December 2013
Art and Music Links For 12/30/2013
Lilian May Miller
I blogged this about five years ago, but her images really deserve a second look.
Moonlight On Mt. Fuji
The Crescent Moon Rides Low
Shiba Kokan – Winter At Yoshiwara (ca. 1800)
Shiba Kokan – Girl On Veranda (ca. 1770)
Kawase Hasui – The Singing Lesson (1915)
A. Y. Jackson – The Red Maple (1914)
Raquel Welch In Shorts
Ian McGregor – Endless Dawn
A Pair Of Grebes
This is one of my photos.
Tracks In The Snow – The Civil Wars (2011)
The Avett Brothers – Another Is Waiting (2013)
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Art and Music Links For 12/23/2013
Zojoji Temple in Snow, four prints by Kawase Hasui
�Snow at Zojoji Temple, Shiba� (�Shiba (No) Zojo-ji�) (1925)
Balthus – Therese Dreaming (1938)
Anna Mary Robertson ‘Grandma’ Moses – Joy Ride (1953)
Junichi Nakahara – Postcards of Japanese Maidens Series – Looking at Someone (ca. 1940s)
Ohara Koson – Kingfisher (ca. 1930s)
Miharu Yokota – Merry Christmas
Kozo Tanaka – Thought you Erratic
Nguyen Thi Chau Giang – I am Making My Face Up for Today (2010)
Natural color on silk.
Danni Shinya Luo – Phoenix
Soey Milk – Petrichor (2013)
Stereolab – Vonal Declosion (2004)
Joni Mitchell – River (1971)
XTC – Thanks For Christmas (1983)
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Art and Music Links For 12/16/2013
Kafu – Two Girls By The Sea (c. mid-1920s)
This gorgeous painting on silk is by an artist who signed only as Kafu. Unfortunately, no more information seems to be available on this artist.
Takahashi Hiroshi – Playing with a cat (1930)
I love this one too!!!
Uemura Shoen – Preparing to dance (1914)
She was such a great artist.
Paul Klee – Fairy Tales (ca. 1920)
Virginia Mori – In The Cradle (2013)
Satomi Kuwahara – New Artwork (2013)
Xue Wang via Lowbrows & popsurrealists
Womb Service (2013)
Ilaria Del Monte – Notturno di Grieg
Daria Petrilli�s Digital Illustrations of Serenity and Nature (Facebook Page
Christian Schloe – Drowned Moon
Judy Garland – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (1944)
Brian Eno – China My China (1974) via Dangerous Minds
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Art and Music Links For 12/09/2013
Gustav Klimt – Houses at Unterach on the Attersee, (c. 1916)
Claude Monet – Path through the Forest, Snow Effect (1870)
Balthus – Girl at a Window (1955)
New From Kwon Kyungyup
I love her red paintings.
Gion Matsuri Festival
In this gorgeous photo, the maiko greet a geisha as they exit the stage after a performance.
Photograph by Benoit Hardy-Chartrand
Shouen Uemura – Gosho Doll
Daniela Uhlig via Urban Muse
Red Orange
Re-examining Yasujiro Ozu on film
December 12 will be the 50th anniversary of this great director’s death. If you never have seen one of his movies, I recommend for starters that you watch “Tokyo Story” made in 1953. Most of his movies are available on Netflix DVD sharing.
Tokyo Story (1953)
Anna May Wong as Hai-Tang in “The Flame Of Love” (1930)
Sophia Loren (1953)
What a beauty!
Krampus Card
To learn more about Krampus and photos of his impersonators today, see Krampus: Saint Nicholas’ Dark Companion
Game Christmas Tinner
Venus
Vampire Weekend – Unbelievers (Live on SNL)
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Art and Music Links For 12/02/2013
Vincent van Gogh – Oleanders (1888)
Henri Matisse – The Black Table
Tsuguharu Foujita painting – Woman and Cat (1937).
I love this one! More information on Foujita
Egene Koo
More images here
Never-ending Childhood
Moira Khan – Choir (2013)
Glenn Authur – Falling In Love With Mortality
DAlexander – The Castle (website
Cuson via Urban Muse
Unknown Artist via Miharu Yokota
Miharu Yokota – Sound of Spring Waves
Signed prints available here
Nicolas Nemiri – Untitled
SNNN via Urban Muse
The Plague Doctors
More information. More images
Jeroen Diepenmaat – Bird And Vinyl
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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)