one of his Zen sounding poems that I liked - This World Which Is
Made of Our Love for Emptiness.
Rumi
This World Which Is Made of Our Love for
Emptiness
Praise to the emptiness that blanks out existence. Existence:
This place made from our love for that emptiness!
Yet somehow comes emptiness,
this existence goes.
Praise to that happening, over and over!
For years I pulled my own existence out of emptiness.
Then one swoop, one swing of the arm,
that work is over.
Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope,
free of mountainous wanting.
The here-and-now mountain is a tiny piece of a piece of straw
blown off into emptiness.
These words I'm saying so much begin to lose meaning:
Existence, emptiness, mountain, straw:
Words and what they try to say swept
out the window, down the slant of the roof.
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Ron
English
(Glubibulga)
This guy has a wonderful and iconoclastic imagination! Some of my
other favorites by Ron are
The Last Breakfast,
Marilyn Manson and
Untitled.
Rainbows End (2006)
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Sexy Witch
(Bibi)
I really loved the redheaded witch below. It's great
huge scan!
The Redheaded Witch
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Geneviève Van der
Wielen (Femme)
Le sécateur (2000)
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