Charles Ricketts is a new discovery thanks to my daily perusals of Tumblr. This painting, completed in 1911, gives appearance to Lord Byron’s epic depiction of the legendary Don Juan.
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[Art] Vakhtang Kakulia – Smoker Woman
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Modern surrealism by Vakhtang Kakulia, a young Georgian painter. For more on this particular painting, look here.
All credit and thanks go to my old friend Artemiy Artemiev, who posts wonderful examples of art daily on his Facebook page.
[Art] James Kennedy – Aequipoise
James Kennedy is an Northern Irish painter working out of the United Kingdom and New York. For more samples of his work, click here.
[Art] Abraham Mignon – Vase of Flowers
A thing of beauty from Dutch Golden Age painter Abraham Mignon.
[Art] Mstislav Dobuzhinsky – The Kiss
Lithuanian-Russian French painter Mstislav Dobuzhinsky was an Impressionist active from the late 1880s to his death in 1957.
This work is from 1916, his peak period.
[Art] Paintings With Angels, by Arrington Dionysio and His Mother
Arrington de Dionyso is a composer and musician whose work first caught my attention when he played with the band Old Time Relijun. He continues to produce amazing, eclectic music, but it seems his talent is inherited. He and his mother worked on these two gorgeous works of art, reminding one of the works on a more psychedelic Byzantine icon, or the religious works of Marc Chagall.
May both mother and son find comfort in these difficult days.
[Art] ‘Scholar Contemplating a Cascade’ by Yi Chong
[Art] ‘The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah’, 1832 (Mezzotint) – by John Martin
Something rather beautiful from English painter John Martin.
[Art/Literature] Lot 51: Borges, Xul Solar, and the occult.
Those who know me well will know that I’ll crow on happily about my favorite writer, Jorge Luis Borges. The Paris Review’s Maria Bustillos pens an article on the erstwhile writer, his Argentine, friend and countryman, Surrealist painter Xul Solar, and their interest in the occult.
[Art] Banned Russian art squirrelled away in Uzbekistan
I’m a bit late with this article, but it discusses a treasure trove of art which was forbidden in the Soviet Union. It turns out that these pieces were socked away in the Karakalpakstan province of Uzbekistan.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 