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30/06/2022

'Kingfisher on a Lotus' (an early 20th century kachō-e (花鳥絵) or bird and flower print) by Ohara Koson (小原古邨, 1877 - 1945), published by Yosaku Nishinomiya.

A Japanese painter and print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Ohara Koson was part of the shin-hanga (new prints) movement.

Born Ohara Matao in Kanazawa in 1877; it is thought that he started training in painting and design at the Ishikawa Prefecture Technical School in 1889–1893. He also studied painting with Suzuki Kason (1860–1919), although accounts differ on whether this happened during his school years or after he moved to Tokyo in the middle to late 1890s.

In Tokyo, he produced some ukiyo-e triptychs illustrating episodes of the Russo-Japanese War, but most of his production was prints of birds-and-flowers (kachō-e). He worked at first with publishers Akiyama Buemon (Kokkeidō) and Matsuki Heikichi (Daikokuya), signing his work Koson. Starting around 1926, he became associated with the publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō, and signed his work Shōson. He also worked with the publisher Kawaguchi, signing his works Hōson.

Through his association with Watanabe, Ohara's work was exhibited abroad, and his prints sold well, particularly in the United States. He was active designing prints until at least 1935, and died at his home in Tokyo in 1945.

29/06/2022

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
John Muir

Aleksander Reznichenko - Evening Melody.

27/06/2022

Part of a push to turn Jinghe New City into a technological and scientific hub, the building will house a multimedia library, theater, and galleries

15/06/2022

Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954)
Still Life with Compote, Apples and Oranges, 1899 The Cone Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art

31/05/2022

While much of modern lace is loomed by machine, until the mid-nineteenth century, the art of lacemaking was a painstaking and time-consuming craft produced predominantly by women. Despite being a product of a domestic pastime, lace ruled both fashion and international markets for centuries. Flourish...

26/05/2022

Find ‘The Magdalen Reading’ in Room 63 📖

A young lady in an extravagant green dress sits on the floor, reading. She sits on a red cushion and leans against a carved wooden cabinet. Her overdress is lined with grey fur and cinched in tight around her waist. It falls in bulky folds around her legs and is turned back so that we can see the cloth of her gold underdress. Her loose hair is covered with a white veil and tucked behind her ears. This is not the fashionable headdress worn by contemporary ladies, but something more suited to a figure from biblical times.

Her figure forms a semi-circle, with her head and legs curving around her bent knees, emphasising her absorption in her book. She seems to be reading a Bible, written in two columns with large red and blue initials marking different chapters. Despite her 15th century dress she is in fact, Saint Mary Magdalene, indicated by the pot of oil she used to anoint Christ’s feet, standing on the floor beside her.

This painting was originally the lower right corner of a large altarpiece painted for a church in Brussels, by Rogier van der Weyden. The extraordinary technical sophistication and the attention to detail are typical of the artist. Mary’s lips are painted with various mixtures of vermilion, while the fur edging of her dress, from pure black to nearly pure white, were painted in parallel stripes and then dragged while still wet to produce the furry texture. Take a closer look at the details for yourself on our website: https://bit.ly/3FZpSpy

22/05/2022

21/05/2022

"Happiness is the new rich.
Inner peace is the new success.
Health is the new wealth.
Kindness is the new cool."
~Syed Balkhi



Artist: Abram Arkhipov, Russia
Source: Ravenous Butterflies
https://charterforcompassion.org

16/05/2022

David Austin Rosa 'Constance' from the Parfum Flower Company

16/05/2022

This spectacular Roseate Spoonbill, in Sanibe, Florida, shared its love with the world via photographer Robert Steagall. ❤️

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08/05/2022

Carlo Crivelli "Virgin and Child" (1473)

💬The cucumber appears so many times in Crivelli’s paintings – not a fruit we would usually associate with religious imagery. But it has come to be something of a signature motif for this Renaissance Italian painter. Art historians (and food historians) haven’t been able to come to firm conclusions on the Crivelli cucumber.⁠
A distinct lack of ecumenical cucumber experts means we will never really know whether the cucumber represents man (and sin) or spiritual Christ (and redemption), or physical Christ (and his human genitalia), or as some suggest, the fruitfulness of Mary. Maybe Crivelli just loved cucumbers...⁠
✍️ Candy Bedworth

⁠Read ➡️"Carlo Crivelli – Enigmatic Renaissance Trickster" ⁠
https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/carlo-crivelli/

Until the 29th of May 2022, the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham is hosting "Shadows on the Sky", the first exhibition in the UK dedicated to the work of Italian Renaissance artist, Carlo Crivelli. This exhibition is a must-see. For the first time, we can see nine breath-taking Carlo Crivelli artworks gathered together from all over the world. Even the Vatican has loaned a painting. There is no one who paints like Crivelli and seeing them up close and personal is quite something. But if you can’t get there, then take a moment to breathe in the detail we will show you in our article.⁠
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🖼Carlo Crivelli, Virgin and Child, 1473, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA.