I quite enjoyed this painting by Alfred Eaker.
Christ accepts His cross © 2019, Alfred Eaker
via STATIONS OF THE CROSS 8: Christ accepts His cross — ALFRED EAKER
Art
[Art] Mu Pan’s Garden of Earthly Delights (detail) — Mu Pan — Biblioklept
Mu Pan’s Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), 2019 by Mu Pan (b. 1976)
via Mu Pan’s Garden of Earthly Delights (detail) — Mu Pan — Biblioklept
[Literature/Art] From ancient Persian poetry rises ‘Feathers of Fire,’ billed as largest shadow-theater play
This looks thoroughly fascinating. Shadow puppeteer Hamid Rahmanian has a new project called “Feathers of Fire,” which is based on the Persian epic, the Shahnameh.
[Art] Adolf Wolfli (Galliki filologia)
I first came across the name of Swiss painter Adolf Wölfli thanks to a tribute album recorded by SPK leader Graeme Revell. It would be my first introduction into the world of Art Brut, or Outsider Art.
The video is a quick synopsis of his work in Greek.
[Art] Charles de Sousy Ricketts – Don Juan (1911)
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.
[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.
[Music] Afghanistan’s Institute of Music
All due credit and respect goes to my dear brother Paolo Merolla, who pointed me to this article from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Afghanistan has a magnificent music tradition, and though the place is still a hotbed of Satanic Taliban butchery, people have decided to revive their culture piece by piece.
