Art And Culture

June 2013

Art and Music Links For 06/17/2013

Maxfield Parrish - The Lantern Bearers (1910 Published)

Suzuki Harunobu - Woman Visiting the Shrine in the Night (Edo period, 18th century)
This is a gorgeous high resolution image (Google Art Project) of one of my favorite Ukiyo-e artists - Suzuki Harunobu.  I don't know how the women of the Edo period could on those wooden shoes at least not very far.

Fuco Ueda - Chrysanthemum Exhibit

Audrey Kawasaki - Untitled

Kwon Kyungyup - Elegy (2013)

Virginia Mori - Chairs (2013)

Banksy - How Do You Like Your Eggs?

Ok Kim - Summer Moon Night (2013)

Felipe Bedoya - Frida Kahlo

Laura Zombie - Society And The Unicorn

Kevin Woods - Central Park

Cat Connor - Tenaya Lake (Yosemite)

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Art and Music Links For 06/10/2013

Yumiko Kayukawa - Madness (2013)
I had the pleasure to see Sweet Yumiko's "Madness" show opening on Saturday at the Shooting Gallery in San Francisco, which is just a short walk from the Civic Center Bart station.  On the Bart, I was totally enthralled reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.  As I walked up Hyde St. to Geary, it was like being in a chapter from the book.  BTW, I walked back on Larkin.  I think Larkin is a little less shaky. 

When I got to the Shooting Gallery, it was a real feast for the eyes to see Yumiko's paintings hanging in the main gallery.   I had been blogging her artwork since 2006, but had never seen her work in vivo. Her paint precision brush strokes are very crisp and flat looking almost as if they were printed on the canvas.  I'm not sure how she manages that, but the effect is very stunning.  Her subject matter usually involves a beautiful female figure surrounded by various animals, e.g., cranes, elephants, tigers that are engaged in a whimsical Japanese flavored activity.  I also got to meet Yumiko briefly and her companion.  She was very attractive, friendly, and was interested in which works of art I liked best.  Here are a few of my favorites from the show, but it was hard to choose.  The show runs until June 29th.  Check it out if you are in the area. I'm glad I went.  It was fun.

Sky of the East (2013)

Madness (2013)

Aurora Mochi (2012)

Cherry Blossoms Fall (2013)

Kwon Kyungyup - Red Moon
I love this new painting by Kwon Kyungyup!

Red Moon (2013)

Yuji Moriguchi - Sky At Sunset

Sky At Sunset

KRK Ryden

The Laughing Squid

Elisabeth Craster

There's A Dragon In The Attic

Kyle McBurnie - A Harbor Sea Exploring A Kelp Forrest

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Art and Music Links For 06/03/2013

Miguel Covarrubias
More images by the Mexican painter and caricaturist: here, here, here and of course on Tumblr.

Bather Holding Up Her Kemban

Offering fruits to the Temple

Vanity Fair Cover February (1936)

George Gershwin-An American in Paris" (1929)

Ilona Szwarc’s - American Girls Foley Gallery Exhibition

Melissa Haslam
I last blogged Melissa's work in 2009, and she has been very busy since then.

The Fallen (2011)

Tomoko Oki - Untitled (2013)

Banksy - Boring (2013)

George Collins Cox - Walt Whitman (1887) From The Met's Collection

New Zealand

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May 2013

Art and Music Links For 05/27/2013

Kawanabe Kyosai, Jigoku Dayu (Courtesan of Hell)

Adam Diston - Cutting A Sunbeam (1886)
This version of the photo shows a man with the kids and has a few more photos.

George Barbier - La Belle Helene (1922)
See more of this great French illustrator's work on Tumblr.

Jeanne Mammen
More photos and information about the German artist.

Yuji Moriguchi - Le muguet

Akiyoshi Terashima - Lumbini
Lumbini is the Buddha's home town.  Beautiful shot!

Nighyee - Paeonia suffruticosa

Benjamin Lacombe - Madame Buttery

Zoe Lacchei - Geisha

Snow Patrol - Shut Your Eyes (2006)

Buddy Guy - Baby Please Don't Leave Me (2001)

Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rackettes - Love Letter (2012 official music video)
NPR Interview.

Daft Punk - Get Lucky (2013 Official Audio) ft. Pharrell Williams

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Art and Music Links For 05/20/2013

Kwon Kyungyup - White Elegy via Hi-Fructose, Website

Yuji Moriguchi - The Old Town Labyrinth

Virginia Mori (2013)

Yosemite Falls Webcam

Ice Plants in Bloom in Pacific Grove
I took these photos last week in my old stomping grounds in Pacific Grove.

Point Lobos (2013)
I took some photos at Point Lobos too.  I must have walked 20 miles.

Grace Jones - I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You)

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Art and Music Links For 05/13/2013

Ilaria Del Monte

Virginia Mori - Untitled (Seven)
I want one of these!

Soey Milk - Cirrus (2013)

Nobuyoshi Araki via Arrested Motion

Fuco Ueda - Garden Of Silence (2013)

chrysanthemum Fu hollow (2013)

Tae402

Tanya Shatseva - Tonight I'll tell you about love

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Art and Music Links For 05/06/2013

Ito Shinsui - Fragrance of a Bath

Picasso With An Owl (c. 1948)

Elisabeth Chaplin - Young Girls in Yellow (1921)
FYI - Elisabeth was the son of Charlie Chaplin.

Alice Springs (June Newton) Paris (1971)

Miss Little Big Horn/Rhonda Holy Bear (1977)

Henry Hargreaves Photography

Debbie Harry

Nevada Falls from the John Muir Trail in Springtime.

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Amy Crehore

La Cigale (1872)

A Very Sexy Cleopatra

Three Beauties (1793)

Three Gold Fish (2003)

Fuco Ueda

Yakuza Poster

Snow 1939

Betty Boop

Spring by Kawase Hasui (1925)

Bather Arranging Her Hair by Renoir (1885)